All Business Jets articles – Page 665
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Regionals add CRJs
Two major US regionals have boosted their Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) orderbooks. Atlantic Coast Airlines has converted 12 of its 36 options to fuel growth at Washington's Dulles Airport, for delivery between late 1998 and mid-1999. Comair's CRJ fleet will grow to 80 with the firming-up of 12 conditional ...
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Royal Wings ponders fleet-expansion strategy
Royal Wings will add a second 50-seat Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-300 at the end of 1997, but is considering the larger -400, or a regional-jet type, for its longer-term plans. The airline, which is studying a number of route additions and frequency increases, says that, ultimately, its fleet ...
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Jet increases support
Raytheon Aircraft has expanded Jet Aviation's service-centre authorisation to include support of the Beech King Air and Beechjet at Geneva and the King Air at Zurich, in Switzerland, and the King Air, Baron and Bonanza at Düsseldorf, Germany. Source: Flight International
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Jet Support in maintenance link
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Jet Support Services has teamed with two business-jet manufacturers to provide hourly-cost maintenance programmes for their aircraft. The Chicago-based company will administer Dassault's Falcon First programme, initially available for the Falcon 2000, and the ServiceCare programme for the Gulfstream IV-SP. Both will cover scheduled and ...
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Marketplace
++ Lotus Air of Egypt has signed a firm contract for a new Airbus A320 and has taken an option on one more. The new charter carrier will begin operating in January 1998 with the first of two A320s leased from International Lease Finance (ILFC), linking Egyptian resorts with European ...
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Saab out but Fokker in?
As Saab prepares to make its formal exit from the manufacture of regional aircraft, attempts to resurrect the production of Fokker jets are continuing. Saab's official statement merely says that the company is examining the possible closure of its Saab 340 and Saab 2000 aircraft production lines, but a ...
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Shanghai shangrila
Lois Jones Any visitor to Shanghai is easily charmed by its bewildering mix of old and new. Neon lights bejewel 1920s façades, and rickshaws vie for space with resplendent new Volkswagens in the city's ever-widening roads. It's fitting that as the main carrier serving China's eastern gateway, China ...
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Boeing completes 737-600 assembly
Final assembly of the first Boeing 737-600 is being completed at the company's Renton, Seattle, plant, with roll-out scheduled for December. The aircraft will be joined by two other -600s in the six-month flight-test programme, which is expected to culminate in certification in mid-1998. Deliveries to SAS will begin soon ...
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Boeing to offer IGW versions of 737-700 next year
Boeing is proposing to begin offering increased-gross-weight (IGW) versions of the new 737-700 passenger aircraft from mid-1998 as follow-on derivative developments to the planned Boeing Business Jet (BBJ). Three new IGW variants of the 737-700 are now under study - an extended-range passenger aircraft, a convertible quick-change jet and, ...
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TAG boosts Bombardier with record corporate-jet order
Bombardier has landed its largest-ever corporate-jet order - a deal worth well above $250 million with the Canadian company's Middle East distributor, TAG Aeronautics. Five Global Expresses and an equal number of Challenger 604s are to be delivered, starting in late 1998. Orders for the long-range Global Express now ...
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Honeywell is close to gaining DGPS system certification
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Honeywell has carried out a flight inspection of its SLS-2000 satellite landing system (SLS) and expects to gain approval for initial Special Category I (SCAT I) operations by January 1998. Flight inspection will take place at Newark, using a Honeywell-owned Cessna Citation V business jet. The ...
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Cessna success
Arabian Support and Services has become the second Saudi Arabian customer for the Citation X, following the signing of a contract at the show. To date, the two Saudi aircraft are the only orders for the high-speed Citation X in the region, although marketing vice-president, Philip Michels, expects to sell ...
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Gulfstream introduces fractional ownership to the Middle East
Gulfstream Aerospace is to combine with Executive Jet and a group of regional investors to launch the Middle East's first fractional-ownership programme. Bill Boisture, Gulfstream's president and chief operating officer, says that the investor group also intends to put into place a complementary scheme offering a smaller aircraft to ...
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Marketplace
++ Tyrolean Airways has placed firm orders with Bombardier for three more de Havilland Dash 8Q series 300s and one Canadair Regional Jet series 200BLR. Deliveries are expected to be completed by the end of this year. The airline is acquiring the Dash 8Qs to accelerate the replacement of its ...
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STAe seeks second overhaul/maintenance site in USA
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) is planning to acquire a second overhaul-and-maintenance site in the USA in a bid to relieve capacity constraints at its Mobile subsidiary. Speaking at the show, STAe chief operating officer Wee Siew Kim said that the company is in the process of looking for a ...
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Saudis look abroad for airline finance
Alan Peaford Saudi Arabia is on the verge of privatising Saudi Arabian Airlines, the national airline, and allowing a number of small private operators to form airlines for the Kingdom's domestic market. There has been concern for some time that Saudia has been making greater losses ...
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New cargo airline set to go dutch
Geoff Thomas It's not every day that a new cargo airline is founded - but Dutch freight company Jet Link International announced at the show yesterday that it was doing just that, lease-buying two ex-Alitalia Airbus A300 B4-200Fs from New York's CS Aviation. The new airline ...
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More growth forecast in executive jet market
Andrew Douse Analysts are predicting a bright outlook for the executive aircraft industry over the next decade, but say there could be a black cloud on the horizon for two firms in particular. A total of 3,789 business aircraft, valued at $46 billion will be produced ...
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New BBJ orders expected
Boeing is expected to announce new orders today for its Boeing Business Jet (BBJ), building on the aircraft's startling success since programme launch 18 months ago. Boeing has clocked up more than 25 orders for the BBJ, a corporate jet based on the 737-700, has enabling the company ...
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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. ...