India's Megapode Airlines is subleasing a Dassault Falcon 2000 from TATA finance. It will be available for charter from December. The nine-seat twinjet will join Mumbai-based Megapode's eight British Aerospace 125-700s. Dassault is negotiating with an unnamed Indian customer for the sale of a Falcon 900EX.
Source: Flight International
US firm Sierra Nevada (SNC) has been awarded a $170 million contract to deliver two Rapcon-X surveillance aircraft to the Finnish Border Guard.
Turkish business jet charter company Air Sapphire has been heavily fined by the US government for flying a Gulfstream GIV to Russia without authorisation.
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered inspections of the Gulfstream G500 and G600 fleet in response to a “quality escape” involving improperly installed engine-mounting hardware.
