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VLM expands
Belgian airline VLM is to add Dusseldorf to its scheduled flights linking the European continent to London City Airport. Source: Flight International
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Australian start-up
Pacific Transair, the first Australian carrier to start up since Compass Airlines failed, plans to fly two hushkitted Boeing 737-200s on the key Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane route. The company, headed by Sydney aviation service provider Nicholas Leach, has applied for an air operators' certificate. Operations could begin as early as January. ...
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Price freeze
Bell Helicopter Textron will not increase spare-part prices in 1996, but will hold them at 1994 levels for a second year, citing the cost of operating a helicopter as "the biggest single threat to our industry". Source: Flight International
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Bombardier communications
Bombardier is to install Rockwell-Collins six-channel satellite-communications equipment on its first Canadair Challenger 604 demonstrator aircraft, providing voice facsimile and datalinks. Source: Flight International
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Cessna delays
Cessna Aircraft is expected to announce that it has delayed certification of its Citation X high-speed business jet until the second quarter of 1996. Partial US certification had been expected by the end of 1995, but the manufacturer has decided instead to aim for full certification of the Mach 0.92 ...
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Kitfox change
SkyStar Aircraft is ready to make Teledyne Continental O-200 and IO-240B and Textron Lycoming O-235 engines available on its Kitfox family of kitplanes, now powered by uncertificated Rotax engines. Source: Flight International
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UK AWACS upgrade
The Pentagon intends to sell the UK radar-improvement kits for installation in Boeing E-3D airborne-warning-and-control-system (AWACS) aircraft operated by the Royal Air Force. The seven US Air Force/NATO Radar System Improvement Programme (RSIP) modifications kits, system integration, ground/ flight testing of the RSIP hardware and related equipment will cost the ...
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Ariane record
Arianespace completed a record 11 launches in nine months on 6 December, when flight V81/44L carried the Telecom 2C and Insat 2C communications satellites into orbit. The US Air Force launched its first Titan 4 from Vandenberg AFB, California (and the fourth overall), on 5 December, carrying a reconnaissance satellite ...
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Cargo expansion
Polar Air Cargo plans to add six Boeing 747-200s to its fleet of 12 747-100 freighters, and is projecting that it will be operating 22-24 aircraft within two years. The Long Beach, California-based carrier operates cargo services to Asia, Australia, Europe, New Zealand and South America. Source: Flight ...
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Osprey progresses
Boeing Helicopters has delivered the first "production-representative" V-22 Osprey fuselage to partner Bell Helicopter Textron which is building the tilt-rotor aircraft's wing sections. The aircraft is scheduled to have its first flight in a year. Four V-22s are now in test flight and two ground-test articles were built ...
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Korean connection
South Korea's Hyundai Electronics has applied to launch 12 communications satellites under the 48-spacecraft Loral/Qualcomm Globalstar programme. Hyundai originally planned to build just one satellite. The 12 Globalstar satellites would be built in South Korea using Loral Technology. Source: Flight International
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Sivam endorsement
Brazil's National Defence Council has endorsed Raytheon's $1.4 billion SIVAM Amazon surveillance programme, which has become embroiled in an influence-pedaling scandal. The Government still faces an uphill struggle to win approval for the programme from the Brazilian Senate. Source: Flight International
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Australian upgrade
Raytheon, teamed with Australia's Stanilite Electronics, has won a $156 million contract to replace air-traffic-control (ATC) radar at six Royal Australian Air Force bases, supply a transportable ATC radar, and upgrade data-processing and display systems at each site. Source: Flight International
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Taiwan defence boost
Taiwan plans to increase its defence budget by T$50 billion ($1.83 billion) for 1996-7, from the 1995-6 level of more than T$261 billion, to combat the increased threat from China, according to local reports. The budget increased by less than T$10 billion between 1994-5 and 1995-6. ...
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Delivery stretch
Six Lockheed Martin F-16Cs funded in the 1996 US defence budget will be delivered to the US Air Force in 1999. The USAF had been scheduled to receive its last F-16 in early 1997, until US Congress added almost $160 million to the 1996 budget for the first ...
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Little room
Thailand has ordered three Eurocopter AS.332L2 Super Pumas for use by the country's royal family. The first two VIP-configured aircraft are scheduled for delivery in October 1996. The Super Puma was selected over the Sikorsky S-70 after it was determined that the US helicopter offered the King insufficient headroom in ...
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MHS in Brazil
Malaysian Helicopter Services (MHS) Aviation has signed an accord with charter operator AR Air Taxi Aereo to establish a helicopter-support company in Brazil. The joint venture will serve the Brazilian oil industry, as well offering fixed-wing-aircraft charter. Source: Flight International
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Hawker deliveries
Raytheon Aircraft has delivered its last Hawker 800 corporate jet to Malaysian company Business Focus. The aircraft, ordered at the Paris air show, is the last of 275 Hawker 800s to be built. Production now switches to the 800XP version. Source: Flight International
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Pylon extensions
British Aerospace has signed a contract with SME Aerospace for a second batch of 62 under-wing pylons for the Hawk advanced trainer. SME has already delivered 120 pylons from an earlier offset contract, linked to Malaysia's purchase of 28 Hawk 100/200s. Source: Flight International
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Swedish success
Boeing and CTT Systems of Sweden have signed a memorandum of understanding under which the US manufacturer will offer to install CTT's zonal dryer system in new-build aircraft and as a retrofit package. Airbus Industrie has also agreed to carry out tests and study the system's suitability for its family ...