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Mesaba
Mesaba Airlines, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has appointed Wayne Heller director of system operations control; Sandy Sturm becomes director of purchasing and contracts and Warren Wilkinson is named director of marketing and corporate communications. Heller, joins Mesaba from Business Express, Sturm was formerly with Express Airlines I and Wilkinson, is a ...
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AV solutions
Scott Gordon has become managing director of AvSolutions Asset Management, a subsidiary of Manassas, Virginia-based AvSolutions. He has more than 22 years experience in government, general and commercial aviation. Source: Flight International
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Air France
Etienne Rachou has been appointed general manager for the UK and Ireland at Air France. He succeeds Francois Lafaye, who returns to the head office in Paris. Source: Flight International
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Aviation services
VIP custom completion specialist International Aviation Services, of Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Earl Parker director of production. He was most recently director of executive modifications at Associated Air Center. Rupert Hoenig becomes director of quality control and he, also, was most recently with Associated Air, as director of maintenance. ...
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Nordam
Andrew Altendorf has been named director of marketing and Bob Brooks director of sales at the FAA-approved repair station Nordam Repair division, of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Altendorf was formerly marketing director of Nordam's Lori heat-transfer company and Brooks was most recently with Nordam Transparency. Source: Flight International
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AAR
Rick Townsend has joined Elk Grove Village, Illinois-based aerospace supplier and servicer AAR's overhaul and fixed-base operation, AAR Oklahoma, as vice-president for sales and marketing. He was most recently vice-president for marketing and sales at PEMCO World Air Services and, before that, he was vice-president for sales at FFV Aerotech. ...
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NASA
Wilbur Trafton, director of US space organisation NASA's Space Station programme for the past two years, has been named Associate Administrator for the Office Of Space Flight, taking on additional responsibility for the Space Shuttle programme. Trafton, a former US Navy captain, joined NASA in 1994. ...
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American West
America West Airlines, of Phoenix, Arizona, has appointed Edward Methot vice-president of flight operations. Before joining the carrier, Methot served for more than 30 years with United Airlines in operations management. Source: Flight International
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No loophole in UN Libyan sanctions
Sir - I refer to the article "UN Libyan sanctions may become tougher" (Flight International, 3-9 April, P6). The United Nations Security Council reviews its resolutions on Libya every four months, and has specifically regulated the operation in Libya of non-Libyan aircraft, which serve the oil industry. In ...
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Kiwi progress
Start-up New Zealand carrier Kiwi Travel International Airlines ended its first ten months of operation to the end of January, with better-than-forecast sales of NZ$13.5 million ($9 million), and profits of NZ$700,000. Kiwi began scheduled international services in August 1995, has carried more than 50,000 passengers between New Zealand and ...
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Volvo cautious
Volvo Aero improved its financial performance in 1995, helped by strong sales growth in its core military-engine business, but warns that it will have to adapt to defence cuts expected from the Swedish Parliament's defence review later this year. Overall, pre-tax profits virtually doubled, to SKr281 million ($41 million). Sales ...
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Spars flotation
Aviation Sales, which claims to be the world's largest aircraft-spares redistributor, has announced that it is to become a public company, with the sales of 3.25 million shares. The public offering is expected to raise nearly $76. The business had sales of $114 million in 1995. ...
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Turkish delight
THY Turkish Airlines has sold three Boeing 727s to private Turkish carrier Top Air Havacilik for $9 million and transferred a 727 to Kibris Turkish Airlines, the flag carrier of Northern Cyprus in which THY, has a 50% stake for $2.1 million. Source: Flight ...
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Code sharing
Aer Lingus and Delta Airlines will begin a code-share/blocked-space service on 1 May on the Irish carrier's daily Airbus A330 flights between New York and Shannon and Dublin. British Airways has agreed a code-sharing deal with America West on points served from Phoenix. The UK carrier starts a new service ...
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Cargo return
Lufthansa Cargo is to return five McDonnell Douglas DC-8-73F freighters to lessor Deutsche Leasing by the end of 1996, by which time the Lufthansa subsidiary will be operating 12 Boeing 747-200Fs and one 737-300F. Source: Flight International
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Elbit/Kaiser tie-up
Elbit and Kaiser have formed a joint company, Vision Systems International, to market helmet-mounted displays for fixed-wing aircraft. The team is expected to compete for the US Air Force/Navy joint helmet-mounted cuing system (JHMCS) programme in a joint bid with Honeywell and GEC-Marconi Avionics, which teamed in 1995. The JHMCS ...
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Plant arrest
Uzbekistan National Security Service has arrested Vasiliy Zhuravlev, general director of the TAPO Tashkent Chkalov plant, which produces Ilyushin Il-76s. Police are investigating an alleged fraud in which the plant accepted an Il-76 for repair from a Russian operator. It is accused of repairing the aircraft and leasing it unlawfully ...
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Rybinsk cancellation
Rybinsk Motors has withdrawn its appeal to Russia's Supreme Court, in which the engine company disputed the Government's decision to auction 37% of its shares. Rybinsk says that the legal move lost its meaning after the Government issued a new order including Rybinsk as being of strategic importance to national ...