New Safety Mandate Accelerates Retirement Fears for Boeing 717 Fleet AviationNews – A recently issued Airworthiness Directive (AD) is forcing deeper maintenance checks on the Boeing 717 aircraft, prompting concerns that the cost and time involved could hasten the type's withdrawal from service by major operators like Delta Air Lines and Hawaiian Airlines. The AD, released by aviation regulators, targets a critical area of the aircraft's wing structure, mandating additional, complex, and potentially costly…

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Austria retires first C-130K Hercules while waiting for its Embraer C-390s - Air Data News Austria has retired the first of its three C-130K Hercules as it moves toward introducing a new fleet of four Embraer C-390 Millennium aircraft.

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