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Regionals will challenge Dusseldorf ban in court
Gunter Endres/LONDON A DECISION BY Dusseldorf Airport to ban all turboprop flights, irrespective of size, has caused a furore among the dozen regional airlines affected by the decision, announced on 16 April. Some airlines, have applied for an injunction and are expected to be heard by ...
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Simera and Atlas merged by Denel
SOUTH AFRICAN manufacturer Denel has merged its Simera and Atlas Aviation operations to form one aerospace division, to be called Denel Aviation. Kobus Eksteen, Denel's director of Aerospace Strategy and Alliances, says that the restructure follows the "dramatic shifts in the world's power balance and the international aviation ...
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Gulfstream in final stages of setting up service base
US corporate-aircraft manufacturer Gulfstream is in the final stages of discussions with South African industrial giant Anglo American to establish a maintenance and service centre, open to all Gulfstream operators in the region. The base would form part of, Anglo American's aviation division, at Johannesburg International Airport. ...
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South Africa maintains grip on competition
SOUTH AFRICAN transport minister Mac Maharaj, has confirmed the Government's commitment to the competitive development, of aviation in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, but has warned that some restrictions, must remain for the foreseeable future. In a speech prepared by Maharaj, but delivered by deputy director of the ...
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SAA 777 engine choice delays expansion
Forbes Mutch/JOHANNESBURG DELAYS BY South African Airways (SAA) in confirming its engine selection for seven Boeing 777s ordered in December 1995 have set back the airline's expansion plans and could increase the cost of the order by 20% Boeing says that reluctance by the airline ...
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Russian air force SLAR revealed
Douglas Barrie/LONDON THE RUSSIAN AIR FORCE, is believed to be testing a large side-looking airborne radar (SLAR), at its Ahktubinsk operational research centre in southern Russia. A heavily modified Antonov An-72 Coaler is being flown from the centre, with at least the rear-fuselage section reconfigured ...
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BA shelves its $1 billion regional-jet purchase
Andrew Doyle/LONDON BRITISH AIRWAYS has postponed a proposed $1 billion order for up to 60 regional jets. The airline says that it has not finished restructuring its regional operations in time for the purchase to go ahead. BA had invited five manufacturers to tender for ...
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Eurocopter starts on modified BK117
EUROCOPTER GERMANY has started assembly of a highly modified BK117, to meet the time-scale requirements at one of the bidders for the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD) £400 million ($610 million) tri-service Defence Helicopter Flying School (DFHS) competition. The winner is to be announced in June, with the ...
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Potential buyers gather for Dornier
ELEVEN POTENTIAL buyers, including Fairchild Aircraft and three other unidentified regional-aircraft majors, are talking to Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) about taking a majority stake in Dornier Luftfahrt. According to Gunter Pfeiffer, deputy head of the works council at Dornier's Oberpfaffenhofen site, negotiations could lead to an 80% take-over ...
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Quite Improper
DUSSELDORF AIRPORT'S attempt to ban all flights by turboprop airliners is embodiment of the worst fears of the world's regional airlines. The airlines immediately affected by the ban will, rightly, do everything to have it overturned. They should be, supported by all their regional allies around the world, but they ...
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Investigators probe DarkStar accident
THE LOCKHEED Martin/Boeing team is hurriedly revising plans for its second DarkStar unpiloted surveillance aircraft, following the destruction of the first aircraft in a crash at Edwards AFB, California, on 22 April. The accident compounds already-serious delays to the Tier III Minus DarkStar programme, which is being developed ...
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Airborne chooses TIMCO for 767 conversion work
US AIRCRAFT-modification specialist TIMCO says that it has been selected by Airborne Express to develop a freighter conversion for the Boeing 767. Express-package carrier Airborne has acquired 12 ex-All Nippon Airways 767-200s for $290 million, including modification, and plans to acquire between ten and 15 additional aircraft for a total ...
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British Midland parent acquires Business Air
BUSINESS AIR, THE UK regional carrier, which ended an equity link with Lufthansa and Crossair this year, has been acquired by British Midland parent the Airlines of Britain Group (ABH). Business Air will retain its identity and most of its services, and will start to provide extra wet-lease flights for ...
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A340-600 could still use Rolls-Royce or P&W engines
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE SAYS that it could still adopt either a Rolls-Royce or Pratt & Whitney engine to power the proposed stretched A340-600, if an agreement cannot be reached with General Electric in the next six months. An Airbus exclusivity agreement, signed recently with GE to study jointly the ...
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Eurocopter is sued over Oryx commission claims
Alan George/LONDON LAWYERS FOR Eurocopter are seeking a new date for a court hearing, originally scheduled for 2 May, in which the company is being sued by a Portuguese agent over non-payment of commission on alleged defence deals with the apartheid regime in South Africa. ...
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Yak-130 Flies
Yakovlev flew its Yak-130 advanced jet trainer for the first time on 25 April from the Zhukovsky flight-test research centre, near Moscow. The aircraft is in competition with the MAPO-MiG MiG-AT, which has already been flown, for the Russian air force trainer requirement. The flight lasted for 32min. ...
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RMPA contenders step up campaign
LOCKHEED MARTIN is to formally guarantee the UK Ministry of Defence that choosing the Orion 2000 to meet its £2 billion ($3 million) British Aerospace Nimrod MR2 replacement will result in a minimum UK industrial participation of 20% in any exports. With high-level UK equipment-approval committees due to ...
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SIA seeks six extra-large-capacity aircraft
Paul Lewis/TOULOUSE SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA), has outlined a need, for an initial six new 500- to 600-seat, ultra-high capacity-type aircraft, now being studied by Airbus Industrie and Boeing. "We need around six to start with," says SIA managing director Cheong Choon Kong. "It does not ...
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Leisure puts its A320-200s to work
LEISURE INTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS, the renamed Air UK Leisure, will have its three newly acquired Airbus A320-200s in service from the first week in May. The A320s replace the Boeing 737-400s, the last of which will have its final flight on 19 May. The first revenue service with the new aircraft ...