All Business Jets articles – Page 639
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Delta boosts Boeing backlog by 49 aircraft
Delta Air Lines has topped up its Boeing orderbook to 173 aircraft by converting options and firming up previously announced purchases totalling an additional 49 Next Generation 737, 757, 767 and 777s. The carrier has announced option conversions and incremental orders covering the six-month period between June and December ...
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Horizon brightens orderbook for CRJ-700 with $580 million deal
Paul Lewis and Ramon Lopez/ WASHINGTON DC The Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) Series 700 orderbook has been given a major end-of-year boost with the $580 million sale of 25 aircraft to US domestic carrier Horizon Air. The Canadian manufacturer has also secured another order for the smaller CRJ-200ER ...
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Bombardier completes sales team integration
Bombardier has completed the integration of its Canadair and Learjet business aircraft sales teams, eight years after it acquired the US manufacturer. The last organisation to be merged is the North American sales team, which from 1 February will be a single entity headed by senior vice-president Bill Monroe, ...
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Canadian company on target to deliver single-engined GA jet
Alberta Aerospace is on target to become the first manufacturer to certificate and deliver a single-engined general aviation jet. The Canadian company says its two-seat Phoenix Fan Jet will be in full service "by the end of the year", closely followed by a four-seater. "We are now 10 months ...
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Premier I completes first flight
Raytheon Aircraft completed the first flight of its Premier I light business jet on 22 December from its Beech Field, Kansas, base. The aircraft flew "-general manoeuvres that tested its flying qualities, engine operations and basic systems at altitudes of up to 14,500ft", says the manufacturer. During its 62min ...
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News in Brief
Short and wide - British Midland has ordered 10 50-seat Embraer RJ-145 regional jets and is seeking six long-haul aircraft for its proposed US routes. A choice is expected to be made soon between the Airbus A330-200 and the Boeing 767-300. City Bird cargo - City Bird of Belgium has ...
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Citation landmark
The 2,500th Honeywell-equipped Citation business jet has rolled off the assembly line at Cessna's Wichita, Kansas, plant, marking a 20-year association between the avionics supplier and the aircraft manufacturer. Source: Flight International
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Fractional Delay
Corporate Jet Gulf (CoreJet) has delayed the launch of its JetPartners fractional ownership programme until the second quarter of 1999, blaming the withdrawal of a Middle East investor as the reason for the postponement. The programme, originally scheduled to begin operations from Dubai this month, is planned to start with ...
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Learjet 45 simulator gets approval
The first full flight simulator for the Bombardier Learjet 45 business jet has received US Federal Aviation Administration training approval. Installed at FlightSafety International's Tucson, Arizona, training centre, the simulator is equipped with FlightSafety's ChromaView visual system. Level D certification is planned when more aircraft data is available. Source: ...
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VisionAire looks again at Vantage design
Visionaire has pushed back certification and first deliveries of its Vantage single- engined business jet while it undertakes a design review of the aircraft. "We conducted a critical design review on the aircraft in mid-1998 and realised that it was too heavy. In our haste to get the aircraft ...
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Blind alley
It would be difficult to describe the prospects for future supersonic civil transports as anything other than bleak, and getting bleaker, even as the enabling technology is advancing. Notwithstanding the promise of a supersonic corporate jet getting off the ground, there seems little realistic likelihood of even premium airline passengers ...
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Pan Am to set up two centres
Pan Am International Flight Academy (PAIFA) has won contracts to establish simulator centres for Atlantic Coast Airlines and DHL Airways. PAIFA, which operates a simulator centre in Miami, won a contract earlier this year to build and operate a training centre for FedEx. Under the 10-year agreement with Atlantic ...
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Boeing hopes repairs will occupy Long Beach
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing is resorting to introducing repair and modification work to keep its Long Beach plant in California busy, following the reversal of plans to set up a Next Generation 737 assembly line at the former Douglas factory. Boeing 737 operators face the prospect of their ...
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Supersonic business
Julian Moxon/PARIS Additional reporting by Guy Norris and Graham Warwick While the announcement was unexpected, few could have been surprised when Dassault Aviation announced at the 1997 National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) show that it was "studying the feasibility of a supersonic business jet". Dassault's extensive supersonic combat ...
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Mars Climate Observer lifts off
Tim Furniss/LONDON A Boeing Delta II rocket was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 11 December, carrying the first of two NASA spacecraft that will be used to conduct the next round of investigations into Mars. The Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) is scheduled to culminate in an orbital insertion in ...
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Novel SST configuration revealed
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES A group of Northrop Grumman designers have been awarded a US patent for an innovative supersonic transport design incorporating active and passive laminar flow control, and an unusual reverse delta wing. Northrop Grumman, which says the design is not part of any programme, was contracted ...
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Marketplace
-Continental Airlines has placed a $75 million order with Rolls-Royce for RB211-535E4B engines to power five Boeing 757-200s. The 757s were ordered in 1997 and are due for delivery between December 1999 and June 2000. -American International Airways, a division of Kitty Hawk, has taken delivery of an ex-Middle East ...
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VIP update
The Australian government will replace its two VIP Boeing 707 transports with the same number of Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) or Airbus Industrie A319CJ.Five existing leased Dassault Falcon 900s will be replaced with three leased aircraft with transcontinental capability, expected to be either the Dassault Falcon 2000, Bombardier Canadair Challenger ...
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Airbus eyes potential for fractional market
Airbus is eyeing the fractional ownership market in an effort to stimulate its orderbook for the corporate version of the A319CJ (ACJ). Although no details have been disclosed, the manufacturer is believed to be considering existing programmes or starting-up a venture of its own. "We are studying potential ...
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Low cost is key for regional jet, airlines tell Bombardier
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier has launched technology cost/benefit studies after the first meeting of its BRJ-X airline advisory council confirmed that potential customers for the 90-seat regional jet are looking for the lowest possible operating cost. The council conducted preliminary talks on fly-by-wire versus conventional flight controls, steel ...