All General aviation articles – Page 172
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PARIS: Ontic to provide repairs on Hawker 800 blended wingtips
Legacy after-market components specialist Ontic is to provide repairs and product support to owners of Hawker 800 series aircraft fitted with Aviation Partners blended wingtips.
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NewsPARIS: Rain puts dampener on Solar Impulse flying plans
Solar Impulse's Sun-powered prototype is unlikely to take part in any flying displays before the end of the week, unless the weather takes a dramatic turn for the better.
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NewsPARIS: Dassault proceeds with caution over Falcon 7X re-entry
Dassault Aviation (hall 2A, stand A251) is still proceeding with caution over the re-entry into passenger service of its Falcon 7X business jet.
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NewsPARIS: Daher polishes up ENAC’s Trinidad cockpits
France's ENAC national school of civil aviation has contracted Daher-Socata to upgrade its 37-strong TB20 Trinidad fleet with Garmin's...
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NewsPARIS: AgustaWestland unveils AW189
AgustaWestland has unveiled an 18-passenger, eight tonne-class twin-engined helicopter primarily for the oil and gas industry, where it will rival Eurocopter's EC175.
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PARIS: Group Rhodes wins $3 million contract with Xinhang
UK-based machine manufacturer Group Rhodes has won a $3 million contract with Chinese aerospace supplier Xinhang Aeronautical Machinery.
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PARIS: AT-6 gets enhanced avionics suite
Hawker Beechcraft and Esterline CMC Electronics have enhanced the modular, integrated Cockpit 4000 for Hawker Beechcraft's AT-6 light attack and armed reconnaissance aircraft to make it suitable as an advanced trainer
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PARIS: GE promotes fuel, time-saving airports demo
GE Aviation Systems is promoting a comprehensive performance-based navigation (PBN) demonstration at two medium-sized airports, in part to verify an internal analysis that revealed significant savings from a broader version of the test.
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NewsPARIS: 7X troubles cleared in time for Paris displays
Dassault Aviation is relieved that its flagship fly-by-wire Falcon 7X business jet will be cleared to display with no restrictions at Le Bourget, because it has just overcome a technical setback that the company hopes has successfully been consigned to history.
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PARIS: Simrit sticks to what it does best
Sealant specialist Simrit (hall 3, stand C19) says it is sticking to what it does best: providing "sealing solutions" designed to cope with the fuel-hungry...
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PARIS: Comac to work together with Ryanair on C919 design
Comac plans to sign a memorandum of understanding with low-cost carrier Ryanair to co-operate on the Chinese airframer's C919 narrowbody, in a move that Comac hopes will lead to orders.
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PARIS: Comac expects more C919 orders this year
Comac expects to finalise another batch of orders for its Comac C919 narrowbody this year, as the C919 cabin mock-up made its international debut yesterday at the Paris Air Show
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PARIS: Cessna picks L-3's instrument system for Citation Ten
L-3's avionics systems unit has been selected by Cessna Aircraft to provide its GH-3900 series electronic standby instrument system as standard equipment on the Citation Ten business jet.
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PARIS: Piaggio breaks ground on new manufacturing facility
Piaggio has broken ground on its new facility in Villanova d'Albenga. The 49,300m² (530,680ft²) plant will house parts, subassembly and engine manufacture, repair and overhaul for the Italian airframer's P180 Avanti II business aircraft.
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NewsVIDEO: Cuffs and winglets on tap for Cessna Caravan
Canadian aircraft modification specialist Arctic Aerospace is working with the National Research Council of Canada to certificate a Cessna Caravan wing leading edge cuff and winglets system that Arctic says will cut drag, boost performance and reduce ice accretion.
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NewsPARIS: EADS details near-hypersonic transport concept
EADS has further detailed a concept for a ramjet-powered high-speed aircraft which would cruise at Mach 4 and cut the Tokyo-Los Angeles journey to as little as 2h 20min.
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NewsPICTURE: PARIS - Beriev Be-200 firefighter flies
Beriev is flying its twin-engined Be-200 firefighting amphibian at the show, complete with a new European Aviation Safety Agency restricted type certificate, granted to the Russian manufacturer in September.
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PARIS: Alternative fuels to play key role at Paris air show
Alternative aviation fuels are a key theme of this year's Paris air show, with the emphasis firmly on securing agreements to purchase large volumes of fuel and drumming up the investment needed to move towards large-scale production.
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PARIS: Marshall Aerospace launches software
UK aerospace engineering specialist Marshall Aerospace has launched Series software, a system electrical rating integration evaluation progamme. The...
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GECI Aviation targets niche appeal
Paris-based GECI International is looking to expand its industrial footprint via two niche aircraft programmes