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.NBAA PREVIEW_ A separate static display is a traditional feature of NBAA conventions. This year's will attract around 70 aircraft, including the Piaggio P.180 Avanti (below), which is making its NBAA debut NBAA programme schedule Sunday/Monday October 16-17 Managing and Marketing Flight Operations as a Service Business NBAA Education and Safety Foundation Course Curriculum Monday October 17 4.00 p.m. Registration (Loews Anatole Hotel) 7.00 p.m. Welcome Reception (Loews Anatole Hotel) Tuesday October 18 8.30 p.m. Trade show opens (Convention Centre) 9.00 a.m. Static display opens (Love Field) 1.00 p.m. Opening general session (Convention Centre) Keynote speaker: Ross Perot (founder: Electronic Data Systems) 4.00 p.m. Annual Members Meeting (Convention Centre) 6.30 p.m. Annual Honours and Awards Night Reception and Dinner (Loews Anatole Hotel) Presenters: FAA Administrator Allan McArtor and John Lauber (NTSB) Wednesday October 19 8.30 a.m. Trade show opens 9.00 a.m. Static display opens 1.00 a.m. Second general session— Satellite Communications Services for Business Aviation 3.00 p.m. Maintenance and Operations meetings (Convention Centre) Thursday October 20 8.30 a.m. Trade show opens 9.00 a.m. Static display opens 10.00 a.m. Maintenance and Operations meetings 6.30 p.m. Homeward-bound Reception and Dinner Dance (Loews Anatole Hotel) Friday October 21 9.30 p.m. Post-convention seminar (Loews Anatple Hotel)— Integrating the Flight Department with the Corporate Travel Department This year, the NBAA will for the first time host the Avanti and the certificated Learjet 31, Learjet 55C, and Beech Starship I aircraft. Piaggio will not be taking firm orders for the Avanti because its price has yet to be set, but it will be offering delivery posi tions. The Learjet 31 was to arrive at Dallas after a US demonstration tour, and the Learjet 55C was to return after a visit to the Farnborough Air Show and a European demonstration tour. Learjet is looking to the two new aircraft, which have improved short-field perform ances over earlier models, to set the company on a healthier course. Commenting on the dual certification, Learjet president Bev Lancaster said, "We anticipate these new models will return a major share of the market to us, and have a significant impact on the company's sales and earnings in the near and long-term future". Learjet shipped just 11 aircraft (ten Learjet 35As and one Learjet 55) in the first half of this year, worth $43-7 million. Jet sales are the only growth area in general-aviation manufacturing. US firms sold 69 jet aircraft in the first half of this year, compared with 56 in the corresponding period for 1987. Cessna accounted for most of them, shipping 28 Citations. Next came Gulfstream, with 23 GIVs worth over $337 million shipped, and lastly Beech, with seven Beechjet 400 sales. The six-monthly performances of Gulf- stream and Learjet look good when com pared with 1987 as a whole, when the Chrysler subsidiary sold 30 of its up-market corporate aircraft, and Learjet sold just 16 jets. NBAA is predominantly a US show but, along with several foreign manufacturers, Canadair will be present, and is bullish. It has already taken 19 orders this year for its Challenger 601 jet, and expects to take some more before the year is out. Next year it will build 24. "We are entering a healthy period of strong demand," says Antony Edwards, the recently appointed president of Canadair's Challenger division. Canadair says that the market is expanding, but claims to be taking market share from Gulfstream and Dassault, the French builder of the Falcon series of twin and tri-jets, making business better than at any time in the last five years. US turboprop shipments are less buoyant, with units virtually static at 120 in the first half of this year, compared with 119 for the first half of 1987, and 263 for the whole year. Beech shipped 47 King Airs from January to July this year, compared with some 119 for 1987 as a whole, and Piper shipped just 3 Cheyennes, compared with 21 over the same period. If a single quarter's results are anything to go by, however, the latest position indicated by the second quarter of 1988 is not so good. Jet deliveries remained static at 35, compared with the second quarter of 1987, and turboprop shipments fell by five to 68. While the likes of Piaggio will be hoping to sell in the USA, US firms are using NBAA to mount a new export drive. There is a need to reduce the US trade deficit, says the NBAA. Accordingly, the lobby organisation is taking advantage of the foreign-buyer programme run by the Department of Commerce, which sponsors trade shows by promoting such events through 66 overseas embassies. Thailand, Pakistan, France, and Venezuela are "just some of the countries" sending buyers to this month's convention. An international business centre is to be set up near the exhibition hall to assist the 115 companies which have declared an interest in exporting their products and services. The NBAA claims that the number of prospective exhibitors has been ahead of last year's "record-setting" pace. "If the current trend continues the [1988] convention should be the largest purely commercial aviation exhibition in the world", according to NBAA administration vice-president Alan Darrow. Aviation has always been a plus item for the USA in the balance of trade equation, says the NBAA. "This may continue to be the case for a long time with Department of Commerce support at shows such as NBAA, which has also been selected for 1989." Next year's convention is scheduled for Atlanta, Georgia. E 20 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 8 October 1988
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