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Boeing/MDC delay
Boeing and McDonnell Douglas say that they will not now consider approval of their proposed merger at annual shareholders' meetings scheduled for April, but will instead each hold a special meeting in July. Source: Flight International
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Cyprus Police acquires another Bell 412
The National Police Force of Cyprus has ordered a second Bell 412EP for delivery in May. The first 412 has been in service in Cyprus for eight years, and the police force will use the new machine for search-and-rescue and other law-enforcement activities. The helicopter will be customised with a ...
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Lawmakers vote to renew US ticket tax
THE US HOUSE of Representatives has voted to renew the 10%ticket tax through to the end of the 1997 fiscal year in September, and the US Senate is expected to follow suit. The tax, which finances US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operations, expired again at the end of ...
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Workshop
++ Pemco World Air Services of Copenhagen, Denmark, is to undertake ad hoc line maintenance on Icelandair's Boeing 757-200s when they are flown to the Danish capital's airport. ++ Shannon Aircraft Motor Works has been approved by the Irish Aviation Authority as a certified design organisation. Shannon has developed its ...
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AlliedSignal reveals new Chinese ventures
AlliedSignal is exploring at least eight new joint ventures in China as part of a $200 million company-wide investment to ensure a long-term strategic stake in Asia and aid selection of its systems for the AE-100 regional-aircraft project. "What we're doing is establishing a footprint for the business ...
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RAPID speeds up Raytheon spares
RAYTHEONAIRCRAFT has created a new subsidiary to improve spares distribution to operators of Beech and Hawker aircraft. Raytheon Aircraft Parts Inventory and Distribution (RAPID) headquarters will be at Andover, Kansas, close to the manufacturer's Wichita base. RAPID consolidates four separate spares organisations - Beech, Hawker UK, Hawker US ...
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DARPA selects three to research cruise missile project
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Texas Instruments, Boeing North American and Toyon Research to undertake year-long research studies on low-cost, cruise-missile defence systems. Texas Instruments, Boeing North American and Toyon Research of Goleta, California, have received $1 million, $182,500 and $848,500, respectively, to ...
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Cessna 172 exported
Cessna has exported its first piston single since 1986, ferrying a Model 172R Skyhawk to its Australian dealer Airflite for a customer in Perth. Australian certification has been granted to the new-production 172. Source: Flight International
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Kestrel begins light-aircraft fabrication
KESTRELAIRCRAFT HAS begun fabrication of the first of three flight-test aircraft and two-ground-test models required for US certification of its K-250 all-composite light aircraft. Norman, Oklahoma-based Kestrel has completed flight tests of a proof-of-concept prototype previously designated the KL-1. The K-250 is the first in a planned family ...
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Regionals split from British Midland
Airlines of Britain Holdings (ABH), which owns British Midland (BM),has split off its regional airlines into a separate grouping, in a move designed to free the operations to increase their franchise links with British Airways as BM moves closer to Lufthansa. The bulk of ABH's regional operations, which ...
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ValuJet struggles to fly back into profits
VALUJET REPORTS a net loss of nearly $21 million for the fourth quarter of 1996, its first since restarting operations after the three months' grounding which was imposed in the wake of the Florida crash. The airline warns that there will be more red ink to come in the first ...
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Transaero chooses Boeing and Ilyushin
Transaero's fleet plans over the next ten to 15 years will centre on acquiring a mix of Western and Russian types, including the Boeing 767, next-generation Boeing 737 (-600/ 700/800), and Ilyushin Il-96M, the carrier has announced. The Moscow-based airline expects to introduce the first of the new aircraft "within ...
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Chek Lap Kok receives first aircraft
A Hong Kong Government Flying Services Raytheon Beech Super King Air has made the first landing at Chek Lap Kok. The landing comes amid continuing uncertainty over the policy for tariffs at the airport, due to open in 1998. The International Air Transport Association claims that high tariffs may cost ...
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Star Europe takes first Airbus A320
Star Europe, a French charter airline, has introduced two 180-seat CFM International CFM56-powered Airbus A320s on lease from US company GATX. The aircraft, which are replacing Boeing 737s, are being used on the carrier's European charter services. Star Europe is a division of French tour company Look Voyages. ...
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Flying Colours paints long-haul fleet plans
Flying Colours Airlines is planning to increase its narrowbody fleet to eight Boeing 757-200s within three years, and has begun evaluating the Airbus A330-200 and Boeing 777 for its long-haul expansion plans, according to chairman Errol Cossey. The new UK charter carrier took delivery of its first aircraft, ...
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Kotaite calls for ICAO safety audits
Audits of national air-transport standards by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) should be an accepted norm, says the agency's chief, Dr Assad Kotaite, calling on its 185 members to give ICAO the necessary powers. Speaking on 24 February at the current session of the ICAO Council, Kotaite ...
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Eurofighter DA5 flies as tension increases
The sixth Eurofighter EF2000 prototype, development aircraft DA5, was flown for the first time on 24 February, against a background of renewed fear that Germany could miss its first-quarter deadline for production-investment approval. Political sources say that the fears have been revived after the EF2000 failed to appear ...
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US 1996 GA safety is 'best for 40 years'
USGENERAL-AVIATION(GA) safety improved in 1996, with fewer fatal accidents than in any year since 1956, according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Based on preliminary flight-hour estimates from the US Federal Aviation Administration, the fatal-accident rate last year was the lowest ever recorded. There were 358 ...
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Bell bid for IAR majority gives Dracula extra teeth
Bell Helicopter Textron has submitted a $70 million bid for a majority stake in Romanian manufacturer IAR, lending renewed credibility to talks on licensed production of a Bell AH-1 Cobra attack-helicopter derivative known as the Dracula. Neculai Banea, president of Transylvania-based IAR, says that Bell wants the 70% ...
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Space Station will be delayed eight months
NASA administrator Daniel Goldin has admitted that the first launches to assemble the International Space Station (ISS) will be delayed by eight months, to June 1998. The admission confirmed a unilateral Russian Space Agency (RSA) announcement of the delay. RSA director Yuri Koptev says that it "-is entirely ...