Airliners

Airframe manufacturers

Most of the airliners we see operating international services into New Zealand are made by:

• Boeing - Commercial Market Outlook 

• Airbus Industrie - Global Market Forecast 

As well as airliners manufactured by the above two, domestic airlines in New Zealand use, or have recently used, products from:

Engine manufacturers

• Rolls-Royce 

• Pratt & Whitney - a partner in International Aero Engines 

• General Electric 

• CFM International - a joint venture between General Electric and Safran 

Airliners I have flown on

Over the years airliners I have travelled on include the de Havilland Dragon Rapide, Vickers Viscount, Fokker F27, Twin Otter, Bandeirante, Shorts 360, ATR72, Dash 8, Harbin Y-12, Cessna Caravan, DC-3, DC-4, DC-8, DC-10, B737, B727, B747, B757, B767, A320, A340, A350 and A380.

A highlight for me (before 9/11) was being on the flight deck of a B747 doing an autoland at AKL.

Industry organisations 

• ICCAIA - International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Associations based in Montreal

• Aerospace Industries Association - US 

• ASD - Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe

• ADS Group - UK 

• AIAC - Aerospace Industries Association of Canada

• AIAB - Aerospace Industries Association of Brazil

Information

Other useful web sites include:

• Airlinerlist.com - aircraft production lists 

• Planespotters.net - fleet lists 

• Airfleets  

• Eurocontrol Aircraft Performance Database 

• RichardAboulafia.com - an aerospace industry consultant 

• Great Circle Mapper and the great circle flight path display (the previous version) - calculate the distances between two airports or map the range of a particular aircraft type from an airport.

• GPS Visualizer Geographic Calculators 

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Last updated on 12 July 2023