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NBAA: Beechcraft highlights King Air's long-range capability
Beechcraft has demonstrated the long-range capabilities of its King Air 350ER by making a nonstop trip between California’s Napa County airport and Honolulu International – a distance of 2,121nm (3,928km).
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Gulf Air to start Shiraz services
Gulf Air will start services to Shiraz, Iran from December.
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Textron awaits FAA authorisation for Aerosonde flight
Textron Systems expects to receive a Certificate of Authorization (COA) from the US Federal Aviation Administration in coming weeks, which will allow it to operate its Aerosonde unmanned air vehicle in unrestricted US airspace.
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NBAA: Comlux prepares for VIP widebody completions
Comlux America is preparing to expand into the widebody VIP completions market and is poised to break ground on a new hangar extension to accommodate the anticipated new business.
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NBAA: Bombardier plans Challenger 605 avionics retrofit
Bombardier has unveiled a plan to retrofit the Challenger 605 with Rockwell Collins avionics that will enter service next year on the updated Challenger 650.
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Selex ES and HAV to team up for MoD airship testing
Selex ES is to team with Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) to develop a sensor package for UK Ministry of Defence testing on-board the latter’s Airlander 10 hybrid airship.
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Azul chief executive David Neeleman
Azul chief executive David Neeleman is thinking big in Brazil – big fleets, big networks and big ambitions. But with international expansion on the cards, the airline's future may lie overseas
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NBAA: US business aviation depends on FAA reform
Business aviation's contribution to the US economy is being strangled by too much government red tape and the glacial pace of reform, according to a leading US congressman.
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NBAA: Revolutionary rivals face-off in static park
After many delays and false starts, a long-promised revolution in the super-light and midsize cabin segments has finally arrived at the NBAA static park.
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Russia's fourth Mi-38 makes flight debut
Russian Helicopters has performed the first flight with a pre-series production example of the Mil Mi-38 transport helicopter, and will soon launch certification testing activities using the aircraft.
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NBAA: Jet Aviation charts course for growth
Switzerland’s Jet Aviation has put all its previous troubles behind it and is now poised to aggressively grow all its business units, says company president Robert Smith.
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NBAA: Sabreliner moves into aircraft remanufacturing
US maintenance repair and overhaul company Sabreliner Aviation is making its foray in to aircraft remanufacturing and hopes to launch its first programme next year.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: What next for Europe's airlines?
CTAIRA analyst and summit speaker Chris Tarry examines the economic and strategic headaches that legacy airlines face amid faltering growth and market uncertainties
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World Airliner Directory: Airbus v Boeing is a war on two fronts
The campaign for market share between Airbus and Boeing is being fought on two fronts. In single-aisles, both airframers have adopted similar gameplans by re-engining existing models and – with bulging backlogs and plans to ramp up monthly production between now and the end of the decade – are in ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: NBAA: Cessna unveils new interior design with Latitude debut
Cessna enthusiastically launched what was then described the “light-midsized" Latitude programme three years ago, but was really playing catch-up. Rival Embraer had already stolen a scheduling lead in 2008 by unveiling the Legacy 500 and 450 jets. The Brazilian airframer had targeted the fat middle of the business jet market ...
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NBAA: Bohlke, IGY sign partnership
Charter operator Bohlke International Airways has been selected to be the preferred aviation service for IGY Marinas in the Caribbean.
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ST Aero secures new contracts worth S$450M in Q3
ST Aerospace has secured S$450M (US$354M) in contracts during the third quarter of 2014, down from the S$520M in the second quarter.
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LHT modifies Luftwaffe A310 as zero-gravity aircraft
Lufthansa Technik is converting a former German air force Airbus A310 into a test and research aircraft for French national space centre CNES.
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Vnukovo runway incursion kills Total oil chief and three Falcon 50 crew
The driver of a Moscow Vnukovo airport snow clearing machine hit by a Falcon 50 jet taxiing for takeoff was drunk at the time of the accident that killed Total oil chief executive Christophe de Margerie and the aircraft’s three crew.
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FLIGHT TEST: Citation X+ marks Cessna's bid for the high-speed crown
When Flight International last flew the Citation X in 2002, Boeing was still wrestling with the Sonic Cruiser concept, an effort to field a nearly supersonic transport aircraft. In the intervening 12 years, much has happened. The Sonic Cruiser was shelved in favour of the successful 787.