All Business Jets articles – Page 623
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Derlan offloads seating business to ERDA
US seating specialist ERDA has bought the seating division of diversified engineering group Derlan Industries of Santa Ana, California. The deal is the latest in a series of divestments by Derlan which has been working with banking advisors on ways to maximise shareholder value. Terms of the ...
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Stealth Gulfstream? Ask the Skunk Works
Graham Warwick The supersonic business jet being studied by Gulfstream and Lockheed Martin could incorporate stealth technology. Lockheed Martin's famed Skunk Works believes it has found a way to reduce sonic booms - a major hurdle to overland supersonic flight. The two US manufacturers are studying the ...
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Falcon 900C earns its French wings
The Dassault Falcon 900C has received certification from the French Direction Generale de L'Aviation Civile (DGAC) during the show week. The 900C business jet, which replaces the 900B version, includes an advanced avionics package taken from the longer-range 900EX. The aircraft has a range of 4,000nm (7,400km) ...
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ANA converts 777 orders to long-range -200ERs
Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) has converted an order for a single Boeing 777-200 and three 777-300s to four longer-range 777-200ERs as part of its newly unveiled restructuring plan. ANA spokeswoman Kate Opekar says from Tokyo that the first of the new aircraft will be delivered in October ...
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Demo shows future of navigation
Three times a day, a Gulfstream GIV has been quietly slipping out of Le Bourget to demonstrate the future of automated approach and landing technology. The aircraft is equipped with a Honeywell/Pelorus SLS 2000 satellite landing system which guides the aircraft into land using the GPS satellite system. Experts ...
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Gulfstream first
The first operator to achieve 1,000 flight hours in an ultra-long-range Gulfstream V business jet has been honoured here at Paris. Peter Fried, owner of GV Executive Charter, a Swiss-based transport provider, received the award from Gulfstream. "As the Gulfstream V begins its third year of customer service, ...
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Workshop
Nordam has announced orders for 26 shipsets of Stage 3 hushkits for the Boeing 737-200 - six for US lessor C-S Aviation Services; five for aircraft leased by Vanguard Airlines from Unicapital Air Group (three) and GECAS (two); four for US lessor Triton Aviation, two to be installed on aircraft ...
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Proof tests
Proof of concept flight tests of the Gulfstream V enhanced vision system (EVS) will begin in July, with final certification expected by the spring of 2000, the manufacturer says. EVS is an infra-red thermal imaging and head-up display system that exactly overlays the real world, greatly improving the visual ...
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Marketplace
Aviation Capital Group has bought an Airbus A320 that is on lease to America West, and a Boeing 727-200 that will be hushkitted and converted to cargo configuration for lease to an undisclosed US cargo carrier for eight years. Iberia has begun the next phase of its fleet renewal programme, ...
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Extruded profiles set in style
High flying goes high fashion on the Menziken stand, where the group's aerospace division is exhibiting its aluminium extrusion profiles in style. Created by Swiss fashion designer Elsie Brandtwein, this eye-catching display makes a confident statement from Menziken which has been supplying the aircraft industry with extrusions and pressed ...
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Flexjet gets Euro lift-off
Alan Peaford Bombardier's fractional ownership programme was launched in Europe yesterday at the same time that the company announced orders for 20 Global Express business jets from its North American FlexJet operation. The European operations are to be based in Denmark with sales and administration in London. The ...
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Gulfstream disappointed but grateful for preliminary selection and hopeful for future
Having provided the platforms for two of the three contenders in the battle for the ASTOR contract, Gulfstream had to be hoping for a different result yesterday. It would have provided Gulfstream Vs to either Wizard or Team Astor had they been successful. Buddy Sams, Gulfstream's vice-president, ...
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Raytheon wins huge NetJets Horizon deal
Raytheon has received its largest ever business jet order from fractional ownership monolith Executive Jet for its NetJets programmes in the USA, Europe and the Middle East. The deal, for the purchase of up to 100 Hawker Horizon super mid-size aircraft, matches Executive Jet's contract with Cessna last October ...
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Continental challenge
Bombardier says its 'super mid-size' business jet would cost $4 million more if made by anyone else - but it has not skimped on its systems Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCBombardier's Continental may be the first business jet designed to a price point, but it has the specification of a more expensive ...
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Camp contract
Camp Systems has won contracts from Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) and Fairchild Dornier to develop factory authorised maintenance management programmes for the BBJ and Envoy 3 business aircraft, respectively. Camp will provide BBJ and Envoy 3 customers with regular reports of maintenance status and history and a listing of upcoming ...
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New buyers knocking at Global Express door
Ian Verchere Bombardier Aerospace has found "two hot leads" for its new Global Express ultra-long-range business jet at this year's Paris air show, says business aircraft sales president John Lawson. They come on the eve of the new twin-jet's formal acceptance by its first corporate customer, a leading ...
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Surfing to buy
Buy your aircraft on-line - that's the deal being offered by Gulfstream, allowing potential customers to preview pre-owned aircraft from the comfort of their own homes. By accessing the web site www.gulfstreampreowned.com visitors will be able to obtain photographs, aircraft specifications, features and maintenance history. The site will ...
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Cessna bulletin
Cessna has issued a service bulletin to hundreds of piston-single aircraft customers ordering an airframe logbook check for any one of 30 faulty fuel-selector valves shipped as replacement parts last year and early this year. The US Federal Aviation Administration plans to follow this with an airworthiness directive. The Washington-based ...
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Bombardier extends FlexJet fractional scheme into Europe
Bombardier is trying to make inroads into the fledgling European fractional ownership market by extending its successful US FlexJet programme. "We have been interested in Europe for some time, but have held back until we found the best way of adapting our US programme to this market," says FlexJet ...
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Bombardier launches new Continental super mid-size jet
Bombardier has launched the Continental "super mid-size" business jet, with first deliveries planned for the end of 2002. The Canadian company says it has a substantial backlog of letters of intent for the $14.25 million aircraft, which it will begin converting to firm orders. Development will cost C$500 ($340 ...