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Aviall sale
Curtiss-Wright has agreed to purchase Aviall's Miami-based Accessory Services business. The unit will become a division of actuator manufacturer Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems. Source: Flight International
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GE on F-15E
General Electric has completed qualification flight tests of its F110-129 engine on a US Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-15E at Edwards AFB, California, after 44h and 19 sorties. The programme was used to assess engine/aircraft handling, including tests at high Mach numbers and altitudes and manoeuvre transient testing during, which ...
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JPATS hydraulics
Raytheon Aircraft has selected Dowty Aerospace to supply most of the hydraulics system for the Beech Pilatus PC-9 MkII trainer selected for the 712-aircraft US Air Force/Navy Joint Primary Aircraft Training System (JPATS) programme. The contract could be worth more than $40 million. Source: Flight International
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Concord cats
British Airways has ordered a Smart CATS automatic-test-equipment system from Israeli firm Rada, to support the Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde. BA has previously bought two systems for maintenance of its Boeing fleet. Source: Flight International
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BAe
Allan MacDonald has been appointed managing director for marketing and sales for the Association of South-East Asian Nations and Southern Africa at British Aerospace. He was formerly director of regional marketing and, before that, managing director of Jetstream Aircraft. Jerry Wooding becomes managing director for marketing and sales in the ...
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Ansett NZ
Kevin Doddrell has been named chief executive at Ansett New Zealand, replacing Rick Ellis, who is to take up a senior executive position with Ansett Australia, based in Melbourne. Doddrell, a former managing director of U-Bix Business Machines, has acted as consultant to Ansett New Zealand for the past four ...
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Polar Air Cargo
Peter Hansen is named vice-president for Asia at Polar Air Cargo, of Long Beach, California. He was formerly regional director of cargo sales for the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico at American Airlines and, before that, he spent 17 years with Flying Tigers. Source: Flight International
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Simona
Sunjoo Advani has been appointed director of the International Centre for Research in Simulation, Motion and Navigation Technologies (SIMONA), of Delft, the Netherlands. Advani, programme manager (and primary founder) of SIMONA since 1992, replaces Max Baarspul. Source: Flight International
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Northwest
Northwest Airlines, of Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota, has appointed Jeff McClelland vice- president for system-operations control. An ex-US Navy aviator and with Northwest since 1991, he was most recently vice-president for planning and finance for the technical-operations department. Source: Flight International
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FlightSafety
Gaylon Chamberlain has been appointed director of standards at Flushing, New York-based FlightSafety's Cessna Citation Learning Center at Wichita, Kansas. He was previously a simulator/flight instructor for the Citation. Harry Houckes becomes assistant manager of the Savannah, Georgia, Learning Center. He joins the firm from Mobil Oil, where he was ...
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MDC
Gerald Daniels has become vice-president and general manager of the McDonnell Douglas (MDC) F-18 strike-fighter programme. He succeeds Michael Sears, who has been named president of MDC's commercial aircraft company. Daniels was previously deputy to Sears on the F-18. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon
Raytheon Corporate Jets, the UK subsidiary of Wichita, Kansas-based Raytheon Aircraft, has named Ian Atkinson manager of its new Hawker service centre at Chester, in the UK. He was formerly with Metro Business Aviation, based at London Heathrow Airport, responsible for engineering services. Source: Flight International
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Confusion hits UK's foreign-pilot policy
Sir - I read the article "Confusion hits UK's foreign-pilot policy as Airworld hires Canadians for A320s" (Flight International, 17-23 April, P8). I can surmise the reasons behind the decision, although why the UK Department of Education and Employment (DEE) should be so coy is elusive. ...
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Derlan contracts
Derlan Aerospace Canada has been awarded two contracts, worth $16 million, by Boeing Helicopters. The larger, $11.2 million, contract covers the supply of parts for 47 dynamic-component upgrade kits for US Navy and Marine Corps Boeing CH-46 helicopters. The second is for the manufacture of spare CH-46 ring gears. ...
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More CATIAS for BAe
British Aerospace Military Aircraft division has placed a £13 million ($19.5 million) order with IBM for around 500 CATIA computer-aided-design workstations, to add to the 200 it already uses. Source: Flight International
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Trimble markets
Trimble is to market Wichita-based Mid-Continental Instrument's MD 41 global-positioning-system (GPS) annunciator for use with its 2000-series GPS navigators. Source: Flight International