All Business Jets articles – Page 713
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Survival techniques
The past few years have been tough, but fixed-base operators in the USA are optimistic about the future. Karen Walker/ATLANTA SOMETHING OF A revolution is happening in the fixed-base operator (FBO) industry, the highway-service system of general aviation (GA) in North America. Across the USA, ...
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Liaison Replacement
The Japan Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF) is looking for a replacement for its fleet of 17 Mitsubishi MU-2s (designated LR-1) liaison and reconnaissance aircraft. Replacement types reportedly under consideration include the Beech Super King Air, Piper Cheyenne and Piaggio Avanti. A selection is expected to be made by mid-1996, with ...
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Tailwheel GlaStar kitplane tested
STODDARD-HAMILTON is flight-testing the GlaStar kitplane in tail-wheel configuration, having completed more than 170h flying with tricycle gear. The two-seat GlaStar, is designed to be easily convertible, between tricycle, tail-wheel, float and ski landing gear. The Arlington, Washington based company has begun shipping tail and wing kits. Several ...
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Executive Jet takes first NetJets Ultra
EXECUTIVE JET International (EJI) has taken delivery of the first of 25 Cessna Citation Ultra business-jets on order for its NetJets fractional-ownership programme. The Montvale, New Jersey-based company will receive 16 Ultras by the end of 1995, and says that it has 85 part owners already signed up. ...
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Aviation Partners pushes for Gulfstream II winglet exports
AVIATION PARTNERS is pursuing overseas sales of its performance-enhancing winglet modification for the Gulfstream II business jet following the aircraft's international debut at the Paris air show in June. Negotiations are under way with several potential offshore modification-centres. Interest in the modification is highest in Saudi Arabia, which ...
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BWIA includes five EMB-145s in upgrade book
David Learmount/LONDON BWIA INTERNATIONAL Airways has ordered five Embraer EMB-145 regional jets and placed options on five more. The Trinidad-based carrier's president, Ed Wegel, also says that he is talking to Boeing about the 777 as an ultimate replacement for three 767-300ERs which it is leasing alongside ...
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Embraer forced to impose job cuts
Brian Homewood/RIO DE JANIERO BRAZILIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Embraer, privatised in late 1994, is to make 1,700 of its 5,550 employees redundant in a bid to cut costs, says president Juaraz de Siqueira Britto Wanderley. The redundancies, most of which will be voluntary, began in June. ...
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Raytheon light jet will have composite fuselage
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT'S new light business-jet, internally designated the PD 374, will have an all-composite fuselage and be powered by uprated Williams Rolls-Royce FJ44 turbofans. Rockwell-Collins will supply the integrated avionics, including flat-panel displays. The PD 374 is intended as a direct competitor to ...
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Collins and Dassault team up on GCAS
ROCKWELL-COLLINS has linked with Dassault Electronique of France to develop a ground-collision avoidance system (GCAS). Airbus Industrie will flight-test a "red-label" prototype of the Dassault unit in late 1995, in an A319, and the system is to enter service with Air Inter in early 1997. Rockwell's Collins Commercial ...
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Work begins on 'smart'-wing concept
A NORTHROP Grumman-led team has begun work on a two-year "smart"-wing contract from the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to develop and demonstrate lift enhancement and optimal transonic cruise concepts. A smart wing uses advanced materials and structures to sense changes actively in air speed and pressure, ...
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Jet Aviation backs business-jet timeshare-scheme launch
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA JET AVIATION is backing a new business-jet timeshare scheme, the Corpavia Club, launched by a group of investors from Europe and the Middle East. The scheme will start with two Learjet 31As, on order for delivery in September and October, which will be based with, and ...
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Avatar rockets into top ranks
A NEW COMPANY has propelled itself into the top level of the world's spares resellers with a $400 million cash deal to buy Delta Air Lines' surplus-parts inventory. Avatar Alliance believes that the acquisition of some 17 million parts for 12 aircraft types "...may be the largest transaction ...
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Airbus tests ATC datalink
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE, in association with Aerospatiale and the Eurocontrol air-traffic-control (ATC) centre at Maastricht, the Netherlands, has begun in-flight trials of equipment enabling ATC by datalink. The aircraft being used in the tests are green A320s being ferried from Airbus' Toulouse, France, assembly plant to Hamburg, Germany, for ...
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Atlas adds to 747 freighter fleet
US CARGO AIRLINE Atlas Air has purchased three Boeing 747-200 Combis from Alitalia for conversion to full freighter configuration. The first converted aircraft is expected to enter service in the third quarter of 1995, and all three are to be in service by early 1996. The purchases take ...
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Financial results
Air Canada cut its operating loss from C$12m to C$7m. Passengers and yields both rose 6%. There were C$40m of non-operating gains in 1994. Operating income trebled to US$162.2m, moving ANA into the black. Boosted by the Kobe earthquake and the strong yen, traffic rose 6.1%. ...
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SAA boosted by Lufthansa
The cooperation agreement between South African Airways and Lufthansa is a major boost for the African carrier, while the pact nearly completes the German flag's global net of alliances. SAA has sought a European partner for more than two years and senior general manager John Hare says few ...
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Spectrum
Steve Tanner has become president of Spectrum Aviation Management, of Austin, Texas, a specialist in aeromedical design and interior helicopter-completion services. In the industry for 20 years, Tanner spent five years as helicopter marketing manager of Austin Jet Helicopters. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream
Business-aircraft manufacturer Gulfstream Aerospace, of Savannah, Georgia, has appointed its executive vice-president and chief financial officer, Chris Davis, as president and chief operating officer of its newly created subsidiary, Gulfstream Financial Services. David Rowe, who joined Gulfstream Aerospace in December 1994, becomes executive vice-president, with responsibility for the day-to-day operations. ...
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Jet Network strikes deal with Cessna
UK-BASED JET Network (JetCo) has reached an agreement with Cessna Aircraft enabling the company to offer fractional ownership of the CitationJet and Citation VII business-jets. The one-year agreement covers pricing and delivery terms for four of each aircraft type. JetCo is trying to establish a European ...
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Bombardier focuses on internal growth
CANADIAN AEROSPACE manufacturer Bombardier will rely on internally generated growth, rather than major acquisitions in the aerospace sector in the foreseeable future, according to company chairman and chief executive Laurent Baudouin. Figures released at Bombardier's annual meeting on 21 June in Montreal showed that, up to the 30 ...