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Pemco conversion
Pemco World Air Services is converting two Boeing 727-200s to freighters for Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Lift Management. The conversion includes Pemco Engineers' 12-pallet cargo-handing system. Source: Flight International
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Bedek gets pylon work
Israel Aircraft Industries' Bedek subsidiary has won a $6 million contract to perform the repyloning work on Boeing 747s operated by El Al, the Israeli national airline. The deal involves the modification of pylons on 12 aircraft. Boeing is believed to be contributing $850,000 to cover part of the work. ...
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Lufthansa extends Airbus cowling life
LUFTHANSA TECHNIK claims to have developed a low-cost method of repairing composite parts of Airbus A300 and A310 engine cowlings which have been damaged by moisture and hot air from anti-icing ducts. Engineers at the company's Hamburg maintenance site repair damage using a bonding system, cure it at ...
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Sabreliner snaps up DynCorp subsidiaries for $12.5 million
US AVIATION-SERVICE company Sabreliner has acquired DynCorp's airliner maintenance and modification subsidiaries for an initial payment of $12.5 million. The deal includes DynAir divisions in Arizona, Florida and Texas with annual sales of about $60 million and 1,100 employees. St Louis, Missouri-based Sabreliner specialises in corporate-aircraft maintenance and ...
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Kalitta sells off MGM Grand Air
CONRAD KALITTA HAS sold a majority interest in the former MGM Grand Air to charter operator Front Page Tours, which will operate the airline as Champion Air. Kalitta, which purchased the assets of MGM Grand Air from billionaire Kirk Kerkorian in December 1994, will retain a 20% stake in Los-Angeles-based ...
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European ground-handling controversy intensifies
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE EUROPEAN Parliament has come under conflicting pressures from aviation bodies over the liberalisation of ground handling at European airports. At stake is the entire range of air- and land-side ground-handling operations, ranging from ramp, baggage and passenger handling, through to aircraft servicing and ...
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JADC targets YS-X development
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE JAPAN AIRCRAFT Development (JADC) expects to launch full-scale development of its proposed 90- to 110-seat YS-X twinjet by the end of the 1996 fiscal year. According to JADC senior managing director Shinya Kobayakawa, work will need to begin by late 1996 or early 1997 ...
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KrasAir takes DC-10 for US-Russia flights
KRASAIR, THE Krasnoyarsk-based Russian airline, has taken delivery of the first of two McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s. It will become the first Russian operator to fly a US-registered aircraft into the USA when it begins operating the tri-jet from Moscow to Los Angeles and New York later in 1995. ...
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UND Aerospace moves to increase safety margins
UND AEROSPACE, the University of North Dakota's aviation college, is re-organising its flight operations to increase safety margins following a safety audit by the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF). UND has more than 700 students logging up to 100,000h a year on a fleet of some 100 aircraft. The ...
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Premiair Picks FLS
Scandinavian charter airline Premiair has concluded a long-term agreement with FLS Aerospace to maintain its fleet of four McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10s. FLS will do the work at its Manchester airport maintenance hangar in the UK, where it has already undertaken work on a DC-10s and Airbus A300s for the airline. ...
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American to replace Omega with FMS/GPS
AMERICAN AIRLINES plans to buy flight-management/global-positioning systems (FMS/GPS) to replace Omega navigation systems in up to 400 Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas MD-80s and DC-10s. A selection is planned by September. American is the first major airline to plan a fleet-wide GPS retrofit programme. Rockwell-Collins, which plans to ...
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MDC to pick JAST lift engine
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE McDONNELL Douglas (MDC)-led Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) team will decide by the end of this month on a lift-fan-engine supplier for its design after dropping the alternative gas-coupled lift fan in favour of a "more affordable" lift-plus-lift-cruise concept. The late ...
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Fokker Support
Coltax Aerospace, a subsidiary of Meggit Aerospace, has finalised an agreement with Fokker Aircraft Services (FAS) to provide overhaul and maintenance on landing-gear components. The accord covers all Fokker's jet-powered and turboprop aircraft, as well as other aircraft undergoing third-party maintenance at FAS. Coltax has also won a contract to ...
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BAC One-Eleven Spares
World Aviation Support, the sister company of British World Airlines, has bought British Aerospace's complete spares stock for the BAC One-Eleven. The £20 million package of rotables and consumables will be held at the company's South end base in the UK and together with maintenance services, will be offered to ...
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Inflite: putting the record straight
Sir - The Panorama television programme broadcast by the UK's BBC on 12 June covered the international problem of counterfeit or uncertificated aircraft spares and parts. During the course of the programme , which was instrumental in bringing the activities of a company featured to the attention of ...
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Guernsey expansion
Anglo Normandy Aeroengineering (ANAE) has opened a new maintenance hanger at Guernsey Airport in the Channel Islands. The company specialises in work on such types as the Shorts 360 and the Pilatus Britten-Norman Trislander, although the new hangar is capable of handling work on aircraft of up to ATR 72 ...
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Monarch to take on Alitalia leases
Gnter Endres/LONDON MONARCH AIRLINES is on the verge of taking over the contentious wet-leased Boeing 767-300ER operation, now provided by Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services on behalf of Alitalia. The new deal is an extension of a long-standing agreement between Monarch and Ansett, under which the UK ...
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Jet Aviation backs business-jet timeshare-scheme launch
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA JET AVIATION is backing a new business-jet timeshare scheme, the Corpavia Club, launched by a group of investors from Europe and the Middle East. The scheme will start with two Learjet 31As, on order for delivery in September and October, which will be based with, and ...
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Transwede is forced into radical change
INCREASINGLY unsustainable losses have forced independent Swedish airline Transwede to initiate a radical restructuring programme centred on the establishment of three separate business units. From this month, scheduled, charter and maintenance activities will be operated as independent profit centres. The move, which involved 160 redundancies at the end ...