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Harris updates FAA
Harris has won a ten-year, $110 million US Federal Aviation Administration contract to modernise up to 61 flight-service stations, to provide automated flight-planning and weather graphics to general-aviation pilots. Source: Flight International
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Falcon Contract
Garrett Aviation has clinched its fifth factory-authorised service-centre contract with Dassault Falcon Jet. The company's Long Island, New York, centre will provide maintenance and inspection work on all Falcon models. Source: Flight International
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Composite order
Composite Solutions has received a follow-on order from Raisbeck Engineering for 150 shipsets of aft-fuselage baggage lockers for Learjet 35/36 operators. The company says that 40 shipsets have now been completed. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier FMS STC
Bombardier Aviation Services has received a supplementary type certificate (STC) to install Universal Avionics UNS-1K FMS on Learjet 35 twin-engined business jets. Source: Flight International
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An-32s upgraded
Hurst, Texas-based Heli-Dyne has installed quick-change maritime-patrol packages on two Mexican navy Antonov An-32s. Source: Flight International
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Smiths AV-8B award
Boeing has awarded Smiths Industries Aerospace a $14 million contract to upgrade the AV-8B stores-management system under the US Marine Corps' Open Systems Core Avionics Requirement programme. Source: Flight International
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Masquito Power
Belgian company Masquito is to begin static tests of their M80 lightweight helicopter - an uprated version of the original two-seat M58. The M80 has the 105kW (80hp) four-stroke Jabiru engine, replacing the 43kW two-stroke Rotax in the M58 - which has now been dropped. The original plans were to ...
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Execujet appointed
Bombardier Business Aircraft has appointed Execujet to promote and sell its full range of business jets in Scandinavia. From its base in Denmark, Execujet Scandinavia will also provide management, crew, operation and maintenance services. The company is also the authorised service centre for Bombardier in South Africa. Source: ...
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Satellite rush
Two more US companies have joined the rush to file applications to the Federal Communications Commission to operate a fleet of high-speed data-communications satellites (Flight International, 8-14 October). PanAmSat proposes a 12-satellite system, called the V-Stream, while Spectrum Astro plans to launch 25 Aster satellites, five each into five geostationary-orbiting ...
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Regionals alive
US regional airlines maintained their growth in the first six months of the year, with revenue kilometre miles increasing by 3% to more than 13.3 billion. The average load factor, says the US Regional Airline Association, was 53.5%, up slightly over the same period a year ago. The number of ...
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Western Pacific files for Chapter 11 protection
Western Pacific Airlines confirmed the perilous state of the US low-cost carrier market with a filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 6 October. The latest failure comes just weeks after the bankruptcy of Air South and follows a round of heavy losses throughout the low-cost sector, which ...
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DoT promises action to help start-ups
The US Department of Transportation (DoT) has pledged to act against anti-competitive behaviour by major network carriers, which the country's low-cost start-ups claim is driving them out of business. The pledge came only days before Western Pacific Airlines became the latest start-up forced to file for bankruptcy protection. ...
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Political Noises
As many in the European aviation industry are learning to their cost, the environmental debate can have a lot more to do with politics and public sympathy than it does with technology. The new emissions surcharge scheme at Zürich Airport, now being challenged by the International Air Transport ...
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Sikorsky flies first fleet-support CH-60
Sikorsky has flown the first CH-60 fleet combat-support helicopter for the US Navy. The aircraft is a hybrid between the UH-60 Black Hawk transport and SH-60 Seahawk naval helicopters, and combines the UH-60 airframe with the SH-60 dynamic system, blade and tail folding and automatic flight-control system. The ...
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Upgraded F-16 goes to Netherlands air force
The Royal Netherlands Air force received the first production Lockheed Martin F-16 mid-life upgrade (MLU) aircraft at Leeuwarden air base at the end of September. The aircraft has been assigned to the operational test and evaluation team at the base, pending the start of the conversion of the first squadron, ...
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German move destablises FLA
Germany has dealt the credibility of the European Future Large Aircraft programme a considerable blow by demanding that the Ukrainian Antonov An-70 transport be re-examined as the basis for a collaborative project with Airbus Industrie. Volker Rühe, the German defence minister, is pushing for the An-70 to be ...
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Crew crisis confronts Italian air force
The Italian air force is facing a pilot crisis with between two and three times the average number of pilots having left the air force in 1996 and 1997. By the end of 1997, some 300 pilots will have left the air force since the end of 1995, ...
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Russian forces exercise their nuclear muscles
Russia's strategic missile forces, navy and air force units carried out a large-scale nuclear-weapons exercise on 3 October, including the launch of land-mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and air-launched cruise missiles. Cruise missiles were launched from Tupolev Tu-22M3 Backfire, Tu-95MSBear and Tu-160 Blackjack bombers as part of the ...
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Comanche out
The Boeing Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche helicopter has been pulled from the $3 billion competition to supply Turkey with more than 100 advanced attack helicopters. The company says that the Comanche is no longer a contender as it will not be in production in time to meet Turkey's procurement schedule. Boeing ...
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First PAC-3 missile tests are a success
The US Department of Defense says that the first development test-flight (DT-1) of the Lockheed Martin Vought Systems Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) missile at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico appears to have been successful. According to the company, the test objectives achieved included verification of launch ...