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IPTN focuses on higher capacity for N2130 regional family
IPTN has dropped plans to develop a shortened, 80-seat, version of the planned N2130 short-haul jet-airliner and instead opted for a larger-aircraft family with six-abreast seating for between 104 and 132 passengers. The Indonesian manufacturer had intended building three different sizes of N2130, seating 80, 100 and 130 ...
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US 1996 GA safety is 'best for 40 years'
USGENERAL-AVIATION(GA) safety improved in 1996, with fewer fatal accidents than in any year since 1956, according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Based on preliminary flight-hour estimates from the US Federal Aviation Administration, the fatal-accident rate last year was the lowest ever recorded. There were 358 ...
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Cessna 172 exported
Cessna has exported its first piston single since 1986, ferrying a Model 172R Skyhawk to its Australian dealer Airflite for a customer in Perth. Australian certification has been granted to the new-production 172. Source: Flight International
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People movers
Hang on. The flight attendant in the blue Delta Air Lines uniform has an unmistakable Dublin accent, akin to that of her green-clad colleagues on the Aer Lingus Dublin-JFK flight. Either 100 years of Irish immigration to the US have failed to alter speech patterns or airline alliances are taking ...
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Startups slot into Japan
Japan's incumbent carriers are bracing for their first tussle with new competition in four decades, though analysts doubt that air travellers' expectations of dramatically reduced fares will be met. The incumbents are also facing a battle for the 40 new slots that will be created at Tokyo/Haneda when ...
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Shares rise in the east
Four days before the Chinese New Year, China Eastern Airlines made an auspicious debut on the world's markets by raising an estimated US$250 million. The success of the issue should pave the way for the other Chinese majors to follow suit, although holding company China National Aviation Corp may well ...
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Indian policy is a let down
India's revised civil aviation policy has led to charges of protectionism after it failed to set an investment limit for foreign airlines and airports in Indian carriers. The strategy is being viewed as another setback for Singapore Airlines' planned joint venture with Tata Industries, which remains on hold in the ...
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Saab penetrates Japanese market
Saab has made what it describes as a significant breakthrough in the Japanese market, with the placing of an order by the Japanese transport ministry for two Saab 2000s. The order, worth $60 million, is for the first two of what is expected to be a total of five new ...
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Fokker hopes focus on Malaysian rescue
Fokker's assembly lines face final closure in May, unless administrators running the bankrupt Dutch manufacturer succeed in pulling off a last-ditch rescue plan. Hopes of saving the company centre on talks with a coalition of Malaysian and Dutch investment groups. The latest report from the Fokker administrators says ...
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GA voice recorders to expand
Flightcom, the Oregon-based maker of the DVR 300i digital voice-recording clock and voice recorder, says that it is negotiating with "several groups" about making the unit standard equipment in a range of general-aviation and commercial aircraft. The new panel-mounted DVR 300i is already standard on the Piper Aircraft ...
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Mystery in the East
Far from encouraging foreign airlines to invest in India's burgeoning civil-aviation industry, the much-heralded new aviation policy recently announced by India's United Front Government has confused and bewildered overseas investors. India's powerful Cabinet Committee On Foreign Investment (CCFI) has announced that foreign airlines will no longer be permitted ...
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Belgian police receives first MD Explorer
Belgium's national police force, the Gendarmerie, has taken delivery of its first McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems MD Explorer helicopter. A second will be delivered in June, and the force also has an option on a third. The Explorer will replace four ageing Sud-Aviation Alouette IIs and an Aerospatiale Puma. The ...
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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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Dubai-based VIP 747 prepares for launch
Chess International Aviation says that it is close to completing the setting up of a VIP 747 charter company. According to Alistair Cristinni, the Dubai-based airline's chairman, the new company expects to complete the acquisition of its first aircraft soon, a 747SP, and aims for a launch in ...
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Extra investigates turboprop EA 400
German aircraft manufacturer Extra Flugzeugbau is investigating a turboprop version of its six-seat EA 400 tourer machine. According to Extra, the idea has attracted strong interest from potential customers, particularly in the light of the US Federal Aviation Administration's forthcoming repeal of the ban on commercial, instrument-flight-rules (IFR), ...
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Low-cost weather observation unit gets precipitation sensor
US instruments company AAI/Systems Management is offering the option of a precipitation identification sensor on its Next Generation Weather Observing System (NEXWOS) - a low-cost meterological device designed for smaller airfields. The sensor identifies rain, snow, haze, smoke and drizzle. The standard version of the ground-based automatic weather-observation ...
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Gore Commission pushes for user fees
The White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security, being led by vice-president Al Gore, has come out in favour of replacing the US ticket tax with user charges as the best way to fund the new satellite-based National Airspace System (NAS), which it says should be brought in seven ...
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Gulfstream plans Long Beach expansion as backlog builds
GULFSTREAM IS TO expand its Long Beach, California, service and completion centre as part of its strategy to double production to some 60 Gulfstream IV-SP and V business jets by 1999. The expansion will include a new paint centre, scheduled to be operational by the fourth quarter of 1997. ...
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US drug agency seeks new piston singles
THE US DRUG Enforcement Agency (DEA) is seeking up to 25 new piston singles to replace its fleet of light aircraft used for airborne surveillance and personnel transport. The DEA is soliciting information on the availability of new six-seat high-wing aircraft. From the DEA's "sources-sought" announcement, it appears ...