All Business Jets articles – Page 664
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Rolls-Royce wins Gulfstream service contracts
Rolls-Royce's Canadian maintenance arm has clinched four service contracts with US Gulfstream operators, including a deal to support engines for the aircraft manufacturer itself. Gulfstream has signed a deal for R-R to repair and overhaul Spey, Tay and BMW R-R BR710 engines under a contract believed to total ...
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China's first VIP CRJ
Bombardier has delivered the first of five Canadair Corporate JetLiners to China under a $116 million deal signed in January. Three aircraft will be delivered this year and two next, replacing VIPChallenger 600s. The 25- to 32-seat variants of the Canadair Regional Jet will be operated by China ...
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Boeing and Executive Jet set up fractional-ownership venture
Ramon Lopez/NEW YORK Executive Jet Aviation (EJA) and Boeing Business Jets (BBJ) have formed a joint venture which will introduce Boeing's $34 million corporate aircraft into EJA's pioneering NetJets fractional-ownership programme. Acquiring the BBJ, which combines the fuselage of the Boeing 737-700 with the strengthened wing ...
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DUBAI 97 AIRCRAFT - Expected
Airbus A330-200 or A340-300 AMF Super Mushshak Trainer Antonov An-74TK convertible transporter Boeing C-17 Boeing F-15 Boeing F/A-18C Boeing 777-300 Boeing AH-64D Longbow Apache Boeing MD600 Boeing MD900 Boeing CH-47 Chinook Bombardier Global Express British Aerospace Hawk 100 British Aerospace Hawk 200 (FSM) British Aerospace Hawks TMK1/1A x 9 ...
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Flexjet passes 150
Bombardier Business JetSolutions' FlexJet fractional-ownership programme, launched in May 1995, has passed the 150-owner mark. The FlexJet fleet of Bombardier Learjet 31As, Learjet 60s and Canadair Challenger 604s, now totalling 34 aircraft, is expected to approach 40 by year-end. Source: Flight International
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Universal approval
The US Federal Aviation Administration has given parts-manufacturer approval for Universal Avionics' UniLink two-way air-to-ground data link, which has a new graphics format. The system also received a supplementary type approval on the company's Challenger 601. Source: Flight International
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Maintenance Directory
Fokker Aircraft Services specialises in airframe Ian Sheppard/londonDATA TABLES/Air Transport Intelligence Europe's maintenance industry has been faced with growing international competition and the need for consolidation, and has continued to take on board the new Joint Aviation Requirements, bringing it more into line with the USA. Many fixed-base operators ...
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China Airlines begins fleet modernisation
China Airlines (CAL) is undertaking a fleet-modernisation programme, phasing out its older Boeing 747s from passenger operations, and closing on an order for ten long-range widebodies. Two of the carrier's three remaining Pratt & Whitney JT9D-powered Boeing 747- 200Bs will be removed from the fleet for conversion by ...
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Stretched 777 takes to the air
The first Boeing 777-300 had a "flawless" maiden flight from the company's Everett site on 16 October, completing the 4h 6min test mission at Boeing Field, Seattle, with no technical problems. Boeing 777 programme chief pilot Frank Santoni says: "We spent 4h shaking the aircraft down thoroughly. You ...
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Air China steps towards 1998 listing
Air China has begun the first steps towards a public flotation in 1998, becoming the last of the mainland China's big three carriers to go for a listing following successful launches by China Southern and China Eastern in New York and Hong Kong. According to China's state-run media, ...
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Alpha plans to expand PC-12 share scheme
The US operator of a Pilatus PC-12 fractional-ownership programme plans to expand the scheme to additional locations. Alpha Flying has added a third single-turboprop PC-12 to its two-year-old PlaneSense programme, which is operating in the north-east USA, and a fourth aircraft has been ordered, says Alpha Flying president George Antoniadis. ...
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Falcon Contract
Garrett Aviation has clinched its fifth factory-authorised service-centre contract with Dassault Falcon Jet. The company's Long Island, New York, centre will provide maintenance and inspection work on all Falcon models. Source: Flight International
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VisionAire selects SimCom to provide training on Vantage
VisionAire has selected SimCom International to provide pilot and maintenance training for the Vantage single-turbofan business jet. St Louis, Missouri-based VisionAire will provide training for one pilot and one maintenance technician within the Vantage's $1.75 million purchase price, and plans to require pilots to gain a type rating ...
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SIA sues former cockpit crew
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is suing several former cockpit crew in various international courts for allegedly failing to meet the cost of their flight training before leaving the company. The airline, in what is being viewed as an important precedent, is understood to be pursuing at least six ex-employees ...
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GAMECO poised to build engine-test centre
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (GAMECO) has been given preliminary board approval to build a $108 million engine-test centre, as part of wider investment in expanded overhaul and repair centres for southern China. The company hopes to have the new factory operational by 2000, provided that it is given ...
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BWA discusses ATP franchise
British World Airlines (BWA) is considering launching franchise operations in 1998, as it introduces the first of two recently acquired 68-seat British Aerospace ATP turboprops. The Southend, UK-based airline specialises in leasing, aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) operations, as well as providing an air-operator's-certificate (AOC) service. BWA's ...
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Midway boosts CRJ as Dash 8 production is slowed down
Bombardier is to step up production of the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ), but cut back on output of its de Havilland Dash 8 regional turboprop. The decision to increase CRJ production from five to six a month in 1998 came as Midway Airlines ordered ten aircraft, taking Bombardier's ...
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CASA discusses role in Air Jet 70 programme
CASA Aircraft is in talks to join the Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) Air Jet 70 regional-jet programme, in a move which could lead to the Spanish company becoming a full member of the regional-aircraft group, it emerged at the European Regions Airline Association meeting held in Baveno, Italy, on 9-10 ...
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Here's to the next 50
The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) has come a long way since its humble beginnings as the Corporation Aircraft Owners Association, which held its first convention in New York on 24 September, 1947, attracting 19 companies and collecting around $1,900 in revenues. Fifty years later, the contrast could ...
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Lufthansa Cargo evaluates 747-400F
Lufthansa Cargo Airlines will more than double the number of widebody freighters in its fleet within the next eight years. The German carrier is evaluating the Boeing 747-400 Freighter to replace its 747-200Fs. Karl Ulrich Garnadt, network vice-president of the wholly owned cargo arm of Lufthansa Group, says ...