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McDonnell DouglasDouglas Aircraft Company
DC-8 Over 250 DC-8s remain in commercial service, of which 110 have been re-engined with CFMI CFM56 turbofans. Most DC-8s are being operated as freighters. The DC-8 programme was launched in 1955, and the type had its maiden flight in May 1958. Service entry occurred in September 1959. ...
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Romaero
One-Eleven Series 560 Romanian manufacturer Romaero (formerly IAvB/Rombac) concluded an agreement with British Aerospace in May 1977 to acquire the production rights for the One-Eleven twinjet, and final assembly was transferred from the BAe plant at Bournemouth-Hurn to Bucharest, Romania. The first Romaero-assembled One-Eleven 500, designated the ...
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Shanghai Aviation Industrial (SAIC)
SAIC is the prime Chinese contractor for the TrunkLiner co-production programme with McDonnell Douglas, under which it is assembling 20 MD-90-30s for the Chinese market at its plant in Shanghai. Chinese industrial participation in the SAIC MD-90 programme involves three Chinese companies producing sub-assemblies - Xian Aircraft: wing ...
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SATIC Special Aircraft Transport International
SATICA300-600ST "Beluga" Super Transporter Development of an outsized version of the Airbus A300-600R to carry large aircraft-subassemblies was initiated by Airbus Industrie, which needed a replacement for the aging fleet of four Aero Spacelines Super Guppy turboprops employed to ferry sub-assemblies between the Airbus partner plants. ...
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Tupolev
Tu-154M The Tu-154M is the current production version of the 160- to 180-seat Tu-154 TriJet, which was first flown in October 1968. Initial versions (the Tu-154, -154A and -154B-2) were equipped with Kuznetsov NK-8 engines. The Tu-154M was announced in 1983, powered by Aviadvigatel D-30KU turbofans and featuring ...
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Aero International (Regional) (AI(R))
Avro RJ70/85/100/115 Avro International Aerospace's family of regional jets is marketed under the umbrella of Aero International (Regional), which combines the regional-aircraft activities of British Aerospace, Aerospatiale and Alenia. The RJ70, RJ85 and RJ100 were introduced to supersede the BAe 146-100, -200 and -300 respectively. ...
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Airbus Industrie
A300 Launched in May 1969, the 250-seat A300 was Airbus Industrie's first product, and the first example was flown from Toulouse, France, in October 1972. The first production A300 variant, the -B2, entered service in May 1974. The -B4 growth-weight version followed, while several F4 and C4 versions ...
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Antonov
An-70T The An-70T four-engined propfan-powered military airlifter became the first aircraft ever to take off using propfan power only, when Antonov completed the aircraft's maiden flight in December 1994. The programme was thrown into turmoil , however, after the fatal crash of the single prototype aircraft on 10 ...
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Avic Aviation Industries of China
AE-100 Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) plans to develop the AirExpress AE-100 family of regional jets in partnership with Aero International Asia (consisting of Aerospatiale of France, Italy's Alenia and BAe) and Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe). Three versions of the twinjet will be built, seating 100, ...
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Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
First next-generation 737, a -700, is in final assembly at Renton, Washington British Airways has taken new Boeing 747s, 767s and 777s this year Boeing built 45 of the short-fuselage 747SP The 747 family is set to grow with two new variants, the 462-seat ...
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Bac/aerospatiale
The Concorde supersonic transport was first flown in March 1969, and the type entered service with Air France and British Airways in January 1976. Of the 20 Concordes built, 14 were delivered to the two airlines, and 12 aircraft remain in service. BA and Air France plan ...
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British Aerospace
One-Eleven The One-Eleven twinjet was flown for the first time in August 1963, and entered service in April 1965. There are still more than 100 One-Elevens in service, of which more than half are in operation in Europe. European Aviation, which owns the largest single fleet of the ...
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Cammacorp
Cammacorp was set up in 1979 to oversee the CFM International CFM56 retrofit programme for the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-8 Series 60, and the company no longer exists. Other partners in the programme were MDC, CFMI, and Grumman Aerospace, the latter being responsible for the manufacture of the engine pods, ...
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Canadair (bombardier)
CRJ-X CRJ-X is the designation given to Canadair's planned 70-seat growth derivative of its 50-seat Regional Jet (CRJ). The basic Regional Jet entered service in 1992. The 50-seat Regional Jet, which was given its go-ahead in March 1989, is essentially a stretched development of the Challenger ...
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Fokker Aircraft
F28 Fokker Aviation is studying a possible re-engineing programme for ageing F28s, replacing the type's existing Rolls-Royce Speys with General Electric CF34s or with R-R Tays. More than 200 F28s are still flying and at least one operator, Scandinavia's SAS, has already invested in Fokker 70-style cabin upgrades ...
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Airliners of the World
Airbus and Boeing vie for victory in the high-capacity market. After a string of new airliner model go-aheads last year, 1996 has seen the launch of only one new model - the 757-300 - as the major manufacturers concentrated on the definition of new high-capacity models. ...
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Italy is close to helicopter selection
The Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police are soon to decide whether to buy the Agusta A109 Koala or a licence-built version of the McDonnell Douglas MD500 helicopter, to replace its fleet of Agusta-Bell 206s. At one stage, it looked as though Agusta would have to build the MD500N, after ...
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Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 earns wings
Lockheed Martin attached the Boeing-supplied wing to the fuselage of the first F-22 in late November. The wing, flown from Seattle to the Marietta, Georgia, final-assembly line, proved to be a "slip fit", says Lockheed Martin. The empennage and engine inlets remain to be installed and the aircraft is expected ...
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P&W wins huge Asiana deal to power A330s and 777s
The Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine family has been selected by Asiana Airlines of South Korea to power its future fleet of 48 Boeing 777s and Airbus A330s. Asiana opted for the PW4000 series after a campaign which largely revolved around price and the competing engine manufacturers' willingness ...