All Business Jets articles – Page 627
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Embraer expands ERJ designs
Embraer has revealed a surprise, 108-seat, stretch of its ERJ-190 regional jet which effectively provides the Brazilian manufacturer with a direct competitor to Bombardier's proposed BRJ-X. The move comes in response to input from Embraer's recently completed airline advisory board survey which helped freeze the smaller ERJ-170 design at ...
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Ayres lets Czech Republic for FedEx Loadmaster production
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC FedEx has converted options on 25 additional Ayres Loadmaster freighters to firm orders. Ayres will produce the turboprop-powered aircraft, for the airline's European operation at Let in the Czech Republic, says president Fred Ayres. The package carrier already holds orders for 50 Loadmasters to be ...
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Europe approves Global Express
Bombardier received European certification for its Global Express ultra long-range business jet on 7 May, around six months later than expected. The Joint Aviation Authorities award marks the third key type approval for the Global Express, following Canadian and US certification in July and November 1998, respectively. Sixteen aircraft are ...
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Community Air plans June start
Community Air, a California-based start-up operator aiming to become one of the first to take advantage of newly relaxed US regulations on single-engined, instrument flight rules (IFR) passenger operations, plans to begin flying on 1 June with a fleet of Pilatus PC-12s (above). The carrier intends to connect rural communities ...
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NTSB urges action
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended that Cessna develop an inspection procedure for identifying cracks in the main retractable landing gear systems of Cessna 172RGs and 182RGs, following a non-fatal incident involving an American East Airways four-seat 172RG last August. The NTSB urges the Federal Aviation Administration ...
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Delta completes acquisition of Atlantic Southeast
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines following the approval of a shareholders' meeting of ASA Holding, the parent company of the regional airline. Delta and ASA have announced schedule changes, beginning on 1 June, that will include ASA jet service to ...
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Fairchild lines up Envoy 3 for June certification
Fairchild Aerospace has completed a prototype of its Envoy 3 business aircraft, which it plans to display at the Paris air show in June. A Fairchild Dornier 328 regional turboprop has been fitted with a 12-passenger executive interior to demonstrate the cabin environment in the Envoy 3 corporate version ...
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Commuter Air predicts revival for Beech 200 conversion
Commuter Air Technology (CAT) is predicting an upsurge in demand for its 13-seat airliner conversion of the Raytheon Beech 200, dubbed the CATPASS 250. The programme was launched in 1986, taking used King Air airframes and modifying them for airline operations. Eight-two aircraft have been delivered, most operated in regional/commuter ...
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Workshop
Pegasus Aviation has ordered 23 additional FedEx Aviation Services (FEASI)Boeing 727 Stage 3 hushkits, bringing its total order to 44 kits. United Airlines recently exercised options for 16 kits, bringing its orders to 75. Santa Barbara Aerospace (SBA) is to re-engine all four of its Boeing 727-200Adv freighters to BFGoodrich's ...
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Hurel-Dubois records strongest performance
French thrust reverser and nacelle manufacturer Hurel-Dubois has posted its strongest performance since the company was formed in 1947. A 34% increase in sales, to Fr1.34 billion ($.21 billion) and a 61% jump in net profits, to Fr 52.6 million ($8.4million), came after a restructuring effort in 1998. ...
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Jet expands
Jet Aviation is expanding its West Palm Beach, Florida, maintenance facility with two hangars capable of housing large business jets. Source: Flight International
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Honeywell puts Primus Epic on the Horizon
Honeywell has integrated the first third-party module into its Primus Epic avionics system for the Raytheon Hawker Horizon business jet. The Epic system will be responsible for utilities control, requiring Honeywell to integrate modules supplied by vendors into the modular avionics unit (MAU) which forms the heart of its ...
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Executive Jet makes room at European operations centre
Executive Jet has expanded its NetJets Europe operations and customer service centre, to accommodate expected growth in its fractional ownership programme on the continent. The 9,333m2 (100,500ft2) Oei-ras, Portugal, base is quadruple the size of the previous operations centre. "We expect to double our NetJets Europe aircraft inventory in ...
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Head-up approval
Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics' head-up guidance system (HGS) has received US certification on the Boeing Business Jet, allowing Category IIIa landings. The HGS is standard equipment on the jet. The head-up display has also been certificated on the 737-800, following approval on the 737-700 in November. Certification on the 737-600 ...
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Cessna starts CJ2 flight tests
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Cessna has begun flight testing the prototype Citation CJ2 light business jet. The company says it has more than 100 firm orders for the stretched, uprated CitationJet derivative. The Wichita, Kansas-based manufacturer plans an "aggressive" certification schedule for the CJ2, with US approval expected by ...
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IAI signs with Boeing for work on MD-11 freighter conversions
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has concluded an arrangement with Boeing which will see it become a freighter conversion and upgrade specialist on the Boeing MD-11 tri-jet. The deal between Boeing and the Tel Aviv-based Bedek division of IAI includes a subcontract to carry out 40 MD-11 freighter conversions, at ...
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Shorter story
Smaller may not always be better, but for Embraer it is a route to further success Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCIt seems a simple, sensible approach: take a proven airframe, shorten the fuselage to produce a smaller aircraft, leave the rest unchanged, and avoid the time and cost of developing a new ...
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Mergers
At least four of the 11 airlines that control a 64.9% stake in computer reservations systems provider Galileo International have announced plans to sell all or part of their holdings through a secondary public offering. United Airlines, KLM, US Airways and TAP Air Portugal are to dispose of stock, although ...
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FAA forecasts steady but slow pace for US GA industry growth
The US general aviation industry is predicted to grow at a slow, yet steady pace over the next decade, according to the Federal Aviation Administration's ninth annual forecast. By the end of 2010, the Administration expects the GA fleet to increase at an annual rate of 1.1%, to more ...
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BBJ set for fuel tank approval
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELESBoeing Business Jets expects to gain US Federal Aviation Administration approval for the PATS-developed auxiliary fuel tank system and related control software this week, allowing its BBJ to begin extra-long-range flights. Certification of the system was delayed by months, mainly because of difficulties in integrating the software for ...