All Business Jets articles – Page 615
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Innotech order
Innotech-Execaire Aviation, the Canadian Cessna Citation business jet distributor, has ordered five Citations. Its contract for a Citation Sovereign, two Citation Excels, a Citation Encore and a Citation CJ2 is worth $40million. The company's Montreal-based subsidiary Innotech has installed a Flight Dynamics head-up guidance System on a Bombardier Challenger 604. ...
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FBO expansion
Two US fixed-base operator (FBO) chains are expanding. Raytheon Aircraft Services is forming a joint venture with Mexico's AeroLineas Ejecutivas to provide maintenance services for Beech and Hawker aircraft at Mexico City's Toluca airport. Piedmont Hawthorne, meanwhile, is buying Shell Canada's Aerocentre FBOs in Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver. These ...
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Composite Falcon
Dassault is introducing carbonfibre horizontal stabilisers on its Falcon 900 and 2000 series, to reduce parts count and weight. The new units, to be phased in for deliveries from late next year or early 2001, will feature a cast titanium centre box and composite spars and skins. Source: Flight International
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Single-turbine craft could plug Cessna product gap
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Cessna is considering a single-turbine aircraft to fill the gap between its piston-single line and its Citation business jet family. The company is also looking at the potential for applying high-speed technology from the Mach 0.92 Citation X to smaller aircraft in the product line. ...
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Chauffair plans record Cessna order
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON ChauffAir has placed the largest ever single order for Cessna business jets in Europe. The seven Citation Excels, valued at $63 million, will be delivered to the Farnborough, UK-based operator in 2001 and join its business jet leasing scheme ChauffAir Share, which began on 21 October. ...
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Boeing pitches business jet to US Air Force
Boeing Business Jets hopes to increase its order book through the sale of its BBJ long-range business jet to the US military. The manufacturer is touting for orders for up to four aircraft from the US Air Force, which plans to acquire modified civil aircraft in corporate configuration to carry ...
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PC-12 update
Pilatus is evaluating a new cockpit for the PC-12, featuring a large-format flat-panel display, developed by US company IS&S. This replaces most of the current instruments. Flight tests could begin within two months and the 230 x 250mm display may be offered initially as an option on the co-pilot's side ...
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Supersonic tonic
For years, the assumption in civil air transport circles has been that the only way that the airlines would ever get a second-generation supersonic transport to replace the BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde would be for the industry to come up with a larger, more economical, longer-range and (crucially) much more environmentally friendly ...
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Marketplace
Polar Air Cargo has introduced two additional Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7Q-powered 747-200 freighters and retired one of its older747-100s. Cathay Pacific has ordered two additional Rolls-Royce RB211-524H-powered Boeing 747-400 freighters, for delivery in September 2000 and August 2001. The Hong Kong-based carrier has also concluded its lease deal with Air ...
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Galaxy studies growth options
Galaxy Aerospace surprised NBAA attendees by showing interest in a supersonic business jet. It also announced plans for an official customer survey as a prelude to studies of potential new Galaxy derivatives in the large- and medium-sized markets. President Brian Barents says: "We are asking ourselves if we ought to ...
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Fairchild support
Fairchild Aerospace and Garrett Aviation Services have formed a completion and support partnership for Envoy business jets. Under the agreement, Garrett will become the completion integrator for Envoy 3 and Envoy 7 aircraft, and will provide support after delivery. Source: Flight International
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Companies sound out Congress for supersonic project funding
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Gulfstream and Lockheed Martin hope to receive US Government funding for a quiet supersonic aircraft technology (QSAT) demonstration as a precursor to the development of a supersonic business jet (SBJ). The companies are waiting to hear whether Congress has allocated up to $20 million from ...
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GV enhanced vision nears certification
Gulfstream hopes to achieve certification of the enhanced vision system (EVS) for the GV as early as December, with first deliveries of the product planned for next year. The EVS integrates a Kollsman forward-looking infrared imaging system with a Honeywell/Marconi head-up display to give pilots clear imagery in poor ...
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Fractional boom continues
The fractional ownership market has witnessed unprecedented growth since its introduction 13 years ago, according to data released by US research firm, Aviation Data (AvData). Since 1986, the fractional fleet and customer base has rocketed by more than 4,500% from seven aircraft and four customers to 329 aircraft and 1,567 ...
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Bombardier takes lead in business jet deliveries
Bombardier believes it has taken the lead in business jet deliveries, with 30% of the market by value so far this year. The company had delivered 127 aircraft by the end of September, up by almost 30% over the same period last year. It was boosted by shipments of ...
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AlliedSignal launches new safety avionics
AlliedSignal has unveiled a line of safety avionics for business and general aviation aircraft. The Integrated Hazard Avoidance Systems (IHAS) combine position, weather, traffic and terrain information on a multi-function display. "We are bringing air transport safety technologies to business and general aviation-perhaps the market segment that needs it the ...
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Airports
Caracas Maiquetia Airport is undergoing the first phase of a $100 million upgrade project, dubbed "Maiquetia 2000". This will see the airport's main passenger terminal reconstructed within a two-level departure/arrival layout, due to open in 2001. The airport's runway is also undergoing major repairs. Work has begun at Knoxville's McGhee ...
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Falcon 50 engine retrofit firms up
AlliedSignal has signed an agreement with Dassault covering the retrofit of TFE731-40 turbofans to Falcon 50s, as Garrett Aviation Services nears completion of the first re-engining at its Springfield, Illinois site. The -40s replace the original TFE731-3 engines, and produce 24% more cruise thrust, as well as a reducing ...
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Sibir negotiates Tupolev Tu-214 leases
Sibir Airlines is discussing the lease of three Tupolev Tu-214s as it seeks to update its fleet. The Aviadvigatel PS-90A-powered Tu-214, also dubbed the Tu-204-200, is the increased gross weight version of the Russian twinjet produced by the Gorbunov KAPO production plant of Kazan. Production of the Tupolev designed ...
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Boeing accelerates launch of BBJ 2
Boeing is bringing forward plans to launch the stretched Boeing Business Jet (BBJ 2), following strong customer interest which could lead to as many as five new sales by the end of this year. Although Boeing outlined plans for a larger BBJ based on the stretched 737-800 late last ...