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RAC sets up Tu-204 leasing-
The Russian Aviation Consortium (RAC) has set up a leasing company to help in its efforts to place the Tupolev Tu-204 with Russian airlines. Certification of the Tu-204Ccargo version and increased-take-off-weight Tu-214 are also now expected in March. The new Moscow Aviation International (MAIC) leasing company has guaranteed ...
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Maintenance Directory Part 1, The Americas
MAINTENANCE AND overhaul companies in North and South America are benefiting from the return to profitability of the region's airlines. While cost-cutting measures such as outsourcing main- tenance have slipped down the airlines' priority lists as profits have soared, overhaul companies say that business has improved since the recession's end. ...
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Honeywell
Honeywell, of Phoenix, Arizona, has named Bill Bouchard director of operations for its Business and Commuter Aviation Systems division, in Glendale, Arizona. He succeeds Roger Custer, who has moved to Honeywell Asia Pacific in Hong Kong as vice-president of manufacturing. Bouchard, with the company since 1979, was most recently marketing ...
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IAI's expanding Commodore moves into SabreTech's Miami site
Commodore Aviation, the overhaul subsidiary of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), is expected to complete a deal acquiring the troubled SabreTech's maintenance operation at Miami International Airport within the next two weeks. The IAI unit, which is based at Miami International, will move into SabreTech's much larger site after ...
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Gulfstream proves GV range claims
GULFSTREAMHAS completed a non-stop, 12,860km (6,950nm) demonstration flight with the Gulfstream V long-range business jet. The company says that data from the 14h 48min flight, with an uncompleted aircraft carrying four crew and three passengers and cruising at Mach 0.8 at altitudes up to 51,000ft (15,500m), confirm the 12,000km design-range ...
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Bell selects Rogerson EFIS and IIDS as standard
Rogerson Aircraft's electronic flight-instrument system (EFIS) and Integrated Instrument Displays (IIDS) have been selected as standard fit by Bell Helicopter Textron Canada for all its current production twin helicopters until 2005. Valued at more than $150 million, the agreement is the largest single deal ever received by California-based ...
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US general aviation sets sales record in 1996
US general-aviation aircraft manufacturers set a record in 1996 in terms of total sales, and registered strong volume growth in aircraft shipments. The industry predicts continued progress to the end of the decade as new models are introduced . Ed Bolen, president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association ...
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Doppler for the next millenium
Sir - I was interested to read the letter from A H Thomas on the global-positioning system (Flight International, 8-14 January, P37). About 20 years ago, I worked on the UK commutated Doppler system and patented a Doppler microwave-landing system (MLS) in 1981. This Doppler MLS provides an ...
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IBAC
The US International Business Aviation Council (IBAC), of Frederick, Maryland, has elected new officers. Dennis Green, flight-department manager of Imperial Oil of Canada, becomes chairman; Brian Humphries, managing director of Shell Aircraft UK, is vice-chairman; Jose Eduardo Brandao, director of the Business Aviation Association of Brazil, is appointed treasurer; and ...
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Global
David Sheehan has become chief executive of business-aircraft charterer Global Aviation of Singapore. He was formerly general manager for aircraft services with Mobil, and has served as treasurer and vice-chairman of the US National Business Aircraft Association. Source: Flight International
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Avemco bought out
Leading US general-aviation aircraft insurer Avemco is to be acquired for $230 million by HCC Insurance Holdings, which operates in the international aviation market. Source: Flight International
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Rising power
Hydrogen was first used as a means of "powering" flight with the manned flight of a hydrogen balloon only ten days after the Montgolfiers' first manned hot-air balloon flight in 1782. Despite achieving an excellent safety record - 50,000 passengers carried without a fatality - the use of ...
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Flight Visions HUD
Flight Visions says that its FV-2000 is the first head-up display (HUD) to be certificated by the US Federal Aviation Administration for use as a primary flight-display. The HUD is installed in several business-aircraft types. Source: Flight International
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Flexible flying
For aspiring pilots who mortgage their careers until middle-age to earn a full airline pilot's licence, airline sponsorship is the ultimate dream. Yet, would-be pilots know that such offers are few, and the schemes, reacting to market behaviour, have been sporadic. When sponsors do announce a course, many are called, ...
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CityJet re-emerges
Independent Irish airline CityJet has emerged from bankruptcy protection, clearing the way for a financial restructuring which includes the injection of ú4 million ($6.5 million) of fresh capital. Malmö Aviation of Sweden is to take a 42% stake in the carrier. Both airlines operate flights from London City Airport using ...
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Piper offers buyers trade-up incentive
BUYERS OFA new Piper aircraft are being guaranteed almost 100% of the original purchase price when they upgrade within 18 months to the next aircraft in the company's product line. New Piper Aircraft says that its Step-Up scheme offers a lower depreciation than would otherwise be experienced when trading in ...
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Found begins Bush Hawk tests
FOUNDAIRCRAFT Canada's plans to resurrect production of the FBA-2C light utility aircraft have progressed with the flight-testing of a rebuilt example. The Gravenhurst, Ontario-based company is flying the aircraft to collect the information required for re-instatement of the FBA-2C type certificate and the data needed for development of the improved ...
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Aerospatiale teams with Renault on fuel-saving diesel engine
AEROSPATIALE has formed a new enterprise with car and truck maker Renault to offer through its general-aviation subsidiary, Socata, a range of all-new horizontally opposed four-cylinder diesel engines for light aircraft. A new company, Société des Moteurs Aeronautique, has been created to develop and produce the engines, which ...
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Schweizer RU-38A flight tests to resume in May
Flight-testing of the Schweizer Aircraft RU-38A Twin Condor is set to resume in May now that the US Coast Guard (USCG) has renegotiated its $5.3 million contract with the US aircraft maker. The twin-engine surveillance aircraft project was put in limbo for nearly a year when one of ...
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LOT tackles local losses
In a bid to stem both financial losses and the erosion of market share by western European carriers, LOTis set to retaliate with the long-awaited launch of a new regional and domestic subsidiary, Eurolot. The wholly owned subsidiary, set up in December 1996, is due to start operations ...