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June 18, 2022

Airborne 06.17.22: Airbus A321XLR 1st Flt, Record Hiring, Celera Update

Also: Yellow Ribbon Honor Flight, Moon Issues, Norway To Return NH90s, CareFlite Adds Bell 407GXi

Airbus’s newest and largest narrow-body airliner, the A321XLR, has made its maiden flight—and in so doing moved the European air-framer closer to its goal of capitalizing on the demand for long-range, single-aisle commercial aircraft. The aircraft, MSN 11000, departed Hamburg-Finkenwerder Airport at 09:05 UTC, and remained aloft for approximately four hours and 35 minutes. 2022 is shaping up to be the best year on record for pilot hiring since 2000–so states a report from Future and Active Pilot Advisors (FAPA). The first five months of 2022 saw airlines hire 5,526 pilots—one-hundred more than were hired during the same time-period la

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