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Cessna
Arbrey Barrett has been named vice-president for aircraft completions at Cessna Aircraft, of Wichita, Kansas. Barrett joined Cessna as a manufacturing supervisor in 1965, having held similar positions at airframe manufacturer Boeing, of Seattle, Washington. Five new executives are appointed for the company's single-engine-aircraft interests. They are H D Cartwright, ...
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Rolls-Royce Inc
Stanley Doepke is named director of airline marketing and Bruce McClelland becomes airline-analysis manager at Rolls-Royce Inc, the US arm of the UK aero-engine manufacturer. Doepke was formerly sales director at Fokker Aircraft USA, while McClelland was director of strategic market planning at Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dornier). Frederick Kocher becomes senior ...
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KLM
Jan Meurer has been named vice-president for operations at Dutch national carrier KLM, replacing Henny Essenbert, who becomes group managing director for Air UK. Enno Osinga succeeds Meurer as vice-president for customer service at KLM Cargo. He was formerly manager of cabin- crew divisions and deputy to the manager of ...
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ANZ
Robert Nazarian has been appointed chief financial officer at Air New Zealand (ANZ). Nazarian, now chief financial officer for Lion Nathan Australia, will take up his new position at the beginning of October. Nazarian replaces Robert Elstone, who moves to a similar position with Australia's Pioneer International group of companies. ...
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America West
America West president Maurice Myers will retire at the end of the year, when William Franke, the airline's chairman and chief executive, will take over his responsibilities until a successor is selected. Myers joined America West in December 1993, assisting in the US carrier's emergence from Chapter 11, bankruptcy protection. ...
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How green is a hushkit?
Sir - The article in Flight International, 23-29 August, on hushkit fitment to European Aviation's 20 BAC One-Elevens highlights the fact that, even 12 years after the first One-Eleven Tay re-engining proposals (Weybridge, 1983), the "thinking" operator prefers a re-engined aircraft to one fitted with hushkits. A similar pronouncement, was ...
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Koliber II is fast, but not that fast
Sir - I refer to the flight test of the Koliber II (Flight International, 7-13 June, P112). I was not a little surprised to read that the Koliber can reach speeds of between 170kt (315jm/h) and 260kt (and this with the cockpit canopy not completely closed), which to ...
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C-12 order
Raytheon Aircraft has received a contract for almost $53 million for an additional 14 Beech C-12R utility aircraft (military King Air B200Cs) for delivery to the US Army Reserve between July 1996 and August the following year. Source: Flight International
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Hawkeye delivery
Taiwan's air force has taken delivery of its first two Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft. Designated as E-2Ts, they have been completed to the latest Group II configuration, including an improved AN/APS-145 radar. The final two E-2Cs are due to shipped to Taiwan by the end of ...
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Beech training support
Beech Aerospace Services, Madison, Mississippi, has been awarded a fixed-price US Navy contract worth as much as $325 million for maintenance and logistical support services for T-34 and T-44 training aircraft based at Naval Air Stations located at Whiting Field and Pensacola, Florida, and Corpus Christi, Texas. If all options ...
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Cimber co-operation
Danish regional airline Cimber Air has joined with Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) to offer additional flights between Copenhagen and Karup and Aarhus and Aalborg from 29 October. The increased frequencies will be flown, by a mix of SAS and Cimber Air aircraft, with the latter using, 46-seat ATR 42-300 turboprops. ...
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Air India re-assesses
Air India's plans to wet-lease three 400-seat aircraft to replace Boeing 747-200s appear to have run up against an unexpected problem of unavailability. Instead, the airline has short-listed six companies offering to meet a requirement for 250- to 300-seaters with Airbus A310-300s and McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. The wet-lease option has ...
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Shorts support
Shorts has secured two support services contracts worth £74 million ($115 million). The contracts, awarded by the UK Ministry of Defence for Royal Air Force Linton-on-Ouse and by a Middle East customer, cover the provision of a range of services including first, second and third line aircraft maintenance. The company ...
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Kaman honour
Kaman founder and chairman Charles Kaman has received the US Department of Defense's Distinguished Public Service Medal, its highest award for a non-career civilian, for "exceptionally distinguished service" as an inventor and pioneer in rotary-wing flight. Source: Flight International
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Endeavour launch
The much-delayed launch of the Space Shuttle STS 69/Endeavour took place from the Kennedy Space Center on 7 September. The 11-day STS 69 mission, with a five-man crew will feature the deployment and retrieval of the Spartan and Wake Shield free-flying spacecraft and a 6h space walk to practice space-station ...
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Pakistan favours Mirage
Pakistani air force chief Gen. Mohammed Abbas Khattak has declared himself in favour of purchasing 32 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters. "We have no choice but to buy French aircraft, even though they are very expensive," he told Pakistani newspaper Dawn. The country is unable to buy Lockheed F-16s, as its ...
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Spares in Budapest
Aerospace Industries has opened a warehouse and distribution centre at Budapest Ferihegy Airport. Trading as Aerospares Budapest, the centre will service Aerospares Shannon's customers and represent aircraft manufacturers in the region, and will hold a $6 million spare-parts inventory. Source: Flight International