All Business Jets articles – Page 667
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Dubai' 97 show guide
Dubai 97 is being held at Dubai International Airport, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 16 November and 20 November. The show will be open each day between 09.00 and 18.00. The event is being organised by Fairs and Exhibitions (1992), 6 Broadstone Place London W1H 3FJ, UK; tel: ...
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Alliance spreads into Central Africa
Alliance Express, the regional arm of East African multi-national carrier Alliance Air, has taken over the operations of Government-owned Air Rwanda. Meanwhile, completion of the planned merger of Alliance with the two national airlines of its shareholders, Uganda and Tanzania, is now looking unlikely. Alliance Express ...
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CityLine ponders Avro RJ future
Lufthansa CityLine is to make a decision by the middle of 1998 on whether to keep its fleet of Avro RJ85s in service after buying new 70-seat regional jets. The company says that fuel and maintenance costs for the Avros are high because of their four engines, and ...
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Challenge well met
Bombardier says that the Canadair Challenger 604 is "the fastest-selling Challenger ever". It is also the furthest-flying, and the two are not unconnected. With the 604, the Canadian company finally has exploited the full potential of the Challenger design, and is reaping the reward with an increased share of the ...
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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 ...
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Maersk orders CRJs to provide 70-seat option
Maersk Air's UK subsidiary will replace its ageing fleet of BAC One-Elevens in 1998 with the first of up to 15 Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs). The selection hinged on Bombardier's ability to supply both 50- and 70-seat versions, which Embraer could not offer. Maersk Air, which operates ...
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Lufthansa CityLine/Bombardier negotiate for CRJ-700 purchase
Lufthansa CityLine is in negotiations with Bombardier over a "double-digit" order for the 70-seat Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) Series 700, but Fairchild Dornier is targeting the airline as a potential launch customer for its proposed rival regional jet. CityLine has just taken delivery of its 31st 50-seat CRJ ...
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FAA orders skin-panel inspection for old 737s
As part of its continuing ageing-aircraft initiative, the US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered new inspections or modifications of fuselage skin-panel lap joints on 33 US-registered Boeing 737-100/200s with more than 60,000 flights. A further 34 737s owned by foreign airlines are affected by the airworthiness directive (AD), ...
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Viking starts Orenda re-power work on Beaver
Canadian conversion specialist Viking Air has begun design work to re-engine the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver utility and floatplane with the Orenda Aerospace 450kW (600shp) turbocharged OE600 vee-8 water-cooled piston engine. The British Columbia-based company already holds supplemental type certificates for re-engineing the Beaver with the Pratt & ...
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Too big a crowd
The withdrawal of first British Aerospace and then Saab from regional-turboprop manufacture does not signal the collapse of the sub-40-seater market so much as confirm that this market is changing rapidly into one for small jet airliners. It is also a market in which, no matter how buoyant the passenger ...
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FlightSafety builds business-jet simulator fleet
FlightSafety International (FSI) is responding to a buoyant business-jet market by building and installing additional full-flight simulators under agreements with aircraft manufacturers to provide customer training. A Gulfstream IV-SP/EP simulator has been scheduled for "fast-track" delivery within a year. The Level D machine will join three GIV simulators ...
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Meridian buoys Piper
New Piper Aircraft has booked 80 orders so far for its Malibu Meridian single-turboprop business aircraft, unveiled in September. Several buyers will take delivery of piston-single Malibu Mirages until Meridian shipments begin in 2000. Source: Flight International
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KLM plans regional changes
KLM will finalise plans by the end of the year to re-organise its regional-airline partners under one umbrella operation. Details of the initiative, which is being led by Air UK at London Stansted, are still being thrashed out, but in one option a single identity could be adopted. ...
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Gulfstream delivers
Gulfstream Aerospace says that its firm-order backlog at the end of the third quarter of 1997 remained unchanged from a year ago, at 89 aircraft, but its value declined to $2.8 billion from $3 billion in 1996, because of increased deliveries of the more expensive Vs. The Savannah, Georgia-based company ...
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Marketplace
++ Finnair's sale/lease-back deal for four Boeing MD-80s (Marketplace, Flight International, 29 October-4 November, P14) is valued at FIM350 million ($67.3 million), with the annual values of the lease rentals worth some FIM43 million ++ Midway Airlines is disposing of its single leased Airbus A320. The aircraft is leased from ...
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Workshop
++ Aeronavali has been selected by Ten Forty to convert 20 ex-Japan Air Lines McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40s to cargo, for delivery between 1998 to 2005. ++ Amarillo, Texas-based Leading Edge Aviation Services has opened its fifth paint hangar, becoming the first independent commercial-aircraft painting centre in the USA able to ...
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Boeing gives MD-95 boost
Douglas Aircraft's MD-95 and MD-11 freighter programmes are expected to survive the merger with Boeing when the new company announces production details in November. AirTran Airlines, formerly known as ValuJet, remains the sole customer for the MD-95 but says it expects to take all 50 aircraft on order, ...
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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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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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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 ...