All Business Jets articles – Page 630
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The success of Canada's big four aerospace firms has been the spur for growth among other companies Canada's growth as an aerospace manufacturer is mirrored by that of its primes. Now companies are emerging from the industry's mass of smaller firms with hopes of matching, through consolidation and growth, the ...
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Mergers
The UK's Dowty Group has bought GE Aircraft Engines subsidiary Tri-Manufacturing for $58 million. The Indiana-based aero-engine components fabricator will be incorporated into TI Group member Dowty's Turbine Engine Components (D-TEC) business. HeavyLift Cargo Airlines, the world's largest outsized-freight operator, has been acquired in a management buyout which values its ...
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Global Express crews warned on fatigue
Bombardier expects to recommend that operators of its Global Express ultra-long-range business jet rotate crews on long flights, to avoid pilot fatigue. This move follows experience gained on several flights conducted during a recent sales tour to Australia and Africa. "On any flight over 8h we carry a third ...
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Centre opens at Domodedovo
A business aviation centre has opened at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. The centre is operated jointly by corporate aircraft service and maintenance company AVCOM, with the airport's leading aircraft operator East Line Group. AVCOM, which has a fleet of about 12 British Aerospace 125-700s, Dassault Falcon 20 and Falcon 2000 ...
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Falcon service centre
Dassault Falcon Jet has appointed Atlantic Aviation's facility in Wilmington, Delaware, as its latest authorised Falcon Service centre. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier joins completions market
Bombardier Business Jet Solutions has become the launch customer for Bombardier's third party completion business at its Learjet subsidiary in Wichita, Kansas. Bombardier Aviation Services (BAS) is contracted to complete seven Challenger 604s for its sister company's fractional ownership programme and is eyeing other third-party business. BAS expects to ...
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Corporate Jets seeks expansion with Bombardier
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Corporate Jets, the small UK-based Learjet operator, is bidding to become a major force in the European business jet fractional ownership market using a fleet of Bombardier aircraft. The company is believed to be a contender to become Bombardiers fractional ownership partner in Europe. The company was ...
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Delta's retiring Boeings find a new future in freighter role
Pratt & Whitney and the Republic Financial Corp-oration have jointly acquired the rights to 119 Boeing 727-200s being retired by Delta Air Lines. The move secures airframes for conversion to freighters and perpetuates JT9D-15/15A engine overhaul and spares work. Delta is due to withdraw all of its 727s from ...
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Alitalia responds to BA's Italian strategy
Chris Jasper/LONDONAlitalia has begun a feasibility study into the launch of a regional carrier serving southern Italy in a move which counters British Airways plans to establish a franchise airline based on Rome and Palermo. The Italian flag carrier's study - which is to be completed by June - aims ...
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Mandarin plans fleet revamp
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI China Airlines (CAL) subsidiary Mandarin Airlines plans to acquire at least four Next Generation Boeing 737s when the merger with Formosa Airlines is completed later this year. The CAL board approved the Mandarin/Formosa merger this month and plans to complete the changes by the end of the third ...
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Elegant stretch
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES This month, Condor took delivery of the first 757-300, the longest single-aisle aircraft ever built by Boeing in Renton It has been a long time coming, but the stretched 757 is here. An astonishing gap of 18 years separated the launch of the baseline aircraft and that ...
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Tour operator mergers spark charter consolidation
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON The European Commission's decision to approve the tour operator merger of Thomas Cook and the Carlson Leisure Group is likely to result in further consolidation of the UK charter market in the next 18 months. Another major charter airline link-up could follow the merger of Air 2000's ...
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Inmarsat brings down satcom costs
Inmarsat has approved the launch of the Mini-M Aero satellite communication (satcom) service for corporate aircraft. Mini-M Aero, an adaptation of Inmarsat's Mini-M service for land mobile and maritime users, will provide satcom services for business aircraft users. The services will be less expensive than those available with Inmarsat's ...
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BBJ supplier
Raytheon Systems has chosen IEC International to supply the in-flight entertainment and cabin management system (CMS) for the Boeing Business Jet demonstrator. This follows a contract with IEC to equip the first nine BBJs with its integrated CMS. The demonstrator will have a 106cm (42in) plasma bulkhead monitor, IEC's touchscreen ...
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Netjets prepares to add Hawker 800XPs to Europe fleet
Netjets Europe will take delivery of the first customer-owned Raytheon Hawker 800XP by the end of the month. The first core fleet aircraft was delivered at the end of February. "We hope to add four [of the 24 Hawker 800XPs] to the European fleet this year. The next will ...
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First MD-10 is rolled out at Long Beach
The first McDonnell Douglas DC-10 converted to MD-10 specification for the FedEx conversion programme was rolled out at Boeing's Long Beach site in California on 19 March. The ex-United DC-10-10, dubbed "T-1", is the first of three test aircraft to be fitted with the advanced two-crew digital flightdeck at ...
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GE starts flight tests of CF34-8C1 turbofan
The first flight tests of General Electric's CF34-8C1 turbofan for Bombardier's CRJ-700 regional jet began on 10 March, when the engine flew beneath the wing of the company's Boeing 747 flying testbed. The 90min flight from Mojave, California, evaluated baseline engine performance and marked the start of a 129h, ...
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SR Technics targets Thai joint venture
SR Technics of Switzerland is talking to Thai Airways International about creating an aircraft maintenance joint venture, and hopes to wrap up a deal by the end of the year. This would be a major step towards globalising SAirGroup's overhaul business, following similar moves by its rivals, including Lufthansa ...
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Fractional gateway
Executive Jet is testing an airline-style pilot gateway system that will enable crews of Cessna Citation V Ultras and Raytheon Hawker 1000s in its Netjets fractional ownership programme to begin and end their tours of duty in Orlando or Las Vegas, as well as the company's Columbus, Ohio, operations centre. ...
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Dassault shelves supersonic jet
Julian Moxon/PARIS The lack of a suitable powerplant has forced Dassault Aviation to put its supersonic business jet (SSBJ) programme on hold. The move follows an intense effort with engine manufacturers to solve the fundamental technical problem of how to develop an engine that would meet Stage 3 ...