All Business Jets articles – Page 643
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Honeywell predicts market of Epic proportions
Honeywell is predicting that "at least" 200 business aircraft will be retrofitted with its Primus Epic control display system (CDS) within the next five years. Many more aircraft, such as Cessna's Citation Sovereign and the Sino-Swearingen SJ30-2, will be fitted from new with the system, the company forecasts. Honeywell hopes ...
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Winning fractions
The business aviation community seems at last to be waking up to the ultimate win-win business solution - fractional ownership. So much so that the concept itself is on the cusp of driving one of the biggest transformations in business travel and the business aviation industry at large - and ...
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Galaxy keeps performance but puts on weight
The Galaxy will meet, and even exceed, its performance specification, despite growing in weight and encountering several handling problems, says Galaxy Aerospace. The aircraft, which had its US premiere at the show, has gained more than 320kg (700lb) as a result of greater allowance for the interior and "more ...
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New players open up jet ownership to untapped market
The US fractional ownership industry has added three new players to the line-up, each with the aim of filling a niche within this highly lucrative market. HeliFlight Shares of Fort Worth, Dallas, is the first US-based helicopter programme. The company has ordered two Bell 430 twin turbine helicopters which ...
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NetJets maintains order surge
Executive Jet continues to surge ahead of its rivals with three major orders for its Netjets fractional ownership programme. The contracts involve up to 161 aircraft with a combined value of nearly $3 billion. The first deal, with Boeing Business Jets (BBJ), is for nine BBJs, with an option ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 ...