Roger Sperry has become vice-president of North American sales for Learjet, of Wichita, Kansas. He was previously with Cessna Aircraft. Gordon Carr becomes sales director at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, responsible for the northeastern USA. He was managing partner of the Rusk/Carr Aviation consultancy.
Source: Flight International
Nigeria’s president has travelled to France on an Airbus A330-200 business jet which the country has acquired to upgrade its government transport. President Bola Tinubu flew from Abuja to Nice on 19 August on board the aircraft. The A330 – a Rolls-Royce Trent 700-powered airframe, registered 5N-FGA – was originally ...
Investigators have determined that a non-rated pilot inadvertently activated the lift dump on a Beechcraft Premier I business jet during final approach to Subang, causing it to lose height and crash short of the runway. None of the six passengers and two pilots survived. Two motorists were also killed when ...
US firm Sierra Nevada (SNC) has been awarded a $170 million contract to deliver two Rapcon-X surveillance aircraft to the Finnish Border Guard.
