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Spanish funding
Spain is to take a less than 10% stake in the $2 billion French Helios 2 reconnaissance satellite. Source: Flight International
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Takeover confirmed
Atlantic Research has bought the liquid engine business of British Aerospace's Royal Ordnance (RO) subsidiary. RO has supplied apogee and thruster engines for almost 50% of the world's communications satellites. Source: Flight International
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Morocco radar
The Royal Moroccan Air Force has upgraded its Northrop Grumman TPS-63 radars with new solid-state components, and is the first operator to do so. The seven upgrade kits were delivered in November 1997, and the last will be completed by the end of 1998. Source: Flight International
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Kuwaiti Mirage sale
Kuwait is planning to sell 15 Dassault Mirage F-1 fighter planes, say army sources quoted in the local media. France, Belgium and Brazil are mentioned as possible buyers. Kuwait has already sold its fleet of McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawks as part of a modernisation programme based around a purchase of ...
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SIA profit slump
Singapore Airlines (SIA) suffered a 26.5% slide in net profit for the first six months of the year because of declining passenger yields, falling load factors and rising costs, but it managed to limit the damage with better than expected subsidiary results and the sale and leaseback of aircraft. The ...
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Borgman for Sikorsky
Ex-McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems boss Dean Borgman has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Sikorsky Aircraft. Borgman will report to Eugene Buckley, Sikorsky's chairman and chief executive, who is to retire next year. Borgman retired in June from Boeing, where he was senior vice-president responsible for the company's ...
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Airports
-Vienna International Airport has recorded an 8.4% rise in passenger traffic in the first six months to June 1998. Passenger numbers for the period totalled 4.9 million. Cargo saw an 8.8% increase to 73,688t. -BAA is seeking approval for a £200 million ($120 million) two-phase expansion of London Stansted Airport ...
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African safety improves in 1998, despite growth
Lois Jones/DAKAR Air accidents in Africa are reducing, says ASECNA, the air navigation agency for Francophone Africa. The number of reported accidents stand at 14 in 1998, compared with last year's tally of 30. Reported near misses stand at 17 this year, compared to 26 in 1997, says ...
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Big Sky moves in on Aspen Mountain Air routes from Dallas
US regional Big Sky Airlines is to take over bankrupt Aspen Mountain Air's (AMA) Essential Air Service (EAS) routes from Dallas/Fort Worth, beginning in the middle of November. In an emergency action, the US Department of Transportation selected the Billings, Montana-based regional in preference to three other applicants. The ...
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IATA warns of longer European air traffic control delays
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says that it is concerned at the rise in air traffic control (ATC) delays in Europe. Statistics just released reveal that, over the 1998 summer period, 22% of all flights were delayed by an average of 24min, with total ATC delays 39%higher than ...
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Swissair introduces its first A330-200
Swissair has introduced the first of 15 Airbus A330-200s on its medium and long-haul network. The 224-seat Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered A330s will initially replace smaller A310-300s. The fifteenth, and last, aircraft is due to be delivered in July 2000. SAir group partners Sabena and Austrian Airlines have also ordered ...
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DAT brings in Brasilia
Danish Air Transport (DAT) has added a refurbished 28-seat Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia to its fleet. The Vamdrup, Denmark-based charter carrier is offering the aircraft for operations from a base in Esbjerg. The airline's fleet includes a Cessna CitationJet, Raytheon Beech 1900s and King Airs and Shorts Skyvans. A deal was ...
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TWA boosts 757 fleet
Trans World Airlines is boosting its Boeing twinjet fleet with an order for four more 757-200s from Boeing and the lease of one additional Boeing 767-300ER from International Lease Finance. The deals are part of the airline's fleet renewal programme, in which a further 24 Boeing MD-80s will also ...
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Asian woes force Cathay to withdraw 747 Classic fleet
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is to begin phasing out of service all six of its Boeing 747-300s within 12 months and is close to finalising a deal to dispose of a further two 747-200s, as the Hong Kong carrier continues to cut capacity in the face of a ...
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Troubled Fairlines has to stop scheduled services
French business class airline Fairlines has run into fresh financial problems after being forced to stop payments on its leased aircraft. The carrier has terminated its scheduled routes from Paris. The airline, which started operations at the beginning of the year, has been trying to replace its scheduled services ...
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Fokker 100s enable Gill Airways to expand Air France franchise
Gill Airways has agreed with Air France to a major expansion of its franchise programme next year, following its deal to acquire its first jet fleet with the lease of three Fokker 100s. The independent UK regional airline, based in Newcastle, has signed a deal with debis AirFinance, arranged ...
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Russia offers GLONASS share
Julian Moxon/PARIS Russia has made an unprecedented offer to Europe to share control of its Glonass global navigation satellite system (GNSS) as part of a deal to co-operate on the development and operation of the second generation GNSS-2. Anatoli Chilov, chief adviser to the Russian RKA civil aviation ...
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Kendell picks Canadair Regional Jet to take over Ansett routes
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Australian regional airline Kendell has selected the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) over Embraer's RJ-145 and placed an order for up to 24 aircraft. Meanwhile, Adelaide-based National Jet Systems (NJS) is about to introduce the first of up to four ERJ-145s. The Ansett-owned regional has placed firm orders ...
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Marketplace
-Detroit-based ProAir will add a third Boeing 737-400 in December, leased from Boullioun. The secondhand aircraft will be used to increase frequencies and for expansion. -US regional Trans States Airlines has exercised six options for the 50-seat Embraer RJ-145. Its original contract, signed in February, included nine firm orders and ...
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EVA considers Myanma buy-out
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE EVA Airways of Taiwan is in discussions to invest in and take over the operations of Myanmar Airways International (MAI) from the carrier's Brunei-backed Singapore joint venture partner Highsonic Enterprises. Senior sources within the Taiwanese airline confirm that a team has been dispatched to MAI to ...