All Business Jets articles – Page 619
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British Airways will codeshare with Swiss regional Crossair on the London Heathrow-Basle, Switzerland, route from next month when the major drops its own services. Boeing MD-83s will fly the service, which is one of a number of underperforming routes BA is dropping. US low-fare carrier Pro Air will launch the ...
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Indian Falcon
India's Megapode Airlines is subleasing a Dassault Falcon 2000 from TATA finance. It will be available for charter from December. The nine-seat twinjet will join Mumbai-based Megapode's eight British Aerospace 125-700s. Dassault is negotiating with an unnamed Indian customer for the sale of a Falcon 900EX. Source: Flight International
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Raytheon output rise may not be enough
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Raytheon Aircraft has increased planned production of its new Premier I and Hawker Horizon business jets to meet demand, but faces challenges meeting the programmes' schedules. Production of the entry-level Premier I will be increased by 25% to 60 a year, while production of the ...
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Learjet shot down
A Bombardier Learjet 35A, being flown by ExecuJet Aviation, was shot down in Ethiopia on 29 August, killing its two crew. The twin-engined business jet, owned by an "American customer", was being flown from Naples, Italy, to ExecuJet in Johannesburg for refurbishment. Source: Flight International
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Boeing focuses on cargo with conversion programme
Guy Norris/SEATTLE Boeing Airplane Services (BAS) plans to launch 757-200SF (special freighter) and 767-200SF passenger to freighter conversion programmes by the end of the year as part of plans to mount a broad attack on the cargo conversion market. It estimates the market could be worth up to $15 ...
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Safety suite set to make Atlanta NBAA debut
AlliedSignal's new flight information service (FIS) is the centrepiece of a general aviation (GA) safety avionics suite to be unveiled at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention in Atlanta, Georgia, in October. The system will combine colour weather graphics received via the FIS datalink with the enhanced ground ...
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DC generator for Learjets approved
US parts distributor Corporate Rotable & Supply (CRS) has certificated a replacement DC generator for Bombardier Learjet 35, 36 and 55 series business jets. Manufactured by Auxilec, the generator offers a 3,000h time between overhauls, three times that of the current AlliedSignal unit, says Ft Lauderdale, Florida-based CRS. The ...
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America West considers A318 for its expanding Airbus fleet
America West is looking at adding Airbus Industrie's new A318 and possibly an uprated A321 to the carrier's expanding fleet of A319/A320 aircraft. The Phoenix, Arizona-based carrier is understood to be discussing an order for between 15 and 30 A318s including options, according to industry sources. America West declines ...
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United offers more business legroom
Jane Levere NEW YORK Battling, like every other carrier, for the higher-yield market, United Airlines is installing improved seating at the back of the cabin in its domestic fleet in order to reward its most frequent or full-fare economy passengers. The carrier is reconfiguring the first six to 11 rows ...
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RVSM approval
Sabreliner has received reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM) certification for the Sabreliner 65 business jet. The company expects to complete four RVSM-capable aircraft by October. Source: Flight International
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Airports
Brussels Zaventem Airport is planning to spend BFr1 billion ($26 million) to build a new air traffic control tower. This has become necessary because the view of one of the runways from the existing tower will be obstructed when terminal construction work is completed. The new 75m (246ft)-high tower will ...
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Amphibious aircraft companies to merge
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Two US amphibious aircraft companies, Lake Aircraft and Archedyne Aerospace, have agreed to merge to secure financial investment and manufacturing expertise for their existing and planned product lines. The new company will be called Lake Aerospace. Amphibious aircraft manufacturing stalwart Lake, which builds the Seawolf, Renegade and Seafury ...
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Boeing adds Ilyushin engineers to design team for cargo 767
Andrew Doyle/MOSCOW Boeing has signed a contract with the Ilyushin design bureau to bring up to 35 Russian engineers into the design team working on a passenger-to-freighter conversion for the Boeing 767. The Ilyushin employees will work on the project at the Boeing Design Centre (BDC) in Moscow, ...
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NASA and Orbital revamp X-34 testing plans to reduce risk
NASA and Orbital Sciences have revised the test programme for the X-34 reusable launch vehicle technology demonstrator to reduce risk. The first airframe, vehicle A-1, will be upgraded for unpowered flight tests from Orbital's Lockheed L-1011 carrier aircraft. The vehicle has completed one captive flight on the L-1011, and ...
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FlightSim 2000 upgrade on test
Dave Higdon/WICHITA FlightSafety International has begun testing Microsoft's new flight-simulation software programme, FlightSim 2000, as an enhancement to its airline ab initio training programme at Vero Beach, Florida. Microsoft says the FlightSim 2000 upgrade includes improvements to the graphics, functionality and versatility of the flight simulation software programme. ...
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An-140s pass the halfway mark
The two Antonov An-140 prototypes have completed about 700 test flights - over half of the required certification programme. Tests are now focused on areas such as high angle of attack, icing and hot and high operations. Series production is being prepared in Kharkov, Ukraine; Samara, Russia; and Isfaghan, Iran. ...
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PC-12 sharing plan takes off in Switzerland
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The first European shared ownership programme operating single-engined Pilatus PC-12 turboprops has started up in Zurich, Switzerland. Share Plane, which operates under private Swiss civil aviation authority regulations, is aimed at three "key" market segments within Switzerland, southern Germany, northern Italy and western Austria, which have had ...
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Skunk Works: responding to changing times
Things are no longer black and white for the Skunk Works. The still-secretive Lockheed Martin unit is having to adjust to the reality that much of its future business opportunities are in the commercial, and not the classified, arena. Not that the two worlds are so vastly different - both ...
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Cessna and Dassault expect slow CIS sales
Business jet manufacturers Cessna Aircraft and Dassault Aviation expect the current trickle of sales to customers in Russia and the CIS to continue, but rule out any significant pick-up until the region's economies improve. The two were the only Western firms to exhibit aircraft at MAKS '99. Cessna says ...
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OSC to build ozone monitoring spacecraft for NASA project
NASA has chosen Orbital Sciences (OSC) to build, launch and operate the QuikTOMS atmospheric ozone monitoring satellite. QuikTOMS will be integrated with the OSC-built Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument. OSC has built five TOMS sensors for NASA, with the latest sensor launched aboard a US Earth Probe satellite ...