All Business Jets articles – Page 616
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Noble targets taxi market with Farnborough F1
Richard Noble, the man behind the successful ThrustSSC supersonic jet powered world land speed record attempt in 1997, has launched a project to build a five-seater single turboprop, the Farnborough F1. He hopes to market the aircraft to companies interested in creating networks of air taxis, allowing business travellers to ...
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New Piper ponders jet move
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC New Piper Aircraft, buoyed by increasing piston and turboprop sales, continues to explore a venture into the jet-powered aircraft market. The move will be contingent on a future public stock offering. Vero Beach, Florida-based New Piper estimates the cost of developing a jet-powered light aircraft ...
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Socata may find new home with Latécoère
Julian Moxon/PARISLatécoère is interested in taking over Aerospatiale Matra's general aviation and aerostructures business, Socata. The subsidiary's future seems to be in doubt following newly merged French giant Aerospatiale Matra's declaration that it is studying "all options" as part of a bid to double operating margins, to 8%, by 2003. ...
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Personal VTOL maker ties up NASA deal
A previously unknown company in Santa Clara, California, has signed a three-year agreement with NASA to help develop its single-passenger "personal" vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft. Millennium Jet completed the first test flight of its SoloTrek Exo-Skeletor Flying Vehicle in April. The machine has been under development secretly ...
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Cessna tests reveal flaws
Developmental flight tests of Cessna's Citation Encore light business jet have revealed the need for alterations to the twin-engined aircraft. These will delay certification and first deliveries until the second and fourth quarters of next year. Wichita, Kansas-based Cessna will add 36cm (14in) wing tip extensions to shorten take-off distances, ...
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Widebody cargo conversion market expands
Max Kingsley-Jones/SEATTLE Airliner freighter conversion programmes have been launched by Lockheed Martin and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) Airbus, as rivalry continues between Dasa and fellow Airbus partner British Aerospace on an integrated conversion strategy. Lockheed Martin has revived the L-1011 TriStar conversion and has agreed to use Marshall Aerospace's ...
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BWIA poised for major share sale
Paul Lewis/MIAMI BWIA International Airways is to move ahead with share offerings on stock markets in the Caribbean and USA in an effort to raise up to $100 million in capital to underwrite the acquisition of replacement widebody jets. The Trinidadian carrier plans to make an initial public offering ...
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Boeing launches turnkey initiative with DHL freighter conversion contract
Max Kingsley-Jones/SEATTLE Boeing has raised its interest in aircraft remarketing and support to a new level following the launch of a far-reaching package of services covering DHL International's acquisition of converted 757 freighters. The "turnkey" deal is a departure for US manufacturer Boeing and is expected to be followed ...
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China maintenance market attracts joint ventures
New Chinese maintenance company Shandong TAECO Aircraft Engineering (STAECO) plans to expand its capabilities and customer base by mid-2000. The move is part of a wide-ranging expansion of maintenance capacity in China as established companies increase facilities and new entrants join the fray. STAECO carries out maintenance below D checks ...
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Air Luxor plans major operations expansion
Portuguese charter airline Air Luxor is to undergo a major expansion of its operations with the addition of a second Lockheed TriStar 500 and the introduction of four Airbus A320s. The carrier, which has been operating the TriStar for three years, says the demand from tour operators has been ...
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Cabin entertainment boosts EMS activity
Responding to demand from business aircraft users for the latest in-flight cabin systems, British Telecom and EMS Technologies have joined forces to provide airborne "two way high speed data" transmission. The new system will enable passengers to transmit data and voice messages at 64 kilobits/s - "seven times" the ...
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Bombardier to enhance Learjet 31A
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier is to improve the Learjet 31A, with deliveries starting early next year, in a bid to increase its share of the light business jet market. The enhancements, being announced at the National Business Aviation Association show in Atlanta, are to increase aircraft value and improve flexibility, ...
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Business jet boom will continue to 2010
AlliedSignal Aerospace forecasts that deliveries of business jets will peak next year, but will remain at or near record levels before climbing again towards the end of the next decade. The company projects deliveries of 6,800 aircraft, worth nearly $89 billion, between 2000 and 2010, in a market survey released ...
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Workshop
Aeronavali has subcontracted Boeing Airplane Services to convert a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 from passenger to freighter configuration for Brussels-based Skyjet Airways. Boeing was contracted by Aeronavali as Skyjet required the aircraft sooner than the Italian company could undertake the work. The aircraft is due to arrive in early November at ...
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Outflanked
Bombardier has blinked in the increasingly hostile battle for dominance of the regional aircraft market in the 21st century. For the first time since the Canadian company revolutionised regional air transport with the original 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet in 1992, it has lost the initiative and is in danger of ...
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Marketplace
Air Foyle has confirmed that its outsized cargo joint venture with Antonov is being expanded, with the design bureau's operating division, renamed Antonov Airlines, taking two additional An-124s (Flight International, 22-28 September). These ex-Rossiya operated aircraft bring the An-124 fleet to eight aircraft, and a ninth, ex-Titan, aircraft is to ...
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A league of its own
Raytheon Aircraft believes the Premier I sets a new standard for comfort and performance in entry-level business jets Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCBusiness aviation is famously conservative, and buyers of Beech-branded products notoriously so. Not surprisingly, Raytheon's 1995 announcement that it was developing a composite-fuselage business aircraft was greeted with cries of ...
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Saab/BAe support investor's swoop for Walter
AndrewDoyle/MUNICH US investor Robert Fessler and Ryanair founder Tony Ryan are in final negotiations with the Czech Government to buy 94% of the troubled aero engine builder Walter. A deal is expected to be signed with a Czech company set up by the two men. The bid is ...
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Fractional surgery
Can the fractional ownership industry head off moves by traditionalists to impose stricter rules on its operation? Kate Sarsfield/LONDONThese are anxious times for the US fractional ownership community. Flourishing aircraft manufacturers and suppliers herald it as the saviour of the business aircraft industry, yet it has attracted the wrath of ...
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Millennium fever
Visitors to the NBAA's last convention of the millennium will see its biggest show yet and industry optimism to match Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) celebrates its final convention of the century (12-14 October) amid a climate of growing optimism. As business aircraft sales continue to escalate, ...