All Business Jets articles – Page 640
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Galaxy maiden flight proves capability
Israel Aircraft Industries' first production Galaxy business jet performed its maiden transatlantic flight on 3 October, flying non-stop from Paris to White Plains, New York, in 9h 9min. The aircraft is en route to the National Business Aviation Association convention which starts in Las Vegas on 19 October. The ...
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Jet-powered business
The buoyant mood of the business aviation industry is reflected in the 1998 Flight International Corporate Aircraft Census, which once again records a healthy increase in the worldwide turbine fleet. During the past 12 months, the world's aircraft itinerary has risen by around 8%, from 17,333 to 18,688. "Business aviation ...
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Boeing completes reshuffle
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has made sweeping changes to its management in the wake of the structural changes announced in early September providing for three new Commercial Airplane business units. Under newly appointed Boeing Commercial Airplane Group president Alan Mulally, the company is divided into three main units. ...
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Executive Jet orders Boeing Business Jets for NetJets programme
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Executive Jet's relentless appetite for major business aircraft orders for its NetJets fractional ownership programme looks set to continue at the forthcoming National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Convention to be held on 19-21 October in Las Vegas, Nevada, with an order for the $35 million Boeing Business ...
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Mega-merger consolidates UK holiday airlines
Günter Endres/LONDON Plans by tour operators Thomas Cook and the Carlson Leisure Group to merge are set to lead to a further consolidation of UK charter operators. The deal, which is still subject to regulatory approval, could spell the end of the Caledonian Airways name and propel Thomas ...
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Boeing targets year end for assessment of 747 stretch
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing expects to complete windtunnel tests of a stretched, 500-seater 747 by the end of the year and, pending the successful conclusion of business case studies and sufficient customer commitments, says it could launch the aircraft by mid-1999. Boeing, which celebrated 30 years of 747 assembly earlier ...
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Finance widened
Cessna Finance is realigning and expanding its domestic and international financing activities for the manufacturer's Caravans, Citations and piston singles, focusing support for sales of the latter to Cessna pilot centres and flight schools. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier extends fractional ownership project to Europe
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Bombardier is planning to launch its Business Jet Solutions fractional ownership programme in Europe by the end of the year. An announcement could be made at the National Business Aviation Convention in October. The Dallas, US-based programme, arguably the world's second largest fractional ownership scheme, will ...
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AMR searches for a buyer for its fixed-base operations chain
American Airlines' parent company AMR has put its AMR Combs fixed-base operation (FBO) network up for sale along with its AMR Services and TeleService Resources units. The company says it wants to focus on its core airline and Sabre computer reservations businesses. AMR acquired the Combs Gates network of ...
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DHL standardises on A300B4 freighters for European services
Herman de Wulf/BRUSSELS DHL International is standardising on the Airbus A300B4 freighter for its European operations and says it will need more than the 14 aircraft it has already agreed to acquire. The European arm of DHL has its main hub in Brussels handling some 250t of freight a night. ...
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Colour change
UK charters Flying Colours and Airworld, both now owned by Thomas Cook through Sunworld, are to be unified under the Flying Colours banner on 1 November. Source: Airline Business
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Lease for SALE
Dubai-based Emirates has converted one option for an Airbus A330-200, adding to the 16 Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered A330s it already has on order. The previously announced order for six A340-500s, and options for 10 more, was signed on 8 September. The airline has also said it will lease Singapore Aircraft ...
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Cessna Revision
Cessna has revised phased inspection procedures for the Citation II business jet to simplify maintenance, improve safety and reliability, and reduce operating costs. Similar detailed re-evaluation of inspection requirements is now planned for other members of the Citation family. Source: Flight International
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Marketplace
-SilkAir has taken delivery of its first International Aero Engines V2500-A5-powered Airbus A320. The regional division of Singapore Airlines is replacing its Boeing 737-300 fleet with four A320s and four A319s, and holds options on another 10 aircraft. -ING Lease International Equipment Management has sold and delivered an ex-Pan American ...
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Internet flight tracking prowlers raise hackles at NBAA
Concerns over the publication of business aircraft registration numbers on the Internet have prompted the US Government to intervene, according to the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA). "Business aircraft operators, especially those undertaking sensitive missions, are demanding that flight tracking software providers block publication of aircraft registration numbers at ...
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Exploring the Galaxy
Julian Moxon/Tel AVIV Cutaway/John Marsden and Tim Hall The pressure is on at Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) as its business aircraft division works to certificate its latest design by the late December deadline. The on-schedule maiden flight of the third prototype Galaxy on 23 September was a further boost to ...
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Enduring value
The Astra has been a steady, if not stellar, seller since IAI introduced the aircraft in 1985 as a long-range, high-speed, mid-size business jet. The design mated a stretched Westwind II fuselage with a new, low-set, swept wing featuring a cranked leading edge and supercritical aerofoil section. This increased both ...
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Raytheon contract
Raytheon Systems has won contracts valued at $125 million to complete interiors on 11 Boeing Business Jets and one corporate Boeing 777, for US and overseas customers. The company, which also claims to have further orders pending, will install the interiors at its Waco, Texas, factory. Source: Flight International
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Computer hitch hits Global Hawk
The Global Hawk unmanned aerial reconnaissance system completed its first night mission on 17/18 September, despite the inflight failure of one of its two integrated mission management computers (IMMCs). The aircraft left Edwards AFB, California, at 19:34 Pacific Time and suffered the IMMC failure at about 01:00. Teledyne Ryan ...
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Cessna takes on Hawker with stretched version of Excel
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Cessna Aircraft is expected to unveil details of a stretched version of the Citation Excel corporate jet at the US National Business Aviation Association convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, in October, which will spearhead its attack on Raytheon's Hawker 800XP and provide a cheaper trade-up option for ...