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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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GIII features personal DVD players
A Gulfstream III from Jet Aviation's Private Fleet, on show in the static park, should have special appeal for movie lovers. To enhance inflight services, the GIII has been outfitted with a new feature: personalised individual DVD players. The units are equipped with noise-cancelling Sony stereo headsets to provide ...
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NAS offers Middle East medevac
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON National Air Service (NAS) plans to kick-start the first Middle East-based commercial medical-evacuation (medevac) service by the end of the year, in conjunction with Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based King Faisal Specialised Hospital (KFSH). NAS is also considering offering the service to customers of its NetJets Middle East fractional ownership ...
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Timing of show fortuitous for Falcon
Four years after its debut at the Asian Aerospace show in 1996, Dassault's long-ranging Falcon 900EX returns to the Orchid City for Asian Aerospace 2000. "The region's strengthening economy has made the timing of this year's Asian Aerospace show and the presence of our Falcon 900EX demonstrator doubly fortunate," ...
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Marketplace
JMC Airlines has confirmed it is finalising an order for two Rolls-Royce RB211-powered Boeing 757-300s, for delivery early next year (Flight International, 24-30 November, 1999). United Airlines has appointed BAE Systems Asset Management to remarket nine British Aerospace ATPs previously operated by its partner, United Feeder Services. The aircraft have ...