All Business Jets articles – Page 679
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EJI adds to Gulfstream IV-SP order
Executive Jet Inter-national (EJI), the US business aircraft fractional ownership organisation, has contracted for 11 more Gulfstream IV-SPs, taking its orders for the model to 27. The new agreement, which includes one additional aircraft for delivery in 1997, accelerates the exercising of five GIV-SP options due in 1999, ...
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MDC talks up MD-80 freighter for China
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) remains optimistic that its MD-80 cargo conversion plan proposed to Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) earlier this year will receive the go-ahead before the end of 1997, despite uncertainty caused by the planned merger with Boeing. A key aspect of the plan is the supply ...
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Gulf Air reactivates TriStars following disposal of 767s
Gulf Air is planning to return up to three of its five stored L-1011 TriStar 200s to service, for operation on services within the Gulf, and to the Indian sub-continent. The move comes in the wake of the sale of six Boeing 767-300ERs to Delta Air Lines. One ...
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BGTlooks to pilot low-cost fly-by-wire for Tu-204
German systems house Bodenseewerk Gerätetech-nik (BGT)has launched a feasibility study with Tupolev over fitting future versions of the Tu-204 twinjet with its low-cost, advanced, digital fly-by-wire (FBW)flight-control-system (FCS) technology. The contract with Tupolev comes as BGT steps up efforts to secure applications for its FBW technology, which it plans to ...
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United drives hard to gain a place in the training market
UAL Services is about to install the first of up to 15 new full-flight and fixed-base simulators at its Denver-based Flight Training Center, in a determined attack on the burgeoning US third-party aircrew-training market. The installation, on 15 April, will set a milestone in a $130 million expansion, scheduled to ...
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Sogerma renegotiates IAI Galaxy deal
French aircraft-maintenance company Sogerma says that it is close to completing re-negotiation of its contract with Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) on risk-sharing supply of the fuselage and empennage for the Galaxy business jet. Talks were re-opened following the decision by Sogerma's new president, Henri-Paul Puel, to "-honour, but ...
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Finnair order contest warms up
Finnair has invited final bids from Airbus and Boeing to replace its fleet of 12 ageing 121-seat McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51s, after completing technical evaluations of the A320 family and next-generation 737. The carrier also plans to eventually replace its 25 142-seat MD-80s with whichever type is selected. The ...
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BA plans for 'shell company'face opposition from USA
PLANS BY British Airways to use Airline Management (AML), a start-up company, to take on tourist routes from London Gatwick to San Juan, Puerto Rico and Tampa, Florida, have run into opposition in the USA, with claims that AML is being set up as a "shell" company without its own ...
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First MD-95 wing sections go to Tracor
The first wing halves for the initial McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 test aircraft, T-1, have been shipped to Tracor Flight Systems in Palmdale, California, for joining. The shipset was made by MDC Canada, but the second and subsequent wings are being built by Hyundai Space and Aircraft of South Korea. ...
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Bombardier adds to Learjet 45...
BOMBARDIER HAS added the fifth,and final, aircraft to Learjet 45 flight-testing. The Canadian company reports a "dramatic improvement" in the performance of the flight-test programme, which has now exceeded the 1,100h mark. Delayed US certification of the AlliedSignal TFE732-20 turbofan powered light business-jet is now scheduled to take ...
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Happy families?
The debate in the aerospace industry over future product lines is sharply focused on the two extremes - the regional jet and the 'superjumbo'. Karen Walker looks ahead as the manufacturers vie to fill the gaps in the market, and Mark Odell presents a summary of current and planned jets. ...
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City Falcon Jet
The Dassault Falcon 50 tri-jet has received approval from the airport authorities to operate at London City Airport. Approval has already been granted for the Falcon 10/100 to use London City, while approval is pending for the twinjet Falcon 2000 and tri-jet 900. Source: Flight International
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Europe & the CIS
Compiled by John Christovassilis, Neil Remmer,Andrew Griffin and Gabrielle Villano The 1997 Flight International World Airline Directory lists airlines involved in scheduled services or those which offer significant charter services. Our selection criterion has been to list operators with one or more aircraft with more than 19 seats. Where justified ...
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Learjet breaks new ground at Wichita
Learjet and its parent, Bombardier, have started another multi-million-dollar expansion, this time with a new 6,500m2 (70,000ft2) paint and completion centre at Wichita. "By the time this facility is complete in early November, it will be able to handle 130 aircraft a year," says Learjet president Mac Beatson. ...
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Dassault studies business-jet production boost
Improving sales of Dassault Aviation business jets may force the manufacturer to increase production rates, says its director general, civil aircraft, Jean-François Georges. Dassault's Merignac plant, near Bordeaux, is producing five aircraft a month, around one-third of which are the new Falcon 2000, says Georges. "The market is ...
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Boeing increases production as business-jet sales exceed plans
BOEING is stepping up planned production of its 737-based business jet, from six a year to two a month, based on customer response to the aircraft since it was launched in July 1996. "We plan to deliver over 40 aircraft in the first couple of years," says Larry Clarkson, president ...
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Delta signs up with Boeing for exclusive fleet-renewal deal
Delta Air Lines has agreed an exclusive 20-year fleet-acquisition plan with Boeing, covering the potential purchase of up to 644 aircraft, and launching the stretched 767-400 as part of the initial order phase. The deal includes 106 firm orders, 124 options and 414 "rolling options". Despite "fierce competition" ...
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BAe may move Raytheon work from Chester to Prestwick
British Aerospace is close to concluding a study on whether to relocate Raytheon Hawker subcontract work from its Chester plant to Prestwick in Scotland. BAe's Airbus division manufactures the wing and fuselage of the Hawker 800 business jet under a subcontract which was part of the deal to ...
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Daewoo dumps Dornier 328 contract
Daewoo is to quit production of Fairchild Dornier 328 turboprop fuselage-panels within two months, and will have to pay compensation for its early pull-out from the programme. According to Fairchild Dornier vice-president for programmes and aircraft development, Earl Robinson, Daewoo is bringing its contract with the US-German company ...
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AlliedSignal sets regional target for RE220 APU-
The AlliedSignal-led team which is developing the RE220 auxiliary power unit (APU) is refocusing its efforts on the regional-aircraft market, following the virtual completion of the Gulfstream V flight-test programme, followed by the beginning of the Bombardier Global Express test effort. The APU produces up to 280kW (375hp) ...
