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Support contract
Jet Support Services has received a five-year, $13.6 million, contract covering scheduled and unscheduled engine maintenance on the FAA's 18 Raytheon Beech King Air 300s and six Hawker 800As, which cumulatively fly some 14,300h a year. Source: Flight International
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Metro renamed
Metro Business Aviation has changed its title to The New Metro Business Aviation, in an attempt to enhance its "market appeal". The UK fixed-base operator and maintenance company, which occupies sites at London's Heathrow, Stansted and Luton airports, is planning to unveil its new image at the US National Business ...
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Rutan to launch Boomerang after production agreement
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Burt Rutan's unconventional, asymmetric piston twin, the Boomerang, is set to enter production. Oregon-based Morrow Aircraft has reached an agreement with Rutan under which the one-off design could be certificated within three years - provided that sufficient financing is secured. Under the agreement, Rutan's Scaled ...
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Boeing nears ILFC 717 deal
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing and International Lease Finance (ILFC) are close to agreeing a contract for orders involving up to 100 717-200s. Boeing hopes the deal will provide the programme with its long-awaited sales breakthrough for the type since the similarly sized initial launch order from AirTran Airlines in ...
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Executive Jet orders Boeing Business Jets for NetJets programme
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Executive Jet's relentless appetite for major business aircraft orders for its NetJets fractional ownership programme looks set to continue at the forthcoming National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention to be held on 19-21 October in Las Vegas, Nevada, with an order for the $35 million Boeing Business ...
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GE90-powered Continental 777 hits ETOPS proving flight hitch
This new General Electric GE90-powered Continental Airlines Boeing 777 had to carry out a precautionary diversion following a starboard engine low oil-quantity alert during a transpacific extended range twin engine operations (ETOPS) proving flight for the airline. The aircraft, en route on a nonstop New York-Tokyo flight on 7 October, ...
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Oslo moves airport but carries on with business as usual
Oslo's Gardermoen Airport was fully opened for business on 8 October following an overnight move from Fornebu Airport, which had previously served the Norwegian capital. The new airport is located 50km (30 miles) from the city centre and was constructed at a cost of NKr12.9 billion ($1.7 billion). Fornebu ...
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South Korea cutback
South Korea has cancelled plans to exercise an option to buy eight Lockheed Martin P-3Cs, after losing a legal case against the US manufacturer alleging overcharging in broker fees. Seoul will try to recover the money from Daewoo, which had been promised a $29.75 million commission, but received only $4 ...
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PAL seeks foreign capital as resumption nears
Philippine Airlines (PAL) is due to resume skeleton international flights from 15 October, following the restart of domestic services with a much reduced fleet of aircraft. It is now seeking to attract new foreign investors, with efforts focused on Cathay Pacific Airways and Northwest Airlines. International operations will begin ...
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R-R plans joint European repair venture
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Rolls-Royce is in discussions with Swissair and Lufthansa to form a new tripartite engine repair and overhaul facility in Europe as plans to establish a similar joint venture with Singapore Airlines (SIA) have slowed in the face of Asia's economic crisis. The UK engine manufacturer is understood to ...
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Airbus/Boeing poser faces Air France
Julian Moxon/PARIS Air France is considering the purchase of an initial 15 Airbus A330-200s or Boeing 767-300ER/400ERs to satisfy part of its future long-haul requirement and has asked General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Pratt & Whitney to come up with offers for both types. Selection is being held up ...
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EC and Italy reach last-gasp airports agreement
The European Commission and the Italian Government have reached a last-minute agreement on a traffic distribution system between Milan's two airports at Linate and Malpensa, where a new hub is to open on 25 October. The deal, agreed in principle, followed a day of intense negotiations on 8 October ...
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Swiss Cougar
The Swiss Government has approved funding in its 1998 defence budget for the purchase of 12 Eurocopter Cougar Mk1 military transport helicopters for the Swiss army. The deal, which is expected to be signed in December, is thought to be worth around SFr320 million ($210 million) and will increase to ...
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BFGoodrich reveals weather radar unit
BFGoodrich Avionics Systems has developed a unit enabling lighting and traffic information to be superimposed on any weather radar indicator. The console-mounted RGC250 radar graphics computer will be unveiled later this month at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas, Nevada. The RGC250 will display information from ...
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Improving safety
Graham Warwick/MONTREAL Teams of International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) inspectors will move out early next year to begin mandatory safety oversight audits, opening a new chapter in the history of the United Nations agency. The programme of "regular, mandatory, systematic and harmonised safety audits" in all 185 member states was ...
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Loral contract
Loral Space Systems has won a $300 million contract to build two Ka-band communications satellites for KaStar Satellite Communications of Denver, Colorado. The first launch is planned for no later than February 2002. Source: Flight International
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NASA competition
Lockheed Martin has beaten Boeing in the competition to win from NASA the $3.4 billion Consolidated Space Operations Contract. The mission communications and data services operations cover five NASA centres - Johnson, Kennedy, Marshall, Goddard and the JetPL - and will be managed by a single industrial contractor for the ...
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Share landmark
Raytheon Aircraft's Travel Air fractional-ownership subsidiary has sold its 100th share, just over one year since beginning operations. The Travel Air fleet now consists of 27 aircraft: seven Raytheon Beech King Air 200s, 13 Beechjet 400As and seven Hawker 800XPs. Source: Flight International