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dUm The centre fuselage section of Eastern Air Lines' first Boeing 757 undergoes final inspection before being moved to join the forward and rear sections at the Renton plant. This Eastern aeroplane, the third airframe built, will roll out on February 22. The airline will take delivery of the first two certificated 757s next December Airliner market Air Malawi is expected to place an order for two Boeing 737200s after being assured of US Eximbank aid in financing the purchase. Boeing has won the order against strong competi tion from the British Aerospace/ Bombac One-Eleven. Boeing's sales prospects in Asia are much better for the 757 than for the 767, according to Bobert Norton, the company's vice-president for Asia- Pacific sales. Norton says that 767 sales in Asia have been hampered by Airbus competition. He adds that the most likely Asian buyers of the 757 will be Indian Airlines, Garuda Indo nesian, and Malaysian Airline System. Chaparral Airlines has bought two Gulfstream American Gulf stream lCs. The Abilene, Texas-based carrier will receive the aircraft in August 1982 and February 1983. Polaris Aircraft Leasing Corporation of San Francisco has placed a $50 million order for two McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Super 80s and has taken options on two more. The pur chase takes the company's total Super 80 order to three—the first is already in service with AirCal. Both new air craft will be fitted with the single- class 155-seat interiors, and will be powered by JT8D-217s. One will be de livered in May 1982 and the other in March 1983. United Airlines is reported to be con sidering the purchase of 25 McDon nell Douglas DC-9 Super 80s with options on another 25. The Latvian Republic Corporation of Civil Aviation has taken delivery of its first Tupolev Tu-154B from the factory at Kuybyshev. By 1985 the Latvian Bepublic will have ten of the type. Until now, the largest aircraft operated in Latvia has been the Tu-134. International Lease Finance Corpora tion (Interlease) of Beverly Hills has ordered two Boeing 737-200s, for de livery in March and December 1982. Interlease has already taken delivery of four advanced 727-200s and eight 737-200s, these aircraft now being in airline operation under lease. Nigeria Airways has converted options on four Boeing 737-200s into a firm order. Two of the aircraft will be de livered in December 1982 and the other two in July 1983. The airline already operates six 737s on lease and has four 737-200s on order for mid- 1982 delivery. The latest Interlease and Nigeria Airways orders take total 737 sales announced by Boeing to 978. Pan Am has reinstated an order it dropped earlier this year for eight Boeing 727-200s. Two will be delivered this month and tihe other six during the first quarter of 1982. The re instated purchase takes total 727 sales to 1,824. British Airways is leasing three British Aerospace HS.748s from Dan- Air and one from BAe for its new Highland division. The aircraft have all been taken under one-year leases, with options on three-month exten sions. Burma Airways Corporation has ordered a Fokker F.27-500, for dom estic services and operations on behalf of the Burmese Government. Fokker has also sold two F.27-500s to an un disclosed customer. Jamahhirian Air Transport, a new Libyan carrier, is operating an II-76T. Top US airline executives leave to head new entrants TOP executives with two major US airlines have quit their jobs to head newly formed regional carriers. One of them is from Pan Am, the other from Braniff, and they have staked their futures on the success of new entrant airlines. But the circum stances surrounding their resignations appear to have been widely different. Boden A. Brandt, senior vice- president for airline planning with Pan Am until early this month, re signed unexpectedly to start up a new regional carrier based at Atlanta. According to one airline official, Brandt was "very well regarded at Pan Am", as he had risen quickly through its management structure since he came to it with National when the two carriers merged. But Bussell Thayer seems to have left Braniff under a black cloud. Thayer was once president of the air line, but was demoted to vice-chairman after its chairman and his mentor Harding Lawrence, was sacked because of Braniff's desperate financial plight. According to US press reports, Thayer's demotion effectively re moved him for the decision-making process controlling the airline. Thayer has now left to become president and chief executive officer of , TexasAmerican Airlines, a new entrant which proposes services be tween Houston, San Antonio, and New York next April, using four Boeing 737-200s. Currently Texas- American is a subsidiary of Overseas National Airways, but will go public early next year after a major stock issue. It will be based in either Houston or San Antonio. • Bobert Gallaway has been named president of Texas International Air lines, reporting to its chairman and chief executive Bobert Carney. Galla way had been executive vice-president at Air California (now AirCal) until July. People... Gordon Corps, Civil Aviation Authority chief test pilot, is leaving the authority on December 31 to become a test pilot with Airbus Industrie at Toulouse. Corps has been responsible for the UK airworthiness flight-testing of numerous types including Concorde and A300. Appointed as chief test pilot is Nick Warner, of the CAA test- flying team. RAE Bedford's Mike Bell will join the CAA test-flying team on January 1. CAA flight-test director and former chief test pilot D. P. Davies is to retire in May. Henry Butler has joined New York Helicopter as regional sales manager, UK/Europe. He will be based at the airline's new London sales office. FLIGHT International, 26 December 1981 1883
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