OCEAN EXPANDS
Ocean Sky Aviation has snapped-up Manchester, UK-based business aircraft charter and handling company Northern Executive Aviation. The move comes less than six months after the London-based business aircraft charter broker acquired Manchester management company Aircordial. Both acquisitions are part of a wider strategy by Ocean Sky to expand its business aviation services portfolio across Europe.
JET CENTRE
Hawker Beechcraft has appointed Jet Aviation in Dűsseldorf, Germany, as an authorised service centre for Hawker 800-series business jets. Meanwhile, the US airframer has opened its international sales headquarters in Chester in the north of England.
G150 APPROVAL
Gulfstream has clinched European approval for the G150 business jet, a year after the mid-size aircraft, built by Israel Aerospace Industries, entered service. To date, 23 G150s have been delivered and Gulfstream has six G150 orders from European customers.
SALE COMPLETED
US engineering company Elisen Technologies has completed its acquisition of aircraft maintenance and completion centre Montreal Jet Center. The company will now be called MJET, an Elisen company.
BROADBAND RESEARCH
Business jets will account for over half of all aircraft broadband installations over the next four years, according to a report by US research firm Freesky Research. "Private jets with a maximum take-off weight of over 50,000lb [22,700kg), will be one of the leading segments of the market. They have the width to carry most fuselage-mounted antennas, and sell at prices which make broadband systems a small share of the overall cost of the aircraft," says the report.
Source: Flight International
