All Business Jets articles – Page 608
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Emery nears update decision
Emery Worldwide expects to reach a decision "quite soon" on replacing its 27 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-60/70s and 29 Boeing 727-100/200 freighters. US cargo carrier Kitty Hawk is also considering a fleet update. Speaking at a cargo conference in Florida earlier this month, company vice-president and chief financial officer Mike ...
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Supply may frustrate freighter conversions
The market for freighter conversions is estimated at some 2,300 aircraft in the next 20 years, but availability of appropriate aircraft for conversion may be an issue. Speaking at Air Freight Asia, Bharat Bhise, president and chief executive officer of C-S Aviation Services, sees continued strong growth in the ...
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Fit cockpit video, says NTSB
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended the compulsory installation of cockpit video recorders in turbine-powered aircraft which at present are not required to carry flight data recorders (FDRs). The NTSB recommendation springs from its investigation of a 1997 Scenic Airlines Cessna 208B Caravan crash in Montrose, ...
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Regionals crack important China and Japan markets
Nicholas Ionides/ATI The world's top regional jet (RJ) makers have cracked two important markets over the past six months - China and Japan - leading to hopes that the sales success of RJs in the USA and Europe may now be spreading to Asia. Fairchild was the first, ...
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Cessna singles on a roll with SIA sales
Mark Hannant Cessna has arrived at Asian Aerospace 2000 full of optimism about growth potential in the region. And to prove the point announced on the eve of the show that it has sold six new Cessna 172R Skyhawks to Singapore Airlines. The order more than doubles the ...
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Fosset and Citation break recordaround the world in eight relays
Mark Hannant Long-haul legend Steve Fosset landed another world record last week. It took Fosset and his two co-pilots, fellow American Darrin Adkins and Britain's Alex Tai, just 41h 13min 11sec to circle the globe. In doing so, Fosset's Cessna Citation X twin-engined business jet knocked more than ...
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Studies back claims for RJX regional status
Alan Dron Several airline board meetings over the coming month may yield order announcements for the Avro RJX regional airliner, and BAE Systems reports greater-than-anticipated interest in remaining production examples of its current RJ model. First metal was cut on the initial RJX-85 and RJX-100 in January. Nose ...
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Asian market warming to business aviation
Gulfstream comes to Asian Aerospace 2000 buoyed with optimism over the future prospects in Asia for its ultra-long-range Gulfstream V and the long-range large cabin Gulfstream IV-SP. Vice-chairman Bryan Moss says that there has been a change in attitude toward business aviation. "The slow but steady improvement we are ...
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Cash, shares in Ansett deal
Air New Zealand's purchase of the 50% of Australia's Ansett that it does not already own covers an immediate cash payment to News Ltd of A$580 million ($367 million) and a subsequent payment valued at A$100 million in cash or in shares. Air New Zealand chairman Selwyn Cushing says ...
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Boeing aircraft merger is next step in recovery
Boeing says the remerger of its single and twin-aisle aircraft units is intended to promote best practice across all six of its civil aircraft programmes now that production problems have been eased. The introduction of a company-wide Process Council is meant to do the same across the entire group. ...
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Soloy proposes utility aircraft for Internet distribution work
Soloy, the Washington-based design and turbine conversion specialist, is negotiating with an unidentified airframe manufacturer to develop a Dual Pac powered utility aircraft to distribute goods for the booming Internet-spawned on-line shopping market. The proposed aircraft will build on concepts developed for the stalled Pathfinder 21 Cessna 208B Grand ...
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Israel Aircraft Industries to boost Galaxy production
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) plans to double production of its Galaxy super-mid-size business jet to two a month from April and expects to deliver 22 aircraft this year, rising to 24 in 2001. The green aircraft will be shipped to US joint venture partner Galaxy Aerospace for completion. IAI is ...
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SIA requirement sparks new battle for Airbus and Boeing
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Singapore Airlines (SIA) has launched its long-awaited W requirement for an aircraft to replace the Airbus Industrie A310, with a request to airframe and engine manufacturers for pricing on a mix of up to 19 widebody and narrowbody jets, plus 22 options. The move is ...
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Boeing adds BBJ winglets
Boeing has fitted the first production Aviation Partners-designed winglets to a Next Generation 737. The aircraft is a Boeing Business Jet (BBJ), on which they will be standard fit. The winglet-equipped BBJ will be used in supplemental type certification flight tests starting this month. The tests are expected to generate ...
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Italians take delivery of first ACJ
The Italian love of stylish living now reaches into the heart of government following the delivery of the world's first Airbus A319 Corporate Jetliner (A319 CJ). Following the handover in Hamburg last week, the ACJ is now deployed to carry members of the Italian government in a modified interior ...
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IAI takes on more work on 428JET
Israel aircraft Industries (IAI) is increasing its participation in the Fairchild 428JET programme, which will see it taking on the design and manufacture of additional components. IAI has an agreement to design and manufacture the fuselage, as well as undertake final assembly of the 44-seat, Pratt & Whitney Canada ...
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Piaggio delivers first new-build P.180
Piaggio Aero Industries delivered a P.180 business aircraft to an unnamed US customer on 2 February. The event marks the first handover of the twin turboprop by the Italian manufacturer since 1998, when the former Rinaldo Piaggio was sold to an Italian/Turkish consortium. The new P.180,which has undergone a series ...
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Swissair to rewire MD-11 cockpit areas
Swissair is to carry out an extensive programme of cockpit-area rewiring on its 19 Boeing MD-11s, starting in August. The airline's decision is based on analysis, since the September 1998 crash of one of its MD-11s near Halifax, Canada, of wiring routing in the forward fuselage, according to Swissair engineering ...
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Workshop
Britannia Airways has contracted Lufthansa Technik to provide component support for its planned five Boeing 737-800s, the first of which was delivered in mid-January. The contract runs for an initial five years. The new CASA-AISA Maintenance Centre has opened at Madrid Barajas Airport. Operators at the airport, such as Aeronova, ...
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LoPresti gets Fury design rights
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The Swift Museum Foundation, owner of the Globe Swift light aircraft type certificate, has granted intellectual rights to LoPresti for the Swift-based Fury design. The move clears the way for LoPresti, based at Vero Beach, Florida, to begin certificating its all-metal two-seat side-by-side piston single. The move ...