All Business Jets articles – Page 694
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Pilatus base
Swiss business and utility aircraft manufacturer Pilatus Aircraft, has chosen Broomfield, Colorado as it is US and Western-hemisphere headquarters. A new company, Pilatus Business Aircraft, has been established to market the PC-12 turbine single and to provide support. Source: Flight International
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UNS-1 challenge
Canadian-based Innotech has installed dual Universal Avionics UNS-1B Plus flight-management systems on a Bombardier Canadair Challenger 601-3R. The systems replace standard Honeywell units and will interface with two Universal global-positioning-system GPS-1200 12-channel receivers. Source: Flight International
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Robinson makes surprise move to Dornier
JIM ROBINSON, the former president of AlliedSignal Engines, who recently took over at Learjet, has surprised the aerospace world by becoming president of Dornier. Robinson will be based at Dornier's Oberpfaffenhofen headquarters, near Munich, to oversee the integration of the company with Fairchild Aircraft, which bought the majority ...
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Falcons helped by CATS
Dassault Aviation is planning to offer Falcon business-jet operators a computerised, CD-ROM-based troubleshooting system, to speed up fault diagnosis and improve dispatch reliability. The Computer Assisted Troubleshooting System (CATS) was initially developed to assist Dassault's Falcon help-desk to evaluate the symptoms of a malfunction and propose the most ...
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Aerospatiale/Dassault given new date
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE FRENCH Government has tightened up the time scale for agreement on a merger between Aerospatiale and Dassault Aviation, with January 1997 now set as the new deadline. Dassault Aviation has agreed to the new date, promising that "-the technical, financial and industrial ...
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Airbus tackles A320 pilot shortage
Andrew Doyle/LONDON AN AIRBUS INDUSTRIE pilot team is attempting to improve the utilisation rate of Indian Airlines' A320 fleet. The team, which consists of Airbus training captains and airline check-pilots, has been dispatched to the airline in an effort to help it overcome a shortage ...
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DLR cancels Strato 2C contract
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH THE GERMAN Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), has terminated its contract with Burkhart Grob Aerospace for the development of the Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft. The cancellation comes after the German Government refused to release DM47 million ($31.3 million) for the completion of the ...
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Global expansion
Learjet has begun construction of a 9,100m2 (100,000ft2) extension to the Bombardier Flight Test Center in Wichita, Kansas, in preparation for the start of the Global Express flight-test programme. The first ultra-long-range Global Express business jet is due to arrive in Wichita for the start of tests in October. In ...
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Opening doors
The opening of airports to business aircraft - and keeping them open - is not an easy task. Karen Walker/ATLANTA NEWS THAT TOKYO'S Narita International Airport is dedicating two slots a day to business aircraft is being hailed by the corporate-aviation industry as a major milestone. ...
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Gulfstream receives approval from CIS
GULFSTREAM HAS become the first US business-jet manufacturer to have its aircraft certificated by the CIS Aviation Register of Interstate Aviation Committee, under recently harmonised CIS/US rules for Transport Category Aircraft (AP25). The CIS approval covers the Gulfstream III, IV and IV-SP models. "We see Russia and ...
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Snag delays Aerospatiale/Dassault deal
Agreement ON THE proposed merger between France's two biggest airframe manufacturers, Aerospatiale and Dassault, has been hampered by disagreement over Serge Dassault's status in the resulting entity, and the way in which it will be managed. While it is virtually certain that the 30 June deadline for an ...
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Does fractional ownership really have advantages
Sir - Air Charter, of Gatwick, Sussex, has never let down a potential charterer because of the suppliers available. We can charter an aircraft instantly, such as a Cessna Citation II for 1h or 100h, and the rate in Europe will be about £1,100-1,300 an hour. According to ...
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Trent surge halts 777 ETOPS test effort
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES THE ROLLS-ROYCE Trent 800-powered Boeing 777 extended-range twinjet-operations (ETOPS) test effort has been "-put on hold" until the engine maker completes investigations into the cause of a surge which caused a take-off of the test aircraft to be aborted on 16 June. ...
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IAI makes plans to convert KLM Boeing 747s SUDs
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON THE BEDEK Aviation Division of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) is about to sign a contract with KLM for the conversion of two Boeing 747-200 stretched upper deck (SUD) combis to full freighter configuration. The Netherlands airline has signed a letter of intent, and ...
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FedEx nears MD-10 decision
Guy Norris/LOS ANGELES OVERNIGHT US freight giant FedEx is expected to make a decision by mid-July on the upgrade and conversion of a massive fleet of up to 80 McDonnell Douglas (MDC) DC-10s. The decision over the so-called "MD-10" programme involves upgrading FedEx's current 35-strong ...
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ANA bonds
All Nippon Airways was set to raise Y100 billion in mid-June through the issue of its fifth unsecured convertible bond. The carrier will use the proceeds to finance aircraft purchases worth Y55.3 billion and to redeem a previous Y42.4 billion unsecured convertible bond issue. Source: Airline ...
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Body politic
At long last, moves are afoot to convert Airbus from an anachronistic partnership into a proper limited company. The structure under which Airbus has operated for 27 years is inappropriate for an enterprise which turns over $10 billion a year and plans a massive investment in a new aircraft. ...
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Financial results
Air-India moved to a loss despite sales growth of almost 10%. The carrier blamed competition and interest charges and depreciation on its B747-400s. British Midland's pretax profit fell 7% to £4.1m (US$6.4m) but the Manx and Loganair regional airlines moved from a £5.1m loss to a £1.3m profit. ...
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Alliance flop?
No alliance can hope to survive and prosper when the partners are at each others' throats. A clear message runs through this month's cover story about KLM/Northwest: what a pity if the world's most successful airline alliance were destroyed by infighting. If asked about the conditions needed for ...