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Skytrader Scout Stol sale in balance A $167 million Philippine programme to purchase Skytrader Scout Stol transports depends on the US Govern ment offering sufficient compensation for the retention of US military bases on the Philippines. Agusta hopes that the disagreement will allow its SF.600 Canguro to be chosen instead. Skytrader president John Dupont is confident that the deal will go through. "We just received a copy of a letter of endorsement from the office of President Aquino, which served notice to us that the programme is going forward with the neces sary stamp of priority." The co-production pro gramme is likely to provide more than 400 jobs for skilled technicians and offer work to hundreds more. An initial order for 50 Scout short take-off and landing utility aircraft would permit local assembly from kits. Support for Skytrader's posi tion has come from Congress man Dave McCurdy, who serves on the Armed Forces and Science and Technology Committee and who represents Oklahoma, where Skytrader manufacturing subcontractor Gulfstream Aerospace is based. "The Skytrader Scout Stol programme definitely can provide the Philippine Govern ment with a valuable tool in rejecting an insurgency, while playing a significant part in stimulating the Philippine economy" he argues. Last month Agusta announced a LrlOO billion contract to supply 18 SIAI Marchetti S.211 trainers to the Philippines. The contract includes an industrial co operation package which involves the Canguro. Should the Skytrader deal go through, 15 of the initial 50 Scouts would be manufactured in the USA and then shipped to the Philippines for assembly. During the second year, 24 kits would be 50 per cent manu factured in the USA and 50 per cent by the Philippine Air Force (PAF). In the third year the PAF would manufacture about 90 per cent of the remain ing aircraft. ORDER BOOK Italian regional airline Aliblu has ordered two British Aerospace Jetstream 31s. Delivery is scheduled for January 1989. They will join Aliblu's existing fleet of four Jetstreams. Polaris Aircraft Leasing has announced five major inter national transactions, in cluding its first-ever deal in China. The total value of the deals, involving 12 airliners, is approximately $280 mil lion. China's Poly Technol ogies has bought two new Boeing 737-300s to transport senior Government officials. Both aircraft have been delivered. Gulf Air has leased two new 767-300ERs. Powered by General Electric CF6-80C2 engines, the air craft have been leased for five years initially. A deal with Britannia Airways involves the sale and lease back of six used 737-2O0S for five years with renewal options. Polaris has leased a new 737-300 to Taca, the El Salvador-based privately owned airline. The aircraft will be leased for a minimum of 32 months. The final deal is the lease of a 737-300 to Orion Airways for two-and- a-half years initially. Virgin Atlantic has leased two Boeing 747-200s, ex- Singapore Airlines aircraft, through International Lease Finance for an initial seven- year period. They are to be delivered in March and July 1989. Built in 1980, the low- time Pratt & Whitney- powered 747s will be over hauled and refurbished before delivery by Singapore Airlines. ILFC purchased the aircraft for $ 106 million and is negotiating with SAI to buy a third 747-200 and two 757-lOOs for delivery in 1990. DK Aviation has arranged the lease of a Fokker F.27 to MUK-Air of Denmark. The F.27, owned by K/S Air Charter Norway, will be used on a regular night mail contract for the Danish Post Office, and on passenger services during the day. Local reports suggest Hungary's Malev is to lease three Boeing 737s from an un-named US company. Two of KLM's subsidiaries are re-equipping. NLM (above) has ordered seven Fokker 50s, and Netherlines is buying six 33-seat Saab 340Bs. Under the agreement, Malev may purchase the 737s after six years service. Hungary has no funds available to purchase the 737s, reports suggest, despite its fleet becoming obsolete and new Soviet aircraft not being scheduled for delivery until the mid-1990s. The UK Export Credit Guaran tee Board has guaranteed a $21-8 million loan to the Royal Bhutan Government to enable its national airline, Druk Air, to purchase a BAe 146-100. Minerve, a Paris-based supple mental air carrier, has ordered two McDonnell Douglas MD- 11s. The first will be delivered in April 1991, the second in March. 1993. Pratt and Whitney will supply 12 PW2040 engines for five Boeing 757-200s ordered by Condor, Lufthansa's charter subsidiary, for delivery starting in January 1990. Condor has placed options on two more 757s, for which P&W will supply another five engines. The seven-aircraft commit ment is worth more than $330 million. The European Investment Bank has lent Martinair $1 • 3 million to purchase a Boeing 747-200C. The Netherlands charter airline is modernising its fleet with the purchase of the 747-200C and two 767-300ERs. Royal Air Maroc has ordered three Aerospatiale/Aeritalia ATR42-300s for delivery in May 1989. The 42-seat twin- turboprops will be used to expand the airline's internal services. Canadian Airlines Inter national has completed a sale and leaseback agreement with Polaris Aircraft Leasing, worth more than $94 • 5 million, involving 11 Boeing 737-200s. The aircraft have been placed on short-term operating leases of from one to seven years. British Airways has just started operating its first Boeing 737-300, which is one of four new machines on two-year leases from Danish airline Maersk. The intention is that they will displace four -200s from Heathrow to Gatwick, which will displace four BAe One-Elevens to Birmingham. jfl milllim lll-r-r ttttttfl****? 14 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 15 October 1988
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