All Business Aviation news – Page 96
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Flying Colours continues growth at Singapore
Business jet MRO and cabin firm Flying Colours says that it has enjoyed strong business growth at its Seletar Airport service centre in Singapore.
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IAI targets general aviation market for new products
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has made a strategic decision to enter the general aviation market.
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Poland selects Boeing 737s for VIP transport
Poland is to acquire three Boeing 737-800s for VIP transport missions – two new BBJ 2s and a secondhand airliner – in a deal with the airframer worth $523 million.
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Global 7000 hits M0.995 in high-speed tests
Bombardier has flown the Global 7000 prototype at speeds up to Mach 0.995 five months after launching the flight test programme, the company says on 29 March.
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Dassault secures FalconEye certification on 8X
Dassault has secured European and US certification for its FalconEye combined enhanced and synthetic vision system on board the Falcon 8X business jet. The validations follow a two-year development effort involving both flight and simulator testing.
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RAF Northolt to close in 2018 for runway renovation
RAF Northolt, the fourth-largest airport in the London area for business aviation traffic, is to close temporarily in early 2018 for runway renovation.
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Linear Air expands in air taxi marketplace
US air taxi operator Linear Air is planning to expand its online charter offering, in an effort to exploit the growing popularity of small propeller-driven aircraft among US regional travellers.
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Gulfstream G500 certification effort making 'significant progress'
Gulfstream says its new large-cabin, long-range G500 is making “significant progress” towards its anticipated entry-into-service target of late 2017, with the five aircraft in the flight-test campaign having logged more than 2,600h to date in 600 sorties.
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FAA predicts mixed fortunes for US business and GA fleets
Business jets are set to outperform all other general aviation aircraft types in the USA over the next 20 years, according to a new forecast published by the Federal Aviation Administration.
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EBAA appoints Brandon Mitchener as its chief executive
The European Business Aviation Association has appointed Brandon Mitchener as its chief executive.
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Polish VIP aircraft acquisition runs into difficulties
Poland has rejected the two shortlisted bidders for a VIP aircraft tender citing procedural errors and cost issues with their offers.
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LIMA: Ruag eyes Do228NG sales, builds local MRO capabilities
Swiss aerospace firm Ruag is working on opportunities to sell its Do228NG aircraft in Malaysia, as it also increases its MRO presence in the country.
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Tecnam delivers 200th P2006T to Poland's Bartolini Air
Tecnam’s P2006T piston-twin reached a programme milestone on 10 March, with the handover of the 200th unit to Polish flight training academy and long-time customer Bartolini Air.
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Lisa prepares second Akoya prototype for flight testing
Lisa Airplanes is readying its second and final Akoya prototype for flight testing in April, and plans to launch production of the light, amphibious piston-single in the fourth quarter of this year.
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Third Cessna Citation Longitude enters flight-test
Cessna's Citation Longitude programme has taken another step forward, with the debut flight on 17 March of its third prototype.
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Tecnam founder and president Luigi Pascale passes away
Professor Luigi Pascale, co-founder, president, and chief preliminary design officer of Europe's largest general aviation aircraft manufacturer, Tecnam, died unexpectedly on 14 March after a brief illness, aged 93.
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Gulfstream sells G550 to Beijing 999
Chinese medical evacuation provider Beijing Red Cross Emergency Medical Center (Beijing 999) has acquired a Gulfstream G550 to support its disaster relief and medevac efforts.
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AirAsia revives Global Express purchase
AirAsia has revived plans to purchase a used Bombardier Global Express business jet from Caterham Jet Global for executive transport use, after a previous deal fell through last year.
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XTI teams with Bye Aerospace on hybrid TriFan 600
US start-up XTI Aircraft has switched to hybrid-electric propulsion for its planned TriFan 600 ducted-fan, vertical take-off and landing business aircraft.
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Ka-52 attack helicopter deliveries to Egypt to begin in 2017
Russian Helicopters is on track to deliver this year the first examples of the Kamov Ka-52 attack rotorcraft to export customer Egypt.