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US carrier grounded
Great American Airways has been grounded by the US Federal Aviation Administration for allegedly falsifying records. The Reno, Nevada-based charter carrier operated McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. The airline denies the allegations. Source: Flight International
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Canadian order
British Columbia-based Central Mountain Air has ordered ten Raytheon Beech 1900Ds, with options on a further ten of the 19-seat regional twin-turboprops, in a deal worth some $50 million. They will be delivered between April and November and flown on services with Air Canada designators. Slovenia's Adria Airways ...
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Moroccan Beech
Casablanca-based Regional Air Lines, the first Moroccan commuter operator, is scheduled to take delivery of the last of four Raytheon Aircraft Beech 1900Ds by the end of this month. The first aircraft was delivered in March, with the balance expected to be handed over from Raytheon's Kansas production line soon. ...
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Looking at areas of responsibility
Sir - Capt Mark Zucal makes an interesting and valid point about the flight engineer not being responsible to the chief pilot (Letters, Flight International, 9-15 April, P37). I have not flown an aircraft with a flight engineer, but I do agree that being responsible to the chief ...
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Trimble
James Stothard has been appointed director of sales for the Austin, Texas-based avionics division of navigation company Trimble, of Sunnyvale, California. He was formerly director of international sales and marketing at Garmin International and, before that, he was with AlliedSignal/King Radio for more than 21 years as vice-president of worldwide ...
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Fineminster
Nick Probin has been named commercial director at Gatwick-based aircraft-leasing and charterering firm Fineminster Europe. He was formerly a commercial executive and, before that worked for Air UK and Air Europe. Source: Flight International
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Southern Air
Robert Peart has been elected senior vice-president of finance and corporate planning at Southern Air Transport, of Columbus, Ohio. He was previously the company's vice-president of finance and treasurer. Thomas Gilles is named vice-president of operations. He was formerly systems operations co-ordinator with Air Florida. Source: ...
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FLS Aerospace
Stephen Lee has been named vice-president of maintenance services at UK-based maintainer FLS Aerospace, with effect from 1 June. He is now director and general manager of Dowty Aerospace Aviation Services. Source: Flight International
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AlliedSignal
Alan Dietrich has been appointed vice-president of government operations and marketing at AlliedSignal Aerospace, of Torrance, California. Pat Hurley succeeds him as vice-president and general manager of the Communications Systems business of AlliedSignal's Electronic Systems. Earl Major is named vice-president of quality assurance, and Michael Anderson becomes director of operations ...
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Flying scholarships
The UK Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators is administering flying scholarships, for which applications are invited, as follows: ntwo, sponsored by Breitling Chronographs and the Swire Group, will provide fully funded courses of flying and ground training in accordance with the 40h UK Civil Aviation Authority-approved ...
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World
World Airways has named Russell Ray interim president and chief executive officer. He has held senior executive positions at Pan Am, McDonnell Douglas and Eastern, and has served on World's board for four years. The US charter carrier recently terminated the contract of Charles Pollard, who had planned to leave ...
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AlliedSignal excels
Cessna has selected AlliedSignal Engines' RE100 auxiliary power-unit as optional equipment for the Citation Excel business jet. The RE100 is also available on the Learjet 45. Source: Flight International
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ASJP integration
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems has won an $86.3 million US Air Force contract to integrate the ITT Avionics/Northrop Grumman Airborne Self-Protection Jammer (ASPJ) on to 80 Lockheed Martin F-16Cs sold to South Korea. In January, the US joint venture disclosed the sale of the ALQ-165 electronic-countermeasures system to the ...
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KC/RC-135 re-engineing
CFM International, the joint venture involving General Electric Engines and Snecma, could receive as much as $1.1 billion from the US Air Force up to 2002 to provide 267 CFM56 turbofans for Boeing KC-135 tankers and RC-135 Rivet Joint-Surveillance aircraft. As part of the re-engineing work, the joint venture received ...
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JSTARS award
Greenwich Air Services has received an additional $9 million from the US Air Force to convert six Pratt & Whitney JT3Ds to the TF33-102B engine configuration for use on the Northrop Grumman E-8C Joint Surveillance, Target Attack radar system (JSTARS) aircraft. The work includes repair, overhaul and modifications necessary to ...
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BEA recovers
BE Aerospace swung back into profit for 1996 after a couple of years of losses as it attempted to consolidate its break-neck expansion in cabin-interior equipment and in-flight-entertainment systems. Net profits came in at $13.7 million for its financial year to February 1997, turning around a loss of $83 million ...
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Smiths advance
The surge in Boeing deliveries helped profits at the Smiths Industries aerospace business, where core contracts include the 737 flight -management system (FMS). Profits were up by one-third at nearly ú23 million for the half year to the end of January. Smiths says that it is actively looking for new ...
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Beyond the pilot
THE TRAINING of maintenance personnel needed to service sophisticated aircraft is no longer a matter of using chalk, a blackboard and a box full of surplus parts. With the rapid, accurate detection, diagnosis and correction of faults becoming increasingly important to the turnaround time of an airliner or military aircraft ...
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Grob modifies G115 after unauthorised repaint causes crash
German composite aircraft maker Burkhart Grob has modified the rudders on aerobatic G115s to overcome restrictions imposed after a fatal crash caused by an unauthorised repaint. The US Federal Aviation Administration banned G115C and D pilots from performing aerobatics, following the loss of a G115D-1 in Florida in ...
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GV certification
Gulfstream Aerospace has received full US certification for the Gulfstream V long-range business jet. Provisional certification was granted in December 1996, pending completion of flight testing, allowing deliveries of "green" GVs to begin. The first completed GVs are due to enter service in the second quarter of 1997. Gulfstream had ...