All Business Jets articles – Page 659
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AASI predicts a sales boom for its Jetcruzer 500
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) has announced a further ten sales of its Jetcruzer 500 turboprop business aircraft, bringing the total backlog to 86, worth around $103 million. The Long Beach, California-based manufacturer hopes that sales will exceed 220 by the end of 1998, based on the current interest ...
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Learjet 45 deliveries 'by end of January'
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier hopes to begin deliveries of the Learjet 45 business jet before the end of January. US certification was received in September 1997, nine months later than originally planned, but deliveries were delayed by completion of post-certification work, says John Holding, executive vice-president for engineering and product ...
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Aerolitoral plans more Saab 340s
Graham Warwick/GUADALAJARA Mexican regional Aerolitoral plans to acquire up to 25 Saab 340s and is drawing up plans to acquire 50-seaters, possibly regional jets. The Monterrey-based carrier operates 27 19-seat Fairchild Dornier Metro III/23s. The first of an initial six 33-seat Saab 340Bs entered service in December and another five ...
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Workshop
++ AMR Eagle's Regional Aircraft Maintenance Center, located at the former K I Sawyer AFB, Michigan, will perform C checks on 12 Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) ATR 72s turboprops operated by Atlantic Southeast Airlines. The work began in early December 1997, and each aircraft visit will last for between five ...
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Kelly Space completes Eclipse tow-launcher demonstration
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Kelly Space & Technology (KST) has completed the first large-scale demonstration of its "Eclipse" tow-launch technique at Edwards AFB, California using a US Air Force-supplied Lockheed C-141A and QF-106A. KST is developing a family of low-cost re-usable space launchers which will use the Eclipse technique ...
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Cessna is nearer to Citation Excel US certification
Cessna expects basic US type-certification of the Citation Excel business jet later this month. Although approval has slipped by four months against the original schedule, the company intends to begin customer deliveries in April, as planned. The first production Excel has been flown. The Excel essentially combines the wing ...
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Jet Aviation installs winglets on G II's
Jet Aviation has been appointed by Aviation Partners of Seattle, Washington, to sell and install its winglet performance-enhancement system on the Gulfstream II. The West Palm Beach, Florida-based company has already fitted eight sets of winglets on other corporate aircraft. It has also been awarded a supplementary type ...
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Boeing firms up the flightdeck design of stretched 767-400
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has completed the firm design configuration of the stretched 767-400ER, revealing an upgraded flightdeck and a new-look cabin based on the 777 interior design. The bulk of the design was fixed by September 1997, but airline pressure drove Boeing to conduct trade studies on the additional ...
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Raytheon completes Hughes merger
Raytheon has completed its merger with Hughes Aircraft, creating the USA's third- largest defence-aerospace company, with combined annual sales of more than $20 billion. Raytheon paid $9.5 billion for Hughes - $5.46 billion in stock and $4.04 billion in assumed debt. The company has formed Raytheon Systems to combine ...
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CMC completes preliminaries for Leopard business jet
Chichester Miles Consultants (CMC) has completed preliminary flight trials of its Leopard four-seat business jet. The Williams FJX-1-powered aircraft, conceived in 1982, was tested for its handling and performance capabilities at speeds of around 260kt (485km/h). The aircraft was first flown in 1988 with Noel Penny turbojets, but has ...
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EJA shelves Asia-Pacific NetJets
Ramon Lopez/Teterboro Financial turmoil and failure to gain flight clearances in a major market have forced Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) to shelve plans to extend its successful fractional-ownership programme to the Asia-Pacific region. The Montvale, New Jersey-based firm was expected to extend its NetJets programme to the Far ...
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Dassault's supersonic programme advances
Dassault Aviation's efforts to launch a supersonic business jet (SSBJ) programme are beginning to take shape, according to company officials. The French company says that the study, which may be concluded this year, does not represent a commitment to a supersonic aircraft project, but Bruno Revellin-Falcoz, vice-president for research ...
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Pilatus Britten-Norman will adopt Islander silencer
Pilatus Britten-Norman (PBN) is planning to offer as an option a silencer developed by German Islander operator Luftverkehr Friesland of Harle (LFH) and designer Hermann Liese to meet stringent 85dB noise regulations in the the country, cutting noise signatures by up to 11dB. LFH president and chief pilot Jan ...
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Revived Luscombe 8F production heads east
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Two US companies have agreed to resume the manufacture of the Luscombe 8 light aircraft, 36 years after production of the piston single was halted. Renaissance Aircraft of Monkton, Maryland, will build the aircraft for US certification, while the Don Luscombe Aviation History Foundation (DLAHF) will ...
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Sikorsky sees S-76 fractional-ownership market emerging
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Sikorsky believes that at least one fractional-ownership programme using its S-76 helicopter will be launched in early 1998. Interest in helicopter fractional-ownership "has exploded", says director, commercial programmes, Mike Moran, and the company is talking to "several" potential operators. Richard Santulli, chairman of Executive Jet ...
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DHL-Europe boosts fleet of A300B4 freighters
The European arm of US express-parcels carrier DHL has increased its Airbus A300B4-200F freighter acquisition programme to nine aircraft. The airline has also received its first Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus (Dasa Airbus)-converted aircraft, following certification of the cargo conversion. The aircraft, one of three ex-Egyptair A300B4s being leased from ...
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Executive Jet Aviation sets sights on additional Falcon 2000s
Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) could more than double its Dassault Falcon 2000 fleet by early in the next century, says the world's leading fractional-ownership company. Dassault's $500 million sale of 24 Falcon 2000 business jets to EJA is the single largest order for the transcontinental widebody aircraft to date. ...
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IAI ends 1997 with first flight of the Galaxy
THE MAIDEN flight of Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Galaxy business jet took place on 25 December. The flight from Ben-Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, lasted 2h and the aircraft reached an altitude of 10,000ft (3,000m). IAI plans to complete certification this year using two flying prototypes and two static test ...
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BA outsources maintenance of A320/DC-10 in FLS deal
Andrew Chuter/LONDON British Airways is to outsource maintenance and component support for the airline's entire fleet of Airbus A320s and McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30s to FLS Aerospace. A contract is due to be signed later this month. The tie-up with BA will be the culmination of a hectic month ...
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MD-10 conversions for FedEx remain on track
The McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10 freighter/upgrade programme for FedEx is on schedule, according to the carrier's chairman, Frederick Smith. The project to rework the aircraft, known as the MD-10, has been unaffected by Boeing's recent take-over of MDC. The two-phase programme, which first involves the freighter conversion, and later ...