All Business Jets articles – Page 683
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Aviazur modernises Islander fleet
Aviazur has replaced its ageing Pilatus Britten-Norman BN2A piston-engined Islander with a new BN2T turboprop Islander. The New Caledonia-based air-taxi operator required the new aircraft to enable it to operate 460km (250nm) missions with a full payload of nine passengers in a "hot-and-high" environment from short runways. The Islander, one ...
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SIA's Indian airline investment clears another major hurdle
Singapore Airlines' (SIA) long-running plan to establish a new domestic Indian airline in partnership with the TATA Group has cleared one major hurdle, with approval from India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB). The deal could still be derailed by the country's civil-aviation ministry, however, which plans to ban foreign equity ...
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Airbus issues hydraulic pump warning after A330/340 fires
Airbus Industrie has instructed all A330 and A340 operators to de-activate the aircraft's electrically driven hydraulic pumps, following a series of fires which has left at least two aircraft badly damaged. In the latest incident, an auxiliary pump is suspected of having overheated on a Malaysia Airlines (MAS)A330-300 ...
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Fokker will make selection of F28 retrofit engine in February
Plans to launch a re-engineing programme for the Fokker F28 Fellowship are gathering momentum, with a final engine selection expected in February. Programme partners Fokker Services and Perry Group plan a launch decision in April, depending on market response. Lion Boenders, product marketing manager at Woensdrecht, Holland-based Fokker ...
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Germany to certificate Cessna 150 upgrade
The German aviation authority LBA is to certificate a Rotax-powered Cessna 150 upgrade with a Hoffmann constant-speed propeller by June, says the propeller manufacturer. The upgrade is to be offered by German engineer Guido Sperl at a target price of DM50,000 ($32,000). Hoffmann says that the new engine ...
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British Aerospace AMJ sees BAe 146 sales rise as markets harden
British Aerospace Asset Management-Jets(AMJ) is targeting further sales from among its 107-strong fleet of leased BAe 146s this year, as the market for regional jets strengthens. AMJ general manager Andrew Davies says that, over the past four years, the organisation has completed its initial aim of re-establishing the ...
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An-140 nears completion
Assembly of the first An-140 twin turboprop at Antonov's Kiev, Ukraine, factory is almost completed. The Klimov TV7-powered 50-seater, which is the successor to the ubiquitous An-24, is expected to be rolled out in March. A Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127-powered version has also been proposed. Reports have linked Antonov ...
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Jet services Learjets
Singapore-based Jet Maintenance, part of the Jet Aviation Group, has become the Pacific Rim's first authorised Learjet service centre. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream V delivery
Gulfstream Aerospace delivered its first Gulfstream V, to an unnamed "international customer", on 30 December, 1996. The delivery was actually to Gulfstream's Savannah, Georgia, completion centre where the aircraft will remain until it enters service in the second quarter of 1997. The first delivery followed provisional US certification of the ...
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South Korea calls off Samsung's proposed rescue of Fokker
The South Korean Government is understood to have given formal notice that the Samsung Aerospace bid to rescue Fokker has been abandoned. Administrators of the bankrupt Netherlands aircraft manufacturer announced at the end of 1996 that Samsung's latest rescue plan had run out of time following the announcement ...
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First MD-95 empennage shipped to Douglas
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) at Salt Lake City, Utah, has completed the first empennage subassembly for the MD-95 100-seat regional twinjet. The empennage has been shipped to the Douglas Aircraft factory at Long Beach, California, where it will be mated with the aircraft's horizontal stabiliser. Final assembly of the first MD-95 ...
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PATS fuel tanks extend 767 range
JET AVIATION HAS completed modification of the first Boeing 767 to be fitted with auxiliary fuel tanks. The 15,000litre auxiliary fuel-system, produced by PATS, was installed in a corporate-configured 767-200ER completed at Jet Aviation's Basle, Switzerland, modification centre. The aircraft's owner has not been identified, but is believed ...
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AD could ground 727 freighter conversions
US CARGO CARRIERS are bracing for a Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD) which could severely restrict the payload of Boeing 727 freighter conversions. The AD had been anticipated in late December 1996, but the FAA says that it now plans to begin discussions with aircraft modifiers and operators in ...
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SAS takes a vital step towards free-flight target
SAS has become the first airline to install a certifiable example of one of the most important items of equipment needed by the industry to achieve the goal of free flight. The MMI5000 cockpit display of traffic information (CDTI) was installed in a Fokker F28 for a certification ...
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Gulfstream wins provisional US certification for its GV
GULFSTREAM HAS received provisional US certification for the Gulfstream V long-range business jet, enabling deliveries of customer aircraft to its Savannah, Georgia, completion centre to begin before the end of 1996. The company says that operational limitations in the provisional type certificate are planned to be removed by ...
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Marshall closes in on more TriStar cargo-conversion deals
Marshall Aerospace, which completed the last of its ten contracted Lockheed TriStar cargo conversions in December, says that it is close to a deal to modify more aircraft. According to Michael Milne, marketing and business development director, the Cambridge, UK-based maintenance specialist "-expects to announce a significant order ...
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Air transport
If 1996 was the year in which aircraft orders at last started rolling again from the world's airlines, then 1997 is due to be the year in which airliner manufacturers begin to increase production rates in earnest. Despite two years of growing backlogs, deliveries from Airbus, Boeing and ...
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Blue Dart aims to create more capacity
Blue Dart Aviation is planning to increase capacity in the next few months, with the acquisition of additional aircraft and the introduction of more routes. The Indian express-package operator, the country's FedEx global service partner, is evaluating bigger aircraft for its fledgling fleet, and considering additional routes. A ...
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Is candid Crandall correct about IT?
When Robert Crandall, AMR Corp chairman, noted at the last Iata annual general meeting that 'there is no reason to believe that technology will make airlines more profitable,' there had to have been a few sets of raised eyebrows in the audience. Crandall, after all, is the one credited for ...
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Dash 8-400 cash
Bombardier has won C$57 million ($42 million) from the Canadian Government in repayable launch aid for the 70-seat stretched -400 version of the de Havilland Dash 8. Bombardier and the government of Ottawa will fund C$400 million of the development cost, with the remaining C$200 million coming from risk-sharing partners, ...