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MDC
Gale Schluter has been appointed vice-president and general manager of St Louis, Missouri-based McDonnell Douglas' (MDC) space and defence-systems operation, replacing Bill Olson, who is to retire. Schluter was formerly vice-president and general manager of the unit's space-transportation business. Source: Flight International
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Aviall
Margaret Bouline has been appointed director of information services at aviation-parts distributor Aviall, of Dallas, Texas. Before joining Aviall in October 1995 as manager of information services, Bouline held management and programming positions at Sunbelt Nursery Group, Zale, Fidelity Investments and US Sprint. ...
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FBO acquisition
AMR Combs has agreed to acquire the recently renovated Martin Aviation fixed-base operation (FBO) at Orange County Airport in California, to add to its chain of ten FBOs in the USA plus two in Mexico. Source: Flight International
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Air-taxi purchase
Oklahoma City-based FBO Downtown Airpark has acquired a local air-taxi company OKC Flight, renamed Downtown AirCharter, and plans to add a Cessna Citation or similar business jet to its charter fleet. Source: Flight International
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Noisy phase-out
The US Federal Aviation Administration reports that US air carriers are ahead of schedule in phasing out noisier Stage 2 aircraft such as the Boeing 727 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9. The number of Stage 2 aircraft in service declined in 1995, from 2,250 to 2,048. By 31 December, 1996, airlines ...
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Debonair expansion
New UK low-cost carrier Debonair will introduce flights from London/Luton to Rome's Ciampino Airport on 21 November. Source: Flight International
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Good business
Scottish regional airline Business Air is to add two ex-American Eagle Saab 340As to its fleet, bringing the total to ten. The airline wants to develop further its Manchester-based routes and take advantage of its new code-sharing agreement with Continental Airlines. Business Air, which recently became part of the Airlines ...
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Canadian spaceport
Canada's Akjuit Aerospace, which is planning to establish a national satellite-launching base, has formed an alliance with Russia's STS Komplex for launches of the Start booster fleet. Spaceport Canada plans to provide complete turnkey services to commercial space customers, starting in late 1998. Source: Flight International
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Argentine delivery
Schweizer Aircraft has delivered two Model 300C light helicopters to the Argentinian Coast Guard. Both float-equipped aircraft are being used for training and river-patrol operations. The helicopters are equipped with litter kits for medical evacuations and cargo hooks for external cargo hauling. Source: Flight International
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Dunlop de-ices
Dunlop Aviation Ice Protection & Structures has been selected by Rinaldo Piaggio to provide anti-icing heater mats for the fore-planes of the Italian manufacturer's P180 Avanti turboprop-powered business aircraft. The mats are bonded to the leading edges of the fore-planes, and can be retrofitted to existing aircraft, says Coventry, UK-based ...
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Stevens King Air
Some 350 Beech C-12s (military King Airs) operated by the US armed forces are to be supported by Greenville, South Carolina-based Stevens Aviation, under a contract estimated to be worth $150 million over five years. Source: Flight International
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TRO contracts
TRO Learning has been selected by The Royal Netherlands Navy to develop navigation software for the ab initio training of naval pilots. Separately, Minnesota, US-based TRO is also to develop training courseware for selected Collins Commercial Avionics flight management systems. Source: Flight International
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WAH-64 collaboration
IMI Marston of the UK and New York, US-based Hughes-Treitler are to manufacture jointly environmental-control-system heat exchangers for the British Army's ordered fleet of Westland/McDonnell Douglas WAH-64 Longbow Apache attack helicopters. Source: Flight International
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Radarsat first
The UK's Defence Evaluation Research Agency (DERA) has become the first organisation outside Canada to be certified to provide imagery from the Canadian Radarsat remote-sensing satellite through its ground station at West Freugh, Scotland. DERA holds a licence to distribute Radarsat data in the Denmark, Ireland and the UK, and ...
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Magnetic matters
The first magnetic spectrometer to be sent into space, to capture elusive space particles such as anti-matter and dark matter, will be flown aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in May 1998. The Chinese/Russian/US spectrometer, based on a rare mineral called neodymium iron boron, may then be installed on the International ...
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747 conversions
Boeing has received a contract from All Nippon Airways of Japan for the conversion of one 747-200 to full-freighter configuration - the second of the airline's 747s to be modified. The aircraft will be delivered to Wichita in April 1997 for the conversion work, and is scheduled to be handed ...
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Cargo change
Swissair is to take over Sabena's cargo operations as part of a programme aimed at radically cutting costs at the Belgian airline, in which the Swiss carrier has a 49.5% share. Swissair will integrate Sabena's operations with effect from 1 January, 1997 (Flight International, 28 August-5 September). ...
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Rice trade
The Thai Government has approved the barter purchase of two CN-235s from Industri Pesawat Nusantara Terbang of Indonesia, in exchange for 110,000t of rice. The aircraft will be used by the agriculture ministry. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon maintenance
Raytheon Aerospace, a unit of Raytheon Aircraft, has won a $21 million US Air Force contract to continue maintenance of USAF trainers at Columbus AFB, Mississippi. The award is the third-year option of a potential five-year deal. This option, which covers fiscal year 1997, brings the value of the contract ...
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One F-22 dropped
One of four Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 pre-production verification (PPV) air- craft will not now be built, to save money. The ninth development F-22 will be used with three PPV aircraft for US Air Force initial operational test and evaluation. Source: Flight International