Fleets – Page 964

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    Marketplace

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    ++ Montreal-based Royal Airlines has sold two Boeing 727s to Texan leasing company Aircorp for C$10 million ($7.25 million), to help pay for three Airbus A310-300s. The carrier still operates five 727s, as well as two Lockheed L-1011 TriStars. ++ Boeing has delivered its 757th 757, a Pratt & Whitney ...

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    Customer interest is renewed as first MD-95 takes shape

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    McDonnell Douglas (MDC) hopes to conduct final negotiations at the Paris air show with potential MD-95-30 customers as production of the first twinjet moves into final assembly. "Our timing is good because we want to place orders 21 months before delivery," says MD-95 vice- president and general manager ...

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    Finalist Rockwell Avionics & Communications

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Finalist: Rockwell Avionics & Communications, Collins Air Transport division Location Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Achievement A multi-mode receiver combining both existing and future landing-aid technology One of the most enduring technical issues for the world airline industry over the past decade has been over ...

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    Corporate strategy

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Winner: Embraer Location Sao Paulo, Brazil Achievement Successfully launching the EMB-145 onto the world market, while battling with privatisation and overcoming heavy losses. The new management which took over Embraer following its privatisation at the end of 1994 faced a seemingly desperate situation. Hit by Brazil's ...

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    Infrastructure

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Joint Winner: Luftfartsverket Location Norrkoping, Sweden Joint Winner: SAS Location Stockholm, Sweden   Achievement Pioneering work within the NEAN project to demonstrate the potential of ADS-B to modernise Europe's overburdened air traffic control (ATC)infrastructure is already constraining air-transport growth in the region ...

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    Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Finalist: Aeromedic Innovations Group Location London, UK Achievement: Official licensing for providing airline medical kit. In October 1996, Aeromedic Innovations became the first company in the world to be licensed by a regulatory authority - the UK's Medicines Control Agency - to make and maintain a ...

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    India's jet challenger

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Even its most ardent supporters would have to concede that India's airline deregulation has been less than successful. Of the wave of airlines which emerged in the early 1990s to challenge the Indian Airlines domestic monopoly, only a handful are still flying. Their cause has not been helped by a ...

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    Airbus makes Trent 500 deal with Rolls-Royce

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Airbus Industrie has struck a non-exclusive deal with Rolls-Royce for the supply of its Trent 500 engines. The agreement ends Airbus's search for a powerplant supplier for the A340-500 and -600 ultra long-range/stretch versions of the A340. It is believed that Airbus continues to keep the ...

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    AVIC deals lift Chinese industry

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) has agreed separate deals with Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) and CFM International (CFMI) aimed at developing China's aerospace industry. The deal with AI(R) involves the establishment of a joint venture to assess the possibility of assembly of ATR turboprops in China. ...

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    Converted A300F lands in Paris with FAA approval

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS) has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its Airbus A300B4 freighter conversion, some six months later than originally targeted. Meanwhile, C-S Aviation Services, which is BAe's major customer for the conversion, has announced its first lease-placements, with the confirmation of two aircraft ...

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    Burnham: service is the key to growth

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    AlliedSignal Aerospace is not a company that wastes time - its own or anybody else's. So when company president Dan Burnham calls a press conference, reporters should be on red alert that he has something to shout about. So it proved on Monday at Paris, when Burnham coolly ...

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    Saab confident of continuing turboprop market

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Saab remains confident that there will still be a strong market for turboprops well into the next century, despite the increasing number of orders for regional jets. Saab Aircraft president Gert Schyborger says the impact of the 50-seat regional jets has been to expand the market and create ...

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    Sunrock $250m order for 737s

    1997-06-18T00:00:00Z

    Boeing announced yesterday that it has sold seven 737s - five of them new generation -600s - to the Sunrock Aircraft Corporation in a deal worth $250million. The announcement brings total 737 orders to 3,677 of which 557 are next generation models. Negotiations continue on a ...

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    Bombardier looks to change perception of regionals

    1997-06-17T15:10:00Z

    North American airline passengers are disenchanted with turboprop aircraft because they see them as noisy, cramped and subject to greater turbulence. But the development of new wide-body turboprops is changing this perception, says Pierre Lortie, president of Bombardier regional aircraft division. Speaking at Le Bourget yesterday, Lortie says ...

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    Embraer sales keep rolling in

    1997-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Embraer expects to announce more orders for its EMB-145 regional jet during the show, confirms Mauricio Botelho, the Brazilian manufacturer's chief executive officer. Botelho's apparent confidence raises speculation that Embraer might be the winner of a long-awaited order for regional jets from American Airlines' subsidiary AMR Eagle. ...

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    New models evolve from within the CASA range

    1997-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Spanish company CASA has launched two new projects at Le Bourget, both of them evolutions of aircraft in the existing range. Speaking at the show on Monday, CASA's chairman Raul Herranz announced that a stretched version of the CN235 will be produced - for delivery by the beginning ...

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    New Airbus models promise ultra-long range

    1997-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Airbus Industrie (AI) will retake the world distance record from Boeing when the A340-500/600 fly early in the next century, the European company said yesterday. "We will definitely fly further than them (Boeing)," says John Leahy, AI senior vice-president, commercial, referring to the recent record flight by a ...

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    Sogerma signs two conversion contracts

    1997-06-17T00:00:00Z

    Groupe Aerospatiale company Sogerma announced at the show the award of two new contracts, one in Europe, the other in Asia. The Sogerma Maintenance Group has signed a contract with Airbus Industrie to convert three Airbus A330-300s for Belgian carrier Sabena. Each of the aircraft, which ...

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    CFMI joins Chinese in new working alliance

    1997-06-17T00:00:00Z

    CFM International (CFMI) and Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) have joined forces in a Joint Leadership Council to coordinate activities and promote a closer working relationship between the two organisations. Talks are being pursued at the Paris air show between Gerard Laviec, CFMI chairman and chief executive officer, ...

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    Voice system

    1997-06-16T12:47:00Z

    Austrian telecoms specialist Frequentis is providing a telephone voice communication system for the Area Control Centre in Athis, near Paris. The system, due to go live in 1998, is a further order from STNA (Service Technique de la Navigation Aerienne) as part of its Artemis programme.   ...