Firm Orders Aircraft Engines.Century City-based International Lease Finance Corp., the giant plane lessor One who rents real property or Personal Property to another. A lessor of land is a landlord. Cross-references Landlord and Tenant. lessor n. the owner of real property who rents it to a lessee pursuant to a written lease. , ordered $910 million worth of aircraft engines from Rolls-Royce in a deal that included engines for the future Airbus Industrie superjumbo A-3XX. Rolls-Royce said the deal marks the first time a potential buyer for aircraft had selected an engine maker. ILFC ILFC International Lease Finance Corporation ILFC International Lunar Finance Commission (TV show: Space: 1999) , a unit of American International Group
American International Group, Inc. (AIG) (NYSE: AIG; TYO: 8685 ) is a major American insurance corporation based in New York City. , said in July that it would buy five A-3XXs, which aren't expected to fly until 2005. Along with powering the A3XXs, the engines will power 37 Boeing 777s The Boeing 777 is an American long-range wide-body twin-engine airliner built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The world's largest twinjet and commonly referred to as the Triple Seven, it can carry between 301 and 368 passengers in a three-class configuration and has a range from , as well as Airbus' A-330 aircraft, ILFC said. ILFC, the world's biggest plane lessor, is Airbus' biggest customer. |
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