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Flexjet gets Euro lift-off
Alan Peaford Bombardier's fractional ownership programme was launched in Europe yesterday at the same time that the company announced orders for 20 Global Express business jets from its North American FlexJet operation. The European operations are to be based in Denmark with sales and administration in London. The ...
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New buyers knocking at Global Express door
Ian Verchere Bombardier Aerospace has found "two hot leads" for its new Global Express ultra-long-range business jet at this year's Paris air show, says business aircraft sales president John Lawson. They come on the eve of the new twin-jet's formal acceptance by its first corporate customer, a leading ...
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Lions Air takes second Astra SPX
Galaxy Aerospace executives poured the champagne early at Paris yesterday as they celebrated the sale of a second Astra SPX business jet to Zurich-based charter operator Lions Air. This latest sale brings total orders from Lions Air to four aircraft - the operator already owns an SPX midsize jet ...
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Tiltrotor parts
Barnes Aerospace is planning to deliver firewall assemblies to Bell Helicopter Textron for the BA609 Tiltrotor by the third quarter of the year. Barnes is contracted to supply 250 shipsets, each of which contain 12 assemblies. Source: Flight International
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Jet addition
Jet Aviation has added five business aircraft to its charter management fleet: a Bombardier Challenger 601-3A and Cessna Citation X, based at Chicago Midway; a Gulfstream III at Van Nuys, California; and a Citation V and Raytheon Beech King Air 200 in the US Mid-west. Source: Flight International
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Camp contract
Camp Systems has won contracts from Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) and Fairchild Dornier to develop factory authorised maintenance management programmes for the BBJ and Envoy 3 business aircraft, respectively. Camp will provide BBJ and Envoy 3 customers with regular reports of maintenance status and history and a listing of upcoming ...
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Police power
The UK's Sloane Helicopters has sold the first police-configured Agusta A109E to the Wales Dyfed/Powys Police air support unit. The twin-engined helicopter, which will replace the force's ageing Eurocopter AS355N, will be deployed for air ambulance and police support operations. Sywell, Northamptonshire-based Sloane is scheduled to deliver the £2.5 million ...
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Boeing wings towards X-32A assembly
Boeing has completed mating the single-piece wing with the fuselage of the X-32A Joint Strike Fighter concept demonstrator'. The company has started a series of fit tests of the two remaining major substructures, the vertical stabiliser and landing gear. The delta wing was attached to the fuselage within six hours ...
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European power
Munich-based Eurojet has met the challenge of getting four nations to work together to develop an advanced fighter engine - the EJ200 Eurojet, the consortium developing the Eurofighter's EJ200 engine, reaches a critical threshold this year, 10 years after its formation. In November it aims to achieve CICT - completion ...
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Keeping HOPE alive
Japan's HOPE X could be a technology springboard for future RLV programmesAndrzej Jeziorski/TOKYO Japan's efforts to develop future space transportation systems are three pronged. Alongside work to upgrade the nation's expendable launch vehicles and the development of reuseable launcher concepts, the National Space Development Agency (NASDA)and the National Aerospace Laboratory ...
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Propeller test
Hamilton Sundstrand's new NP2000 propeller system for Rolls-Royce T56 engines on the US Navy's Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye and C-2A Greyhound aircraft will begin testing within the next three months. The $44.5-million contract calls for 187 propellers with an option to buy 54 more. The eight-bladed, all-composite NP2000 propeller ...
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Armour coated
Comtas is targeting the aviation industry with its armour parts, designed to protect electronic equipment, pilot seats and other sensitive areas of the aircraft. The composition of the material used by the company is a closely guarded secret but has already proved successful in the automotive field. More ...
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Turkish delight
Helicopter maker Sikorsky is teaming with Turkish company Alpata Group to form a joint venture to be known as Alp Aviation, it was revealed yesterday. Sikorsky says the company will manufacture high technology, precision-machined aerospace and defence components and assemblies for the global market. Under the agreement, Sikorsky ...
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Complemntary business addition
Montreal's Innotech-Execaire Aviation Group has added operator Air Atlantic to its portfolio. Based in Newfoundland, Air Atlantic operated a regional airline until October last year. Since then it has begun specialising in maintenance, service, parts supply and aircraft leasing. At present it has third-party maintenance contracts for several ...
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Fleet increase for BWA
British World Airways (BWA) is to increase to six its fleet of British Aerospace ATPs by leasing a further two examples of the twin turboprop from British Aerospace Asset Management. London Southend-based BWA, which specialises in wet leasing and charter flights within Europe, is scheduled to take delivery of ...
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Metro Ills for Ameriflight
British Aerospace Asset Management has announced that it has set up a deal which will see six Fairchild Metro IIIs delivered to California-based cargo operator Ameriflight in July. Ameriflight's fleet of nearly 200 aircraft handles over 75,000 packages per day for courier services such as UPS and DHL as ...
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Tiltrotor support
US-based Howmet has delivered its first production pylon support casting for the Bell/Agusta BA609 commercial tiltrotor. The pylon support is a fracture-critical component that is vital to the aircraft's ability to take off as a helicopter and shift to fixed-wing flight once airborne. The one-piece titanium casting can be ...
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Volvo Aero strikes spares deal
Volvo Aero has signed a five-year deal with Boeing allowing it to sell surplus spare parts for the Boeing fleet worldwide. Boeing will continue to sell its own spare parts primarily through the Internet. The deal covers components which are no longer used in aircraft production. Volvo Aero, through ...
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Santiago Show
FIDAE 2000 - the only aviation trade show in Latin America that brings together military and civil manufacturers - will be held in Santiago, Chile, from 27 March to 2 April, 2000. The show, organised by the Chilean air force, is backed by the Chilean government and is expected ...