After months of industry speculation, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said the European airframer is still weighing whether to launch stretched variants of the ...

By Howard Hardee • Editor October 27, 2026 Disruptions related to a since-resolved dispute with a wing component supplier for the 777 freighter and 767 ...

Over the last few weeks, we have looked at whether a factory freighter based on the Airbus A330neo, the A330-900F, would make sense. We find it would be a ...

Positive headlines about Boeing were scarce following the company's earnings call earlier this week. CEO Kelly Ortberg almost casually acknowledged in his ...

Back by popular demand, Leeham News and Analysis (LNA) has reintroduced its weekly open comment thread for general discussion topics. Several readers have decried off-topic commentary in ...

The air freight market is split about 50-50 between freight that travels in the belly of passenger aircraft as add-on revenue and freight loaded onto dedicated freighters. The dedicated freighter ...

Certification of the 737 Max 10 appears back on track despite a software glitch potentially affecting some Boeing narrowbodies—an issue the FAA has since deemed not safety critical, reducing the ...

After 22 parts and five months, it’s time to summarize what we have covered in our aircraft structures series. We started with aircraft structures that were skeleton-like and then covered with fabric ...

We started looking at thermoplastic composite production last week. The high melting point of 380°C to 400 °C for the PEEK variant and over 305 °C for the LMPEAK (Low Melt PAEK), and the high ...

Securing market share in the commercial aviation business is one of the most difficult industrial endeavors one can attempt. It requires huge amounts of capital and thousands of talented engineers, ...

The basic facts have been established for weeks: On September 6, a Boeing 767 Freighter operated by 21 Air on behalf of Amazon landed long and fast after an approach to Runway 30 at Miami ...

Certification of the 737 Max 10 appears close at hand once again. The FAA could issue Boeing a type certificate as soon as October 20, sources tell Leeham News and Analysis (LNA). Several aerospace ...