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Adding EVS
Flight Visions has introduced the Night Hawk head-up display for corporate aircraft, with 30degree field-of-view, for use with enhanced-vision systems (EVS). The Sugar Grove, Illinois-based company is working with EVS sensor developers FLIRSystems, Kollsman and Lear Astronics. Source: Flight International
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Standard Aero boosts maintenance presence in USA with Alliance
Engine-maintenance specialist StandardAero is expanding support for the Allison AE3007 turbofan following its acquisition of Alliance Engines. Winnipeg-based Standard is now the only North American centre authorised to overhaul the AE3007, which powers the Cessna Citation X business jet and Embraer EMB-145 regional jet. Alliance, based in Maryville, ...
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Air Liberte signs allies in major consolidation
Julian Moxon/Deauville France's second-largest airline, Air Liberté, has signed deals with American Airlines, Regional Airlines and three smaller French regionals in what company president Marc Rochet describes as the "first steps" in a major consolidation aimed at "strengthening our position in an extremely tough operating environment". ...
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Airbus and Boeing begin tussle for corporate-jet supremacy
Airbus Industrie has signed the first customers for its A319CJ (corporate jet) as orders for the rival Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) continue to swell. Boeing announced at the show that it holds 25 orders for its aircraft, which combines the fuselage of the 737-700 with the strengthened wing ...
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AlliedSignal study forecasts bright outlook
Business-aircraft manufacturers can expect to sell about 5,300 new business aircraft, worth around $60 billion, over the next ten years, according to AlliedSignal's annual Business Aviation Market Outlook. The forecast is based on the results of telephone interviews with 1,125 business-aircraft users operating 2,160 aircraft in the Americas ...
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Japan approves hypersonic cash
Andrew Mollet/TOKYO An aircraft-industry panel advising Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) has approved a budget request for fiscal 1998 which includes ´3.2 billion ($26 million) for continued research and development on a Mach 5 engine known as HYPR. In 1996, the ministry spent ´3.75 billion ...
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Dassault Aviation plans supersonic business jet
Dassault Aviation is considering development of a supersonic jet (SSJ) business jet, six years after rival aircraft manufacturers Gulfstream Aerospace and Sukhoi aborted the last project aimed at the supersonic corporate-jet sector. "The time is now right to talk about a Falcon SST - the so-called global twins ...
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Busy K-C Aviation fails to complete Global Express deal
K-C Aviation says that its business-aircraft completion bookings are "at an all time high" and the Dallas-based firm is being forced to turn some refurbishment work away. It is, however, making little progress in its bid to undertake completion work on the Bombardier Global Express. K-C president John ...
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Bombardier ponders super mid-size launch
Bombardier will decide within a year whether to launch development of a "super mid-size" business jet to fill the gap between the mid-sized Learjet 60 and large Canadair Challenger 604, says business-aircraft division president Michael Graff. Market research and engineering analysis are "well advanced", he adds. If Bombardier ...
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Galaxy breaks ground
Galaxy Aerospace broke ground for its new Fort Worth Alliance Airport, Texas, headquarters on 23 September. The $12 million site, to be completed inSeptember 1998, will include completion and service centres for the company's Astra SPX and Galaxy business jets. Source: Flight International
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New Piper considers designing single-engined business jet
Kate Sarsfield/DALLAS New Piper Aircraft is studying the development of a single-engine business jet. The project is a major departure for the Vero Beach, Florida-based manufacturer, which has previously specialised in piston- and turboprop- powered aircraft. "The marketplace of the late 1990s is very receptive to ...
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Cessna uprates Caravan and steps up output
Cessna Aircraft has introduced an uprated version of its basic Model 208 Caravan and is to step up production in 1998 to meet increased demand for the single-turboprop utility aircraft. The Caravan 675 uses the more-powerful, 500kW (675shp) Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A engine of the larger Model ...
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Gently down stream
As with the engine manufacturers, consolidation among major airframe producers is likely to be followed closely by bold moves to secure dominance in the after sales market. Report by T Wakelee Smith and Jonathan Culley.It may be hard to believe. But with the recent absorption of McDonnell Douglas into ...
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VisionAire makes plans to follow Vantage
VisionAire is working on plans for a family of small, all-composite, single-engined jet aircraft which would form a follow-on to its Vantage business jet. Tom Stark, president emeritus of VisionAire and senior vice-president of its Future Works subsidiary, says that the initial family of a two-seat trainer and ...
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Four-seat Phoenix rises from the Squalus
Alberta Aerospace plans to develop a four-seat version of the former Promavia Jet Squalus jet trainer. The Calgary-based company is now working to certificate the basic two-seat, side-by-side version, renamed the Phoenix FanJet, for the airline-pilot ab initio training market. The follow-on pressurised four-seater would be marketed as ...
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New Piper unveils turbine mock-up of Meridian
NEWPIPER Aircraft has unveiled a mock-up of its Malibu Meridian six-seat turbine-single, further boosting this burgeoning sector of the aircraft market. The Meridian is based on Piper's Malibu Mirage pressurised piston-single, and is the company's first turboprop since the Cheyenne production line was halted several years ago. The ...
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Single track
If the single-engined business jet is such a good idea, why are the big corporate-aircraft manufacturers staying away from it? Certainly, as a group, they have not shied clear of entering a new market when one has been identified before - even if not every manufacturer has entered every new ...
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Falcon Jet
Falcon Jet of Teterboro, New Jersey, has named Marc Valle, formerly programme manager for the Falcon 900 and 900EX at Dassault Aviation in Velizy, France, vice-president of programmes. Carlos Mejia becomes field service representative to support Falcon operations in Mexico and Central America. He was formerly a Falcon maintenance instructor ...
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Jet Aviation award
Jet Aviation has added three hangars to its fixed-base operation at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, bringing the total hangar capacity to more than 4,700m2 (52,000ft2). The Swiss business-aviation service company has received two awards in recognition of its contribution to the Las Vegas economy. Source: ...
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Uprated SJ-30-2 flies
Sino Swearingen Aircraft has begun flight testing its prototype SJ30-2 light business jet re-engined with uprated Williams-Rolls FJ44-2A turbofans. The first flight with the 10kN (2,300lb)-thrust engines was completed on 4 September. The prototype SJ30-2 will be at the US National Business Aviation Association show at Dallas, Texas, on 22-25 ...