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Finalist: Lufthansa Technik
Finalist: Lufthansa Technik Location Hamburg, Germany Achievement Winning certification under Europe's new ecology audit. By the end of 1996, Lufthansa Technik had won official recognition for its long-running work on environmental improvements by becoming the first operation of its kind to be certified under the European ...
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Horizon deal landed
Messier-Dowty has been selected to design and manufacture a complete integrated landing-gear system for Raytheon Aircraft's Hawker Horizon corporate jet. Supply of the landing gear, wheels, tyres, brakes, door mechanisms and linkages for the medium-range 13-passenger aircraft will initially be worth over $70 million to the Anglo-French company. ...
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Corporate shuttle
British Aerospace Asset Management - Turboprops has leased a Jetstream 31 to Nashville, Tennessee-based Corporate Flight Management. The aircraft has a ten-seat corporate-shuttle interior and will be used for on-demand charter work. Corporate Flight Management is a subsidiary of Nashville-based Corporate Express Airlines. Medical Air Services Association, of Roanoke, Texas, ...
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Saab confident of continuing turboprop market
Saab remains confident that there will still be a strong market for turboprops well into the next century, despite the increasing number of orders for regional jets. Saab Aircraft president Gert Schyborger says the impact of the 50-seat regional jets has been to expand the market and create ...
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Bombardier studies market for new niche business jet
Bombardier chairman Laurent Beaudoin revealed yesterday that the company is studying plans for a new business jet and expects to make a decision about go-ahead "in the very near future". Beaudoin believes that Bombardier needs a new product to fill the niche market between its mid-size Learjet 60 and widebody ...
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Finalist BMW Rolls-Royce
Finalist: BMW Rolls-Royce Location Oberursel, Germany Achievement Bringing the BR710 engine to the corporate-jet market on scheduleOnly six years after starting out as a new joint venture, BMW Rolls-Royce received European certification for the BR710 engine on board the Gulfstream V. Remarkably, the certification, which took ...
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Executive Jet gives Cessna biggest business-jet order
Executive Jet has ordered 50 Cessna Citation Excels for its NetJets fractional-ownership fleet. The order, worth $400 million, is the largest ever placed for business jets in terms of unit size, and represents another major boost for Cessna and the fractional-ownership concept which Executive Jet pioneered in 1986. ...
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Avionics suite
A complete suite of avionics from AlliedSignal Aerospace is on display at the show in the new Boeing 737-700. The company's latest flight safety and other avionics to be found on the aircraft, includes the Quantum Line of communications and navigation systems with its voice/data radio, instrument landing ...
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Business & General aviation
Winner: Rockwell Avionics & Communications, Collins General Aviation division Location Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Achievement Making advanced avionics and satellite-based navigation available for mid-size corporate jets The advent of satellite-based navigation and communications has clearly had a radical impact on the air-transport industry. As reliance on ...
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French St Tropez ban sets back Augsburg Airways plans
Augsburg Airways has dropped plans to fly from Munich to St Tropez on behalf of Lufthansa, after the French transport ministry banned aircraft with a take-off weight heavier than 5.7t from the airport. The airline had been hoping to fly a weekly de Havilland Dash 8-100 service to ...
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Customer interest is renewed as first MD-95 takes shape
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) hopes to conduct final negotiations at the Paris air show with potential MD-95-30 customers as production of the first twinjet moves into final assembly. "Our timing is good because we want to place orders 21 months before delivery," says MD-95 vice- president and general manager ...
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'White Shark' snaps up 737BJ
AUSTRALIAN GOLFER Greg Norman has ordered a $36 million Boeing 737-based business jet, and signed a seven-year deal to promote Boeing Business Jets, a joint venture formed by Boeing and engine manufacturer General Electric in 1996. Norman's Great White Shark Enterprises company will receive its aircraft, which has ...
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$35m will buy Airbus corporate jet
Airbus Industrie will be selling its new A319CJ corporate jet for $35million. This is $3million higher than the July list price of its Boeing competitor, but Airbus is emphasising residual value. "For example, if a government that had bought this aircraft later decided it no longer ...
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Airbus launches corporate-jet version of A319
Airbus Industrie has launched a corporate-jet version of the A319, the A319CJ, in direct competition with the Boeing Business Jets 737. Meanwhile the consortium has handed over the first of 28 A319s for United Airlines during a ceremony held at the air show. The A319 has been in ...
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Converted A300F lands in Paris with FAA approval
British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its Airbus A300B4 freighter conversion, some six months later than originally targeted. Meanwhile, C-S Aviation Services, which is BAe's major customer for the conversion, has announced its first lease-placements, with the confirmation of two aircraft ...
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Sino Swearingen upgrades SJ30-2's turbofans
SINOSWEARINGEN Aircraft (SSAC) has grounded its prototype SJ30-2 light business jet for installation of the uprated Williams Rolls-Royce FJ44-2 turbofans planned for the production aircraft. The company has completed some 100h of flight testing of the prototype, following its modification to represent the stretched SJ30-2. The original FJ44-1 ...
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Quick conversions
Disaster, rescue or intensive care? Whatever customers' needs, air ambulance technology specialist Air Ambulance Technology Gesmbh says it can provide a solution the design and manufacture of tailormade quick conversion rescue and ambulance equipment for a variety of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. Find out more in Hall 4/D6, F4. ...
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Flying display
Tuesday 17 June 1306: Breitling aerobatic display, Extra 300S 1324: Titan Tornado, Il 912 1330: Mil Mi-8 1336: NHIndustries NH-90 1339: Eurocopter EC120, EC135, Tigre 1354: Hurel Dubois HD-34 1400: Socata TBM-700 & TBM-340 Tangara 1408: Airbus A319 & A340 1419: ...
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Sogerma signs two conversion contracts
Groupe Aerospatiale company Sogerma announced at the show the award of two new contracts, one in Europe, the other in Asia. The Sogerma Maintenance Group has signed a contract with Airbus Industrie to convert three Airbus A330-300s for Belgian carrier Sabena. Each of the aircraft, which ...
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Saab delivery completes Crossair fleet
Crossair will complete its fleet expansion in the 50-seater category with delivery of its 25th Saab 2000 Concordino scheduled for 26 June. The latest aircraft will replace Saab 340B aircraft on routes such as Basel to Hamburg and Dusseldorf. Aircraft number 24 joined the fleet on 30 May. ...