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GENERAL AVIATION Aeroleasing restructures GENEVA " . ~ "Today Switzerland, tomor row the world" seems to be the aim of Aeroleasing Holdings, a new Swiss company which plans to expand in Europe, the Far East, and Africa. It has been formed to co ordinate the activities of the Aeroleasing group, which has bought part of Geneva-based Transair Suisse in addition to its earlier acquisition of Exec utive Jet Aviation. The group offers executive-aircraft char ter, sales, finance services, and maintenance, and has affiliates in France, Italy, and the UK. Mother-company Aero leasing traces its origins from 1966, when it flew a Piper Aztec and an Apache. Today, the fleet comprises more than 25 jets from Lear to DC-9, including a Falcon 900. It has a minority interest in Omni Holding, which provides financial expertise. ALG Leasing obtains financing for the group fleet, as well as for third-parties, while Aeroleasing Trading in Freibourg looks after sales of new and used aircraft. Charter facilities are also provided by Executive Jet Aviation, which was purchased in May 1986. The latest member of the group is Transairco, which was finally signed up at the end of November. Formerly part of Transair Suisse, this operation will service and maintain the Aeroleasing fleet, as well as other customers' aircraft. The holding com pany says that before it bought the fixed-base opera tion it was running out of space because of growing demand for services at Geneva (where it is in head- to-head competition with Jet Aviation, another inter national business-aviation service company). Transair Suisse continues as the Swiss Beech distribu tor, while Transairco is a dealer and Beechcraft service centre. Aeroleasing expects to examine Transairco's pricing structure in an effort to become more competitive. "Transair Suisse had a repu tation for good work, but was expensive for customers with soft currencies," the company tells Flight. Dassault Falcon customers in the United States can now get software to facilitate spares enquiries from the comfort of their own hangars Falcon Jet computerises spares TETERBORO Customers of Falcon Jet, the North American distributor of Dassault business aircraft, are being offered computer software for spares enquiries and ordering. The software runs on customers' IBM-compatible personal computers linked to Falcon Jet's databank by modem, a device for sending data by telephone line. Users may query spares price and availability, current order status, and part numbers via part description and vice versa, as well as ordering parts. Midcoast Aviation is the first user and is on-line to Falcon Jet for some six hours daily, the distributor says. French build Antarctic strip ADELE LAND ~ French polar-expedition authorities are to press ahead with plans to build an airstrip in Adele Land, south of Australia. They claim that they will take all measures necessary to minimise danger to the environment. Work on the 1,100m run way, which was interrupted in 1984, would resume immedi ately and would last for about five years, at a cost of FFr100 million. The environmental organi sation Greenpeace has pro tested that the runway is a potential threat to the area's flora and fauna. Officials in Paris say "Measures will be taken to limit damage to the flora and fauna, especially the bird populations". The runway will be built on a dyke above a group of small islands in the Pointe Geologie archipelago. Its use will be limited to about a dozen flights a year. Aerial shots find ancient sites LONDON ~ Chartered light aircraft will be used to take up to 100,000 aerial photographs over the next five years under a major archaeological study being funded by the British Govern ment. The use of aerial photography is an established means of detecting evidence of historical activity not immediately apparent at ground level. Specific com binations of weather, soil type, and agriculture reveal archaeological sub-structures. With a number of signifi cant discoveries under its belt, including the discovery of a Neolithic ceremonial site and burial enclosures dating from 2,500BC, the Royal Commis sion on Historical Monu ments plans to have photo graphed all archaeological features of historical interest in England by 1992 under a programme involving 2,500hr of aerial work. Biggin Hill Executive Aviation has been providing a Cessna 172 and pilot, and aircraft have been chartered by 15 regional archaeological agencies participating in the study. The Royal Commission provides a navigator and photographer, who collects infrared and visible-spectrum images. Rowan Whimster, head of the commission's photo graphic unit, is hoping for good weather in 1988, after two poor years in which dis coveries were disappointing. The one-year contract with Biggin Hill Executive comes up for renewal in March. Editor wins navigation prize LONDON ~ Flight editor David Mason, flying as navigator, and pilot Mike Grant won fourth place in the 1987 GNav navigation competition. The full results are: 1st (GNav Trophy) Lucy Osborne and Helen Flack. 2nd (Cabair Trophy) Hugo Schalkers and Noel Hool- boom. 3rd (Air Tour Award) E. Felix and D. Harrisberg. 4th (BPPA) Mike Grant and David Mason. 5th (Three Counties Trophy) Andy McCluskie and Jerry Moore. The Cabair Trophy for instructors competing as solo pilots in a simulator was won by Ann Ventura. 14 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 2/9 January 1988
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