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Asiasat stake
Luxembourg-based Société Européenne des Satellites (SES) has acquired a 34.13% stake in Hong Kong-based Asiasat in a $372 million deal that will give SES a hold in the Asia Pacific market. The deal came as Cable and Wireless and Hutchinson Whampoa left Asiasat. Cable and Wireless will use the cash ...
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Fairchild fastens on
Fairchild has agreed to acquire Kaynar Technologies, a maker of aerospace fasteners, for $267 million. The combination of Fairchild Fasteners and Kaynar Technologies is expected to generate $685 million in revenues for the company in the fiscal year ending 30 June 1999. Source: Flight International
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Components plant
Snecma Services, the French engine maker's after-market arm, and the USA's Praxair Surface Technologies are negotiating to set up an aircraft engine component repair centre in France. Initially, it will provide compressor component repair services for CFM56, and later the General Electric GE90 powerplant. Praxair provides metallic and ceramic coatings ...
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Solair sale complete
Kellstrom Industries has completed its $57 million acquisition of Solair from Banner Aerospace. Solair sells a wide range of aircraft components, including flight data recorders, electrical and mechanical equipment, radar and navigation systems. Kellstrom provides after-market airborne equipment, including avionics, engines and engine parts. Source: Flight International
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JSOW award
The US Department of Defense has awarded Raytheon Systems a $134 million contract to begin full-rate production of the AGM-154A Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) and low-rate production of the AGM-154B variant. The US Navy will receive 328 AGM-154A missiles while the US Air Force gets 75 units. The USN is ...
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KC-10s training
Boeing has won a 10-year US Air Force KC-10 Aircrew Training System contract worth $80 million. The KC-10 tanker manufacturer will provide instructor and simulation-based training for cockpit procedures, boom operations and cargo loading. The work will be performed by Boeing Aerospace Operations with support from Thomson Training and Simulation ...
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ASARS-2 test
Raytheon has completed first phase testing of the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System-2 (ASARS-2) for the US Air Force's Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. Data collected indicates that contrast ratio, impulse response width, and peak sidelobes meet or are better than specification, the company says. The product improvement integrates the ASARS-2's ...
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Tests on cue
The Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS) has successfully performed a series of test flights on a US Air Force F-15 Eagle and a US Navy F/A-18 Hornet, following an 18-month development programme. The helmet system is made by Vision Systems International, a subsidiary of Elbit and Kaiser Aerospace. JHMCS ...
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Air France pilots back wage cuts
Eight out of 10 Air France pilots have agreed to wage cuts and a subsequent freeze in salaries in return for a stake in the airline when it is partially privatised. The decision means that the French Government can go ahead with its partial privatisation plans, under which up ...
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Ansett to replace 747-300s with -400s
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS The board of Ansett International has endorsed a plan to acquire two Boeing 747-400s as interim replacements for two 747-300s it leases from partner Singapore Airlines (SIA). The decision removes any near term plans to acquire smaller twinjets. The airline operates the 747-300s between Australia and ...
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ATR team sets tight deadline for regional jet project talks
Andrew Doyle/TEL AVIV ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia are trying to wrap up, by the end of March, a deal with either Fairchild Dornier or Embraer for the joint development of a family of regional jets. Talks with Fairchild Dornier, which began last month, are to continue through ...
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Boullioun signs for 30 A320s
Boullioun Aviation Services has become one of the world's biggest leasing companies after placing orders for 30 Airbus A319s and A320s in a deal worth more than $1.3 billion. The order was completed last October, but only became effective on 23 December when the final details of the leasing ...
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ATRs replace Arkia's Dash 7s
Arkia Israeli Airlines has put into service the first of three ATR 72-500s ordered last July. The private carrier will use the 72-seat aircraft to increase capacity on its high-frequency operations between Dov Hoz Tel Aviv Airport and Eilat, replacing ageing 50-seat de Havilland Dash 7s. The second and third ...
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RJ100 delivered for EuroCross services
Crossair has taken delivery of its latest Avro RJ100 adorned in its new EuroCross livery to promote the new hub operation at EuroAirport Basle-Mulhouse-Freiburg. The RJ will initially be operated on a new service between Basle and Stockholm, and will also replace a Saab 2000 on services to Bilbao. Crossair ...
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Israel opens up cargo market
El Al is to decrease its cargo carrying capability in reaction to an Israeli Government committee recommendation to allow a private company to fly scheduled cargo services from the country. The committee, headed by the director-general of the Israeli ministry of transport, has recommended that Cargo Air Lines (CAL) ...
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Lauda Air bolsters fleet with Next Generation 737s, additional 767
Lauda Air has ordered a further six Boeing Next Generation 737s and an additional 767-300ER in a $519 million deal with the US manufacturer. The carrier, part of the Austrian Airlines group, will take delivery of the 767 in August. Two 737-600s and four 737-700s will be handed over ...
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Marketplace (1)
-UK remarketing agent Cabot Aviation has purchased Thai Airways International's two eight-year-old ATR 42-320s, which are now being offered for onward sale or lease. -Swedish lessor Indigo Aviation has acquired two Boeing 737-400s which are currently leased to Istanbul Airlines and Italy's Blue Panorama. The aircraft are leased until 2003. ...
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Marketplace (2)
-Hawaiian Airlines has purchased two McDonnell Douglas DC-9-50s from the Italian airline Meridiana, for delivery in February. The airline already operates 13 DC-9-51s on its inter-island route network, and is exempt to the US Stage 2 phase-out noise legislation that takes full effect at the end of 1999, because Hawaii ...
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Profits boost prompts PIA to decide on fleet replacements
Paul Lewis/KARACHI Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) says that it is ready to decide on the long-awaited replacement aircraft for its Boeing 747-200s. It has been spurred on by an end of year boost in profits and the need to combat increased competition after the government opened up access by foreign ...
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Raisbeck completes Stage 3 tests on hushkit
Raisbeck Commercial Air Group has completed US Federal Aviation Administration Stage 3 certification flight tests on its Boeing 727-200 High Gross Weight (HGW) hushkit, and says that it is on track for March approval. In the meantime, the Seattle-based company is offering its Increased Gross Weight (IGW) kit for ...