All Business Jets articles – Page 675
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Cessna's Citation X business jet...
Cessna's Citation X business jet is the fastest commercial transport in production, yet is designed to be flown from small airfields Citation X specifications: Length ...
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Licences cannot be given away
Sir - In his letter "Should licence rules be adapted?" (Flight International, 28 May-3 June, P66), Mark Crane writes on the subject of the European Joint Aviation Requirement (JAR) 66 Notice of Proposed Amendment and qualification for the issue of an aircraft-maintenance basic licence (AMBL). Currently licensed or ...
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Corporate attractions
With sales of business jets on the increase, Le Bourget will host the strongest line-up of corporate aircraft seen at a Paris air show in recent years. One reason is the growing importance of the international market. Most attention is focused at the top end of the industry, ...
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Mitsubishi advances regional ambitions with windtunnel test
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) plans to begin initial windtunnel testing shortly of a scaled-model of a proposed new 90-seat regional jet which it is studying with Bombardier. The Japanese manufacturer is understood to be negotiating with the country's National Aerospace Laboratory to use its windtunnel from August. The ...
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Duncan Aviation completes Dassault Falcon 900 RVSM update
DUNCAN AVIATION has modiÌed a Dassault Falcon 900 business jet to comply with reduced vertical-separation minimum (RVSM) regulations now in force on North Atlantic routes. The update involved the upgrade of both air-data computers, a visual inspection of skin waviness around the pitot and static ports and a test ßight ...
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UK carriers close on A300F contracts
SEVERAL UK-based cargo airlines are confirming plans to begin operating Airbus A300 freighters, as DHL works towards the introduction of the widebody on its intra-European network. Heavylift Cargo Airlines is understood to have concluded a deal with C-S Aviation Services for two British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS)-converted A300B4 ...
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Comair rejects EMB-145s for more Regional Jets
DELTA CONNECTION carrier Comair has increased its order for Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJs), after evaluating Brazilian manufacturer Embraer's rival EMB-145. The airline has placed firm and conditional orders for 30 of the 50-seat CRJs, and taken options on a further 45 aircraft, some of which could be ...
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Swissair closes on MD-10 conversion work
Swissair's SR Technics maintenance subsidiary has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to fit up to 25 DC-10-10s with an advanced, Honeywell-designed, two-crew flightdeck under Phase II of the FedEx MD-10 programme. MDC confirms that the MoU has been agreed, but adds that "-it ...
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Associated Air
Louis Churchville has joined US maintainer and modifier Associated Air Center, of Dallas, Texas, to take responsibility for sales of corporate/VIP/head-of-state completions and modifications. He was previously senior director of sales and marketing at Aero, of Lake City Florida, and is a former vice-president for sales and marketing at Page ...
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Super 27 completed
UK maintenance company FLS Aerospace has completed the first Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 Boeing 727 re-engineing under Rohr's Super 27 Stage 3 modification programme. The aircraft was delivered to a Middle East government in mid-May. Source: Flight International
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Marketplace
++ US start-up carrier, Nashville-based Corporate Express Airlines, is to lease four more Jetstream 32s from British Aerospace Asset Management - Turboprops, bringing its total fleet to ten aircraft ++ Air Labrador, based in Goose Bay, Canada, has received its first Beech 1900D from Raytheon Aircraft. The airline holds options ...
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Honeywell GIV-SP HUD is delivered
GULFSTREAM Aerospace has delivered the first Gulfstream IV-SP equipped with a Honeywell/GEC-Marconi HUD 2020 head-up display. The delivery follows UScertification of the HUD for Category II operations in the GIV. Approval in the long-range Gulfstream V is pending. The Savannah, Georgia-based manufacturer expects to install HUD ...
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Dasa and Lagardere stand firm
The deal between Lagardère and Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) to form a major space and missiles alliance is "irreversible" and will stand regardless of the outcome of the bidding for Thomson-CSF, says Noel Forgeard, Lagardère director-general. Announcement of the Dasa deal on 7 May was clearly timed to strengthen ...
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Service centred
INDEPENDENT BUSINESS-aviation service companies are facing increased competition from the producers of the aircraft they support, as those manufacturers push for a larger share of the after-sales market for maintenance, modification and refurbishment of their products. The major independents are thriving, nonetheless, thanks to strong demand for their services in ...
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IAI mates first Galaxy airframe sections
ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI) planned to complete mating all airframe sections for the first Galaxy mid-sized business jet (pictured here in late April) by the end of May. The first flight is due in late 1997, with certification following a year later. IAI had transferred the first wing to the ...
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Russia's Myasishchev aims for Gzhel go-ahead
Russian design bureau Myasishchev is aiming for preliminary certification of its M-101T Gzhel light turboprop before the end of 1997, as it evaluates a Western-engined derivative. Initial production of the single-engined, six-seat, pressurised turboprop is being undertaken at the Sokol production plant in Nizhne Novgorod. The ...
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Delays force Mesa to curtail Dash 8 order
MESA AIR GROUP has cancelled the remaining 13 of a 25-aircraft order for Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200 regional turboprops, citing delivery delays and technical problems. Options on a further 25 aircraft have been cancelled, but Mesa says that it will keep 12 Dash 8s already delivered. Bombardier ...
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P&WC delivers first Dash 8-400
PRATT &WHITNEY Canada has delivered the first PW150A turboprop engine for Bombardier's Dash 8-400 70-seat regional airliner. The first flight of the stretched, high-speed -400 is scheduled for December, leading to certification and first deliveries in the second quarter of 1999. Flight testing of the 3,780kW (5,070shp) PW150A ...
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Collins advances Pro Line 21
ROCKWELL-COLLINS has embarked on the next step in development of its Pro Line 21 integrated avionics for business and regional aircraft. The US company is testing prototypes of an advanced processing architecture and is evaluating new human-computer interface concepts in a working cockpit mock-up. Pro Line ...
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Harbin signs CAG to complete Y-12s in Canada
CANADIAN AEROSPACE Group (CAG) has agreed to become the Western completion centre for China's Harbin Y-12 twin-turboprop 19-seat aircraft. A contract for two aircraft from an Alaskan operator is close to being finalised, says CAG, and the Ìrst airframe is almost complete at Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing. ...