All Business Jets articles – Page 654
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Gulfstream Charters
Gulfstream has launched a programme to facilitate chartering of its business jets. Gulfstream Charter Services will act as a clearing house for charter requests, connecting customers with operators in Europe and North America. Source: Flight International
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Aircraft News
United Airlines has ordered 20 Airbus A320s and 10 A319s for delivery in 2000-1. Business Express has ordered 20 Embraer RJ.135s plus 40 options, with deliveries starting in October 1999. SkyWest has ordered 20 EMB.120s plus 40 options, for delivery from March 1998. Trans States has ordered two ERJ.145s. ...
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GE eyes supersonic Falcon SST
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES General Electric has begun a "basic feasibility study" into an engine for Dassault Aviation's proposed supersonic business jet. The work is based on its recently developed F414 military turbofan . The engine maker cautions that the study is preliminary and "there is no discussion about ...
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Marketplace
-Tower Air will wet-lease two Boeing 747-100 freighters to Chilean cargo airline Fast Air Cargo for one year. Fast Air operates three McDonnell Douglas DC-8-73s on services within Latin America and to the USA. -Willis Lease Finance has committed to purchase 12 Boeing 747-100s and spare engines from United Airlines, ...
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GE eyes supersonic Falcon SST
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES General Electric has begun a "basic feasibility study" into an engine for Dassault Aviation's proposed supersonic business jet. The work is based on its recently developed F414 military turbofan . The engine maker cautions that the study is preliminary and "-there is no discussion about a development ...
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Cessna confirms its plan for skyhawk SP
Cessna has confirmed plans to introduce a new version of the Skyhawk (Flight International, 18-24 March). The new Skyhawk SP will use the same Textron Lycoming IO-360-L2A as the 172R Skyhawk, but with a fuel injected engine certificated at 135kW (180shp) rather than at 120kW. Improved aircraft performance is coupled ...
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Orenda completes certification tests on Vee-8
Orenda Recip has completed certification tests on the OE-600 high-power Vee-8 piston engine. Transport Canada's approval was granted at the end of March, climaxing a prolonged development and certification effort, which began in 1994 when the Canadian company acquired the engine programme. Certification allows OE-600 production to begin, initially ...
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Marketplace
-British Airways subsidiary Brymon Airways is to aquire eight more de Havilland Dash 8-300s on lease from Bombardier Aerospace. The new Dash 8Q models will replace some of the airline's existing Dash 8s, and serve new routes. Deliveries will begin in April and continue through to early 1999. -Lufthansa CityLine ...
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Helicopter DGPS trial progresses
A team of Honeywell, Sikorsky and Universal Avionics has completed the first phase of test flights to develop precision approach procedures for helicopters using differential global positioning system (DGPS) guidance. "We're very encouraged," says Sikorsky engineering test and project pilot Dave Wright. "Now we have a very good handle ...
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Mesa holds talks in bid to keep America West codeshare
Mesa Air Group hopes to negotiate a new codeshare agreement with America West Airlines, after being informed that its arrangement to operate as America West Express will be terminated on 2 April. Mesa is already reeling from the termination of United Airlines codeshare agreements, which account for almost half of ...
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FAA reviews DC-8 freighter safety
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC The US Federal Aviation Administration has launched a review of McDonnell Douglas DC-8 cargo conversions to determine whether safety concerns exist similar to those it believes affect some Boeing 727 freighter modifications. Reviews of freighter conversions ranging from the Boeing 737 to the Lockheed L-188 Electra ...
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Stage III starts F28 hushkit development work
Stage III Technologies has begun developing a hushkit for the Fokker F28 to enable it to meet latest International Civil Aviation Organisation noise legislation. The unit being developed for the F28's Rolls-Royce Spey 555 engines is based on a Stage 3 hushkit already under way for the Spey 511-powered ...
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PC-12 Centre
Pilatus Aircraft has named TSA Transairco a PC-12 centre. The Geneva Airport, Switzerland based company, which has been marketing the single engined aircraft in European and North African countries since January, is a fully owned subsidiary of Pilatus and will be responsible for maintenance, repair, technical support and sales of ...
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Lynton completes
Lynton Group has completed the acquisition of the Jet Systems fixed base operation (FBO), at Morristown, New Jersey. The Group already owns Lynton Jet Center, which is the airport's only other FBO. Source: Flight International
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Workshop
-SR Technics, the Swissair affiliate, has secured a contract with Boeing to install the two crew Honeywell Advanced Common Flightdeck on DC-10s being converted to MD-10 specification for US freight carrier FedEx. The deal involves 10 firm orders and 15 options. In a related deal, Singapore Technologies' Alabama, Georgia based ...
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Marketplace
-American Eagle has taken delivery of the first of 42 Embraer RJ-145s, and plans to begin regional jet services from Chicago O'Hare in May. The airline will receive the 50-seat ERJ-145s at a rate of two a month until mid-1999. -TAM's component of the massive Latin American Airbus order ...
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Kuwait buys GVs
Kuwait Airways has purchased three Gulfstream V ultra long range business jets to provide VIP transport and medical evacuation services for senior Kuwaiti Government officials. The order is valued at around $115 million, with the aircraft scheduled to be delivered by the end of 1999. The airline has previously purchased ...
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Air Liberte incorporates TAT and relaunches
Julian Moxon/PARIS French independent carrier Air Liberté has completed the absorption of TAT and has launched a strategy aimed at consolidating its place as France's second largest domestic airline. Fifteen months after Air Liberté was rescued from bankruptcy by British Airways (which owns 70% of the airline), its ...
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Macau's Jet Asia buys Hawker 800XPs
Macau-based Jet Asia has ordered a Raytheon Hawker 800XP for executive charter services throughout China and South EastAsia. The mid-sized business jet will be delivered in the third quarter, joining a larger Bombardier Challenger already used on charters in the region. Jet Asia is a partnership between private investor ...
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Pilots voice concern over BA's plans for AML 777 flights
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON British Airways' plans to use its low cost Airline Management (AML)affiliate to take over new long haul services from London Gatwick next year using Boeing 777s is raising concerns at the British Air Lines Pilots Association (BALPA). AML began flights early in 1997 using BA crews and a ...