All Business Jets articles – Page 683
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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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Tyrolean gets UNS-1C
Austrian-based Tyrolean Airways is to retrofit 17 de Havilland Dash 8-300s with the Universal Avionics Systems UNS-1C global-positioning flight-management system. Three will be fitted with the system in Canada, while the balance will be retrofitted at Tyrolean's Innsbruck base by DAC International and Navair. Source: Flight ...
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Cessna Aircraft cuts back 1997 production targets for singles
Cessna Aircraft has almost halved its 1997 single-engined-aircraft production plans - but the company remains optimistic that sales in 1998 and beyond will reach their targets. Instead of delivering about 1,000 aircraft this year (made up by $150 million-worth of new 172R Skyhawks and 182S Skylanes), the Wichita-based ...
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SIA ponders A340-500 and 777-200X
Singapore Airlines (SIA) says that it will need at least ten new ultra-long-range aircraft to open fresh routes and frequencies to the USA, after the recent signing of an open-skies bilateral air agreement between the two countries. The airline is looking at the proposed Boeing 777-200X and rival ...
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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) ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Initial Stage 3 GII/III noise tests completed
Stage III Technologies has completed ground testing of a new exhaust system for Rolls-Royce Spey Mk 511-8 engines, which is designed to bring Gulfstream GII and GIII business jets inside Stage 3 noise limits. The company claims that its noise-suppression system, consisting of a redesigned external mixer nozzle ...
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FLS completes first 727 cargo conversion
FLS Aerospace has completed its first freighter conversion of a Boeing 727, and the aircraft has now entered service with TNT Express Worldwide on its European network. The aircraft, a -200 Adv, was modified at FLS' Stansted, UK, centre, using the Aircraft Engineering & Installation Services (AEI), Miami, supplemental type ...
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Avior aims to build fixed-base operator chain across USA
THE AVIOR GROUP, a US company specialising in relief-charter operations in Africa, is expanding into its home market. The Miami-based concern hopes to build up a chain of "a dozen" fixed-base operators (FBOs) and wants to acquire a manufacturing capability to support its growing maintenance business. Avior has ...
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Asians bid for AI(R) Jet places
South Korea and Taiwan have submitted competing tenders to Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) for each to take up to a 40% stake in the planned AI(R) Jet 70 regional-aircraft programme. Aerospace industry teams from both countries were invited to Toulouse in January to take part in AI(R)'s aerostructures ...
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The Americas
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 by significance of service or national-carrier status, airlines operating aircraft ...
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Sabreliner moves cargo conversions to boost capacity
Dimension Aviation, the new modification centre set up recently by Sabreliner, has taken over all McDonnell Douglas (MDC) US widebody cargo-conversion work from sister company SabreTech, and could eventually have the capability to convert up to 12 aircraft simultaneously. Sabreliner established Dimension in February as part of a ...
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Oriental Falcon Jet service
Oriental Falcon Jet Service (OFJS), a joint venture of Dassault Falcon Jet, China Xinhua Airlines and Avion Pacific, will begin Falcon 50 charter operations in China during the second quarter of this year (Flight International, 12-18 March, P19). Seen here are members of the Dassault Falcon Jet team responsible for ...
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Tyrolean adds GPS/FMS
Austria's Tyrolean Airways is to retrofit its 17 Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8s with Universal Avionics' UNS-1C global-positioning/flight-management system, beginning in April, to meet European basic area-navigation requirements. Source: Flight International