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Samsung wins first order for licence-built Bell 427 helicopter
Seoul-based helicopter operator Heli Korea has placed the first firm order with Samsung for the Samsung-Bell SB427 eight-seat utility helicopter. Apart from this order for three aircraft, Samsung says that it has letters of intent (LoIs) covering 25 further potential sales, including five in China. Among possible Chinese customers ...
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Swissair introduces its first A330-200
Swissair has introduced the first of 15 Airbus A330-200s on its medium and long-haul network. The 224-seat Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered A330s will initially replace smaller A310-300s. The fifteenth, and last, aircraft is due to be delivered in July 2000. SAir group partners Sabena and Austrian Airlines have also ordered ...
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Asian woes force Cathay to withdraw 747 Classic fleet
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is to begin phasing out of service all six of its Boeing 747-300s within 12 months and is close to finalising a deal to dispose of a further two 747-200s, as the Hong Kong carrier continues to cut capacity in the face of a ...
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-Detroit-based ProAir will add a third Boeing 737-400 in December, leased from Boullioun. The secondhand aircraft will be used to increase frequencies and for expansion. -US regional Trans States Airlines has exercised six options for the 50-seat Embraer RJ-145. Its original contract, signed in February, included nine firm orders and ...
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Snecma snaps up stake in Sabena company
Sabena is to spin off the engine repair and maintenance business of Sabena Technics into an independent business and sell a 50% stake to French engine builder Snecma. The new operation will be based at the Zaventem, Brussels, engine facilities run by the Belgian airline. The partners plan to ...
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More delays hit new UK control centres
David Learmount/LONDON The UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) is facing further delays to the opening of its new Scottish air traffic control centre (SCATCC) because contract negotiations with the Lockheed Martin-led consortium Sky Solutions have dragged on for at least a year longer than expected. The revelation comes as ...
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Century seeks $48m to fund low-cost twin jet development
Century Aerospace has transformed its Century Jet from a single-engined aircraft to a twin and has replaced the Williams/Rolls FJ44-1 powerplant with "the more advanced" Williams FJ33-1, for which the newly titled Century Jet 100 has become the launch aircraft. According to Albuquerque, New Mexico-based Century: "The Century Jet ...
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Certification work will delay Jetcruzer 500 by 12 months
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) says certification work on the Jetcruzer 500 turboprop pusher will not be completed until the "second half of next year", meaning a delay of more than 12 months over the company's original predictions. AASI says the delay is part of a conscious effort to ...
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United's $200m expansion continues with 777 installation
United Airlines has installed its fourth Boeing 777 full-flight simulator, as part of a $200 million expansion of its Denver, Colorado, training centre. All four simulators have been produced by Thomson Training &Simulation (TTS). The latest machine, and a fourth TTS-built Airbus A320 simulator to be installed in March next ...
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PATS Falcon 20 APU
The Dassault Falcon 20 has won US certification for a new tail-mounted auxiliary power unit (APU). The aircraft is manufactured by Columbia-based engineering aviation systems Pats. The tail-mounted unit is powered by the Sunstrand T40C9 APU and its prototype installation was performed at Excel Aviation in Denton, Texas. Source: ...
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Chinese A321 deliveries get under way with Sichuan Airlines
The first Airbus A321 has been delivered to a Chinese airline, with the aircraft's introduction by Sichuan Airlines. The International Aero Engines V2500-powered aircraft joins the Chengdu-based airline's Airbus fleet of three A320s leased from International Lease Finance, and will be joined by a second A321 and two A320s ...
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Syrian begins fleet renewal
Syrianair has started its fleet renewal programme with the introduction of its first Airbus A320. The airline ordered six International Aero Engines V2500-powered examples of the twinjet in July 1997 to replace its ageing short-haul fleet of Boeing 727s and Tupolev Tu-134/154s. All six aircraft are scheduled to be ...
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-British Airways low-fare division Go has taken delivery of a 737-300 on lease from Babcock & Brown Aircraft Management. The aircraft was previously operated by BA's French division, Air Liberté. -Lufthansa's recent order for 10 Airbus A340-300s includes options on an additional seven A340-300s. The airline also has 11 A340-600s ...
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US Airways renewal
US Airways has begun its short-haul fleet replacement programme with the handing over of the first of up to 400 A320 family aircraft on 16 October. The first aircraft, a CFM International CFM56-powered A319, is one of 124 firm orders placed by the airline for Airbus narrowbodies. Options are held ...
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US Airways selects 'hybrid' PW4000 for A330
US Airways has become the first airline to select Pratt & Whitney's "hybrid" PW4000 turbofan. The US airline has ordered the 73,000lb-thrust (324kN) PW4173 to power some of the 30 Airbus A330-300s it has on order and option. The airline, which has firm orders for seven A330s and options ...
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'Intranet in the sky' is planned
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Two European airlines are leading the drive to link aircraft on the ground and in the air with the airline's "intranet" information technology systems. Lufthansa charter affiliate Condor and Swissair plan demonstrations of systems to allow Internet-style exchanges of information with aircraft using low-power datalinks ...
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GE90-powered Continental 777 hits ETOPS proving flight hitch
This new General Electric GE90-powered Continental Airlines Boeing 777 had to carry out a precautionary diversion following a starboard engine low oil-quantity alert during a transpacific extended range twin engine operations (ETOPS) proving flight for the airline. The aircraft, en route on a nonstop New York-Tokyo flight on 7 October, ...
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R-R plans joint European repair venture
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Rolls-Royce is in discussions with Swissair and Lufthansa to form a new tripartite engine repair and overhaul facility in Europe as plans to establish a similar joint venture with Singapore Airlines (SIA) have slowed in the face of Asia's economic crisis. The UK engine manufacturer is understood to ...
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Airbus/Boeing poser faces Air France
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France is considering the purchase of an initial 15 Airbus A330-200s or Boeing 767-300ER/400ERs to satisfy part of its future long-haul requirement and has asked General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney to come up with offers for both types. Selection is being held up ...
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Sabena turbine failure
A Sabena Boeing 737-200 with 104 people on board suffered an uncontained starboard engine failure just after take off from Brussels Zaventem for Lisbon, Portugal, on 26 September. Upwind from runway 25R, engine parts from the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 rained on the village of Diegem, damaging cars and houses. ...