Freddie Laker founds Laker Airways, the FAA retires Amelia Earhart's aircraft registration, the first Boeing 247 takes flight, the crashes of Independent Air 1851 in 1989 and Eastern Air Lines 663 in 1965 and more...
Boeing on Thursday forecast that air carriers in the U.S. and Canada will take delivery of about 7,200 new airplanes over the next 20 years at an investment of $700 billion.
The Airbus A318 can be thought of as the black sheep of the Airbus family. With a grand total of only 79 airframes built, the A318 program was simply not meant to be. Earlier this month, the final A318 based in North America, b...