All Business Jets articles – Page 668
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Dassault contracts
Dassault Aviation has signed an agreement with a second North American company for maintenance and servicing on its range of business jets. Garrett Aviation Services in Arizona will provide maintenance and parts over six years on new Falcon 50EX, 2000, 900B and 900EX models through its new Total Aircraft Service ...
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Non-stop GV
The first-ever non-stop flight from New York to Tokyo by a business jet was completed on 20 August by a Gulfstream V. The 11,310km (6,110nm) flight was completed in 13h 22min. The GV was subsequently flown non-stop from Toyko to Moscow. Source: Flight International
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Hartzell issues propeller order
Hartzell Propeller has issued a service bulletin requiring repetitive inspection of propellers fitted to "hundreds" of Beech, Cessna, Navion, Piper and Twin Commander aircraft manufactured in the 1950s and 1960s. The bulletin affects two- and three-bladed steel-hub units. Hartzell says that service bulletin 217 is a result of ...
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Israviation is faced with receivership
Troubled business aircraft manufacturer Israviation may be placed in receivership following the decision by its main Swiss investor to pull out of the ST-50 five-seat pusher-turboprop executive jet programme. According to Israviation president Stephane Juffa, the unnamed investor's decision to withdraw was "because of the situation in northern ...
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Vantage debut
VisionAire plans to display the proof-of-concept prototype of its Vantage single-turbofan business jet at the US National Business Aviation Association show in Dallas, Texas, on 22-25 September. Some 55 flights, totalling 100h, have been completed at Scaled Composites in Mojave, California. The aircraft is to be based from October at ...
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Two captains could enhance safety
Sir - The crew of the Korean Air Boeing 747 which crashed 5km (2.5nm) short of the runway at Guam on 6 August was executing a non-precision approach at night and in poor visibility. The instrument-landing-system glidepath was known to be inoperative, and there were no visual-approach-slope indicators. ...
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Atlantic investors plan fixed-based expansion
USAVIATION-SERVICE company Atlantic Aviation has agreed to be acquired by the Legg Mason investment fund in a move designed to provide the backing for ambitious expansion plans. The company, which employs about 500 people at five US fixed-base operations (FBOs) and a business-aircraft maintenance and modification base at ...
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Dasa's Airbus conversion orderbook expands
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) Airbus will subcontract six Airbus A300B4 cargo conversions to its French partner Sogerma in 1998, as its orderbook swells and it seeks additional conversion capacity. The company expects its A300B4 conversion to be certificated by mid-September. It has recently taken orders and commitments for a ...
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Lufthansa offers interiors for Airbus and Boeing business jets
Andrzej Jeziorski/MunichGraham Warwick/Atlanta Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is offering modular interior packages for both the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ), a derivative of the Boeing 737-700, and the Airbus A319 Corporate Jet, which will allow an aircraft operator to mix and match an individual aircraft for a variety of roles. ...
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Aircraft news
United Airlines has ordered eight Boeing 767-300s, with four deliveries in 1998, one in 1999 and three in 2000. Air Canada has ordered five Airbus A330-300s and three A340-300s, plus 20 options, with deliveries starting in October 1999. Brit Air has ordered two Bombardier RJ 100s, ...
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MiG-ATgoes to war
MIG MAPO has unveiled the combat-capable variant of its MiG-AT jet trainer at MAKS '97. The MiG-ATC, the second prototype to be built, has already been flown. It is capable of carrying a variety of air-to-air and air-to-surface weaponry including laser-guided bombs. The MiG-AT will be fitted with the Phazotron ...
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Conair joins Orenda in study
Conair Aviation is studying the feasibility of re-engineing Cessna 400-series and Piper Navajo piston twins with fellow Canadian company Orenda Recip's OE-600 Vee-8 aero-engine. The study is to be completed in mid-September, after which the pair plan to sign a commercial agreement under which Conair would certificate OE-600 installations, which ...
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Taiwan's Chung Sang Institute develops initial turboprop designs
Taiwan's Chung Shan Institute has completed the preliminary design work on its proposed new six-to nine-seat turboprop, and is now seeking to enlist partners to launch full-scale design and development of the programme. Conceptual and preliminary design work on the tentatively designated small aircraft project (SAP) has until ...
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Canada's Royal takes over CanAir cargo
Montreal-based Royal Aviation has acquired the assets of CanAir Cargo, and added the Ontario-based overnight-freight carrier's six leased Boeing 737-200 freighters to its fleet. Royal plans to maintain CanAir's coast-to-coast cargo network, which produced revenues of C$49 million in 1996, and will convert at least three additional 737s ...
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Tests complete on first 'Block 4' GE90
Boeing has completed flight and performance tests of the first 777-200IGW (increased gross weight) powered by the "Block 4" variant of the General Electric GE90-90B turbofan. The aircraft is being refurbished at the company's Everett site in Washington before delivery to Lauda Air in late September. ...
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Falcon Jet
Vice-chairman Frank Wisekal has retired after 17 years with Dassault Falcon Jet. Before 1980, he spent 22 years with Grumman Aerospace, Grumman American Aviation and Gulfstream American. He will continue his involvement in business aviation as a consultant in Florida. Source: Flight International
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Flying Colours
New UK leisure carrier Flying Colours Airlines has appointed Northern Airline Services (NAS) as its cargo general-sales agent (GSA), which is also GSA for Air New Zealand, Air Transat and Delta Air Lines. Traffic manager for the new Manchester-based airline, Mark McDougall, (second from right) shakes hands with NASUK general ...
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Dragonair and ILFC agree to roll over A320 fleet
Dragonair has signed a deal with International Lease Finance (ILFC) to roll-over its fleet of Airbus Industrie A320s with seven new leased aircraft. The Hong Kong-based airline's seven International Aero Engines V2500-A1-powered A320s will be replaced by the latest-specification version, equipped with more powerful 118kN (26,500lb)-thrust V2527-A5 turbofans ...
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Mars Pathfinder's primary 30-day mission is now completed
Tim Furniss/LONDON NASA's MARS PATHFINDER spacecraft, which landed in the Ares Vallis on 4 July, has concluded its milestone 30-day primary mission, having fulfilled all of its objectives and provided a "new portrait of the Martian environment", says the space agency. The Sagan Memorial Station lander ...
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Sirocco lines up buyers for R-R-powered Tu-204
Paul Duffy/MOSCOW Sirocco Aerospace International, the subsidiary of Egypt's Kato Aromatic set up to market the Rolls-Royce RB.211-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120, has signed deals with two launch customers involving 15 aircraft. The agreements will be formally announced at the MAKS '97 air show being held in Moscow during 19-24 ...