All Business Jets articles – Page 633
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Crown Air opens Czech book for Citation X
Czech operator Crown Air has ordered a Cessna Citation X business jet for delivery in late May, the US manufacturer's first sale of the type to a European executive charter company. Based at Prague's Ruzyne Airport in the Czech Republic, Crown was formed in 1997 as Eastern Europe's first ...
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Mesa/CCAir deal moves ahead
The Mesa Air Group expects to complete its $53 million acquisition of Charlotte, North Carolina-based CCAir in May. The two carriers, which have entered into a merger agreement, were linked through the Barlow Investment partnership, which has minority shareholdings in both. The all-stock transaction, announced last August, remains subject ...
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FAA to issue directive on 777-200 tail corrosion
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE The US Federal Aviation Administration is expected to issue an airworthiness directive in March, recommending inspections to 18 Boeing 777-200s affected by a potential tailplane corrosion problem. Aircraft line numbers 15 to 33, excluding 18, are affected. The aircraft involved are in service with All Nippon Airlines ...
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Airshow for BBJ
Garrett Aviation Services has selected Airshow's integrated cabin management system for the four Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) that it has under contract. The systems, which include audio and video equipment, custom plated switch panels, touchscreen control systems and amplifiers, will be installed at Garrett's Jet Center completion centre in Van ...
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First A319CJ
Airbus delivered its first A319CJ widebodied business jet on 31 December, 1998, to a private Middle East-based customer. The green aircraft is being outfitted at Jet Aviation's completion centre in Basle, Switzerland. The second A319CJ is scheduled for delivery to an unnamed customer in mid-1999. To date, the international consortium ...
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Workshop
-Sabreliner's Dimension Aviation division at Phoenix Goodyear has begun heavy maintenance checks on the first of up to four FedEx McDonnell Douglas DC-10s. Maintenance and modifications will be carried out before the aircraft are converted to freighters. -Air India is reportedly opening up its recently completed R216 million ($5 million) ...
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The weasel game
Andrzej Jeziorski/TOKYO Japan's dominant Big Three carriers face radical change in domestic and international markets, at a time when the Asia-Pacific region is still wrestling with its economic woes. Japan Airlines (JAL) is the oldest of the three, and the biggest in revenue terms - in fiscal year 1997 (from ...
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US firm designs Gulfstream hushkit
A new hushkit, designed to achieve Stage 3 noise compliance with less than a 1% aircraft performance loss, is being designed by a US company for the Rolls-Royce Spey-powered Gulfstream GII and GIII business jets. New York-based ReallyQuiet plans to begin certification testing of the hushkit on a GII ...
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Rockwell Collins switches on inflight picture
Rockwell Collins has marked its entry in to the business aircraft inflight cabin systems industry, with the installation of its Airborne Satellite television unit on a Gulfstream V business jet. Collins provides the steerable direct broadcast satellite antenna and receiver decoders, while DirectTTV provides the satellite and content package. ...
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Bombardier signs Rockwell Collins for Continental jet
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Bombardier's commitment to developing a super mid-sized business jet has progressed, with Rockwell Collins named as a key supplier for its Continental jet and a second supplier likely to be announced. This comes less than three months after AlliedSignal's AS907 turbofan was selected to power the twin-engined ...
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Boeing delivery
Southern Aircraft Services took delivery of a "green" Boeing Business Jet in January. The Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based has appointed Associated Air Center' of Dallas Texas, to complete the aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Floating airport trials to begin
A consortium of 17 Japanese steel manufacturers and shipbuilders is to start trials next year off the coast of Japan of a technology which could lead to the creation of a floating airport. Mega Float Technology Research Association will complete and test the construction of an off-shore aircraft landing ...
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Slump leads to cuts in Air Canada fleet
Air Canada is cutting its fleet because of the slowing economy and the expected slump in airline travel. The Montreal-based flag carrier says it plans to retire most of its older aircraft, return a number of leased aircraft and postpone delivery of several new ones. The net effect will ...
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B/E Aerospace cuts jobs, closes sites
Chris Jasper/LONDON B/E Aerospace is to close seven manufacturing sites and plans to shed 500 jobs as part of a major restructuring that will cost the US cabin interiors specialist $70 million. The Florida-based company revealed details of the move while announcing a deal by which it will ...
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Falcon 900C Flies
Dassault Aviation's Falcon 900C business jet is due for certification in the second quarter of this year, with first customer deliveries following soon after. The aircraft, which made its first flight from the company's Istres, France, test centre on 17 December, "-combines the performance, value and comfort of the Falcon ...
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Sirocco re-evaluates strategy
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH Sirocco Aerospace and Lufthansa Technik have frozen plans to establish a worldwide support network for the Tupolev Tu-204-120, in the face of the Russian economic crisis. Meanwhile, the German company's sister business, Lufthansa Cargo, confirms that it has decided not to acquire the freighter version of ...
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Maintenance Directory
Part 1: The AmericasGraham Warwick/WASHINGTON DCData Tables/Air Transport Intelligence Consolidation continues in the North American commercial aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul sector, and is likely to remain the trend as its customers - the region's airlines - brace for an anticipated recession. How deeply any downturn bites into the ...
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Visionaire workers suffer cutbacks
Dave Higdon/WITCHITA Visionaire has laid off the bulk of its workforce pending the conclusion of a continuing design review, and receipt of a substantial cash injection sought to fund the development of its Vantage single engined jet. The second wave of layoffs in as many months displaced about ...
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Cessna breaks delivery records
Cessna has reported a threefold increase in aircraft deliveries for last year, reaching sales of 1,077, compared with 618 in 1997. According to the Wichita, Kansas-based manufacturer, the largest increase came from single piston engined aircraft sales, with 775 deliveries, compared with 360 in 1997. Citation corporate jet deliveries set ...
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Executive Jet begins Middle East marketing
Executive Jet is planning to launch a five-week marketing campaign, kicking off on 15 February, to promote its Middle East fractional ownership programme in the region. Operations are to start in the second quarter. Executive Jet vice-president of marketing Charlie Lynch says: "We will hit the market with large ...