All Business Jets articles – Page 624
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Boeing winglets venture formed
Boeing and Aviation Partners, the Seattle-based winglet design specialist, are to form a new joint venture company - Aviation Partners Boeing - to provide winglets for in-service Boeing commercial aircraft. The deal is a major breakthrough for Aviation Partners and its chief executive Joe Clark, who has been promoting ...
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Jet addition
Jet Aviation has added five business aircraft to its charter management fleet: a Bombardier Challenger 601-3A and Cessna Citation X, based at Chicago Midway; a Gulfstream III at Van Nuys, California; and a Citation V and Raytheon Beech King Air 200 in the US Mid-west. Source: Flight International
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NG737 clocks up largest-ever order
Alan Dron International Lease Finance (ILFC) yesterday announced plans for the largest order yet for the Boeing Next Generation 737 family and says it is looking carefully at the sub-100-seat market. Steven Udvar-Hazy, ILFC president and chief executive officer, says his company has agreed a firm order for ...
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Fractional ownership company snaps up 25 Fairchild Envoy 7s
Fairchild Aerospace has sold 25 Envoy 7 executive variants of its new 728JET regional jets to US fractional ownership company Flight Options, giving the programme a boost to follow Lufthansa's recent launch order. The San Antonio-based manufacturer is expected to announce the deal at the show, making Cleveland-based Flight ...
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Crossair starts ERJ-170/190 family rolling
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Embraer has launched its new family of 70/108-seat regional jets with a commitment from Crossair for up to 160 aircraft. The deal, involving about 60 firm orders, covers 70-seat ERJ-170s and 108-seat ERJ-190-200s for delivery from late 2002. The Swiss regional carrier has orders and options ...
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Japanese Piper
Osaka Aviation has been appointed authorised distributor of New Piper Aircraft products in Japan, and will provide customer service to new and existing Piper owners. The company will also handle new aircraft sales, provide technical assistance, perform warranty work and supply spare parts. Founded in 1968 as a ...
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Falcon owners offered retrofit option
Owners and operators of Dassault Falcon 50 business jets are being offered an engine retrofit option that is claimed to substantially reduce time-to-climb and cruise speeds. AlliedSignal Aerospace is offering to retrofit TFE731-40 engines on an exchange basis for the existing TFE731-3 powerplants currently found on around 250 ...
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Business jet market sees growth through fractions
Karen Walker Who would have thought that selling aircraft bit by bit could end up being bigger business than selling them whole? Thanks to fractional ownership, that is where the business jet industry seems to be heading. It explains why some of the largest and most talked about ...
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Corporate and General Aviation
Winner of the Corporate and General Aviation category was UK-based kit aircraft specialist Europa Aircraft. The company has sold 550 kits to 29 countries, including 100 kits to customers in the USA. Judges said Europa had secured major sales success in the face of strong international competition and had ...
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Record-breaking ACJ heads for Paris
Mike Martin The Airbus Industrie Corporate Jetliner (ACJ) has set a new record for a flight by a large, single-aisle aircraft, flying non-stop from Toulouse to Buenos Aires in a 14hr 50min flight, it was announced at the show yesterday. The flight, completed the day before, covered an ...
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Embraer announces record $4.9bn order
Karen Walker Embraer has announced a stunning $4.9 billion order from Crossair for 75 firm aircraft with 125 options. The contract marks the Brazilian manufacturer's formal launch of its new ERJ-170 and ERJ-190 family of regional jets. The deal is described by Crossair president and chief executive ...
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Saab looks to niche market of US start-ups
Alan Dron The last Saab 340 and 2000 have been delivered, and the Swedish manufacturer's production line has ceased rolling - at least so far as complete aircraft are concerned. Of 459 Saab 340s and 63 Saab 2000s built, slightly more than 300 are in Saab Aircraft Leasing's ...
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Gulfstream targets international markets
Karen Walker Gulfstream is basing its international sales organisation in London as part of a push to increase its overseas sales. Bill Boisture, Gulfstream's president and chief executive officer, says the London office will be "...an important first step in expanding the strength of our international team substantially." ...
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Touch of southern France from Mors
We may be in Paris, but you'll be forgiven for thinking you're in southern France if you visit the Mors stand in Hall 2/G6. The company has transformed its stand into a cosy cottage, complete with tiled roof and fountains. And if you do pop in for a ...
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Weclome return for the popular Cessna
Tamzin Hindmarch A French company has this year started selling new single-engined Cessna 172s, 182s and 206s to buyers in Europe. But for many leisure pilots this year's star of the show is the Cessna F150 Rénové. Reims Aviation has for some time played a key role in ...
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Westland looks global with strategic buys
Geoff Thomas Anticipating the era of consolidation and acquisition in the aerospace industry worldwide, Britain's GKN Westland Aerospace has just completed an intensive two-year programme of strategic acquisitions. This includes companies in the USA, Germany and the UK, building a global supplier to the world's aerospace prime contractors ...
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Merger makes BFGoodrich number two in industry
Debbie Packman BFGoodrich is in confident mood as the completion of its $2.2-billion merger with Coltec Industries draws tantalisingly close. CEOs Dave Burner (BFGoodrich) and John Guppy (Coltec) appeared together at the show yesterday to reveal that the 'friendly' union awaits a final decision from the appeals court ...
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Roll out of new-look French aerospace industry
Ian Verchere Aerospatiale Matra makes its long-awaited debut today as the reconstituted heavyweight of French aerospace when the chief executives of its merged entities - Yves Michot of Aerospatiale and Philippe Camus of Matra Hautes Technologies - present the new company to the world's press and global industry peers. ...
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Corporate jet leads Airbus 30-year anniversary
Air show veterans will recall the launch of the Airbus Industrie A300 in 1969... then raise a glass to the astonishing organisation celebrating its 30th anniversary at Le Bourget. Airbus is here in style, with a pair of firsts - showing off the Airbus A319 Corporate Jetliner (A319CJ) ...
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$2bn fractional jet deal for raytheon
Karen Walker A massive fractional ownership business jet deal - potentially worth $2 billion - was sealed between Executive Jet and Raytheon Aircraft in Paris last night. Last night's deal, signed at a ceremony in a Paris hotel, is for 50 Hawker Horizon super mid-size business jets, plus ...