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GENERAL AVIATION Air/Space America '88 is on SAN DIEGO The Air/Space America '88 trade show is to go ahead during May 19-22 at Brown , Field, near San Diego, despite the organisers' failure to raise the funding originally targeted. By last week, 240 com panies from eight countries had agreed to attend, making the show a rival in size and scope to established events like the Asian Aerospace Show now on in Singapore, according to Speck Barker, Air/Space America's director of marketing. The firms will occupy temporary buildings (canvas- covered for economy), and attendance fees, ticket receipts, and revenues gath ered at the four-day affair will provide the funding for future shows, says Barker, who dismisses earlier suggestions that the show had run into financial trouble. "We had a cash flow problem, but the show can run and run." After three biennial Air/Space shows, permanent facilities will be built at Brown Field if environmental factors permit, Barker adds. Many US firms will attend, but Boeing and a number of other major organisations have refused, many citing the unacceptable cost of being at Brown Field and Farn- borough, England, four months later, according to Barker. Another problem is the passive opposition from the Aerospace Industries Association of America. "Their policy is not to oppose the show, but not to support it," he says, claiming that this has prompted some leading US firms to stay away. The show has been seen as an easy entre for imports, even though Air/Space Amer ica has been trumpeting the show in the USA as a shop window for US products. Barker has been pushing hard to attract overseas buyers willing to attend, and he has been supported by the US Department of Commerce Air/Space America '88 is going to be much broader in scope than other US trade shows, the organiser says in Japan, China, and Singa pore. "America is the world's biggest market but has never had a big show, and small-to- medium-sized firms just can't afford to go to Paris or Farn- borough. I can feed five people in San Diego, in one of the best restaurants in the coun try, for the price of a lunch in Paris. They want a US show and we guarantee to be nicer to people than at any other show." Air/Space America is a non-profit body and will donate proceeds to educa tional scholarships. Helicopters collide on approach PABELOKAN Three people were killed and a fourth was badly injured when two helicopters, a Bolkow BO.105 and a Bell 206, chartered by a US oil com pany, collided while attempt; ing to land in Indonesia. The accident happened at Pabelokan Island, part of the Thousand Islands chain about 70 miles north of Jakarta. Pabelokan is the offshore base for Iiapco exploration and production operations in the Java Sea. The dead and injured were on board the Pelita Air Service BO.105. Three pas sengers on the Bell 206, owned by the Darazona Air Service, escaped without injury. Cessna delivers 1,500th Citation WICHITA Cessna has delivered the 1,500th Citation business jet, an S/II, which is to be oper ated by Executive Jet Aviation of Columbus, Ohio. The large US charter operator has nine more Citation S/IIs on order, and has options on another 12. Cessna claims that the Citation is the most prolific business jet worldwide, and says that one departs on a flight every minute, the fleet averaging more than 2,000 flight hours daily. The Citation V will be introduced next year, and Cessna expects total Citation deliveries to have topped 2,000 four years later. Cita tion shipments have averaged 100 per year over 15 years, but last year's total of 62 was well down. India operates 400th Dauphin Aerospatiale's 400th Dauphin, a Turbomeca Arriel-engined SA.365N with VIP interior, is being operated by India's Pawan Hans for regional governments. Pawan Hans now has six VIP Dauphins and 21 others, and though most current work is offshore support, it aims to start services linking city centres and airports soon. 14 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 30 January 1988
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