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New factory
Orbital Sciences will construct a satellite manufacturing factory near its Virginia headquarters. The $50 million plant will be employed to build small and medium class spacecraft. The new factory is scheduled to be completed in 2001. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal proposes satellite service for independents
Tim Furniss/LONDON AlliedSignal is to set up a project called DataLynx to provide a global satellite control centre for independent satellite operators. Based in Maryland, DataLynx is intended to provide a standardised, high-technology service to the emerging, smaller operator market, including private remote-sensing and mobile communications satellite companies. ...
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SOHO disappears from its deep space orbit
The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA spacecraft, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), has been lost in its deep space orbit after operating since December 1995. The spacecraft went into an emergency sun reacquisition mode on 25 June. This is activated when orientation to the sun is lost ...
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Air 2000 makes LIA fleet merger first priority
Air 2000 is aiming to integrate its recent acquisition, Leisure International Airways (LIA), by the beginning of its summer 1999 flying programme. It will then look at long-term fleet plans. The merger of the two UK charter airlines under the Air 2000 identity follows the recent purchase by Air ...
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KLM accounts hint at the true worth of BA slots at Heathrow
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON A rare insight into the value of slots at London Heathrow has emerged from a line in the latest KLM accounts which gives details of a deal with British Airways that appears to put a price tag of up to $3 million on each landing and take-off ...
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BA and Cathay Pacific near alliance agreement
Paul Lewis/HONG KONG Cathay Pacific Airways is close to finalising a wide-ranging alliance with British Airways, which could extend to the UK company acquiring an equity stake in the Hong Kong carrier. The airlines are also believed to be talking about swapping aircraft. According to industry sources, discussions ...
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Airbus Industrie and AVIC abandon AE31X
Julian Moxon/PARIS Paul Lewis/HONG KONG Airbus Industrie and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) have broken off negotiations on co-operative development of the 100-seater AE31X following what an industry source describes as "failure to establish a sufficient business case" . The move will cause little surprise. The third potential ...
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China Aviation may take 10 more 737-700/800s
Boeing has secured a smaller than expected tentative sale of a further 10 737-700/800s to China Aviation Supplies (CASC), while firming up the final allocation to carriers of the 50 aircraft ordered by Beijing last October. The latest deal involves a letter of intent (LoI) to order an incremental ...
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JAL aims to speed cost cuts with new express subsidiary
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Japan Airlines (JAL) has launched its new low cost subsidiary, JAL Express (JEX), in an effort to counter the country's crippling high labour costs and in response to the impending entry into the domestic airline market of the first of several planned start-ups. JEX launched its ...
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Touching moment as an era ends
Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport's northerly approach, which requires a spectacular banking turn around the infamous "chequerboard" in typically tricky crosswinds, was more than a handful for the pilot of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 747-400 which scraped an outer engine on landing in late June and an Indian Airlines 747. ...
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Budget cuts force Chile to shelve fighter plans
Chile has postponed indefinitely the $600 million purchase of up to 24 new fighters, following Government budget cuts forced by the effects of the Asian economic crisis. Buffeted by falling copper prices and a growing budget deficit, the Chilean Government has imposed austerity measures, including "temporarily" delaying the fighter ...
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Airline Ownership Survey
This survey provides details of who owns 226 airlines. Fifty six are listed on stock exchanges, some through parent companies. Governments have majority holdings in 66 of the 226 carriers and minority holdings in 19 more. Most airlines with five or more jet aircraft have been included, ...
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Canadian First
Cessna has received Transport Canada certification for the Citation X business jet and has delivered the first aircraft to a Canadian customer. Meanwhile, Innotech-Execaire, which operates Citation service centres in Montreal and Vancouver, is to establish a Citation X centre in Toronto. Source: Flight International
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Cessna representative
Cessna Aircraft has appointed XLA Services as an authorised sales representative for a variety of African countries. The Geneva-based company will market the Citation range of business jets. Source: Flight International
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Robinson delivers
Robinson Helicopters has delivered five R44 Clippers to Panamanian-based companies Aerotech International and one to Helipan. The aircraft, which are equipped with marine avionics and utility floats, will be operated from fishing boats in Latin America and used for tuna spotting. Source: Flight International
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Price rise
Cirrus Design is increasing the basic price of its SR20 four-seat, single-piston aircraft from 17 July by nearly $10,000. All orders for an SR20 will be at the standard price of $168,800. To date, the Duluth, Minnesota-based company has 156 firm orders for the SR20, which is scheduled for certification ...
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Completion centre
Associated Air Center of Dallas, Texas, has become the first US completion company approved by Airbus Industrie to outfit the A319 Corporate Jetliner. Similar agreements have been signed with Jet Aviation in Switzerland and Lufthansa Technik in Germany. The US centre will offer a range of cabin layouts. Source: ...
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F-4E Upgrade
Hellenic Aerospace Industries (HAI) has teamed with Derco Aerospace of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to conduct a life extension programme for the Hellenic air force's McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II fleet. The US firm won a $3 million contract to provide HAI with upgrade kits. All material will be supplied to HAI ...
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Tactical tomahawk
The US Navy has awarded Raytheon Systems a $256 million contract for engineering and manufacturing development of the Tactical Tomahawk missile. The award includes a fixed price of $800 million for 1,343 missiles to be built over five years. EMD is set to be completed in 2001, with production beginning ...
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Hushkit order
Burbank Aeronautical has signed an agreement with Emery Worldwide Airlines to deliver nine shipsets of Stage 3 huskits for the freight carrier's Douglas Aircraft DC-8-62/63s. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in October. The freight carrier also has options on a further seven hushkits, due for delivery next year Source: Flight ...