All Business Jets articles – Page 638
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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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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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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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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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FAA sends US 727F operators $192 million bill
The US Federal Aviation Administration has finalised airworthiness directives (AD) which impose severe payload limits on Boeing 727s that were converted into freighters by third party maintenance organisations. The restrictions remain in effect until floor structures on 270 US-registered 727Fs are modified at an estimated cost of $192 million, ...
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SAS opts for A330/A340s but order awaits cost cuts to bite
Andrew Doyle/MUNICH SAS has selected the Airbus A330/A340 family for its planned long-haul fleet renewal but is holding off signing a firm order until its internal cost cutting targets have been met. The airline has decided to reject Boeing's offer of 10 Boeing 777-200ERs in favour of a ...
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Pin plug problems prompt Lycoming/Cessna IO-360 inspections
Dave Higdon/WICHITA An unusually high number of reported piston-pin plug problems in the past three years has prompted Textron Lycoming to urge all US-registered owners, to inspect closely oil filter elements on their IO-360 piston engines and to have used oil analysed at every change. Cessna also plans ...
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737 rudder safety checks planned
The US Federal Aviation Administration plans to issue an airworthiness directive (AD) requiring mandatory inspections for potential valve cracks in some Boeing 737 rudder power control units (PCUs). The FAA has also issued a directive covering the Rolls-Royce Allison AE3007 affecting Embraer RJ-145s and Cessna Citation X business jets. ...
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DaimlerChrysler Airbus will link headquarters
DaimlerChrysler has ordered an Airbus A319 Corporate Jet (CJ) for delivery in early 2000. The aircraft will be operated by a new subsidiary company, DaimlerChrysler Aviation, based in Stuttgart, to ferry employees between the German city and the conglomerate's second headquarters in Detroit, USA. Before it receives the International ...
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Airports
-The French minister of transport has confirmed his intention to restrict flights from Paris' second airport, Orly, to those with a range of less than 5,000km (2,700nm). The move, which is expected to take effect in 2001, means that a few slots (2.5% of the total) will be released for ...
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Command decisions
Julian Moxon/PARIS Any doubts about the safety and cost effectiveness of fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control systems on civil aircraft were long ago dispelled with the success of Airbus Industrie's single-aisle A320 and, later, the European consortium's twin-aisle models. The justifications used by Airbus for introducing FBW were several, ...
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NBAA sets fractional safety rules
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON The US National Business Aviation Association (NBAA)has published safety and operational guidelines to owners and programme managers of fractional ownership schemes to "-enhance the safety culture" of this burgeoning market sector. "The document is part of an evolution towards a culture of safety. It will be ...
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Solair sale complete
Kellstrom Industries has completed its $57 million acquisition of Solair from Banner Aerospace. Solair sells a wide range of aircraft components, including flight data recorders, electrical and mechanical equipment, radar and navigation systems. Kellstrom provides after-market airborne equipment, including avionics, engines and engine parts. Source: Flight International
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Niche accidents
David Learmount/LONDON Despite a worldwide campaign to reduce it, controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) increased in 1998 for the second year running, both among jet and non-jet flights, confirming the reversal of a previously favourable trend. There were five jet CFIT accidents and eight involving propeller-driven commercial aircraft. This ...
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DeCrane Aircraft Holdings plans to acquire PATS
DeCrane Aircraft, a growing US avionics components manufacturer and integrator, has agreed to acquire Columbia, Maryland-based PATS, which manufactures and installs auxiliary fuel tanks and other equipment for corporate and commercial aircraft. DeCrane, based in El Segundo, California, declines to reveal any acquisition details, saying only that "-the closing ...
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ATR team sets tight deadline for regional jet project talks
Andrew Doyle/TEL AVIV ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia are trying to wrap up, by the end of March, a deal with either Fairchild Dornier or Embraer for the joint development of a family of regional jets. Talks with Fairchild Dornier, which began last month, are to continue through ...
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Boeing takes wraps off Wedgetail contender
Boeing has unveiled its Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) based contender for Australia's Project Wedgetail airborne early warning requirement. The competition is also being contested by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. The BBJ (combining the fuselage of the 737-700 and the wing of the 737-800), with a mock-up of the 7m-long Northrop ...
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Orenda wraps up Turkish deal
Canada's Orenda Recip has clinched its first original equipment manufacturer contract after a multimillion dollar deal with Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). Orenda will supply and install its OE-600 V-8 piston engine for a multimission aircraft, under development at TAI's Ankara, Turkey-based factory. "The agreement is expected to result in ...
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Software problems delay WAAS implementation
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has delayed initial fielding of the Raytheon Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) by at least 14 months because of software development problems. The WAAS was to have entered service in July 1999, but the FAA says this has been pushed back to September ...
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BBJ order
Saudi Aramco has ordered five Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) to replace its fleet of Boeing 737-200s. Two aircraft will be sold in "quick-change" passenger/freight variants. The Dharan-based oil company is scheduled to take delivery of the aircraft in September 2000. Source: Flight International