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Snecma declines Trent 900 partnership offer
Snecma president Jean-Paul Bechat has rejected a Rolls-Royce offer to join in development of its Trent 900 engine for the forthcoming ultra-large capacity aircraft. "Our natural loyalties rest with General Electric," he says, adding that R-R is already a competitor on small, medium and large power plants ."It ...
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CAAC refusal on Airbus forces Xinjiang to turn to Boeing fleet
Paul Lewis/BEIJING China's Xinjiang Airlines is waiting for central Government approval to order up to 15 new Boeing 737s and 757s after being refused permission to purchase Airbus A320/A321s. The Urumqi-based carrier urgently needs new aircraft to revamp its fleet and to phase out older Russian-built ...
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Garuda to float shares in 1998
Delivery of A330s has been pushed back as Garuda prepares to float Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE The long-delayed privatisation of flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is now planned for December 1998, according to the country's finance minister Marie Muhammad. The size of the initial public offering remains ...
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Meridiana fights for profit with cost cutting and employee share scheme
Meridiana Is Cutting Its DC-9 Fleet But Adding MD-82 Italy's second-largest airline, Meridiana, is fighting to stay in profit as high operating costs and declining domestic traffic threaten major losses in 1997. The carrier made a L25 billion ($16.5 million) pre-tax profit in 1995, but expects ...
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Sextant Avionique pins hopes on its ATM business
Julian Moxon/Paris Sextant Avionique expects its fast-growing air-traffic-management (ATM)-systems business to net more than a one-third share of the market and add nearly Fr500 million ($100 million) in sales by the end of the century. Sextant and its parent, Thomson-CSF, launched a major initiative at ...
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Virgin Express plans 25-aircraft order
Virgin Express has opened talks with manufacturers over its fleet-renewal plans, which could see the European low-fares airline take up to 25 new aircraft over the next five years. The Brussels-based airline is looking at options to acquire Boeing 737-700s, Airbus A319/ 320s or McDonnell Douglas MD-80/95s, says ...
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Romaero
One-Eleven Series 560 Romanian manufacturer Romaero (formerly IAvB/Rombac) concluded an agreement with British Aerospace in May 1977 to acquire the production rights for the One-Eleven twinjet, and final assembly was transferred from the BAe plant at Bournemouth-Hurn to Bucharest, Romania. The first Romaero-assembled One-Eleven 500, designated the ...
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Shanghai Aviation Industrial (SAIC)
SAIC is the prime Chinese contractor for the TrunkLiner co-production programme with McDonnell Douglas, under which it is assembling 20 MD-90-30s for the Chinese market at its plant in Shanghai. Chinese industrial participation in the SAIC MD-90 programme involves three Chinese companies producing sub-assemblies - Xian Aircraft: wing ...
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SATIC Special Aircraft Transport International
SATICA300-600ST "Beluga" Super Transporter Development of an outsized version of the Airbus A300-600R to carry large aircraft-subassemblies was initiated by Airbus Industrie, which needed a replacement for the aging fleet of four Aero Spacelines Super Guppy turboprops employed to ferry sub-assemblies between the Airbus partner plants. ...
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Tupolev
Tu-154M The Tu-154M is the current production version of the 160- to 180-seat Tu-154 TriJet, which was first flown in October 1968. Initial versions (the Tu-154, -154A and -154B-2) were equipped with Kuznetsov NK-8 engines. The Tu-154M was announced in 1983, powered by Aviadvigatel D-30KU turbofans and featuring ...
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Airbus Industrie
A300 Launched in May 1969, the 250-seat A300 was Airbus Industrie's first product, and the first example was flown from Toulouse, France, in October 1972. The first production A300 variant, the -B2, entered service in May 1974. The -B4 growth-weight version followed, while several F4 and C4 versions ...
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Antonov
An-70T The An-70T four-engined propfan-powered military airlifter became the first aircraft ever to take off using propfan power only, when Antonov completed the aircraft's maiden flight in December 1994. The programme was thrown into turmoil , however, after the fatal crash of the single prototype aircraft on 10 ...
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Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
First next-generation 737, a -700, is in final assembly at Renton, Washington British Airways has taken new Boeing 747s, 767s and 777s this year Boeing built 45 of the short-fuselage 747SP The 747 family is set to grow with two new variants, the 462-seat ...
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Fokker Aircraft
F28 Fokker Aviation is studying a possible re-engineing programme for ageing F28s, replacing the type's existing Rolls-Royce Speys with General Electric CF34s or with R-R Tays. More than 200 F28s are still flying and at least one operator, Scandinavia's SAS, has already invested in Fokker 70-style cabin upgrades ...
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Airliners of the World
Airbus and Boeing vie for victory in the high-capacity market. After a string of new airliner model go-aheads last year, 1996 has seen the launch of only one new model - the 757-300 - as the major manufacturers concentrated on the definition of new high-capacity models. ...
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Italy is close to helicopter selection
The Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police are soon to decide whether to buy the Agusta A109 Koala or a licence-built version of the McDonnell Douglas MD500 helicopter, to replace its fleet of Agusta-Bell 206s. At one stage, it looked as though Agusta would have to build the MD500N, after ...
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P&W wins huge Asiana deal to power A330s and 777s
The Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engine family has been selected by Asiana Airlines of South Korea to power its future fleet of 48 Boeing 777s and Airbus A330s. Asiana opted for the PW4000 series after a campaign which largely revolved around price and the competing engine manufacturers' willingness ...
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Hopes fade for Fokker rescue
The wings have fallen off the Fokker/Samsung deal Kevin O'Toole/LONDON Fokker's administrators have called a halt to the Samsung rescue plan and admit that the chances of saving the bankrupt Dutch manufacturer are now "extremely small". The decision was taken after the South Korean ...
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Malaysians plan to start manufacturing Eagle
Composites Technology Research Malaysia (CTRM) will begin manufacturing its Eagle X-TS all-composite sports trainer at its Batu Berendam plant in Malacca, in February 1997. This decision follows the 13 November lifting of certification weight restrictions by Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), which is responsible for oversight ...
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MDH cuts helicopter prices to boost sales
McDonnell Douglas Helicopters (MDH) is to introduce aggressive price cuts to stimulate sales of its MD600N and MD902 after admitting that its prices "have been too high". The price of the eight-seat MD600N, which is expected to receive US Federal Aviation Administration certification by early December, is ...