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JetStream purchase
Seoul Air International is negotiating to purchase two more JetStream ATP turboprops for use in Vietnam and two improved JetStream 61s for new domestic routes in South Korea. The company already operates two leased ATPs on charter to Region Air between Singapore and southern Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. ...
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Vietnam poised to wrap up A320 deal
Paul Lewis/HANOI VIETNAM AIRLINES IS finalising an agreement with Region Air of Singapore to lease ten new-build Airbus Industrie A320s as replacements for existing wet-leased aircraft. The agreement, expected to be signed as Flight International went to press, calls for the delivery of eight aircraft ...
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Turks set sights on Popeye
THE TURKISH air force may equip its upgraded McDonnell Douglas F-4s with the Israeli-made Popeye television-guided air-to-ground missile. The missile has already been demonstrated to the Turkish air force. Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has recently won a $600 million contract to upgrade 54 F-4s of the Turkish air ...
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Deregulation fails to dent European duopolies
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON MORE THAN TWO years after Europe signed up for liberalisation, the majority of the region's air routes remain dominated by traditional flag-carrier duopolies, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority's latest progress report on the European single air market. By the end of ...
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N Sea surveillance boost
Sophisticated new surveillance displays are have just gone into operation at the UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS) offshore helicopter-operations control centre at Aberdeen Airport, Scotland - the busiest centre of its kind in the world. Usable in natural daylight (rather than a dimmed control room), the full-colour ...
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US Army to choose C-XX by year end
THE US ARMY IS to award a contract for 35 off-the-shelf, medium-range business aircraft by the end of this year. The $175 million purchase is part of a plan to slash the number of aircraft types operated by US Army active and reserve aviation units, from 21 to ...
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Aerospatiale takes gloomy view of 1995 prospects
Gilbert Sedbon/PARIS DESPITE TRIMMING its losses over the first half of the year, French manufacturer Aerospatiale warns of less encouraging signs for the rest of the year as the group struggles with a weak US dollar and lower sales volume. Aerospatiale managed to cut group ...
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Helikopter sale
Helikopter Service has sold its two Boeing 234LR Chinooks to Columbia Helicopters of the USA following the loss of the Phillips Petroleum North Sea contract earlier this year. Source: Flight International
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French airlines are on target for codeshare deal
FRENCH PRIVATE airlines Air Liberte and Euralair have agreed to code-sharing and interlining deals on the Paris/Orly-Toulouse route. The move is unprecedented in French air-transport history, and is aimed at providing stronger competition on the route to previous monopoly holder Air Inter. It opens the possibility that the ...
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Orlando becomes centre of excellence
LOCKHEED MARTIN has designated its Electronics & Missiles division in Orlando, Florida, as the company's "centre of excellence" for precision-guided munitions. Programmes under way at other Lockheed Martin divisions will be transferred to Orlando. The former Martin Marietta Electronics & Missiles division is already working on the Joint ...
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French industry steels itself for budget cuts
FRENCH AEROSPACE contractors are bracing themselves for major procurement cuts following a defence budget which promises to reduce 1996 spending on weapons by more than Fr8 billion ($1.5 billion). The defence-spending plans were part of a wider state budget unveiled on 21 September by President Jacques Chirac's new ...
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America West prepares for surge
AMERICA WEST Airlines plans substantial growth at its Phoenix and Las Vegas hubs over the next two years. The airline plans to increase capacity by 29% and departures by 17%, and to add at least eight cities to its route network. America West says that it plans to ...
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United kicks off transpacific FANS flights
UNITED AIRLINES has inaugurated transpacific operations using Boeing 747-400s equipped with Honeywell's FANS-1 satellite-based communication/ navigation system. The first FANS-1 flight was made on 2 September, from Chicago to Tokyo, over Russia. United Flight 881 was the first over Siberian airspace to communicate with a new FANS controller-workstation ...
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MD-95 powerplant will be a customer choice
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) says that the final selection of the engine for its MD-95 twinjet will depend on which power plant the launch customer selects. The BMW Rolls-Royce BR715 and the Pratt & Whitney mid-thrust family of engines are offered on the ...
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Opus off key
Sweden's ASL Hagfors Aero, manufacturer of the Opus 280 two-seat trainer/tourer, has gone into voluntary receivership. Liquidators hope to sell the company as a going concern for around SKr17.5 million ($2.39 million). Source: Flight International
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Portugal considers F-16 options
PORTUGAL IS considering procuring an additional 20-40 Lockheed Martin F-16s, along with taking on board the mid-life-upgrade (MLU) put together for other European F-16 operators. A team from the company is due to visit Portugal on 28/29 September, to discuss the upgrade. The aircraft on offer are secondhand ...
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Age-old dilemma
IT APPEARS that the European and US authorities have reached agreement over "grandfather rights" in the certification of derivative airliner types. Now all they have to do, is agree their respective interpretations over what is a grandfather right and what is a derivative, which may be a little more difficult, ...
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Russia buys US satellite equipment
THE FIRST RUSSIAN procurement, of US equipment for a communications satellite, has been completed by Gasprom, Russias' natural gas monopoly company and NPO Energia. Space Systems/Loral will supply the communications payload and associated equipment for two Russian Yamal satellites to be launched in 1997. The 1,300kg ...
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Airbus closes in on ValuJet deal
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON AIRBUS IS CLOSE to winning the hard-fought battle to sell ValuJet its first new aircraft. The deal, which is expected to involve around 25 A319s, with an option for a further 25, would be a major coup for Airbus, coming in the face of fierce competition ...
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Gulfstream rolls out GV
GULFSTREAM HAS ROLLED out its GV long-range business jet at the company's Savannah, Georgia-based manufacturing plant, just days before the opening of the US National Business Aircraft Association's annual convention and exhibition in Las Vegas (26-28 September) and only weeks before its first flight, which is expected before the end ...