All Business Jets articles – Page 668
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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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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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Raytheon joins first Premier I
Raytheon is moving ahead with assembly of its first Premier I light business-jet, which has hit delays caused by significant design changes, such as an increased wing chord. Major structural assemblies are being fitted into the first forward and aft fuselage sections, which have been produced with a novel fibre-placement ...
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Growing future
Dubai looks forward to an increasingly significant show Douglas Barrie/Max Kingsley-Jones/Kate Sarsfield/LONDON In the last few years, the Dubai air show has established itself as probably the fourth most significant international event (and second in regional terms after Singapore's Asian Aerospace) in the regular two-year air show calendar. ...
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Jet manages GV
Jet Aviation has become the first business-aircraft management company to take on a long-range Gulfstream V, which will be operated on behalf of its owner. The aircraft is the second delivered to a customer. Source: Flight International
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Marketplace
marketplace ++ CS Aviation Services has placed an ex-Alitalia Airbus A300B4 freighter with the Dutch general sales agents Jet Link Holland. Delivery is scheduled for February following conversion by BAe Aviation Services. ++ New Argentinian airline AeroVIP has leased three Jetstream 32EPs from British Aerospace Asset Management - ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Air Flandre signs first order for EMB-135
Air Flandre has become the launch customer for Embraer's short-fuselage EMB-145 derivative, the EMB-135, with a deal for up to 20 aircraft. The Brazilian manufacturer has also revealed a clutch of EMB-145 orders, including 20 for a US leasing company and ten for British Regional Airlines (BRAL). ...
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Airbus will increase weight and performance of A340-500/600
Airbus Industrie has completed a review of the A340-500/600's baseline specification, resulting in an increase in design weight and boosting range by some 370km (200nm) to meet requirements from potential customers, such as Singapore Airlines. Alan Pardoe, A330/A340 product manager, says that the review was completed in mid-September, ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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 ...