All Business Jets articles – Page 708
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Premier's engines meet performance targets
WILLIAMS ROLLS Royce's FJ44-2 engine for the Raytheon Premier I and Sino Swearingen SJ30-2 light business jets is meeting its thrust and specific-fuel-consumption targets in ground tests, says company founder Dr Sam Williams. The 10kN engine's third-generation, integrally bladed, "wide-sweep fan" is achieving unprecedented efficiency, he says, and cruise performance ...
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EJA expands NetJets with European move
EXECUTIVE JET Aviation (EJA) has launched the long-awaited expansion of its NetJets business-aircraft fractional-ownership programme into Europe. EJA will base four company-owned Cessna Citation S/IIs in Europe, beginning in the fourth quarter of 1995 and will begin selling aircraft shares, in the first quarter of 1996 says, ...
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Cessna upgrade produces Magnum Edition
CESSNA HAS unveiled a package of avionics, systems and amenities for the basic Citation VII. The upgraded version will be called the Magnum Edition. The concept follows the successful launch of the similar Citation Bravo and Citation Ultra aircraft, and is designed to help stimulate sales of the ...
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Soloy delays Dual Pac gearbox certification
CERTIFICATION OF Soloy's Dual Pac combining gearbox, which drives a single propeller, though two Pratt & Whitney PT6D-114D engines, has been delayed to May 1996, while the Washington based company improves the durability of the unit. The Dual Pac was due to be certificated in June 1995, but ...
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Corporate war flares up over business jets
Graham Warwick/LAS VEGAS RIVALRY BETWEEN Bombardier and Gulfstream for the long-range business-jet market erupted into open warfare at the US National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) convention in Las Vegas on 26-28 September, with the companies trading claims in advertisements and briefings. Gulfstream, provoked by unfavourable ...
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Rutan builds single-jet Vantage
BURT RUTAN'S Scaled Composites (SCI) will fly a prototype of VisionAire's Vantage single-turbofan business jet in April 1996. SCI has a contract to build the prototype and complete the first 40 flights of the six-place, all-composite, aircraft. VisionAire, based in St Louis, Missouri, unveiled a full-scale cabin mock-up ...
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Gulfstream 'close to break-even' with GV orderbook
GULFSTREAM chairman Ted Forstmann says that orders for the Gulfstream V long-range business jet "...will reach break-even by the end of the year". Gulfstream's break-even point is believed to be around 60 aircraft, although the company will admit only to having a GV order backlog "in excess of $2 billion". ...
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AlliedSignal predicts business-jet market boom predicted
AROUND 3,500 NEW business jets worth $42 billion will be sold between 1995 and 2005, according to AlliedSignal's annual executive-aircraft outlook, which notes that 25 new or derivative business jets are in development. Between 1,300 and 1,600 new turbofan-powered business aircraft are forecast to be delivered over ...
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Ageing-airliner census
Compiled by Martin Fendt/Jennifer Pite/LONDON THIS SURVEY SHOWS THAT there has been a growth in the number of aging jet-powered aircraft in service (aged 15 years or older), from 5,204 in 1994 to 5,671 in 1995 - an increase of 467. The figures for turboprops are 2,509 and ...
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Dassault demonstrates Falcon 900EX design range
DASSAULT AVIATION flew its first Falcon 900EX long-range business jet non-stop from Luton,UK, to Las Vegas, Nevada, for its NBAA debut. The flight demonstrated the aircraft's 8,320km (4,500nm) design range, the manufacturer says, covering an air distance of 8,700km with a payload equivalent to more than eight passengers and three ...
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Cessna aims Citation X at Hawker 800 market
CESSNA HAS SET ITS Citation X sales sights firmly on the Raytheon Hawker 800 and other similar types in the mid-sized business-jet-replacement market. Cessna says that the larger aircraft's direct operating costs per kilometre are "...guaranteed not to exceed those of the much smaller Raytheon Hawker 800". Cessna ...
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Two new orders for Fokker 70
A new customer and an existing operator have placed orders for four Fokker 70 regional jets. Vietnam Airlines has confirmed a previously unannounced order for two aircraft as a first step in replacing its 12 Tupolev Tu-134s. Based at Hanoi, the Fokker 70s will be operated in a 79-seat single-class ...
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SSAC launches new SJ30
SINO SWEARINGEN Aircraft (SSAC) has repositioned the SJ30 light business-jet to avoid competing head-on with Raytheon Aircraft's new Premier I. The Taiwanese-backed company now plans to develop an increased-performance SJ30-2 concurrently with the original aircraft, now designated the SJ30-1. The SJ30-2 will be powered by two uprated, 10kN ...
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PC-12 part-shares available
A US COMPANY has launched a fractional-ownership programme offering part shares in the single-turboprop Pilatus PC-12. Massachusetts-based Alpha Flying has ordered five PC-12s for delivery by the end of 1996, and the fractional-ownership company has received its first aircraft, which is being used by Pilatus as a demonstrator. ...
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KLM builds with caution
KLM's recent agreements with Garuda Indonesia and Jet Airways in India reflect a wariness by the Dutch carrier over the future development of the industry in Asia-Pacific, but in Europe the carrier is still lacking a major partner. As parts of Asia like Thailand and Vietnam develop rapidly ...
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JAL smooths over FAA ban
Japan Airlines was understood to be close to an agreement in early September to end the US Federal Aviation Administration's suspension of its licence to repair US registered aircraft. The airline's FAA authorisation was cancelled in August after a routine annual inspection showed violations of US standards, according ...
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Team tactics
International joint ventures pave the way for an expansion of the maintenance market in China. Paul Lewis/BEIJING/GUANGZHOU/XIAMEN A WORLDWIDE OVERCAPACITY in aircraft maintenance and overhaul has left many companies struggling under the weight of intense competition and uneconomical work rates. This gloomy global picture, however, has not ...
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Ranging wider
Canadair has gradually improved its Challenger corporate jet over the past decade. Harry Hopkins/WICHITA THE CANADAIR CHALLENGER series of corporate jets has evolved over 15 years in a series of small steps which have not detracted from the success of the original formula - to marry the ...
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Gulfstream rolls out GV
GULFSTREAM HAS ROLLED out its GV long-range business jet at the company's Savannah, Georgia-based manufacturing plant, just days before the opening of the US National Business Aircraft Association's annual convention and exhibition in Las Vegas (26-28 September) and only weeks before its first flight, which is expected before the end ...
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Bombardier
Pete Reynolds has been named director of flight-test operations at Bombardier Aerospace, of Montreal, Canada. Reynolds, who became chief of engineering flight test for Learjet in 1989, will continue to oversee the Learjet 45 flight-test programme and be responsible for the Global Express flight-test programme, due to start in 1996. ...