All General aviation articles – Page 605
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Cessna singles owners must replace silencers
Owners of more than 300 Cessna 172R Skyhawks delivered since shipments restarted in January 1997 have been ordered to replace the exhaust silencers. The US Federal Aviation Administration issued an airworthiness directive (AD) on 13 January mandating replacement of the silencers, made by Aeroquip, because of leaking welds. The ...
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Engine change delays Stationair deliveries
Cessna has announced nearly a year-long delay in initial customer deliveries of its 206 Stationair and Turbo Stationair six-seat utility aircraft, following its decision to replace the Textron Lycoming IO- and TIO-580 engines with IO- and TIO-540 variants because of reliability and service life issues. The setback came to ...
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NetJets Europe takes Citation VIIs
Netjets Europe has taken delivery of two Citation VII medium-sized, twin-engined business jets, which will form part of the company's fractional-ownership fleet. Netjets Europe, a joint venture between Air Luxor of Portugal, US Executive Jet Aviation and Switzerland's Zimex Aviation, says that shares in the Citation VIIs are "sold ...
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Cockpit inadequacies
David Learmount/LONDON Those who argue that there is a degradation of basic flying skills in line pilots ascribe it to many things, the favourite being flightdeck automation. Parc Aviation consultant Capt Russell Kane, a former Aer Lingus captain, says that there is evidence that giving undue importance to cockpit ...
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Turbine-helicopter deliveries increase
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Deliveries of turbine-powered helicopters increased in 1997, buoyed by sales of new light single- and twin-engined aircraft. Bell shipped no fewer than 140 of its new single-turbine Model 407s in 1997, while Eurocopter delivered 28 of its new EC135 light twins. Bell led deliveries in 1997, shipping ...
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Safety-authority plans detailed
Julian Moxon and Alan George/BRUSSELS New details of the planned European Air Safety Authority (EASA) have been revealed by European transport Commissioner Neil Kinnock. In spite of the progress, he admits that there remain "several very difficult political issues" to be resolved. The European Commission (EC) has called ...
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India airlines in doldrums
T Ballantyne/R Prasad India's hard pressed domestics are facing a double challenge to their shaky balance sheets: the renewed threat of a Tata Industries local startup and massive hikes in airport landing charges. The Tata group had earlier plans for a joint venture with Singapore Airlines, backed by ...
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Islands apart
A grand plan for Air Jamaica to be the focus of closer cooperation in the Caribbean region has failed to materialise, and instead would-be partners like BWIA continue to pursue their own separate strategies. Karen Walker reports. According to a joke that circulates in the Caribbean, St Peter allows newly ...
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Asia's crisis: a rude awakening
Asia's financial crisis is now threatening to start another global airline recession. What goes up must come down. Of all people, participants in the aviation business should understand this most basic phenomenon. After all, the one certainty of every flight is that gravity will bring it down eventually. All that ...
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Don't bank on Japan
Richard Whitaker Japanese banks have withdrawn from aircraft financing due to Asia's economic crisis and the forthcoming demise of the Japanese leveraged lease may deter them from returning. Japanese institutions have accounted for some one-third of aircraft financing. In late 1997, however, most of them ceased approving new ...
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Taiwan demob
Taiwan's parliament has passed a law allowing police to board aircraft to break up demonstrations by travellers. Airline customers in Taiwan regularly stage cabin protests on both domestic and international flights when they are delayed, demanding free tickets or cash compensation for the inconvenience. Source: Airline Business
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Mesa is no longer united
Karen Walker A parting of the ways between codeshare partners United Airlines and Mesa Air Group is posing questionmarks over Mesa's future and possible new partners for United. Regional independent Mesa, which operates as America West Express, United Express, US Airways Express, WestAir and Mesa Airlines, has been ...
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Fairchild Dornier flies 328JET
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Fairchild Dornier flew its prototype 328JET for the first time on 20 January, bringing it a step closer to entering the emerging 30-seat regional-jet market. The aircraft took off at 11:16 local time from the company's Oberpfaffenhofen site near Munich, and was flown for nearly 2h over the ...
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India's Taneja rolls out first locally produced P.68
India's Taneja Aerospace and Aviation (TAAL) rolled out the first indigenously produced Partenavia P.68 on 20 January and hopes to receive Indian civil-aviation authority certification by the end of the month. The light twin's roll-out, which took place at TAAL's plant in Hosur, near Bangalore, had originally been planned ...
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Agusta power
Peter Gray/CASCINA COSTA DE SAMARATE Although it has been said before, the statement that "if it looks good, it flies good" certainly applies to the Agusta A109 - and particularly to the Power version. The outside shell has changed little since the first-prototype days of 1971, but as I ...
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Maverick develops new business jet
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Maverick Air is developing a six-seat twin-engined business aircraft called the Twinjet 1200, which will be available in kit and factory-built versions. Robert Bornhofen, president and owner of the Pueblo, Colorado-based manufacturer, is building the Twinjet 1200 with assistance from engineering company Airboss Aerospace of Stockton, California. The ...
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Western Michigan University trains Europeans
Student pilots from Irish carrier Aer Lingus have begun ab initio training at Western Michigan University's (WMU) School of Aviation Sciences at Battle Creek. British Airways students will begin training at WMU in March. The University is negotiating an ab initio contract with a third airline, which would take ...
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GE Xiamen could involve HAECO
General Electric has signed a memorandum of understanding with Xiamen Aviation Industries of China to set up an on-wing engine-support centre at Xiamen's Gaoqi International Airport, in the southern coastal province of Fujian, in a move which could bring it closer to nearby Taikoo Aircraft Engineering (TAECO). GE confirms ...
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The right way
John King/TEKAPO IN common with other countries with deregulated aviation industries, New Zealand has seen a proliferation of small airlines in recent years. Also in line with experience in many countries, some of those carriers have met problems. It is the old story of enthusiasm attracting under-capitalised players into setting ...
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Namibia school study
Nambia's Directorate of Civil Aviation and Dornier International Logistics are conducting a feasibility study into creating an aviation-training school at Keetmanshoop. Source: Flight International