All Business Jets articles – Page 645
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Wilksch completes 90kW diesel flights
Wilksch Airmotive has completed initial development testing of a new two-stroke diesel engine for light aircraft. The UK company says that it plans to unveil details of the new powerplant in the middle of September. Mark Wilksch, founder of the Milton Keynes-based company, says that the first flight of ...
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American boosts 777 orders
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON American Airlines has placed a $2.1 billion order for 15 more Boeing 777-200ERs, boosting its total for the aircraft to 34. The carrier placed an initial order for 777s in November 1996, and selected the Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engine. At that time, the airline concluded a ...
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Workshop
-HeavyLift Engineering has been contracted by Sabre Airlines to provide "full technical support" for the airline's new Boeing 737-800. The first aircraft entered entered service with the airline recently. -Sabreliner's Goodyear Arizona-based subsidiary Dimension Aviation, which recently had its contract to convert McDonnell Douglas DC-10s and MD-11s to freighters terminated ...
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New Piper rolls out Malibu Meridian
New Piper Aircraft rolled out the first single-turboprop Malibu Meridian on 13 August. "We're on time, we're under budget and we're moving," said chairman Chuck Suma at the roll-out at Vero Beach, Florida. Initial runs have been completed on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A engine and a first ...
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Japan stalls on trainer choice
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Japan's impending selection of a new basic trainer aircraft is now scheduled for the end of August, as the Government once again hesitates to grasp the politically contentious issue of choosing between a cheaper off-the-shelf foreign contender or continuing its traditional policy of supporting the domestic aerospace ...
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Aviation Sales agrees to purchase
Growing US spares group Aviation Sales (AVS) has emerged as the buyer of Triad International Maintenance (TIMCO), in a move which adds widebody work to its expanding aircraft maintenance portfolio. AVS will pay $70 million for TIMCO, which was put up for sale by its parent, Primark group, which ...
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Douglas vanishes but gets 737 work
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has confirmed that it will open a new Next Generation 737 production line at the former Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach. The move comes as part of a major re-organisation within the group which could see up to 28,000 job losses. Despite the opening of ...
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Daewoo fuels civil expansion with 747-400 frame delivery
Paul Lewis/CHANGWON Daewoo Heavy Industries (DHI) has begun deliveries to Northrop Grumman of the first computer-designed fuselage frames for the Boeing 747-400, as part of wider expansion by the South Korean company of its civil aerostructures subcontracting business. Under a new contract signed with Boeing and Northrop Grumman ...
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Marketplace
-Singapore Airlines has concluded a sixth sale and lease-back deal on a Boeing 747-400 for five years. The agreement with special purpose company Sansome Planes II was again brokered by San Francisco-based Babcock and Brown. -Shaanxi Aircraft has leased two Chinese licence-built Y-8 turboprop transports to Iran for an undisclosed ...
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Global Express is certificated
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier received Canadian certification for the Global Express long-range business jet on 31 July. European and US approvals are expected "within a couple of months" as a result of an integrated certification programme involving four flying prototypes and 2,200h of flight testing. The Canadian company ...
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Business and pleasure
Peter Henley/WITCHITA Bombardier's Global Express offers a combination of range, speed and cabin size claimed to be unequalled by any other business jet, a result of designing an aircraft from scratch for the ultra-long-range mission. The Global Express sits at the top of a range of Bombardier business jets which ...
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China Eastern plans to begin conversions after cargo go-ahead
China Eastern plans to begin converting its fleet of five Boeing MD-11 passenger trijets into freighters from September 1999, following Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) approval to establish a new subsidiary cargo operation. The carrier is understood to be in negotiations with Alenia-owned Aeronavali and the Boeing Aerospace ...
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Gemini to acquire four of BA's DC-10-30s for cargo role
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Gemini Air Cargo is finalising a deal to acquire four of British Airways' eight McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s, while the rest of the aircraft are expected to be placed with passenger airlines in the short term. BA's eight DC-10-30s are operated on its long-haul network from London Gatwick, but ...
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Northern contract
Northern Executive Aviation (NEA) has signed an agreement with Air BP to provide fuel for business and light aircraft at its Manchester Airport base. NEA, which operates four Bombardier Learjet 35As and a Dassault Falcon 900B, is due to complete its £1.5 million ($2.5 million) business aviation terminal in October. ...
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Marketplace
-Aer Lingus will take delivery of a new General Electric CF6-80E1-powered Airbus A330-200 in May 2000 on a six-year lease from International Lease Finance, with extension options. -Kitty Hawk Air Cargo has completed conversion of an ex-Middle East Airlines (MEA) Boeing 747-200 combi to cargo configuration at its Oscoda, Michigan, ...
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Low-cost fractional ownership scheme launched in USA
A new fractional ownership scheme has been set up in the USA, providing business aircraft at less than half the cost of existing programmes. AVLink, a College Station, Texas-based management company, has started operating one Cessna Citation 1 and has plans to add more to the fleet. "We ...
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Rotary Rocket starts construction of the first Roton parts
Construction of the first parts of Rotary Rocket's Roton commercial space vehicle is under way, kicking off an ambitious development schedule aimed at achieving initial flight tests by the middle of 1999. The first elements of the Roton, an unpiloted, unmanned, re-useable single stage to orbit (SSTO) launch vehicle, are ...
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Boeing rolls out Business Jet
Boeing rolled out the first ultra-long-range Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) from its Renton factory on 26 July, two weeks later than planned. The aircraft, which combines the fuselage of the Next Generation 737-700 with the wing and landing gear of the larger and heavier 737-800, is to make its ...
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K-C Aviation sale reshapes completion market
Gulfstream's $250 million acquisition of K-C Aviation will remove from the independent completions market a company responsible for outfitting almost half the Bombardier Challenger 604s sold last year. Chairman Teddy Forstmann says Gulfstream was not the only bidder for K-C, suggesting that Boeing and Bombardier were interested, "but we ...
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Gulfstream aims to reveal GIV improvements at Farnborough
Graham Warwick/SAVANNAH Gulfstream is to improve its GIV business jet. Plans will be unveiled in September at the Farnborough air show in the UK . The Savannah-based company's chief operating officer Bill Boisture says the improvements will focus on reliability and maintainability. Some avionics and systems developed for ...