We continuously strive to improve our system and data to meet higher standards and quality and would like to introduce every adjustment that will affect your user experience here in detail. Find the overview of all changes below:
Product Updates
- Our “fleets classic” and “fleets advanced” modules have been combined into a single “fleets” module.
- The “Route News Newsletter” is now sent individually. If you subscribe to our Schedules, you will receive it by default, but you may turn it off anytime.
- The historical hex codes will now be included in the fleet history module, as well as the aircraft profiles.
Search Updates
- You may now do a quick search based on recommended quick search parameters per industrial segment. These quick searches are automatically altered depending on past searches and are configurable.
- The “Edit columns” panel is now searchable, allowing you to find the criteria you want to add.
- We will use your most recently used view for your further searches.
- We will use your most recently used view for your further searches.
- We have added new criteria to the aircraft profiles and aircraft search:
- In-seat power details
- Cargo loading type
- Aircraft Construction location
- Link to EASA/ICAO emission databank
- We have added the following features to the route network and schedule search:
- A multi-selection of search criteria
- Saved searches and views
- Different column selection
- The classic Timetable layout
- New customisable Data layout
Account Settings & Customisation
- We’ve added two-factor authentication for additional account security.
- You can now fully tailor your ch-aviation newsletter and select the times and frequencies that work best for you. Until you modify it, the newsletter will be sent out by default Monday to Friday, weekday.
With the latest update, we’ve introduced the VIP role for aircraft that we deem to be operating in this category, allowing us to distinguish commercial aircraft usage better and added two more aircraft types – BAe Jetstreams 31 & 32.
1. The methodology:
We considered the following criteria:
- Aircraft configuration – a significantly lower cabin configuration from the maximum passenger capacity for commercial aircraft
- Aircraft variant – certain variants that are already made for VIP ops, such as Boeing BBJ or Airbus ACJ
- Airline type – Government, Business/Private charter etc
2. List of production lines with new VIP role:
- Airbus – A220, A300, A320, A340, A350
- Antonov – AN148
- ATR – ATR42
- Boeing – B707, B727, B737NG, B737OG, B747, B757, B767, B777, B787
- British Aerospace – BAE146
- Bombardier – BD100, BD700
- Cessna – C510, C560, C560XL, C650, C680, C700
- Bombardier Challenger -CL600
- Bombardier – CRJ100, CRJ700
- Douglas – DC6
- De Havilland Aircraft of Canada – DHC6, DHC8, DHC8-400
- Dornier – DO328
- Embraer – EMB120, EMB170, EMB190, EMB500
- Embraer ERJ – ERJ145
- Fokker – F27, F28
- Dassault – Falcon 7X
- Gulfstream – G280, GV, GVII
- Ilyushin – IL62, IL96X
- Xian – MA60
- Sukhoi Superjet – 100/95SBJ
- Tupolev – TU134, TU154, TU204
- Yakovlev – YAK42
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BAe Jetstream 31
We currently track 147 BAe Jetstreams 31, with 95 stored, 14 active, 14 scrapped, 13 crashed, 7 on display, 3 retired and 1 beyond repair. The biggest operators of BAe Jetstream 31 are Northwestern Air, Aerolineas Sosa and Sundance Air Venezuela, with 3 aircraft in their fleet, respectively.
Learn more about the BAe Jetstream 31 HERE.
BAe Jetstream 32
We currently track 142 BAe Jetstreams 32, with 75 stored, 45 active, 10 crashed, 4 on maintenance, 3 on display and scrapped, and 2 retired. The biggest operators of BAe Jetstream 32 are AIS Airlines (Netherlands), FlyPelican and Northwestern Air with 5 aircraft in their fleet, respectively.
Learn more about the BAe Jetstream 32 HERE.
Important note:
*Only aircraft that flew in the 21st century and fall into the aircraft history methodology have been added.
**Aircraft history methodology: Full aircraft operator history available for all active aircraft, aircraft operator history for all inactive aircraft available from today up until 2000.
We are continuously working on adding more aircraft frames to our database, and with the July updates, we’ve added two more aircraft types, the Beech 99 and the DC-6.
Beechraft 99 Airliner
We currently track 151 Beech 99, with 79 active, 54 being stored, and 18 scrapped/written off. The biggest operator of Beech 99 is Ameriflight, counting 44 of them in their fleet.
Douglas (Boeing) DC-6
We currently track 58 Douglas DC-6 aircraft, with zero of them being active. 10 of them are currently stored, and 48 scrapped/written off.
Douglas (Boeing) DC-6A/DC-6B/DC-6C Freighter
We currently track 282 Douglas DC-6A/DC-6B/DC-6C Freighters. 8 of them are active, 36 stored, and 218 scrapped/written off. The biggest operator of the DC-6 freighters is Everts Air Alaska, counting 8 of them in their fleet, with currently only three active – two of DC-6(C-118A) and one DC-6A.
Important note:
*Only aircraft that flew in the 21st century and fall into the aircraft history methodology have been added.
**Aircraft history methodology: Full aircraft operator history available for all active aircraft, aircraft operator history for all inactive aircraft available from today up until 2000.
Based on Customer feedback and internal discussions, we have made some changes to our aircraft data as of this week. Read more about the changes below:
1. Replacing the “Derelict” aircraft status with “Retired”
To ensure better aircraft status accuracy, we decided to ditch the “Derelict” aircraft status and replace it with “Retired”, which will then be assigned to:
- All aircraft previously listed as “Derelict”
- All aircraft previously listed as “Stored”, without the operator, already located at their final destination
2. Aligning ch-aviation data with the industry standard usage of MSN for aircraft serial numbers
Aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing utilise both MSN and Line Number for aircraft serial numbers, while Airbus solely uses Construction Number (C/N). In our database, we showcased a blank value wherever we had a case of the OEM using only C/N. This is why we decided to duplicate the C/N into the MSN column for OEMs that do not use MSN to ensure our data is consistent with industry standards.
Take a look at all production lines that will be impacted and will have the same C/N & MSN values going forward:
- Airbus – A220, A300, A320, A340, A350, A380, A400
- Comac – ARJ21, C919
- British Aerospace – ATP, J41
- ATR – ATR42
- Cessna – CEA408
- Bombardier – CRJ100, CRJ1000, CRJ700, CRJ900
- De Havilland – DHC6, DHC7, DHC8, DHC8-400
- Dornier – DO228, DO328, DO728
- Embraer – EMB120, EMB170, EMB190, EMB390, ERJ145
- Fokker – F27, F28
- Lockheed – L188, L749
- SpaceJet
- Tupolev – TU334
How will this affect your ch-aviation experience?
- These adjustments will affect your future data downloads as well as the upcoming data feed deliveries.
With the latest update, we’ve made some corrections to the Embraer, ATR and Boeing aircraft types, models and variants to ensure our nomenclature logic is consistent and that our data is as close to the official type certificates as possible.
- Embraer
- The “AR“ is Embraer’s commercial designation for the IGW – https://www.embraercommercialaviation.com/commercial-jets
- We will align the aircraft model with the type certificates to now reflect the IGW designation.
- ATR42
- Introducing the addition of the ATR42-320 variant as it uses different engines than the ATR42-300.
- We list the ATR42-600 as an aircraft type which is incorrect as the 600 is only a commercial designation.
- We will align the aircraft type to the ATR42-500.
- EASA excerpts
– Both “ATR 42-500 ‘600 version’” and “ATR 42-600” are the commercial designations to identify ATR 42-500 aircraft models having received the New Avionics Suite (NAS) modification, also named as ‘Glass Cockpit‘, which represents the incorporation of ATR MOD 5948 and a batch of associated ATR (major & minor) modifications.
– “ATR 42-500 ‘600 version’” and “ATR 42-600” aircraft are not considered as new aircraft model or variant.
– The commercial designation “ATR 42-600” must not be used on ATR certified / approved documentation, and mention of “Change 5948”, “Mod 5948”, “ATR 42-500 with Change 5948”, “ATR 42-500 with Mod 5948” or “ATR 42-500 fitted with NAS” or “ATR 42-500 ‘600 version” must be indicated instead.
- ATR72
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- Correction of the aircraft type to ATR72-200 as the 500 & 600 variants are only the commercial designation.
- Removal of the “F” from the A/C type of the ATR72-600F to standardise our A/C type logic.
- EASA excerpts
– “ATR 72-500” is the commercial designation of ATR 72-212A aircraft model.
– Both “ATR 72-212A ‘600 version’” and “ATR 72-600” are the commercial designation to identify ATR 72-212A aircraft models having received the New Avionic Suite (NAS) modification, also named as ‘Glass Cockpit’, which represents the incorporation of ATR MOD 5948 and a batch of associated ATR (major & minor) modifications.
– “ATR 72-212A ‘600 version’” and “ATR 72-600” aircraft are not considered as new aircraft model or variant.
– “ATR72-212A ‘600F version’” is the commercial designation to identify ATR 72-212A aircraft models fitted with the cargo conversion MOD 7900.
– “ATR 72-212A ‘600F version’” aircraft are not considered as new aircraft model or variant.
- Boeing
- We will be aligning the Boeing model changes & aircraft variant information to keep it aligned with our nomenclature logic, where we assign brackets to changes that are made to the frame post production. These changes are due to the frames below being produced as they are by the OEM & not being converted after delivery.
