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Garuda take delivery
Garuda Indonesia received its first Rolls-Royce Trent-powered Airbus A330-300 in December. Five more A330s will be delivered to the airline before March, while the final three are due in mid-1998. The Indonesian carrier has also recently taken delivery of the first of three extended-range McDonnell Douglas MD-11ERs. ...
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Dragonair APS 3200
Hong Kong-based Dragonair has selected the Auxiliary Power International APS 3200 auxiliary power unit (APU) to equip two new and five optioned Airbus A320-200s. In addition, Dragonair has started to replace the AlliedSignal APU in seven A320s with the APS 3200. The retrofit programme started in November 1996. New deliveries ...
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Airbus V2500 approved
The International Aero Engines (IAE) V2524-powered version of the Airbus A319 has been given European Joint Aviation Authorities certification. United Airlines and International Lease Finance are launch customers for the IAE-powered A319. It has also been certificated with IAE and CFMInternational powerplants by the Interstate Aviation Committee of the CIS. ...
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Mexicana adds 757s
Mexicana has introduced its first Boeing 757s, two Pratt & Whitney PW2040-powered examples leased from International Lease Finance (ILFC)on three-year operating leases. The airline is negotiating with ILFC for the lease of a third aircraft scheduled for delivery later this year. Source: Flight International
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Uzbek confirms RJ buy
Uzbekistan Airways has confirmed its order with Aero International (Regional) for three Avro RJ85s (Flight International, 18-31 December, 1996). They will be delivered in 1997 for regional, domestic and international routes. Source: Flight International
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Hughes Portugal win
Hughes Aircraft has won a $48 million contract to build an air-defence communications subsystem for NATO and the Portuguese air force. Hughes will operate the system until Portugal takes control of the system in 2000. Source: Flight International
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Volvo controls AGES
Volvo Aero has increased its stake in US engines and parts sales and leasing company AGES from 25% to a controlling 51%, for $43 million. AGES had 1996 sales of $225 million and an operating profit of $28 million. Source: Flight International
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Comsat WAAS deal
Comsat has been awarded a $100 million Federal Aviation Administration contract to provide satellite-communication services for the wide-area augmentation system, which is to begin providing enhanced satellite- navigation services in December 1998. Source: Flight International
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An-70 rolls out again
Antonov rolled out its second An-70 on 23 December - the first aircraft crashed. The military transport is due to fly in the first half of this year. The Ukrainian aircraft builder also rolled out its first An-140 twin-turboprop airliner. Iran has already signed a deal to build the 52-seater. ...
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Eurocontrol
The Slovak Republic and Spain are the latest countries to join Eurocontrol. The European organisation for the safety of air navigation now has 24 member states. Croatia and Monaco are also expected to be accepted as members in the near future. Source: Flight International
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Indian ATC responsibility
Sir - It is beyond comprehension to understand how the Indian Government and, more importantly, its air-traffic-control (ATC) services can deny responsibility for the 12 November, 1996, mid-air collision between a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B and an Air Kazakhstan Ilyushin Il-76 at New Delhi. Surely the 1,000ft ...
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The reliability of the GPS system
Sir - The report by the UK National Air Traffic Services (Flight International, 4-10 December, P6) indicates that the global-positioning system (GPS) is unreliable for sole-means navigation. I believe that it should be used with another aid, preferably an inertial-navigation system. The questions of reliability and the political ...
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Lockheed
Norman Augustine has been elected chairman of Lockheed Martin, of Bethesda, Maryland, with effect from 1 January. He is now vice-chairman and chief executive, and was previously president, a position he assumed on the merger of Lockheed and Martin Marietta in March 1995. Source: Flight International
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MDC
Jay Witzling has been named division director for Delta II and Titan programmes at McDonnell Douglas (MDC) Space & Defense Systems, of Huntington Beach, California. He was formerly deputy director and director of NASA and Commercial Delta programmes. Scott Strode has become general manager of MDC's Pueblo, Colorado, manufacturing and ...
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AlliedSignal
David Dittemore has been appointed president of Torrance, California-based AlliedSignal Aerospace's Commercial Avionics Systems. Dittemore, formerly vice-president of engineering at AlliedSignal Engines, succeeds Chuck Miller, who has retired. Gregory Shuk has been named vice-president of sales and marketing. He was formerly vice-president of Government operations and marketing for AlliedSignal Aerospace ...
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MDHS
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems (MDHS) of Mesa, Arizona, has appointed Rene Beauchamp director of light-helicopter marketing and Terry Higginbotham director of military-helicopter marketing. Beauchamp was formerly chief sales director for domestic, commercial and military marketing, while Higginbotham was previously manager of military-business development. Source: Flight International
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Northrop
Los Angeles, California-based Northrop Grumman has named William Lawler corporate vice-president and general manager of its Military Aircraft Systems division. Lawler, now vice-president and deputy general manager of the division, succeeds Wallace Solberg, who is to retire. George Pickett becomes vice-president for marketing and business planning for the Electronic Sensors ...
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AI(R)
Jean-Michel Leonard has been named president of the Toulouse, France-based Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) regional-airliner consortium. Jean-Daniel Leroy becomes president of AI(R) American Support, taking over from Leonard. Alan Stiley is appointed vice-president for sales and marketing, with responsibility for North America. He is a former vice-president for marketing for ...
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Hughes
Roxanne Austin, corporate vice-president, treasurer and controller of Hughes Electronics, of Los Angeles, California, has been elected senior vice-president. She was formerly a partner at international accounting and consulting company Deloitte & Touche. John Weaver, corporate senior vice-president of Hughes Electronics, has been elected corporate executive vice-president. Weaver, a former ...