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Brit'Air order launches Canadair stretched CRJ
FRENCH REGIONAL airline Brit'Air is the launch customer for the stretched, 70-seat Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ)Series 700, with a firm order for four aircraft. The Canadian company says that it has options and conditional orders for a further 28 aircraft, plus memoranda of understanding for another 35, ...
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Kawasaki, R-R reconsider plans for Trent 900 engine
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) is considering relinquishing its 6% risk-sharing stake in Rolls-Royce's Trent 900 programme, as both companies study whether the potential market for the engine justifies the estimated $450 million development cost. Boeing's decision to shelve its 747-X project earlier this year leaves the Airbus A3XX, which will ...
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Greenwich absorbs UNC to create overhaul giant
Greenwich Air Services is poised to make its biggest acquisition to date with agreement to take over UNC. The combined group will become the world's largest independent engine-services operation, with annual sales of around $1.8 billion and more than 10,000 employees. Greenwich chairman Eugene Conese says that the ...
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Falcon 20-B retrofit
Garrett Aviation and AlliedSignal have formed an exclusive partnership under which the latter will continue to market the TFE731 engine retrofit to CF700-powered Falcon 20 operators. Garrett will put its own Falcon 20s into the programme, retrofit and refurbish them, and offer the re-engined -20Bs for sale to non-Falcon 20 ...
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TAP signs ILFC leases
TAP Air Portugal has arranged to lease three CFM International CFM56-powered Airbus A319-100s from International Lease Finance (ILFC)for delivery in January and March 1998, and March 1999. The airline is also to lease one A320 from the same source from April 1999. All the aircraft are on seven-year leases. ...
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Tupolev plans to fly Tu-334 in May/June
Valentin Klimov, general director of Tupolev, says that the prototype of the much-delayed Tu-334 regional airliner will be flown for the first time in late May or June, following project funding from the Ukrainian Government. The proposed 100-seat twinjet, which is intended to replace the CIS' ageing fleet ...
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SITA: Dedicated to communicating
From the start, airlines could not be efficient without good contactability. The need for better company communications, over developing long routes, gave birth in 1949 to SITA (once known as the Societe Internationale de Telecommunications Aeronautiques) - a non-profit-making co-operative, among major airlines - to provide self-managed communications. It has ...
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Airbus suffers setback as GE walks away from A340-600
Airbus Industrie has suffered a setback in its efforts to launch the proposed A340-500/600 growth derivatives in time for a 2001 service-entry date, after exclusive discussions with General Electric over the aircraft's powerplant were abandoned this month. The collapse of talks with GE, which began in April 1996, ...
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DASA blames Boeing for Northrop pull-out
The decision by Northrop Grumman not to participate in the Airbus A3XX project has sparked accusations by Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) that Boeing and McDonnell Douglas (MDC)have put pressure on their US suppliers not to participate in the proposed European large aircraft programme. DASA chairman Manfred Bischoff says that ...
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Trent 777 IGW remains 'on target'
Boeing and Rolls-Royce are confident that certification of the Trent 890-powered 777-200 Increased Gross Weight (IGW) version of the Boeing twinjet is "on target" to be completed by the end of March, despite a rescheduling of testing because of some late changes in engine configuration. The release of ...
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BMed resurrects BA franchise agreement
BRITISH Mediterranean Airways (BMed) has struck a new agreement with British Airways to operate as a franchise partner on routes between London Heathrow and the Middle East as from April. The two airlines originally agreed to a link for their 1996/7 winter schedules, but the plans were later ...
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CFMI gears up for bumper year
CFM International (CFMI) is stepping up production of CFM56 engines in response to record orders placed during 1996 for 1,280 powerplants valued at $5.5 billion. CFMI president Gerard Laviec says that the company had planned for only "about 700 orders" for the year. As a result of the ...
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Indian Airlines seeks compensation for V2500 performance
Indian Airlines is seeking compensation from International Aero Engines (IAE)for the higher-than-expected fuel consumption of the V2500 engines which power its Airbus A320s. IAE, a joint venture including Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce, declines to comment on the extent of the shortfall, although it is thought to be ...
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Omega Air to launch 707 re-engineing with JT8Ds
Omega Air has signed an agreement with Pratt & Whitney about the re-engineing of its Boeing 707-320 fleet with P&W JT8D-200 engines. The Omega leasing company is the major partner in the US-based consortium "7Q7", which plans to certificate the JT8D-powered version in 1998. Omega, based in Dublin, ...
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RAC sets up Tu-204 leasing-
The Russian Aviation Consortium (RAC) has set up a leasing company to help in its efforts to place the Tupolev Tu-204 with Russian airlines. Certification of the Tu-204Ccargo version and increased-take-off-weight Tu-214 are also now expected in March. The new Moscow Aviation International (MAIC) leasing company has guaranteed ...
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MTR
Hans Fischer has become managing director at joint-venture engine manufacturer MTU Turboméca Rolls-Royce (MTR). He replaces Hartmut Tenter, who becomes head of the Turbo-Union RB.199 programme at Munich, Germany. Fischer was most recently head of sales and marketing at MTU Munich. Source: Flight International
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Honeywell
Honeywell, of Phoenix, Arizona, has named Bill Bouchard director of operations for its Business and Commuter Aviation Systems division, in Glendale, Arizona. He succeeds Roger Custer, who has moved to Honeywell Asia Pacific in Hong Kong as vice-president of manufacturing. Bouchard, with the company since 1979, was most recently marketing ...
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Engine alliance
Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion has joined Russia's NPO Energomash to form RD AMROSS, a company to produce, market and sell the RD-180 engine. Source: Flight International
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PW306-powered 328 jet gets the go-ahead
Fairchild Dornier is to go ahead with its plans for a turbofan-powered 328, which will enter service in early 1999. The announcement follows the confirmation recently of the selection of Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC)as the engine supplier for the jet-powered derivative of the turboprop aircraft (Flight International, 29 January-4 ...
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Myanmar shelves A320-lease plans
Myanmar Airways International has scrapped plans to lease two Airbus Industrie A320s and instead extended an interim lease agreement with Malaysia Airlines (MAS)for two Boeing 737-400s. In late 1996, the Singapore-Myanmar joint-venture carrier signed a letter of intent with Airbus to lease two A320s for five years. The ...