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Falcon Jet
Jean Rosanvallon has been appointed president of Dassault Falcon Jet, of Paramus, New Jersey. He was formerly senior vice-president of worldwide sales and marketing. Source: Flight International
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Atlantic
Charter, management and consultancy Atlantic Aviation, of Teterboro, New Jersey, has appointed Gary Gennari to the newly created position of director for client relations. He was formerly charter-sales supervisor. Michael Sala has become manager of aircraft sales. Source: Flight International
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Continental
Continental Airlines has appointed executive vice-presidents and senior vice-presidents. Executive vice-presidents are: Ben Baldanza, marketing; Lawrence Kellner, chief financial officer; C D McLean, operations; and Jeffery Smisek, general counsel. Senior vice-presidents are: Bonnie Reitz; Janet Wejman; David Grizzle; George Mason; and Kuniaki "Jun" Tsuruta. Source: Flight International
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Dallas Airmotive
Turbine-engine-services supplier Dallas Airmotive of Dallas, Texas, has appointed Randy Hightower its new controller. He will report to chief financial officer Dan Komnevich. Source: Flight International
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Sabena overhauls
Sabena Technics has signed a maintenance contract with FedEx covering overhaul of all of the US freight carrier's Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines for its Boeing 727 fleet during the next six years. The contract follows two years of negotiations. Source: Flight International
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Australian Jetstream
O'Connor Airlines of Mt Gambler, South Australia, will replace its two Cessna Conquests with Jet stream Super 31s on eight-year leases from British Aerospace Asset Management Turboprops. The Jet streams will be delivered in February. Source: Flight International
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Fokker 50 gear fails
All 41 passengers and four crew escaped unhurt when the left main undercarriage of a KLM City Hopper Fokker 50 collapsed during a landing on 8 December at London Heathrow Airport. The crew had alerted the emergency services after the left gear indicator showed that it had failed to lock ...
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Second Schiphol
Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is studying the possibility of building a second Dutch national airport, probably on an artificial island. Source: Flight International
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TCAS for Ansett
Ansett Australia has selected Honeywell's TCAS 2000 traffic-alert and collision-avoidance-system for its Airbus A320, Boeing 737 and 767 and British Aerospace 146 fleets. The first of 64 ship sets is due to be installed around mid-1997. Source: Flight International
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Early work stations
Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management has delivered initial next-generation controller workstations ten months ahead of schedule to the Seattle air-route traffic-control centre (ARTCC). Seattle is the first of 21 sites, which will receive the Display System Replacement (DSR) air-traffic-control (ATC) equipment. The workstation replaces aging ATC hardware. The early delivery ...
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Braathens leases back
Braathens SAFE is planning the sale and lease back of six Boeing 737s in a deal valued at $150 million. The cash will be used to cover investments already made in new buildings at Oslo's Gadermoen Airport. The transaction involves two 737-400s and four -500s, which are to be leased ...
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Syrian upgrade
Russia and Syria are in the final stages of negotiating an agreement covering an upgrade package for the latter's Mikoyan MiG-21 and Sukhoi Su-22 aircraft. The Syrian air force operates around 200 MiG-21s and about 60 Su-22s. No details of the upgrades being offered are known although cockpit ...