All Business Jets articles – Page 686
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Bombardier disputes price of de Havilland
Bombardier is at odds with the Ontario Government over the price it should pay to buy out the Canadian province's 49% share in de Havilland. Bombardier and Ontario jointly spent C$100 million ($74 million) in 1992 to buy Toronto-based de Havilland from Boeing. The company has the option ...
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Textron Lycoming puts new products on drawing board
Ramon Lopez/WILLIAMSPORT The resurgence of piston-engined general-aviation (GA) aircraft production in the USA has prompted Textron Lycoming to improve existing powerplants and develop new advanced engine models. Officials admit that research and development has remained "stagnant" during the past decade as the GA industry went into ...
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Raytheon unveils all-new Hawker
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Raytheon Aircraft has launched development of the Hawker Horizon "super mid-size" business jet to replace the current Hawker 1000. The first flight is scheduled for late 1999, leading to US certification in the second quarter of 2001. Raytheon is planning to build 20-25 aircraft a year. ...
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Global adventure
Corporate aviation has never seen anything quite like Bombardier's Global Express -the aircraft or the programme. Graham Warwick/MONTREALCutaway drawing by Tim Hall/LONDON When Bombardier conceived the Global Express, it "-wanted to put a stake in the ground beyond anything that existed". As flight-testing of the ultra-long-range business jet ...
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Air Methods delivers modular medical interior for MD900
Air Methods has delivered its first modular, multi-function, medical interiors to operators of the McDonnell Douglas MD900 Explorer helicopter in Europe and the USA. Boise Life Flight in Idaho, and HSD in Germany, have taken delivery of Explorers equipped with the new multi-role interiors. Denver, Colorado-based Air Methods ...
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BMW R-R tackles weight of BR710
BMW Rolls-Royce expects to qualify weight-reduction changes to the BR710 powerplant by mid-1997. The manufacturer expects the changes to be incorporated progressively in batches of engines delivered to Bombardier and Gulfstream to power, respectively, the Global Express and Gulfstream V long-range business jets. Both aircraft manufacturers have acknowledged ...
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Dassault makes progress with Falcon 50EX
Dassault Aviation has flown the first production Falcon 50EX business jet. The aircraft is due to be displayed at the US National Business Aircraft Association show in Orlando, Florida, on 19-21 November, before being delivered to Dassault's Little Rock, Arkansas, completion centre for interior installation. French certification of ...
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BA switches colours
Flying Colours says that it is in detailed negotiations with British Airways to take over a contract now undertaken by Caledonian Airways, which would see it flying scheduled services on behalf of the UK flag carrier under a franchise agreement between London Gatwick and San Juan in Puerto Rico, Nassau ...
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Citation certification
Duncan Aviation of Lincoln, Nebraska, has certificated AlliedSignal's GNS-XLS global-positioning/flight-management system for primary- means over-water navigation in a Cessna Citation III. Source: Flight International
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Bombardier acquires Innotech for Global
Bombardier is to acquire the business-aircraft completion division of Innotech Aviation. The Canadian manufacturer plans to outfit its Global Express long-range business jet at Innotech, based at Montreal's Dorval airport. The deal to acquire Innotech from Halifax-based IMP International is expected to be completed at the end of ...
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Fairchild Dornier nears engine selection on 328 jet
Guy Norris/Palm Springs Fairchild Dornier expects to select a turbofan for its proposed 30-seat 328-300 "later this month", according to vice-president for sales, Andrew Jampoler, and is targeting an entry- into-service date for the new aircraft of late 1998. Engines being considered include General Electric's CFE738, ...
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MDC board terminates MD-XX
McDonnell Douglas' (MDC) long-term commitment to the commercial jet-airliner business has once more been thrown into doubt following the board's decision to scrub plans for the proposed MD-XX tri-jet. MDC chief executive Harry Stonecipher admits that the decision to abandon the programme, which was taken at a ...
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Raytheon begins first Premier I fuselage
Graham Warwick/WICHITA Raytheon Aircraft is to produce the first composite-fuselage section for the Premier I business jet later in November, using fibre-placement technology. The forward-fuselage section is intended as a demonstration article, but could be used in an aircraft if it passes all qualification tests. ...
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Baffled at such a waste of money
Sir - Having read the article "Executive Jet orders Netjets Gulfstreams (Flight International, 16-22 October, P24), I am at a loss to understand who would want to part with such a vast amount of money to take a share in aircraft already available on the open charter market. ...
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Honeywell prepares to launch Primus Epic avionics system
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES Honeywell plans to unveil its next-generation integrated-avionics system, the Primus Epic, at the National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) meeting in Orlando, Florida, in mid-November. Hardware development, module building and testing begins in 1997, with software due to be run in 1998. Testing ...
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Bombardier offers Challenger 604 part-shares
Bombardier Business Jet Solutions has taken delivery of the first Canadair Challenger 604 for use in its FlexJet fractional-ownership programme. The delivery boosts the number of aircraft operated by the Bombardier/AMR Combs joint venture to 22, including eight Learjet 31A light business jets, nine mid-sized Learjet 60s and three wide-body ...
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Maintenance Directory Part 3
Compiled by Jennifer Pite/LONDON Introduction by Paul Lewis/Singapore A quick look at the activities of operators listed in this section of Flight International's three-part directory shows that, in the regions covered, the prime movers in maintenance at the moment are mostly based in Asia-Pacific. The ...
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Suppliers
McDonnell Douglas is to convert 60 DC-10s into MD-10 freighters for Federal Express by 1999. The first 36 aircraft are coming from United Airlines. MDC expects to launch its long-range jetliner, the MD-XX, in early 1997. Pemco World Air Services is to convert five B727-100 freighters to quick ...
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Boeing adds to sales of corporate 737-700
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA Boeing Business Jets has sold a corporate 737-700 to an unidentified customer. The order marks the first outside sale for the joint venture formed by Boeing and General Electric in July to market the new-generation 737 as a long-range business jet. GE launched the ...
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Aviastar Asia ties up deal for 20 Tu-204s
Paul Duffy/SHANNON Aviastar Asia (AAC), the new joint venture set up in Taipei to market the Tupolev Tu-204 outside Russia, has now signed a contract for 20 aircraft, which is expected to be announced officially at Airshow China '96 at Zhuhai in November. Singapore-registered AAC brings ...