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Change of name
The National Business Aircraft Association is considering changing its name to the National Business Aviation Association to better reflect the scope of the organisation's activities. Source: Flight International
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CSE represents
CSE Aviation has become a sales agent for Cessna's single-engined aircraft in the UK following the US firm's return to building the 172 Skyhawk and 182 Skylane. The Oxford Airport-based concern is the second UK sales agent for the range. Source: Flight International
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P&W settles fraud
Pratt & Whitney is to pay the US Government $14.8 million to settle a 1995 fraud case involving US military-aid funds to Israel. The engine maker allegedly diverted $10 million to a slush fund controlled by Rami Dotan, a former Israeli air force officer. Source: Flight ...
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FedEx extras
FedEx is to purchase all-cargo frequency allocations to Argentina from Miami-based Arrow Air and Florida West International Airlines. FedEx will add three weekly flights to its daily service. Source: Flight International
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SkyWest enters Canada
Delta Connection carrier SkyWest launched its first international service on 1 June, with a daily Canadair Regional Jet flight linking Salt Lake City, Utah, with Vancouver, British Columbia. The airline reports increased profits for the year ended 31 March. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon in China
Raytheon has won a $4 million Chinese contract to install its ASR-10SS primary and Condor Mk2 secondary surveillance-radars at Guangzhou - to be the US company's ninth air-traffic-control radar installation in China. Source: Flight International
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Amtran president goes
Stanley Pace, president of American Trans Air holding company Amtran, has resigned after nine months. Amtran had a good first quarter after a difficult 1996. Source: Flight International
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Maverick suspends
US start-up Maverick Airways has suspended scheduled services as it restructures. The carrier began operations on 20 January, linking Denver with Steamboat Springs and Grand Junction in Colorado. Maverick founder and president Cody Diekroeger has been asked to resign, as the airline seeks extra financing. Source: ...
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Helijet cross-border
Vancouver-based Helijet Airways has launched North America's first scheduled international helicopter service, with three daily flights between Victoria, British Columbia, and Seattle, Washington, using 12-seat Sikorsky S-76s. East Asia Airlines, meanwhile, plans to take delivery of three improved S-76C+ helicopters later this year, also in 12-passenger configuration, for use on ...
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Virgin Express A320
Brussels-based Constellation International Airways has wet-leased its second Airbus A320 to Virgin Express. The move had been expected as tour operator Hello Holidays, to which the second Constellation aircraft was to be leased on a long-term basis, had failed to meet the Ìnancial terms of the lease agreement. ...
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Safety by choice
Business travellers are now more likely to choose an airline for its safety reputation, according to a major new survey by the Reed Travel Group. Safety is second only to schedule convenience, says Reed. Source: Flight International
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328 production switch
The Portuguese manufacturer OGMA will replace Daewoo of South Korea as manufacturer of fuselage sections for the Fairchild Dornier 328 and 328JET. Tooling will be transferred to Ogma soon, with the first Portuguese-sourced fuselage expected on a production 328 by the end of 1998. ...
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Super 27 completed
UK maintenance company FLS Aerospace has completed the first Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 Boeing 727 re-engineing under Rohr's Super 27 Stage 3 modification programme. The aircraft was delivered to a Middle East government in mid-May. Source: Flight International
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Noise debate
Belgium's transport ministry has banned Chapter 2 aircraft from night flying between 23.00 and 6.00 at Brussels Airport from 1 June. The move has created concern among environmentalists as the Civil Aviation Agency concedes that the law is a step back from the former restrictions which forbade certain aircraft types. ...
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Airbus intensifies research efforts into human factors
Airbus Industrie is stepping up human-factors research in preparation for the service entry of several new ultra-long-range aircraft under development. In one initiative, the consortium is studying a "Pilot Guard" system for maintaining pilot alertness on very-long-range flights. Tests of an initial version of the system are due ...
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P&WC delivers first Dash 8-400
PRATT &WHITNEY Canada has delivered the first PW150A turboprop engine for Bombardier's Dash 8-400 70-seat regional airliner. The first flight of the stretched, high-speed -400 is scheduled for December, leading to certification and first deliveries in the second quarter of 1999. Flight testing of the 3,780kW (5,070shp) PW150A ...
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Boeing orders fuel-tank checks on all 747s
All Boeing 747 operators will receive a service bulletin (SB) this month detailing inspection procedures for centre-wing fuel tanks, the manufacturer says. The SB relates to the continuing investigation into the July 1996 crash of a Trans World Airways (TWA) 747 which has "-determined that the centre-wing tank ...
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American agrees provisional deal for USAirways Shuttle
AMERICAN AIRLINES has agreed to buy the US Airways Shuttle - if US Airways decides not to buy the New York-Boston-Washington high-frequency operation, which it manages under a ten-year contract signed in 1992. US Airways has previously said that plans to buy the Shuttle are on hold until it negotiates ...
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NAPO predicts An-38 exports
The Russian production plant responsible for final assembly of the Antonov An-38 turboprop is confident that the new regional airliner will find market niches in Russia and overseas. Novosibirsk Aircraft Manufacturing Association (NAPO) marketing director Valery Skvortsov, where the Ukrainian-designed, Western-powered airliner is assembled, says that An-38 deliveries ...
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Top executives leave ANA
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has been hit by a major high-level personnel shake-up, with the airline's top five senior executives and chairman all announcing their resignations, only days after the company's president Seiji Fukatsu was forced to quit. Almost one-third of ANA's 32-member board of directors are to ...