Air Show Business

The aerospace and jet-engine divisions of Hartford’s United Technologies Corp. said last week that they signed more than $3 billion in new business at this year’s Paris Air Show.

Among Hamilton Sundstrand’s more than $2.6 billion in contracts is one for the Windsor Locks aerospace systems provider to deliver components and services to France’s Airbus for its new A350XWB extra-wide-body aircraft, and Canada’s Bombardier on its new CSeries commercial aircraft, Hamilton said.

The company also signed deals to supply spare parts and repair and maintenance services to Air France Industries, Global Aviation Holdings, KLM Engineering & Maintenance, Lockheed Martin, Sabena Technics and SilkAir.

Together, the value of those agreements is more than $2.6 billion, Hamilton said.

Meanwhile, East Hartford jet-engine builder Pratt & Whitney won an order worth $590 million to supply engines to China Southern Airlines for 10 Airbus A330 aircraft, Pratt said. The deal includes engine maintenance over 10 years.

Pratt also entered a four-year repair agreement with Brazil’s TAM Linhas Aereas to repair thrust reversers on the airline’s 11 Airbus A330-200 aircraft. Value of the contract wasn’t disclosed.

Late last week, Boeing won an order for two of its updated 737-800 jets from aircraft leasing company MC Aviation Partners, worth $153 million at list prices. MC Aviation Partners is a unit of Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp.

The 737-800 is a short-to-medium range, single-aisle aircraft that seats up to 189 passengers. It competes with the Airbus A320, which has won dozens of orders at the air show as Boeing struggled to woo buyers.

Airbus made more than $6.2 billion in sales of 57 aircraft at the air show, largely from Asian and low-cost airlines defying worries about global recession. That is still well below the order tally in recent years.

The 48th annual air show, which brings together military and civilian buyers and aircraft suppliers from around the world, ended Sunday.