All Business Jets articles – Page 644
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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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