All Business Jets articles – Page 633
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FAA approves modified Kitty Hawk 727 floors
The US Federal Aviation Administration has approved Kitty Hawk's alternative means of compliance for an airworthiness directive (AD) that imposes severe payloads limits on Boeing 727-200 freighter conversions for use by Pemco World Air Services and Aeronautical Engineers (AEI). The kit, which costs $75,000 and involves side restraints, terminates ...
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EJM adds Cessnas
Executive Jet Management (EJM) has added three Cessna Citation Xs to its charter management fleet. One will be dedicated to supporting the fractional ownership programme operated by sister company Executive Jet. EJM has added 26 aircraft to its charter fleet over the past year, taking it to 46, and will ...
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Airshare plans for European fractional launch
The first European owned, commercially operated fractional ownership programme is to be launched next month, with the delivery of the first of two used Cessna CitationJet business aircraft. Initially, Oxford Airport, UK-based Airshare will target the UK domestic market. Airshare managing director Peter Coyle says: "We want to focus ...
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Bombardier profits rocket but may mask regional venture risk
Brian Dunn/MONTREAL Chris Jasper/LONDON Bombardier's aerospace division is on a high, with revenues for last year rising by 32%, to C$6.44 billion ($4.29 billion), and pre-tax profits leaping by 42% to C$682 million. The Canadian manufacturer forecasts similar growth trends during the current year. Despite this and an order backlog ...
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NetJets outlines global strategy
Julian Moxon/PARIS Executive Jet intends its NetJets business jet fractional ownership scheme to "go global within five or six years". Studies into the regulatory, airport and cultural aspects of fractional ownership in Asia and South America are under way, with plans to start operations in both regions as soon as ...
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Raytheon support
Raytheon Aircraft Services (RASL) has completed the conversion and upgrade of a Hawker 800 and a King Air C90 for new UK leasing company Corporate Aircraft Leasing. The Hawker 800, converted from the Bermuda to the UK register, is operating between the UK and mainland Europe for a UK multinational. ...
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Cessna tackles 172R and 172S stabilisers
Cessna Aircraft has issued its third mandatory service bulletin in less than a month, requiring a new round of inspections of 172R Skyhawks and 172S Skyhawk SP singles delivered during the past two years. The latest bulletin requires the inspection of the aircraft's vertical stabiliser aft spar, and rivets ...
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Sole A340-8000 may be put up for sale
The one and only Airbus Industrie A340-8000, completed in the middle of last year, faces an uncertain future because of the financial crisis surrounding controversial Brunei Prince Jefri, who placed the launch order. The four-engined jet, an ultra-long-range derivative of the A340-200, has been parked at Berlin's Schönefeld Airfield ...
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National Air Services to enter Middle East charter market
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON National Air Services (NAS) is launching a business aircraft charter operation in the Middle East, to complement its NetJets Middle East fractional ownership venture. The two programmes are scheduled to start up simultaneously in July. "This will offer a tremendous advantage to our [fractional ownership] customers ...
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Bombardier studies Global Express airliner
Bombardier is to carry out market studies to gauge potential demand for a modified version of its Global Express business jet that could be used for scheduled long haul passenger flights. While work on the idea has yet to progress beyond the embryonic stage, an engineering source at the Canadian ...
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Airports
Abu Dhabi Airport has started an extension that will increase passenger capacity to 7.2 million per year. The work is to be completed in 2007. Bordeaux Airport is being expanded to enable annual passenger throughput to rise from the current 1.5 million a year to around five million. Work has ...
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Berlin gears up for growth
Guy Norris/BERLIN Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) is predicting strong growth in its corporate aircraft activities, following approval by the German Government of financing for the new Berlin Brandenburg International Airport, in the former eastern sector of the city. Berlin Schonefeld-based LBAS was set up in November 1997 ...
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LoPresti's SwiftFury prototype makes first flight
The prototype SwiftFury made its first flight earlier this month, after LoPresti Speed Merchants founder and president Roy LoPresti secured the rights to the design of the two-seat sports aircraft earlier this year. The SwiftFury is based on Globe Aircraft's Globe Swift design of the 1940s. In the late ...
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Malibu mandate
The US Federal Aviation Administration is considering issuing an airworthiness directive ordering replacement of the wing-attach hardware to more than 180 Piper Malibus, following New Piper's fears that the steel used may not be as strong as intended. Florida-based New Piper claims that the parts were "annealed instead of normalised ...
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Trainers' market
Demand for training is fuelling growth among independent simulator centres Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Training is a competency close to the core of most airlines, an expensive necessity that is not willingly outsourced. But increasingly the tools of pilot training - commercial flight simulators - are becoming commodities to which ...
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BMW R-R offers new BR700 for ERJ family
Guy Norris/MUNICH Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC BMW Rolls-Royce is proposing a new version of the BR700 turbofan to power Embraer's planned family of 70/90-seat regional jets, the ERJ-170 and -190, as the Brazilian manufacturer seeks bids from suppliers for systems and structures. Potential risk-sharing partners are expected to submit bids this ...
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Ansett Australia ponders fleet rationalisation
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS Ansett Australia is aiming to define its fleet development plan by the end of this year. It will decide on a new widebody type to serve domestic trunk and Asian routes and on the rationalisation of the carrier's domestic narrowbody fleet. Executive chairman Rod Eddington says: ...
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Cessna issues orders to upgrade firewalls on piston singles
Cessna Aircraft has issued a mandatory service bulletin ordering inspections and an upgrade to eliminate cracked lower firewalls on some new 182S Skylanes. Cessna's work order for the Skylanes follows a similar order this year which affected all 172R Skyhawks and 172S Skyhawk SPs. More than 1,400 aircraft are ...
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Phoenix Fanjet's future waits on court decision
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Alberta Aerospace's (AAC) plan to certificate and deliver its single-engined Phoenix Fanjet by the end of the year has been thwarted by a legal battle over the rights to the aircraft, formally known as the Promavia Jet Squalus. Canada's AAC secured a licence agreement with Belgium's ...
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Emerging power
Max Kingsley-Jones/MUSCAT Oman Air is embarked on a programme of expansion and restructuring OMAN, on the Gulf's eastern side, rests in the shadows cast by the cosmopolitan regions to its west, such as Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Dubai. The country has chosen not to follow its neighbours ...