All Business Jets articles – Page 628
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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, ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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, ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
$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 ...
-
News
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) ...
-
News
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. ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
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 ...