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Olympic to lease 15 737-700/800s
Olympic Airways is to take 15 Next Generation Boeing 737s on 10-year leases from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) to replace ageing Boeing 727s and 737-200s. As part of the deal, the Greek flag carrier is to cancel firm orders for eight 737-800s that had been due for delivery ...
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EC holds up EADS approval over inadequate documents
Alan George/LONDON The European Commission's (EC) competition authorities have extended by a month their first-phase investigation of the proposed merger of DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, Aerospatiale Matra and CASA to form the European Aeronautic, Defense and Space (EADS) company. Brussels acted after some documents from EADS were found to be deficient. ...
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Delta discusses CRJ order with Bombardier
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Delta Air Lines is discussing a major new order for the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) series and is studying a longer-term requirement for a larger 110-seat class aircraft. Industry sources say the Atlanta, Georgia-based carrier is in talks with Bombardier to order a substantial ...
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Treasury delays RAF winners
Last-minute intervention by the UK Treasury has frustrated the announcement of winners of the Royal Air Force's Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVRAAM), Future Transport Aircraft (FTA) and Short Term Tactical Airlifter (STSA) competitions. Industry sources say that in particular the Treasury has questioned the cost of the preferred ...
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Virgin Australia agrees 737-700 leasing deal
Virgin Australia has agreed a A$540million ($333 million) long-term operating lease deal with International Lease Finance (ILFC) for 10 Boeing 737-700s, with the option to switch to the larger 737-800. The deal, confirmed by new chief executive Brett Godfrey, calls for deliveries to begin next March. The aircraft will ...
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Century tries again for CA-100 funding
Century Aerospace is restarting efforts to raise funds to develop its CA-100 small business jet after the sudden departure of its president. Lawyer Thomas Wyckoff resigned after less than six months in the job. Century founder and chairman Bill Northrup says that Wyckoff "wanted to take the company in ...
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Sabre books business jet seats
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Airline ticketing specialist Sabre is to make seats on chartered corporate aircraft available to business travellers in the USA, through flightserv.com's Private Seats programme. Sabre has agreed to provide access to Private Seats through its Internet-based business travel purchasing system, used by more than 350 ...
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FLIR launches airborne camera system variant
FLIR Systems, the Portland, Oregon-based infrared (IR) thermal and visual imaging specialist, plans to unveil a new version of its digital Ultra Media aerial-broadcast camera system for television news helicopters at April's US National Association of Broadcasters meeting in Las Vegas. The Ultra Media III incorporates a Sony BVP-570 ...
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JetOne talks to potential backer
Small US business jet fractional ownership company JetOne says it is negotiating with a backer interested in taking the programme nationwide. The Waterford, Michigan-based company, which began operations in January last year, has two used Cessna Citation IIs and two more pre-owned aircraft on order. JetOne says it ...
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Lancair and Malaysia settle Columbia funding dispute
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Lancair has resolved a dispute with its Malaysian partners in the Columbia 300 light aircraft joint venture. The settlement has released funding to ramp up production. The dispute involved the two partners in the Pacific Aviation Composites USA joint venture that produces the Columbia: LIMA, ...
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Morrow Aircraft close to Boomerang twin funding
Morrow Aircraft is close to securing extra funding needed to resume development of its Rutan-inspired Boomerang piston twin. But first deliveries are still set for late 2002, despite the delay in clinching the required investment. Dale Johnson, Morrow's vice-president of product management, says: "We are at the point where ...
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BBJ tour
Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) and Swiss business aircraft operator PrivatAir have begun a five-week tour of Europe and the Middle East, promoting the BBJ. The 28-seat 737-700/800 hybrid is one of three owned by the Geneva-based company. The aircraft has become "the first ever BBJ to be used in private ...
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Hawker poised to fly with winglets
Aviation Partners expects to fly a Raytheon Hawker 800 fitted with prototype winglets by mid-year. This follows the successful Gulfstream II upgrade programme, under which 100 aircraft have been retrofitted with the company's patented blended winglets. Joe Clark, chief executive of the Seattle-based company, says winglets should be ...
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Canadian plans to update ageing fleet
Canadian Airlines has unveiled plans for a multi-billion dollar acquisition to replace up to 70 ageing aircraft over the next five years. The move follows its takeover by rival Air Canada, and a joint fleet-renewal order may be under consideration. The plan has been disclosed by new president ...
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DoD aims to relax arms controls
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Department of Defense (DoD) is pushing for controls to be waived on exports of weapons and technology to the UK and Australia, in an effort to enhance interoperability and encourage open defence markets. Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Secretary of State Madeline Albright ...
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Performance snags delay first 728JET delivery to Lufthansa
Fairchild Aerospace has slipped 728JET development by six months because the 70-85-seat regional jet's performance would have failed to meet the requirements of launch customer Lufthansa CityLine. The US manufacturer claimed at the February Asian Aerospace 2000 air show in Singapore that the primary driver behind the decision to ...
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AH-X bidders await end-of-year request
Manufacturers eyeing a potential contract to replace Japan's 84 Fuji/Bell AH-1S attack helicopters say they anticipate a fresh request for information to be issued by the end of the year. According to Boeing, which is proposing the AH-64D Apache Longbow, this could be followed by a contract in around ...
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Japan's BK117 C-2 prototype flies at Gifu
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) has successfully flown the first Japanese-built prototype BK117 C-2 medium-twin-turbine helicopter at its Gifu plant. First flight was on 15 March, for about 1h, says Masato Furusawa, KHI's senior manager of helicopter project engineering. The prototype hovered and demonstrated forward, reverse and sideways flight and ...
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Japanese fine tune military transport requirement
Andrzej Jeziorski/TOKYO The Japan Defence Agency (JDA) has begun to crystallise its requirement for a replacement military transport, according to JDA officials speaking at the Tokyo Aerospace 2000 show - held from 22-26 March at the Tokyo International Exhibition Centre. The C-X replacement for the air force's ageing ...
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Ariane 5 makes first dual-satellite launch
Ariane 505 flight V128 was launched from Kourou on 21 March, carrying the Asiastar and Insat 3B. It was the first commercial dual-satellite deployment mission by the heavylift booster and its second commercial flight. Ariane 505 carried a 4,835kg (10,650lb) payload to a 560 x 35,785km (350 x 22,225 ...