All Business Jets articles – Page 621
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Embraer ties up risk sharing agreements
Julian Moxon/PARIS Embraer has concluded agreements with risk sharing partners for the ERJ-170 and ERJ-190 regional jets, in addition to those with General Electric and Honeywell that cover engines and avionics, respectively. The company has also held an advisory board meeting with 20 airlines and risk sharing partners to ...
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Scaled Technology signs for Cessna Citation composite work
Scaled Technology Works (STW), sister company of Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, has signed an agreement with Cessna to supply composite structures for Citation business jets. The long-term agreement is a boost for Montrose, Colorado-based STW, which was set up to certificate and manufacture Scaled Composites-designed aircraft. So far, none 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, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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LHT completes VIP mock-up centre
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has completed a Boeing Business Jet and an Airbus A319CJ cabin mock-up centre at its Hamburg base, in Germany. The company is a licensed completion centre for both types. The full-sized fuselage models will be used to model cabin layouts for VIP customers with fittings constructed ...
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Citation X makes UK registration debut
Cessna has delivered the first UK-registered Citation X business jet, the third to enter service in Europe, to charter company Reed Aviation of Leeds-Bradford International Airport. Nearly 400 Citations operate within Europe, of which 80 are based in the UK.Source: Flight International
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Crossing the line
New Piper Aircraft has moved firmly into business aviation territory with its single-turboprop Meridian Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Next July, five years after it emerged from bankruptcy, New Piper Aircraft plans to deliver the first Malibu Meridian. This single-turboprop business aircraft symbolises the resurgence of a firm that was driven into ...
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Flight Options for Europe
Flight Options is hoping to become the third major US fractional ownership company to expand into Europe, and is holding discussions with possible operating partners on the continent with a view to launching the programme next year. Executive Jet and Bombardier began operations in 1996 and 1999, respectively, with ...
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Fractional schemes 'must be strictly regulated', says poll
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Corporate flight departments are in favour of placing fractional ownership programmes under stricter regulations, says an opinion poll under way for the US National Business Aviation Association (NBAA). The final report will be presented at the NBAA convention, which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, in ...
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Meridian line will increase
New Piper Aircraft plans to increase production of the Malibu Meridian to meet demand for the single-turboprop business aircraft, deliveries of which are to begin next July. The company will deliver 40 Meridians next year, up from 30 this year, and is considering increasing production in 2001 from the ...
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428JET: a bigger challenge
Fairchild is moving on to developing a stretched 328JET Paul Lewis/OBERPFAFFENHOFENHaving completed certification of the turbofan-powered 328JET, Fairchild has turned its attention to the more challenging development of the larger 42/44-seat version. The 428JET, from an engineering standpoint, extends well beyond a straightforward fuselage stretch, encompassing a redesigned wing ...
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Greek minister killed in Falcon 900 flight incident
Greece's deputy foreign minister and five others were killed when the Greek Government-owned Dassault Falcon 900B presidential jet suffered an unexplained flight incident on descent into Bucharest, Romania on 14 September. The Falcon 900 (SX-ECH) descended rapidly from 15,000ft (4,600m) to 2,000ft, where the crew recovered control. Although ...
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Aerolineas Argentinas prepares to order new narrowbody fleet
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Aerolineas Argentinas expects to decide within the next year on acquiring a new standardised fleet of 40 or more narrowbody jets. The airline is currently leasing additional 737-200s. "We have had initial discussions with both Airbus and Boeing and we're analysing right now our fleet requirements for ...
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Joining the jet age
Turbofan power is giving the 328 regional airliner a new lease of life Andrew Doyle/OBERPFAFFENHOFENIt is an unconventional way of bringing a regional jet to the marketplace. Fairchild Aerospace has created a capable 30-seat aircraft by re-engining the Dornier 328 turboprop with turbofans. First deliveries of the 328JET were made ...
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London City wins over business aviation traffic
London City Airport's (LCA) courtship of business aviation is finally paying off, with the city centre airport reporting a 130% increase in general aviation traffic this year, compared with the same period last year. "The airport is experiencing a phenomenal growth in popularity due to its close proximity to ...