All Business Jets articles – Page 639
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AlliedSignal plots targets for AS907
AlliedSignal's next generation AS907 business aircraft and regional engine will begin test runs in mid-1999, says the company as it completes negotiations with risk and revenue partners on the $300 million development programme. The AS907 is the first member of a new engine family that was formerly launched with ...
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Asian woes force Cathay to withdraw 747 Classic fleet
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Cathay Pacific Airways is to begin phasing out of service all six of its Boeing 747-300s within 12 months and is close to finalising a deal to dispose of a further two 747-200s, as the Hong Kong carrier continues to cut capacity in the face of a ...
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Envoy 7 expands Fairchild's corporate family plans
Fairchild Aerospace's commitment to produce a family of corporate aircraft is steadily being realised with the Envoy 7 launch. The widebody aircraft, a variant of the Fairchild Dornier 70-seat 728Jet regional airliner, which was launched earlier in the year, will join its smaller Envoy 3 stablemate which is now ...
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Certification work will delay Jetcruzer 500 by 12 months
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) says certification work on the Jetcruzer 500 turboprop pusher will not be completed until the "second half of next year", meaning a delay of more than 12 months over the company's original predictions. AASI says the delay is part of a conscious effort to ...
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South Korean trio start single-entity talks
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Three of South Korea's leading aerospace manufacturers have established a joint working committee and appointed teams of consultants to produce a business plan for the proposed new single corporate entity, which is tentatively named Korea Aerospace Industries. The three corporations concerned, Daewoo Heavy Industries, Hyundai Space ...
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Cessna raises Citation stakes
Guy Norris/WITCHITA Cessna comes to the US National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) meeting this year with an unprecedented array of eight Citation models either in production, flight test or planning. Filled with ambition, and keen to bolster the competitiveness of the Citation family against a new generation of business jets, ...
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JARs could scupper 'virtual airlines' in Europe
British Airways' "virtual airline" arm Airline Management (AML) has been advised by the UK Civil Aviation Authority to make its management structure more accountable. If it cannot do this it will fail to meet European Joint Aviation Requirements-Operations (JARs) Rules when they take effect on 1 April, 1999. The ...
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Record aircraft deliveries predicted
Graham Warwick/LAS VEGAS Almost 6,500 business aircraft worth nearly $78 billion will be delivered between 1999 and 2009, says a new forecast from AlliedSignal Aerospace, released at the National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, which opened on 19 October. The company's latest Business Aviation Market ...
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Honeywell displays advances
Guy Norris/PHOENIX When Honeywell unveiled its Primus Epic avionics system at the 1996 National Business Aviation Association convention, it promised that advanced three-dimensional (3D) displays were just down the road. At this year's NBAA, it will be demonstrating 3D display concepts developed using its new tool for rapid ...
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Bombardier selects AS907 for new jet
Graham Warwick/LAS VEGAS Bombardier plans to launch the development of its Continental business jet in April next year, provided it has secured sufficient firm orders. The Canadian manufacturer unveiled its new mid-size business jet at the National Business Aviation Association convention, which opened in Las Vegas,Nevada, on 19 October. The ...
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Swearingen selects avionics for re-priced SJ30
Sino Swearingen has selected an avionics suite for its twin-engined SJ30 business jet and has hiked the price by 20%, " based on the October 1998 US dollar". The seven-seat SJ30 will now be equipped with the Honeywell-Primus Epic control display system with flat-panel displays and IC-615 integrated avionics ...
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BBJ arrives
The first Boeing Business Jet has arrived at PATS in Georgetown, Maryland, for installation of the under-floor long-range fuel tanks. Source: Flight International
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Falcon 900EX to receive CAT II certification
Dassault says it is on track for Category II certification of the Falcon 900EX equipped with Flight Dynamics' Head-up Guidance System (HGS) in the first quarter of 1999. Cat III approval is expected in the third quarter. The HGS-equipped Falcon 2000 is already Cat III-approved, and Dassault says that 50% ...
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Inflatable alert
The US Federal Aviation Administration has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) to owners of some 20,000 Beech, Bellanca, Cessna, Piper and Wing light aircraft. The directive requires immediate de-activation or removal of a modified, inflatable door seal installed to reduce cabin noise. If the seal is punctured, the electric air ...
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Gathering clouds ?
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC One question will be on everybody's minds at this year's US National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention - will the gathering global economic turmoil mean an end to the boom the industry has been enjoying for the last two years? Not that anyone at ...
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Oriental opening
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The concept of business aviation in Asia has been for many years a bit of a misnomer. A combination of infrastructural shortcomings, official hostility and user ignorance conspired to constrain severely the development of the executive aircraft market. Despite recent economic difficulties, there are encouraging indications that this ...
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Mid-sized madness
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Business aircraft development today is a matter of finding and filling market niches. The old class distinctions of light, mid-size and large business jets are gone. In their place is a virtual continuum of corporate jets from entry-level to ultra-long-range. Most of this cross-genre blurring has occurred ...
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Used market leads
Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCOAs little as six months ago, everybody was saying that the equity markets could only go higher and the resale value of pre-owned business aircraft would do the same. Today, world equity markets are dropping, and while nobody has claimed any significant drop in used aircraft prices at ...
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Fractional divide
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON There is considerable unease among the US fractional ownership community as it braces itself for the outcome of an 18-month investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, which will determine if this burgeoning market sector should continue to operate under current Federal Airworthiness Regulation, FAR Part 91 general ...
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JetProp converted Malibu gets US go-ahead
Pilots no longer have to wait until 2000 to fly a turboprop-powered Piper Malibu. Customers with an aircraft and $589,000 to spare can now have the piston single converted to a Pratt &Whitney Canada PT6A-34 engine by JetProp. The Spokane, Washington-based company is owned by the same person who is ...