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Flightcraft adds
Portland, Oregon-based operator Flightcraft has added a Raytheon King Air C90A and B200 to its aircraft-management and charter fleet, which now consists of 31 aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Chinese certification
Hainan Airlines has taken delivery of a new Learjet 60 business jet, to be used for charter work inside China, alongside a used Learjet 55. The Learjet 60 is the first new business jet to be certificated in China for operation by the private sector, the manufacturer says. ...
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Czech-mate
Prague-based Czech Aerospace has been appointed to sell Cessna Citation business jets in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Cessna believes that there is a significant market in the Czech Republic, where the economy is growing and most firms are now in private hands. There is now only one Citation III ...
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Greenwich LOT
Greenwich Caledonian has signed a ten-year $70 million contract to overhaul General Electric CF6-80C2 and CFM CFM56 engines for LOT Polish Airlines. Source: Flight International
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Dornier provides first-class support
Sir - One could get the impression that everything is wrong with Fairchild/Dornier product support from reading the article "Horizon Dash 8 order signals end for Dorniers" (Flight International, 4-10 September, P5). As the launch customer of the Dornier 328, we feel that this should be corrected. Apart ...
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Isn't it time to clean up space?
Sir - Continued space activity has necessitated the establishment of a catalogue of known space debris, which should be heeded by trajectory and spaceflight planners. Even a fleck of paint colliding with, for example, a spacewalking astronaut would, we are told, be fatal. Mass times velocity says it all. ...
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Bond Helicopters
Bond Helicopters has formed a new division, a marketing and customer-services department. Peter Bond (centre), who has been commercial director of Bond's Australian sister company, Lloyd Helicopters for the past 30 months, is to head the new venture. Roger Stent (right), Bond's sales and marketing manager for three years, returns ...
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Ghana Airways
Ghana Airways has appointed Kofi Esson regional manager for the UK and Ireland. Esson, who joined the carrier in 1986 from Pan American Airways, was formerly sales manager, based in capital Accra. Source: Flight International
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Texas
David Welp has been promoted to president of Dallas, Texas-based defence-systems supplier Texas Instruments' Systems Group. Welp, with Texas Instruments since 1978, was formerly executive vice-president and deputy at the Systems Group and manager of the Advanced Programs division. Source: Flight International
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Air France
National carrier Air France has appointed Anne Veyssi, cargo general manager for the UK and Ireland. Veyssi,, who has been with Air France Cargo since 1988, succeeds Bernard Frattini, who becomes cargo general manager for North America, based in New York. Source: Flight International
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Leica
Neil Vancans has been appointed president of the newly created global-positioning-system unit of Technology group Leica of Heerbrugg, Switzerland. Vancans was most recently director of sales and marketing for northern Europe and before that, was managing director Leica UK. Source: Flight International
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AAR Aicraft
AAR Aircraft Sales & Leasing has named Wain Barber vice-president of operations. He was formerly vice-president of operations for AAR Engine Sales & Leasing. Source: Flight International
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P&W
Jean-Louis Berrendonner has been appointed senior vice-president for Europe, Africa and the Middle East at the Large Commercial Engine unit of East Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney. Berrendonner was most recently vice-president of strategic development for Intertechnique of France, an equipment manufacturer associated with Dassault, and ...
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Flying Colours
Following the appointment of Terry Soult as managing director and Carolyn Quintaba as commercial-services director, newly launched Flying Colours Airline, of Manchester, UK, has announced four more appointments. Terry Michaels becomes flight-operations director. He joins from Air 2000, where he was fleet captain for the Airbus Industrie A320 fleet, as ...
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IATA
The safety committee of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has appointed Lufthansa Capt Thomas Baberg as its new chairman. Baberg, deputy chairman since 1994, takes over from Finnair's Seppo Kirjonen. Baberg, a Boeing 747-400 pilot, is responsible for flight safety within the Lufthansa group and manages and monitors the ...
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Earning its upkeep
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON THE BOEING 777 WAS launched into revenue operations on 7 June, 1995, with United Airlines, when the US airline began to operate its first Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered aircraft between London Heathrow and Washington DC. For several months United was the sole 777 ...
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Hammer blows
IAI's upgrade of the F-4 is satisfying its initial customer. Arie Egozi/TEL AVIV THE UNOFFICIAL DEBATE in the Israeli air force is whether the upgraded McDonnell Douglas F-4 2000 will still be in service in 2005 or in 2020. This debate stops at the gate of ...
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Second decade
Eumetsat has ordered a fleet of spacecraft for polar orbits. Tim Furniss/LONDON EUMETSAT, EUROPE'S weather-satellite organisation, has marked its tenth year of operations by authorising the development of a new $2.3 billion satellite system to send into polar orbits. The satellites will be used to improve weather ...
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Boeing
James Morris has been named vice-president and general manager of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Boeing Defense & Space Group's Helicopters division, succeeding Denton Hanford. Morris was formerly the division's assistant general manager and Hanford has taken responsibility for transition activities following the purchase by Boeing of Rockwell International's aerospace and defence units, ...