All Business Jets articles – Page 662
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Mesa Air orders more Canadair
The Mesa Air Group has ordered another 16 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJ) after signing a new marketing deal which will allow the regional carrier to operate the 50-seat aircraft as part of its US Airways Express operations. The latest $350 million deal follows Mesa's order for 16 ...
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Heico looks for cash to fund acquisitions
Heico plans to raise $75 million through a bond offering, in part to help fund the group's rolling programme of acquisitions in the engine and airframe service market. At the end of October, the group's latest deal involved an alliance between its main Flight Support engine services unit ...
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Boeing launches 737-900 as -700 deliveries near
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has clocked up three landmarks in its Next Generation 737 programme with its launch of a stretched 737 (the -900), US Federal Aviation Administration certification for the -700 and completion of assembly of the first -600. The -900 was launched with a ...
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AASI starts Jetcruzer 500 certification process
Advanced Aerodynamics & Structures (AASI) plans to fly the first certification-test Jetcruzer 500 pusher-turboprop business aircraft by the end of this month. The aircraft is the first with the stretched, pressurised fuselage planned for the production Jetcruzer 500. AASI reports orders for 70 of the $1.3 million aircraft. ...
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Virtually the real thing ?..and the show goes on
Mark Hannant Aerospace has jetted into cyberspace with the launch of Airshow Online. The 'virtual' trade show, featuring products, corporate exhibits, a press centre and even a flight line, is open for business any time, any place and designed to compliment the real-time life of an ...
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Engine makers see delay in AE31X selection
Andrew Doyle Engine manufacturers competing to supply the powerplant for the Airbus Industrie Asia (AIA)/Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) AE31X regional airliner family are not expecting a final selection to be made until between late-next year and early-1999. The contest is a fight between BMW Rolls-Royce (BMW ...
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Samia is a Bombardier classic
Bombardier has a reputation for breaking the mould. Celebrating the debut of the Global Express business jet, sales division president John Lawson says: "We are known for building great aircraft and for great engineering - now we want you to know about our cultural greats." With that he ...
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Bombardier's record deal
Alan Peaford Bombardier yesterday clinched its biggest-ever corporate aircraft deal when it announced a 10-aircraft order worth more than $250 million at the show. The order - for five Global Expresses and five Challenger 604s - came from TAG, Bom-bardier's Middle East distributor, and takes the order book ...
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Gulfstream in MidEast jet share
Karen Walker Gulfstream intends to introduce a fractional ownership scheme to the Middle East next year in a venture with Executive Jet and a group of Middle East investors, it was announced at the show yesterday. The programme, which allows people to purchase fractional shares from a pool ...
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First Middle East user for Citation X
The first Cessna Citation X to be operated in the Middle East will be operated by Arabian Support and Services (ASASCO), it was announced at the Show yesterday. ASASCO executive director Mansour Ibrahim Al-Tassan arrived from Saudi Arabia to sign the contract. "The Citation X is ...
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Executive market debate heats up
The Middle East is shaping up to be the site for the latest skirmish between Boeing and Airbus, in the shapes of their respective entries into the heavy end of the executive market. The Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) variant of the 737-700 and the Airbus A319CJ (Corporate Jet) ...
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Global Express a hit in Mid-East
Bombardier is expected to announce more sales today for its Global Express, which will fly into the show to join the company's line-up of business jets in the static display. Michael Graff, president of Bombardier's business aircraft division, says the new sales will be to Middle East customers, ...
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Systems maker surveys scene
Universal Avionics Systems Corporation is making a pioneering appearance in Dubai to "test the water" for its family of UNS-1 flight management systems, says Rolf Bickel, the Arizona-based company's international marketing director. Each of the systems includes an integral 12-channel GPS receiver and allows seamless operation throughout all ...
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Any takers for VIP Boeing?
Karen Walker When Thomas Hirschmann says he is seeing stars, he's talking pretty serious business. An example of that business can be seen here at the Dubai Air Show in the shape of a VIP-configured Boeing 727-100 that is looking for a buyer. It ...
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DC-Dubai in one hop sets another record
Karen Walker Contrary to what you might have read in the newspapers, US-Middle East relations took a big step forward this week. For the businessman who has urgent work in both regions, Gulfstream has good news. The Gulfstream V that is being displayed at the Dubai ...
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Tyrolean opts for more Bombardier aircraft
Austrian regional airline Tyrolean Airways has placed a firm order for three 50-seat Dash 8Q Series 300 and one 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet Series 200B LR aircraft with Canada's Bombardier Regional Aircraft. The value of the order is approximately $65 million. Deliveries of the four aircraft will be ...
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Just LOOk at this attention to detail
Alan Peaford When you are spending $35 million on the most beautiful business aircraft in the skies today, you want to be sure that the manufacturer has concentrated on every little detail- down to the smallest cabin on the aircraft. And on the Gulfstream V, making ...
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Gulfstream is riding high on GV's successes
Karen Walker With 39 world and US national records to its name, the Gulfstream V is certain to attract attention at Dubai '97, where the aircraft is making its debut public appearance in the Middle East. Basking in the GV's spotlight will be Bill Boisture, the ...
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Loadmaster freighter starts to take shape
Alan Dron Metal is now being cut for the first components of the Ayres LM200 Loadmaster freighter, reports the company. It had been hoped to use Dubai '97 - the first time the company has attended the show - as the platform from which to announce ...
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Insider trading
The business-aircraft industry is booming. Aircraft orders are rising and, if recent predictions are to be believed, this trend will continue until the turn of the century. Sales of secondhand aircraft are also scaling new heights. The knock-on effect is naturally felt by the business-aircraft interiors market, in completions for ...