All Business Jets articles – Page 695
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Boeing order
Boeing has placed an order with Canadair for a nine-seat Challenger 601-3R business jet. The aircraft, is being outfitted by Texas completion specialist, KC Aviation. Source: Flight International
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Safe bet
Jet Aviation is to operate the Las Vegas Executive Air Terminal, a new fixed-based operation (FBO) at McCarran International Airport, Nevada,on behalf of the FBO's owner, the Eagle Group. Jet Aviation already operates FBOs in Europe, the Middle and Far East and the USA. The Eagle Group also owns Eagle ...
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IAI finds new investor for Galaxy programme
Ari Egozi/TEL AVIV ISRAEL AIRCRAFT Industries (IAI) is set to conclude a deal with the US family, which owns the Hyatt hotel chain, to become partners in the Galaxy business-jet programme. In return, a new company is being set up to replace IAI's North American marketing arm, ...
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Global Express on schedule
BOMBARDIER IS completing preparation of its first Global Express long-range business jet. The aircraft, now with its BMW Rolls-Royce BR710 engines, is on schedule for its maiden flight in September after roll-out in late August. Source: Flight International
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Green light shows for NetJets Europe
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON A EUROPEAN-BASED business-aircraft fractional-ownership programme has been launched by Montvale, New Jersey-based Executive Jet Aviation (EJA), the US pioneer of the "NetJets" scheme. The programme marks the second stage of the company's Global NetJets plan, with opportunities in China and South America also ...
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Thai Citation
Thailand's communications ministry has ordered for flight-inspection duties a Cessna Citation VII, to be fitted with Gull Electronic Systems equipment and delivered in 1997. Cessna's Thai dealer, Corporate Aircraft Services, has ordered a Citation Bravo, also scheduled for delivery in 1997. The agricultural ministry already operates three Cessna Caravans. ...
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Brunei FANS-1 upgrade is first on 'Classic' 747
Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE Brunei royal family has ordered the world's first Future Air Navigation System-1 (FANS-1) upgrade for a "Classic" Boeing 747. Work on the modification, which is being performed by Lufthansa Technik, is under way. The aircraft, a 747SP, is being fitted with ...
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Simuflite
SimuFlite Training International, of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, has appointed Robert Freeman manager of Learjet training. Freeman, a former US Federal Aviation Administration examiner, has been with SimuFlite since 1989, serving as a Learjet instructor pilot and lead instructor in the Westwind proggramme. He reports to Eugene Haggerty, vice-president of training ...
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Jet setting
Following its N250 turboprop, IPTN has started work on an 80- to 130-seat regional jet, Paul Lewis reports from Bandung. In a country besieged with bureaucracy and straining to meet the transportation needs of its 190 million inhabitants, Bacharuddin Habibie, head of national aerospace manufacturer Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara ...
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Global Express is readied for flight
Graham Warwick/MONTREAL BOMBARDIER IS conducting flight-test readiness reviews on the first Global Express long-range business jet. The first flight is on schedule for September, says Bombardier Aerospace executive vice-president, engineering, John Holding. Final safety-of-flight reviews are planned for late August. Final assembly of the second of ...
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Dassault/Aerospatiale merger will not meet deadline
DASSAULT AND Aerospatiale will be unable to meet the 30 June deadline set by president, Jacques Chirac for agreement on the structure, for a merger between the two. Dassault president Serge Dassault told a shareholders' meeting on 13 June that, while the steering committee charged with preparing the ...
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Dassault Electronique
DASSAULT Electronique swung back to losses in 1995 after trouble at its telecommunications subsidiary Dassault AT, but expects profits to return this year. Despite a better performance from its core aerospace businesses, the group ended the year with an overall net loss of Fr21.4 million ($4 million). That ...
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JADC considers YS-X partners for future
Paul Lewis/TOKYO JAPAN AIRCRAFT Development (JADC), expects to make a decision by August, on whether to continue with a 90 to 110 seat YS-X study with Boeing, or to shrink the project to a 70 to 90 seater, involving Bombardier. JADC has to submit its request ...
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Jet plans acquisitions to boost core-business resources
JET AVIATION IS in talks to acquire K-C Aviation's Transportation Services (KCTS) and Jet Professionals subsidiaries. Agreement is expected in the next 60 days, with the two companies about to enter due-diligence investigations. K-C Aviation says that it is selling the transportation-services companies to free up resources to ...
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IAS
Custom-completions specialist International Aviation Services, of Forth Worth, Texas, has named Kristin Martin general counsel. Patrick Browne becomes manager of technical sales, having held flight-officer positions with South African Airways, People's Express, Continental Airlines and Air Micronesia. Jeff Conrad has been appointed director of business development, having held management positions ...
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EJA acquires
Executive Jet Aviation (EJA), which has acquired 19 Hawker 1000s since 1993, expects to pick up three more of the corporate aircraft this year. The successful fractional-jet-ownership operator says that the Hawker programme has grown tremendously because of keen customer interest in the mid-size business jet with coast-to-coast range. ...
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Special edition
Chicago-based clothing manufacturer Fruit of the Loom has taken delivery of its first Bombardier Canadair Special Edition extended-range corporate version of the Regional Jet. The aircraft has a 12-passenger interior layout. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream offers GIV-SP cost guarantee
GULFSTREAM HAS introduced an operating-cost guarantee programme for its GIV-SP business jet, which will cover all scheduled and unscheduled airframe, engine and avionics maintenance for an hourly usage fee. The Gulfstream ServiceCare guaranteed direct-operating-cost guarantee programme is described by the manufacturer as "...the most comprehensive of its kind ...
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French holding company idea gains favour
A REPORT FROM France's parliamentary finance committee has added weight to the concept of using a holding company to bring together Dassault Aviation and Aerospatiale. The report suggests that the two companies could be controlled jointly by an umbrella state-holding company, but stop short of a full merger. ...