All General aviation articles – Page 679
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Incident reporting
All airlines are subject to at least one level of compulsory incident reporting: this normally involves reporting to their national aviation authority those relatively serious events which result in physical harm to people, damage to equipment, or risk to safety. Less-serious incidents may be reported within an airline ...
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Skippers Sale
Fairchild Aircraft has sold a Metro 23 to Skippers Aviation, based in Perth, Western Australia, for delivery in July, with a second aircraft on option. The US manufacturer has delivered two Metro 23s to Hainan Airlines of China and one to Asia-Pacific Airlines of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sydney-based Australian Jet ...
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ST50 heads for Paris
Cirrus Design, has completed US flight-testing of the ST50 single-turboprop business-aircraft and shipped the engineering prototype to Israviation in Israel. Duluth, Minnesota-based Cirrus developed the all-composite ST50 under contract to Israviation. The prototype will be re-assembled in Israel, where flight-testing is scheduled in preparation for the aircraft's first ...
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MDHS speeds up 600N programme programme
McDONNELL DOUGLAS Helicopter Systems (MDHS) has accelerated development of the MD600N (formerly the MD630N) to bring forward US certification to the third quarter of 1996. Several design changes have been announced by the Mesa, Arizona-based company,, including a switch to a more powerful, digitally controlled, version of the Allison 250 ...
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Starships go to NASA for advanced GA programme
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has donated two Beech Starship twin-turboprop business aircraft to NASA for studies related to the US Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (AGATE) programme. The AGATE programme is intended to combine the resources of NASA, the US Federal Aviation Administration, industry and universities to develop new technologies, ...
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Go-ahead for Caravan conversion fully funded
SOLOY HAS TAKEN delivery of the Cessna 208 Grand Caravan, which will serve as the prototype for its Dual Pac-re-engineing programme. The Olympia, Washington based company also says that it now has sufficient funding for the project, courtesy of local businessman Keith McCaw. Soloy's plan is ...
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Europe splits from FAA over single-engine IFR rules
Julian Moxon/PARIS THE EUROPEAN Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) has distanced itself from North America and Australian authorities over allowing single-engine turbine-powered aircraft to be operated commercially under instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) and at night. JAA operations-committee director Richard Yates says that the authority is unlikely ...
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Fokker plans new Indian link
FOKKER IS CONSIDERING closer co-operation with aerospace company Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), including an extension to the components work already undertaken by the Indian company for the Fokker 50. The Dutch concern is targeting India for sales of the turboprop Fokker 50 and the Fokker 70 and 100 regional ...
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Bombardier tests CL-415 modifications for France
BOMBARDIER HAS completed flight-testing of modifications to the Canadair CL-415 water-bomber and is preparing to present the results to France's Securite Civile, which had refused to take delivery of the aircraft (Flight International, 9 March-4 April, P17). Scooping tests were conducted off North Carolina in early April, ...
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UK companies combine for American initiative
Five UK aerospace companies are to form a joint venture, to market their products to North American airframe manufacturers, as part of an UK Government initiative to boost exports by smaller concerns in the aviation sector. Aerospace Systems and Technologies, the Aircraft Research Association, BP Chemicals Advanced Materials ...
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Bombardier and AMR reveal plans for jet-share venture
Bombardier and fixed-base operator AMR Combs are to begin operating a joint- venture fractional-ownership programme in June, following the official launch of the scheme in New York on 3 May. Business JetSolutions, in which customers participate in a shared- ownership programme, will eventually involve the Canadian manufacturer's full ...
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Cessna decision drives move to unleaded fuelfuel move
Efforts to develop unleaded aviation-gasoline (avgas) have been boosted by Cessna's decision that, when it restarts production of piston singles in 1996, it will use engines which can be run on low-octane unleaded fuel. New Cessna 172s and 182s will be powered by Textron Lycoming low-compression-ratio engines, able ...
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Competition conference
Europe is less than two years away from completing the single European air market, yet bitter disputes continue to rage over issues ranging from airport access and slot allocation, through to state aid and US open-skies deals. To help address these crucial issues, Flight International has been invited ...
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UK gives option to cut take-off separation
SOME AIRCRAFT departing from London Heathrow Airport will be operated at half the present take-off separation minima during a UK Civil Aviation Authority-sanctioned trial scheduled to start in June. The current separation for a narrow-body following a wide-body is 2min, and the proposal would reduce this to 60s. ...
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Gulfstream V on schedule for first flight
The long-range Gulfstream V business aircraft is on schedule to be flown in November. Certification and the beginning of production deliveries by Gulfstream Aerospace are still scheduled for late 1996. Northrop Grumman will deliver the first wing for the Gulfstream V in July. The risk-sharing GV partner will ...
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SR20 builds up hours
Cirrus Design has put more than 50h on its prototype SR20 following its 31 March first flight. Construction of a second aircraft is already underway as the Duluth, Minnesota based company moves towards certification of the type in 1996 and deliveries at the end of the same year. ...
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Beriev secures Be-200 orders
BERIEV SAYS THAt it has secured what amounts to launch orders for its Be-200 amphibian from Russia's Federal Forestry Service and the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The Federal Forestry Service claims that it will need 50-60 fire fighting aircraft between 1996 and 2005. Its requirements, was spelt ...
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EngineAir uses Chevrolet V8 for kitplanes
A heavily modified automobile engine is being developed by Daytona Beach, Florida-based EngineAir to power high-performance kitplanes. The 310kW (420hp) liquid-cooled, all-aluminium, V8 engine is expected to be flown in August, powering a Lancair IVP pressurised, four-seat, kitplane. EngineAir chief executive James Rhom says that the engine is ...
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AlliedSignal wins key SAS deal for MD-80 anti-icing
SCANDINAVIAN Airlines System (SAS) has selected AlliedSignal's overwing anti-icing system for its McDonnell Douglas MD-80s. The airline lost an MD-80 in 1991 when ice shed from its wings caused the rear-mounted engines to flame out. Its selection of AlliedSignal's Electro-Thermal Ice Protection System (ETIPS) for its 69 MD-80s ...
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AlliedSignal launches GPS receiver
ALLIEDSIGNAL Aerospace has introduced the world's first hand-held combined global-positioning-system (GPS) receiver and VHF communications transceiver. The company booked orders for more than 1,000 Bendix/King KLX 100s within days of launching the $1,400 GPS/comm. unit at the Experimental Aircraft Association's Sun 'n Fun fly-in at Lakeland, Florida, ...