All Business Jets articles – Page 641
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Bombardier keeps to delivery target
Bombardier says it is on target to deliver more than 100 business jets in its current fiscal year, which ends on 31 January, 1999. This is an increase from the 89 aircraft delivered in its last financial year. The Canadian company expects to see a further increase in deliveries next ...
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GPS approach network completed for AirEvac
Development of a network of 19 global positioning system (GPS) instrument approaches has been completed for Tulsa, Oklahoma-based AirEvac, which operates an emergency medical service (EMS) Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopter. The helipad-to-helipad instrument flight rules (IFR) network serving hospitals in eastern Oklahoma was designed by Satellite Technology Implementa-tion (STI), the ...
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JET acquires GV
Jet Aviation has added a sixth Gulfstream V to the fleet of business aircraft that it manages on behalf of their owners. The company says this represents 25% of the GVs now flying worldwide. Source: Flight International
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Workshop
-AvAero will supply Stage 3 hushkits for five Boeing 737-200s operated by Calgary, Canada-based WestJet Airlines. -Lucas Aerospace, which supplies 14 different line replacement units (LRUs) for the Embraer RJ-145, has signed a 10-year spares deal with Trans States Airlines to provide LRUs, plus maintenance on a cost-per-flight-hour basis. -United ...
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Rejuvenating the old
Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCO Despite strong sales of new business jets, many operators are holding on to what they have, spending millions of dollars to update interiors, cockpits and, in some cases, engines to 21st century standards of technology and reliability. Among the most sought-after interior upgrades is a state-of-the-art entertainment ...
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Galaxy clocks up flight tests
Galaxy Aerospace's new Galaxy "super mid-size" business jet is on target for combined US Federal Aviation Administration and Israeli Civil Aviation Authority certification by the end of December and first deliveries in the second quarter of 1999, says the company. Two Galaxy test aircraft (003 and 004), built by ...
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Burgeoning business
Kate Sarsfield/FARNBOROUGH The major business aircraft manufacturers paraded their wares at the Farnborough air show in the hope of stimulating further interest in this burgeoning market sector. Galaxy Aerospace's $17 million, super mid-sized Galaxy business jet made its world debut, and the company announced pre-show orders valued at more ...
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C-S Aviation searches for growth possibilities
US aviation equipment leasing specialist C-S Aviation Services (CSAS) is undertaking rapid and diversified expansion, with plans to buy new aircraft and enter the maintenance business. CSAS was started in 1994 to provide exclusive management services to the S-C Aircraft Group of companies, the combined portfolio of which includes ...
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Ageless and appealing
Peter Henley/PHOENIX Re-engineing the Dassault Falcon 20 with AlliedSignal TFE731-5BR-3C turbofans is an interesting and unusual project. It is not the first instance of an ageing, but sound, airframe being given a new lease of life with a later-generation engine - but it is unusual in that the resultant aircraft ...
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Lufthansa clears plans for $2.3 billion fleet expansion
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa has cleared plans for $2.3 billion of new aircraft orders for the airline and its regional and freight subsidiaries. A total of 42 new aircraft is to be ordered for delivery from 2000. The airline says that this order is in line with anticipated traffic increases in ...
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Gulfstream joins Lockheed Martin for supersonic study
Gulfstream has joined forces with Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to study the technical feasibility and market appeal of a supersonic business jet. The initial study phase will last 18-24 months. "If we choose to go forward into development, it will take eight to 10 years to put into service," ...
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Gulfstream and GATX team for short lease offer
Gulfstream Aerospace and GATX Capital have formed a joint venture to make the Gulfstream IV-SP and V business jets available on short-term operating lease. The venture has agreed to purchase five GVs and one GIV for $210 million and has taken options on three more of each. Unlike the ...
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Raytheon lands second big NetJets contract
Raytheon Aircraft has secured a second large business aircraft deal for the NetJets fractional ownership programme, following an order from Executive Jet for 20 Hawker 800XPs and an option to supply a further 16 corporate aircraft. The bulk of the mid-size business jets will be used by the Montvale, ...
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Boeing reveals BBJ centres
Boeing has revealed the five completion centres for its Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) as the first aircraft made its maiden flight from Renton, Washington, on 4 September. Completion of the "green" BBJ airframes will take place at Jet Aviation, Lufthansa Technik, Associated in Dallas, Raytheon in Waco, Texas and ...
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AlliedSignal launches AS900
AlliedSignal has launched the full-scale development of its next generation AS900 turbofan for business aircraft and regional airliners. "We are fully committed to this programme and obviously we would not be going ahead if we did not have good prospects of selling the engine," says AlliedSignal Engines Commercial Propulsion ...
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Bombardier unveils plan for 90-seat jet family
Bombardier has announced its intention to develop an all new 90-seat class regional aircraft, dashing longstanding Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' (MHI) hopes of incorporating its Global Express business jet high aspect ratio super critical wing into the design. The proposed BRJ-X Option B design will feature an all new wing ...
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ATR and Embraer to decide on 70 seater by year-end
ATR and Embraer expect to decide by the end of the year whether to launch new 70-seat size regional jet developments. At the same time, the companies are continuing to seek partners and jointly discuss a possible collaborative programme in what is fast becoming an overcrowded market. The Brazilian ...
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TNT A300F lease paves way for BAe deal
TNT is finalising a major Airbus A300B4 conversion contract with British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS), following the signing of a lease deal with C-S Aviation Services (CSAS) for four A300B4 freighters. The deal with CSAS, and another with Airbus Industrie's Asset Management division for three A300B4s, comes as part ...
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Airbus confirms UPS A300 freighter deal
Airbus Industrie has confirmed its long-awaited deal with United Parcel Service (UPS) for up to 60 new A300-600 freighters. The estimated value of the contract is around $5 billion. The order, revealed exclusively in Flight International earlier this year, follows a bid battle involving new and used aircraft from ...
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UAE starts negotiations on $7 billion F-16 order
Formal negotiations with the United Arab Emirates on its $7 billion order for 80 Lockheed Martin F-16s have finally begun, after the completion of prolonged talks between the US and UAE governments on technology transfer. Sources say the resulting agreement gives the UAE the advanced technology features it wants ...