All General aviation articles – Page 554
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Fractional ownership committee agrees draft regulations
A US Federal Aviation Administration committee has completed an initial draft recommending the future regulatory status of fractional ownership programmes. The proposals will be laid out in a notice of proposed rule-making (NPRM) and submitted to the FAA in February. The Fractional Ownership Aviation Rule-Making Advisory Committee comprises representatives ...
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Lynton receives EC155
Lynton Aviation has taken delivery of the first corporate-configured Eurocopter EC155 twin-engined helicopter for a private customer. The aircraft, an enhanced version of the AS365 Dauphin, will be completed at Lynton's base at Blackbushe Airport, UK. Orders for the EC155 stand at more than 20. Source: Flight International
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Reims analyses demand for Western version of An-140
Francois Legros/PARIS French light aircraft manufacturer Reims Aviation is evaluating the market for a possible Westernised version of the Antonov An-140 turboprop. Reims Aviation sales manager François Billet says the company's relationship with the Ukrainian design bureau Antonov is "very close" and that it is "undertaking a market ...
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PC-12 enforcement
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has taken delivery of a Pilatus PC-12 just two months after placing a contract for the 10-passenger single-turboprop utility aircraft. Pilatus expects the DEA to order more PC-12s to replace some of its 20 turboprops. Source: Flight International
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Cirrus orders
Cirrus Design has recorded a 300% increase in sales of its single-engined SR20 since receiving US certification less than a year ago. "Since January, we have sold an average of 20 aircraft a month," says the Duluth, Minnesota-based company, which has chalked up more than 420 orders for the all-composite ...
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Cessna landmark
Cessna has delivered its 2,000th piston single aircraft since production was resumed in 1996. The Wichita, Kansas-based company handed over a T206 Turbo Stationair to a private customer last month. Source: Flight International
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Libyan carriers to discuss division of domestic market
Andrew Chuter/TRIPOLI Libyan Arab Airlines will hold talks with Air Jamahiriya next year over a possible division of Libya's domestic market between the two carriers. The Libyan Government lifted operating restrictions on Air Jamahiriya, formerly the Light Air Company, earlier this year, giving it permission to operate domestic ...
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USA reveals plan to beat congestion
NASA administrator Daniel Goldin has revealed a new joint programme with the US Federal Aviation Administration, the US Department of Defense and industry to establish a top-level technology roadmap for the US and global air transport system. The national research and development plan is co-ordinated by the US National ...
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Europe may go it alone on environment
David Learmount/LONDON The European Commission (EC) has threatened to enforce its own environmental standards for the aviation industry if the international community fails to agree action. The new EC document Air Transport and the Environment was released almost unnoticed on 1 December by Transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio and ...
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IFALPA urges curbs on high-risk aircraft from CIS
Aviation authorities should be wary of allowing into their airspace aircraft manufactured in the CIS countries but not registered in them, warns the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations (IFALPA). The Federation has written to the directors-general of all civil aviation authorities to alert them to what it sees ...
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SMA to increase take-off power of MR200 engine
Societe de Motorisations Aeronautiques (SMA) has pushed back certification of its MR200 diesel powerplant by about five months to enhance the engine's take-off power from 110kW (150hp) to 170kW. "We want to give the engine extra power for take-off to increase the aircraft's performance," says Luc Pelon, SMA's vice-president, ...
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Mergers
Finnair has sold tour operator subsidiary Finntours to Thomson Travel Group company Fritidsresor, subject to competition authority approval. Saab's takeover offer to Celsius shareholders will run from 6 December to 23 February, with a Parliamentary vote on the deal likely to be held in mid-February. Teledyne Technologies has begun operating ...
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The inside story
Improved software has added a new dimension to Dassault's Falcon Jet Completion Center Paul Seidenman/SAN FRANCISCODassault has completed the installation of the latest version of a state-of-the-art digital design system at its Falcon Jet Completion Center at the Little Rock National Airport in Arkansas. The system, CATIA R, was originally ...
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Russia reaches co-operation deals at LIMA
Russian industry's strong presence at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA 99) was marked by industrial co-operation agreements and the expectation of aircraft orders. The Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant has partnered the Malaysian industry as expected (Flight International, 24-30 November), but the Malaysian partner is SME Aviation rather ...
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Libyan company looks to charter market
The aviation company that helped keep Libya's vital oil industry functioning during the United Nations sanctions is turning to the corporate aviation charter market to boost its activities. Air Jamahiriya, until recently known as the Light Air Company, is refurbishing a Gulfstream II, which it hopes to have in ...
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Eagle Aircraft picks Kansas distributor
Eagle Aircraft has delivered six Eagle 150B trainers to its recently appointed US partner, GLH Aviation of Augusta, Kansas. GLH is responsible for final assembly, quality-assurance flights, and sales and marketing for the US market. GLH is negotiating with Eagle to expand the deal to include installing key components ...
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Ibis plans Ae270 sales offensive
Ibis Aerospace, the joint venture between Czech company Aero Vodochody and Taiwan's Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC), plans to launch a sales and marketing campaign for the single-turboprop Ae270 utility aircraft following its first flight in February. "We want to establish a certification and delivery timetable before we start ...
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Uzbekistan to purchase Ilyushin Il-103 crop sprayer variant
The Uzbekistan Government has reached an agreement with Ilyushin and MAPO to buy 100 Il-103s in a new agricultural crop sprayer version under development. Russia's Federal Service of Air Transport has ordered 30 piston-powered, two-seat singles, which it proposes to use at approved flying schools as basic trainers. Last year, ...
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Russian revolution
Ilyushin's Il-103 is reassuring and easy to fly - but will that be enough for success in the West? Peter Henley/MOSCOW Russian light aircraft designed for general aviation - excluding the aerobatic Yaks - are virtually unknown in the West. The territory traditionally claimed by Cessna, Piper and Grob has ...
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Colombia takes more gunships
Colombia is to increase its fleet of police-operated armed helicopters with 14 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks and associated armaments in a $221 million deal, say defence industry sources. The USA is to supply the UH-60s with GAU-19A and GAU-17 machine guns and M265 70mm (2.75in) rocket pods. Colombia's paramilitary police ...