All Business Jets articles – Page 669
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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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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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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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BAe Aviation Services wins further Airbus A300 conversion work
C-S Aviation Services has doubled its orderbook with British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) for Airbus A300B4 freighter conversions, with a $150 million contract for 11 firm orders, plus options on a further ten. Filton, UK-based BAeAS now has 21 conversion orders from C-S which will be undertaken on ...
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Boeing points 737 business jet towards fractional owners
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Boeing is discussing its 737-based Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) with operators of corporate-aircraft fractional-ownership programmes. The company says that it wants to enter the fractional-ownership market with an established operator, but to offer part-owners the same level of product support which it will provide for ...
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Saudi 777 is completed
The first 777-200 for Saudi Arabian Airlines has been completed by Boeing. The first six 777s are due for delivery later this year as part of a 61-aircraft order also involving MD-90s, 747-400s and MD-11s. Deliveries of four MD-11 freighters intended for the airline have been delayed because of a ...
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Aged to perfection?
Dave Higdon/WICHITA Flying from Clark County Airport in southern Indiana to a Kentucky state park a mere 110km (60nm) away hardly seemed a fair way to sample a Raytheon Beech Bonanza B36TC - let alone this loaded, 50th-anniversary edition. Certainly nothing to challenge the six-seat Bonanza's big speed, ...
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Long Beach line closures loom
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Boeing has indicated that the MD-80 and MD-90 assembly lines in Long Beach, California, will eventually be shut down, with priority given to the MD-95 and an 80-seat regional-jet variant, as well as continued MD-11 freighter production . Although a formal decision on ...
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Pilot reflects on first flight of Raptor
Initial pilot reaction to the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is that is an aircraft "quick in roll and acceleration, yet very stable with excellent control" in formation flying and approach configuration, says chief test pilot Paul Metz. Describing the 58min first flight on 7 September, Metz says that ...
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Marketplace
++ BAe Asset Management - Jets has concluded the cash sale of three BAe 146-100s in deals worth a total of $21 million. Jersey European Airways has purchased two -100s off lease. A third -100 has been sold in the US for use as an executive transport. ++ El Al ...
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P&WC sets sights on Williams-Rolls Royce niche
Pratt &Whitney Canada (P&WC) is studying the market for a small turbofan to compete with the Williams-Rolls FJ44. "We continue to look at small turbofans," says president Gilles Ouimet. "Williams obviously has a market niche. We will see how the market develops." The Canadian company is concerned by ...
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GII/III hushkit progress
Dallas Airmotive displayed a Gulfstream II fitted with a mock-up of Stage III Technologies' Rolls-Royce Spey Stage 3 hushkit at the NBAA. Flight-testing of the ejector hushkit is to begin in June 1998, leading to certification late in 1998. Ground tests show that the hushkit will meet or exceed Stage ...
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Execaire adds Excels
Canadian Cessna Citation distributor Execaire has in-creased its order for Citation Excel light business jets from three to five, for delivery beginning in 1999. Montreal-based Execaire expects the widebody Excel to be popular in Canada. The company has also bought a CitationJet and a Citation Ultra. ...
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Learjet Japan sale
Bombardier has secured its first private-sector sale of a Learjet in Japan, with Nagoya-based Chunichi Press ordering an extended-range Learjet 31A/ER for delivery in 1998. Singapore-based Global Aviation has ordered two Canadair Challenger 604s. Source: Flight International
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Pilatus boosts PC-12 output after IFR approval
Pilatus is stepping up production of its single-turboprop PC-12 in anticipation of increased sales following recent US approval of commercial single-engined operations in instrument-flight-rules (IFR) conditions. Production was increased from three to four a month in August and will reach five aircraft a month by early 1998. ...
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Alitalia brings A320s into Airbus contract
Marco Massela/ROMEJulian Moxon/PARIS Alitalia is negotiating with Airbus Industrie for the conversion of its 23 outstanding A321 orders to include some smaller A320s, which would be the Italian carrier's first order for the 150-seat member of the Airbus narrowbodied family. The airline is also examining its longer-term strategy ...
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Corporate market beckons for 328JET
Fairchild Dornier expects an annual market for as many as 16 of the corporate version of its 32-seat 328JET regional aircraft. The company launched the executive aircraft project at the NBAA show (Flight International, 24-30 September). No orders are yet in hand, but the first Pratt ...
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Learjet 45 wins approval with improved range
Bombardier has announced increased cruise performance for the Learjet 45 and is working to improve field performance following final US certification of the light business jet on 22 September - one day before the show opened. Lower-than-predicted aircraft drag and better-than-expected fuel efficiency have increased range from the ...
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Garuda is forced to defer 737 deliveries
Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE Garuda Indonesia has been forced to postpone taking initial deliveries of 17 new Boeing 737-300/500 passenger jets on order, because of continuing problems in raising lease finance. The Indonesian carrier had been due to take delivery of the first 737 in August, but the ...
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Boeing hints at MD-95 family commitment
Boeing has hinted strongly that it is committed to continuing with the former McDonnell Douglas MD-95 and is likely to introduce derivatives of the 100-seat aircraft. The news comes as ValuJet - the only MD-95 customer so far, with 50 on firm order - says that it expects to exercise ...