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EBACE: Rolls-Royce set to accept 2,000th CorporateCare jet
Rolls-Royce is at EBACE poised to mark the 2,000th aircraft on its CorporateCare power-by-the-hour programme, as the fleet of business aircraft powered by its engines continues to grow.
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EBACE: GDC Technics undeterred by excess completions capacity
GDC Technics acknowledges that a slowdown in the number of VIP aircraft completions has resulted in excess capacity in the market, but believes its ability to engineer and install increasingly complicated solutions puts it among a small handful of companies that are up to the job.
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EBACE: Panasonic takes on business aviation rivals
Panasonic Avionics knows it is late to the party on entering the business aviation market, but its decision to team up with Astronics AeroSat rather than build its own tail mount antenna will give it a faster route into the sector.
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Superjet steep-approach approval targeted for 2017
Sukhoi foresees the Superjet 100 being certificated for steep landing approaches at London City airport in 2017.
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Wizz fleet plan shows scale of shift to A321
Central European budget carrier Wizz Air will not configure all of its Airbus A321neos with the maximum 239-seat layout, according to its current fleet plan.
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PICTURE: Air Austral takes first 787
Reunion’s Air Austral has taken delivery of its first Boeing 787-8, becoming the first French operator to take the type.
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F-35 Block 3F test schedule slips as Lot 9-10 contracting drags on
The Pentagon appears to be no closer to reaching an agreement with Lockheed Martin on contracts for the production of 151 F-35 Lightning II aircraft as part of low-rate production lots nine and 10.
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Safran opens new helicopter support centre in Singapore
Safran Helicopter Engines has officially opened a new headquarters and MRO centre in Singapore, with increased capacity for handling growing helicopter operations in Southeast Asia.
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CAE proposes 16 Draken A-4 Skyhawks for RCAF fighter training
Canadian training and simulation firm CAE has teamed with American warplane contractor Draken International to offer 16 Douglas A-4 Skyhawks as aggressors for Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 combat training.
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CAE to accept first two Grob trainers for US C-12 schoolhouse
Training service provider CAE will take delivery of two Grob Aircraft G120TP single-engine turboprops next month as it begins standing up a new fixed-wing Beechcraft C-12 pilot training school at Dothan Regional Airport in Alabama for the US Army and Air Force.
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Textron's new focus on product development
A static test aircraft and pieces of the first four of five planned flight test aircraft for the Cessna Citation Longitude are coming together on a makeshift assembly line inside the formerly empty bay of a Textron Aviation building known as Plant III.
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EBACE: Comlux confident over future of completions
Comlux is undaunted by the slump in the completion market that coincided with the unveiling in April of a widebody extension to its Comlux America centre in Indianapolis.
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EBACE: Large-cabin jet values taking biggest hit: Ascend
The secondhand values of large-cabin jets are falling faster than those of smaller counterparts, as high-end business aircraft take the biggest hit from a collapse in demand from emerging economies.
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EBACE: Innovation aplenty but completions still challenging for Lufthansa Technik
Lufthansa Technik may be having a torrid time on the completions front – after taking the decision last year to put its Bizjet facility in Tulsa in “dormant mode” – but the German maintenance house is at EBACE in confident mood, promoting a series of cabin innovations from interior concepts ...
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UAVs and MSA carry out Spanish self-separation tests
Two unmanned air vehicles have flown alongside a manned aircraft from a Spanish airport for the first time, under an Indra-led effort to demonstrate safe separation between the two types in controlled airspace.
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EBACE: Single-minded: Dogged determination propels turboprop-singles
The commercial single-engined turboprop (SETP) sector is one of the most enduring yet understated niches of the business aviation market.
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EBACE: Bombardier forecasts healthy decade of deliveries
Bombardier is predicting 8,300 business jet deliveries – in the markets it competes in – over the next decade.
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EBACE: Panasonic and Astronics talk up broadband partnership
Astronics AeroSat expects the in-flight connectivity service it is developing for the business aviation market through its new partnership with Panasonic Avionics to be certified for retrofit installation on the Gulfstream IV family of aircraft in September.
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EBACE: GlobeAir and JetSuite unveil air taxi partnership
Customers of air taxi operators GlobeAir and JetSuite are to be offered a seamless travel experience when flying within Europe and the USA, following the launch at EBACE of a new partnership between the two air taxi pioneers.
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EBACE: Nextant taps Marshall Aerospace for 400XTi servicing
Nextant announced at EBACE that it has selected Marshall Aerospace as its exclusive authorised service centre for the 400XT/XTi in the UK.