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Northrop
Northrop Grumman has named Ralph Crosby as corporate vice-president and general manager of Northrop, the company's Commercial Aircraft division. He succeeds Gordon William, who will begin a special assignment until his retirement at the end of this year. Crosby has served as the Commercial Aircraft division's corporate vice-president and deputy ...
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Swearingen
Jack Braly is the new president and chief executive officer of Sino Swearingen. He comes from Rockwell International, where he served as vice-president and general manager of Rockwell's North American Aircraft Modification division. Source: Flight International
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AAR
Steven McConnel has become president of AAR Aircraft Turbine Center. He became senior vice president and vice president in 1989. David Storch succeeds Ira Eichner as chief executive officer, effective 9 October. Storch became president and chief operating officer in 1989 and has been responsible for day-to-day operation. ...
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Greenwich contracts
Greenwich Air Services has won engine-overhaul contracts worth almost $60 million from Federal Express (Pratt & Whitney JT8Ds); Qatar Airways (General Electric CF6s); Alfa Romeo, for Alitalia (JT8D-200s); the Royal Moroccan Air Force (P&W JT3D-3Bs); McDonnell Douglas Lease Finance (CF6-50s); US Turbine Engine (P&W JT9Ds); Midway Airlines (International Aero Engines ...
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Alitalia cats
Israel's Rada Electronic Systems has received a $2.65 million order from Alitalia for its Commercial Aviation Test System for Boeing 767 avionics. Source: Flight International
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Contract landed
Messier-Dowty has agreed a deal with British Aerospace to supply new main and nose landing gear for Nimrod maritime-patrol aircraft being rebuilt to the Nimrod 2000 configuration for the Royal Air Force. Source: Flight International
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Viking gear
Heroux has won a two-year, $4.2 million US Navy contract to repair Lockheed S-3 Viking landing-gears. Source: Flight International
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Lufthansa agents
Deutsche Lufthansa plans to cut the cost of travel agents' commissions through a new payment scheme to be launched in the first half of 1997. The aim is to trim sales distribution costs from the current 25% of total expenses back to 20% by the end of the decade. ...
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BE Aerospace climbs
BE Aerospace (BEA) continues its climb back to profits, showing a net profit of $3.2 million for the first half of its financial year to the end of August. A year ago, the group had notched up losses of more than $40 million as it battled with a slow market ...
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Tracor acquires
Tracor has completed the $65 million acquisition of Cordant, an employee-owned company providing information-technology services to the US Government. Cordant has revenues of around $120 million and the newly formed Tracor Information Systems is expected to reach revenues of $200 million in 1996. Source: Flight International
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Singapore basing
Singapore has asked to base two of its four planned refurbished Boeing KC-135R tanker aircraft at March AB, California, for crew training. Singapore, which is short of airspace, already keeps nine leased Lockheed Martin F-16s at AFB Luke, Arizona, and is now training crews for its six new Boeing CH-47D ...
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South Korean SAR
Lockheed Martin has received a $181 million contract to install upgraded asars-1 synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) on four Raytheon Hawker 800XP business jets for the South Korean air force. One fixed and two mobile ground-stations are also included in the contract. Source: Flight International
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Bosnia bound
Belgium is to put a limited number of Lockheed Martin F-16s at NATO's disposal for participation in the alliance's policing of airspace over Bosnia. Initially, up to five aircraft will be sent to the NATO airbase at Vicenza in Italy, where they will be integrated in the Dutch squadron already ...
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Beech 1900D AD
An airworthiness directive requiring replacement of the right-hand exhausts on the left and right Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6s powering some Raytheon Beech 1900Ds, to prevent wing-skin debonding and cabin-window warping caused by heat, has been proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration. Source: Flight International
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Express stops
Community Express Airlines, the Birmingham, UK-based regional started in 1995, has closed and entered administrative receivership. Source: Flight International
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Broderick replaced
Guy Gardner, head of the US Federal Aviation Administration's Atlantic City research centre, will become the aviation agency's associate administrator for regulation and certification. He succeeds Anthony Broderick, who left the job under pressure in the wake of the ValuJet DC-9-30 crash into the Florida Everglades on 11 May. Gardner, ...
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Gulf Air cancels
Gulf Air has now formally cancelled its outstanding orders for four Airbus A320s, powered by the CFM56-5 engine. The airline operates a fleet of 14 A320s, and delivery of the final four aircraft had already been deferred to 1998-9. The move is part of a restructuring programme at the airline, ...