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Sempati F27 crashes in Java
An Indonesian Fokker F27-600 turboprop (PK-YPM) on wet-lease to Sempati Air Transport has crashed in Java. A daylight emergency landing was being attempted about 10min after take-off from Bandung Airport, after a reported engine problem. According to Sempati, the 27-year-old aircraft crashed on 17 July 200m (655ft) short ...
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Smiths sells to Lucas
Smiths Industries has sold its engine-controls business to Lucas Varity, saying that there was not room for both UK players in an increasingly concentrated market. Smiths signalled that engine controls were no longer a core business when it decided to step back from the BMW Rolls-Royce BR715 programme, ...
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Greece puts F-15 and Su-27 on shortlist in fighter competition
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC GREECE HAS included the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-15 and Sukhoi Su-27 in a four-aircraft shortlist for its next fighter purchase. The Dassault Mirage 2000 and Lockheed Martin F-16 (aircraft which Greece already operates) complete the shortlist. Greece is the first NATO country to ...
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Pratt & Whitney acquires Dutch engine-repair group
PRATT&WHITNEY has boosted plans to expand its Eagle Services engine-overhaul business to $1 billion annually by 1998, by agreeing to purchase the Flight Repair group of Netherlands company Interturbine. The group repairs engine aerofoils, stators and cases at centres in Dallas, Texas, and Singapore. P&W says that the ...
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Fokkers updated
UK simulation company Quadrant Systems is upgrading Canadian Regional Air-lines' Fokker F28 simulator to Level C, having completed a Level B upgrade of the Toronto-based machine in March. Quadrant is also upgrading the computer in Indonesian airline Merpati's Fokker F27-500 simulator. Source: Flight International
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Thomson Training confirms United Airlines full-flight deal
THOMSONTRAINING & Simulation (TTS) has confirmed a deal with United Airlines to supply two full-flight simulators - for the Airbus A320 and Boeing 777. The company will also supply United with an A320 flight-management and systems trainer, and desktop flight-management-system trainers designed for the Boeing 757 and 767. ...
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Textron
Pat Millard has been appointed original-equipment manufacturer (OEM) sales manager at Textron Lycoming, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He is a former vice-president of marketing at Narco Avionics and Porsche Aviation Products. Steve Logue becomes OEM accounts manager. He is a licensed air-transport pilot, commercial and certified flight instructor. ...
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Atlas charge
Atlas Air took a charge of nearly $17 million in the second quarter, ending 30 June. The charge relates to the US cargo carrier's decision to return five leased Boeing 747-200s to FedEx early in 1998 because of their "operational limitations, unreliability and continuing high costs". The company also disclosed ...
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Window dressing
GKN Westland Aerospace has acquired Aerospace Composite Technologies for £21 million. The Luton, UK-based company primarily designs and manufactures cockpit windows and electrical anti-icing systems for engine nacelles. In the year to July 1996 the company reported pre-tax profits of £2.5 million ($4 million Source: Flight ...
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Air China selects P&W
Air China has selected the Pratt & Whitney PW4090 to power its five Boeing 777s, which are due for delivery from October 1998. The deal is worth $170 million to the US engine manufacturer. The airline, which is already a P&W customer, will purchase ten installed engines and three spares. ...
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AI(R) closes in on agreement for Chinese ATR 72 assembly
Paul Lewis/BANGKOK Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) is aiming to finalise a comprehensive joint-venture agreement with Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) within eight months, covering not just local assembly of the ATR 72 turboprop, but also marketing and after-sales support for the aircraft. The European consortium plans ...
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FAA wants restrictions on 727 conversions
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC RULEMAKING which could severely restrict the payloads of Boeing 727 freighter conversions was expected to be proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration on 15 July. The much-awaited notice of proposed rulemaking, according to sources, will outline a series of airworthiness directives (ADs) ...
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Transavia leases BAe 146 from Flightline
Transavia has wet-leased a British Aerospace 146 to replace its Boeing 737-300 on the four-times-daily service between Amsterdam and London Gatwick. The BAe 146-200 has been leased from Southend, UK-based operator Flightline for six months. Flightline, which specialises in "turnkey" aircraft operations, flies three BAe 146s, and says that it ...
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A330s for Sabena
Sabena has begun operations with its first of three ex-Air Inter Europe General Electric CF6-80E1-powered Airbus A330-300s. The other two aircraft will join the fleet later this year. The 268-seat A330s will be used to serve destinations in West Africa, and will be joined in August 1998 by the first ...
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El Al evaluates 737 and A320 for new short-haul fleet
El Al Israel Airlines is working to finalise a deal for the acquisition of a new 125- to 150-seater fleet. The airline, which flies an all-Boeing fleet of 737-200s, 747s, 757s and 767s, is evaluating Boeing's Next Generation 737-700/800 and the Airbus A319/ A320, with the intention to lease or ...
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Marketplace
++ TWA has concluded an agreement with International Lease Finance, to take a new Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing 767-300ER, on lease. The 233-seat aircraft will be used on routes to the Middle East. ++ Japan Air System has placed orders for two Airbus A300-600Rs powered by Pratt & Whitney ...
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Meridiana studies long-term fleet and partner strategies
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Meridiana is planning to double its fleet of McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-80s over the next three years, but is studying a plan to switch to an all-Boeing or all-Airbus fleet in the longer term. The Olbia, Sardinia-based regional airline, which is majority- owned by ...
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Snecma declines to take Trent 500 offer
Julian Moxon/PARIS French engine manufacturer Snecma has declined an offer from Rolls-Royce to take a share in the Trent 500 engine chosen to power the Airbus A340-500/600. It is Snecma's second refusal this year of an offer to join R-R on a Trent programme. R-R chairman ...
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Sterling lines up new 737 fleet
Sterling European Airlines will begin its fleet-renewal programme in 1998 with the introduction of the first of up to four Next Generation Boeing 737s, as it begins to phase out its Boeing 727s. Lars Svenheim, president of the Danish charter airline, says that a deal has been signed ...
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TAM Fokker 100 survives blast
An explosion in the cabin is believed to have caused this breach in the fuselage of TAM Airlines Fokker100 PT-MRK on 9 July. The aircraft was on a regional flight from Sao Jose dos Campos to Sao Paulo, Brazil, with 60 people on board. One passenger is known to have ...