All Business Jets articles – Page 662
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Raytheon hands back MU-2 to Mitsubishi
Raytheon Aircraft has handed over product support for its MU-2 twin-engined turboprop to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America (MHIA), so that it can concentrate on new product lines. The MU-2 production line was halted in 1986, after more than 30 years, when US manufacturer Mitsubishi Aircraft International was dissolved. Raytheon ...
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Jet age dawns for 328
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH When the completed Fairchild Dornier 328JET was first shown to Reinhold Birrenbach, head of the 328 project since its turboprop days, he must have felt a little self-satisfied. "This is the way the aircraft always should have looked," he said, observing the clean lines of the newly fitted ...
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GE prepares engine for CRJ-700
General Electric plans to run the CF34-8C1 engine for the first time this month, following assembly at its Lynn plant of the initial powerplant destined for Bombardier's Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ)-700. The first engine-to-test stage marks the start of an intensive test phase, with 15 full engines due to ...
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Durability problems threaten Lycoming piston engine
Textron Lycoming is evaluating whether to continue development of the IO-580 piston engine, following Cessna's decision to switch to the company's IO-540 to power its 206 Stationair piston single. Cessna decided to change engines after the turbocharged TIO-580 failed endurance testing. The switch-over has delayed deliveries of the 206 ...
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NASA works on runway-friction indexing
Ian Sheppard/LONDON NASA is calibrating a new runway-friction indexing method designed to prevent aircraft accidents on icy runways, after it was realised that poor surface-friction information had contributed to incidents where aircraft have slid off the runway or been dangerously slow to reach lift-off speed. The NASA-led tests ...
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Light twin, right price
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC When Bell introduced the Model 407 light single-turbine helicopter it was essentially competing with itself, or rather with the longevity of its popular Model 206 JetRanger/LongRanger family. With the new Model 427 light twin, the company is breaking new ground, and competing with helicopters from established manufacturers. ...
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Regional revolution
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Regional aircraft manufacturers must, by now, be getting used to living in a perpetual state of revolution, and 1997 was no disappointment. The year began with Fokker delivering its last few aircraft and ended with the loss of another famous name, as Saab Aircraft announced its retreat ...
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Citation deliveries
Cessna delivered 180 Citation business jets in 1997, up from 122 in 1996. Including 78 single-turboprop Caravan Is and 360 piston singles, the company shipped 618 aircraft in 199. Business-jet deliveries during 1997 consisted of 63 CitationJets; 28 Citation Bravos; 53 Citation V Ultras; eight mid-size Citation VIIs; and 28 ...
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EJM expands fleet
Cincinatti, Ohio-based Executive Jet Management (EJM) has added four business jets - a Cessna CitationJet, Citation S/II, and two Citation V Ultras - to its fleet of 24 managed aircraft. EJM, an affiliate of Executive Jet, plans to add a further 20 managed aircraft in 1998. Source: Flight International
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Airbus urges AE31X speed-up to compete with Boeing 717
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Airbus Industrie and its Chinese and Singapore partners are discussing speeding up development of the proposed smaller AE316 member of the planned AE31X family of regional aircraft, in response to Boeing's relaunch of the former MD-95 twinjet as the 717-200. It is understood that Airbus Industrie Asia (AIA) ...
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Bombardier creates more room for Global Express maintenance
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Bombardier has embarked on an expansion of its service centres to accommodate the Global Express long-range business jet, deliveries of which begin in the second half of 1998. The first Bombardier Aviation Services site to be upgraded is at Tucson, Arizona, where work has begun on ...
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Engine change delays Stationair deliveries
Cessna has announced nearly a year-long delay in initial customer deliveries of its 206 Stationair and Turbo Stationair six-seat utility aircraft, following its decision to replace the Textron Lycoming IO- and TIO-580 engines with IO- and TIO-540 variants because of reliability and service life issues. The setback came to ...
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NetJets Europe takes Citation VIIs
Netjets Europe has taken delivery of two Citation VII medium-sized, twin-engined business jets, which will form part of the company's fractional-ownership fleet. Netjets Europe, a joint venture between Air Luxor of Portugal, US Executive Jet Aviation and Switzerland's Zimex Aviation, says that shares in the Citation VIIs are "sold ...
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Sales soar for Robin's aerobatic Akrotech
Julian Moxon/PARIS Sales of the new Akrotech Cap 222 aerobatic competition aircraft, now being produced by France's Avions Robin, have exceeded expectations, with seven orders notched up before certification. "We're sold out to July," says Avions Robin president Jean-Paul Pellissier, "and we are seeing a great deal of interest ...
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Airlines want Regional's Saabs
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Two European airlines, Business Air and CityJet, are in negotiations to acquire secondhand Saab 2000s from Regional Airlines, the second-largest operator of the type, which is preparing to standardise on the Embraer RJ145 regional jet. Regional has a fleet of 11 Saab 2000s, including six delivered new to ...
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The right way
John King/TEKAPO IN common with other countries with deregulated aviation industries, New Zealand has seen a proliferation of small airlines in recent years. Also in line with experience in many countries, some of those carriers have met problems. It is the old story of enthusiasm attracting under-capitalised players into setting ...
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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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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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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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737 is back under FAA quality control microscope
Boeing is expecting, on 21 January, the results of a US Federal Aviation Administration audit of its quality control which was triggered - along with inspections of 211 Boeing 737s - by the unexplained crash of a SilkAir 737-300 on 19 December. The FAA's quality-assurance audit is focused on ...