All Business Jets articles – Page 627
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Customer customising
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) has landed an order to complete cabin interiors for two Boeing Business Jets (BBJs) and a Boeing 777-200. The deal is with an unnamed Saudi Arabian customer. LHT offers business aircraft users a turnkey concept which it calls XXL Class to customise either of two basic ...
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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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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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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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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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Links extended
Dassault Aviation and FlightSafety International are to extend their long-term business relationship, the two companies said yesterday. An agreement, signed at the show, covers the training of Dassault Falcon pilots and maintenance technicians at Le Bourget until the end of 2011. FlightSafety International says advanced flight simulators and ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...