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Japan Airlines; and, in the first weeks of 1992, to Singapore Airlines — both custom ers won back. The eight FFS orders booked by Thom- son-CSF in 1991 (four in 1990) included six sold by Link-Miles (acquired in 1990) and part of the Training and Simulation Systems division which the French com pany formed in April 1991. Whereas all 1990 sales were of Airbus simulators, the 1991 total includes five Boeing machines. Thomson-CSF would have been in second place with a 1991 total of 11 FFS had sales of three Airbus simulators, to Mexicana and Turkey's THY, come through in time. FlightSafety International sold two FFS to outside customers in 1991 (three in 1990); but the 17 machines it built last year, 13 of them for its own use, placed the US training company second only to CAE in terms of deliveries. The company opened its order- book for 1992 with the sale of the first Saab 2000 simulator to Crossair. It was a difficult year for smaller manu facturers, which accounted for just two FFS sales in 1991, down from seven in 1990. AAI Microflite Simulation International sold FULL-FLIGHT SIMULATOR SALES 1991 CAE ELECTRONICS All Nippon A/W American A/L Boeing Delta A/L DLT Federal Exp Japan A/L Japan A/S KLM NASA R Air Maroc REDIFFUSION SIMULATION All Nippon A/W Domier Ethiopia A/L Japan A/L Linjeflyg Swissair Thai A/W THOMSON-CSF Air China Air France Malaysia A/L NATCO Philippine A/L FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONA Japan A/S Singapore A/L AAI MICROFLITE SAS 747-400 757-200 Fokker 100 777-200 MD-90 Canadair RJ A300-600 747-300 MD-11 Saab 340B MD-11 747-400 737-400 — 13 767-300 Do328 x2 767 747-400 737-500 A310 737-400 747-400 — 9 737-300 747-400 757/767 A340 A330-300 737-400 A340-300 ' 737-300 — 8 L King Air Learjet 31 2* A320 — AERONAUTICAL SYSTEM DESIGNERS AS0L TOTAL * Excludes simulators for own use 747-200 — 1 34 16,000- 14,000- 12,000- •n 10,000- Alrcraf t a r simulato r 01 C O o o o o 4,000- 2,000- World total jet airliners and simulators Historical and forecast comparison 1966-2005 1 Actual I J Aircraft 1 J] Simulators Forecast i __——— O-'-T 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 L-l 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1966 68 70 72 74 76 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 1992 94 96 98 2000 02 04 Year r80 -70 -60 -50 "40 |S o £ -30 * -20 -10 -0 an A320 machine to SAS Flight Academy, while Aeronautical Systems Designers de cided to build — and operate — its 747-200 simulator. Reflectone made no sales in 1991, but has opened its 1992 orderbook with the sale of a British Aerospace 125-800/1000 business- jet simulator to majority shareholder BAe. Corporate-aircraft simulators are not in cluded in this census, but it is worth noting that Advanced Simulator Development (ASD) sold its first FFS, a Cessna Citation II/V, to SimuFlite in 1991. LOCKHEED CONTRACT Aviation Resources sold no new simulators in 1991, but won a sizeable contract to upgrade two Lockheed L-1011 simulators for Delta. Ferranti International, which launched its Vector 2000 simulator line in 1991, made no sales, but announced its first commercial contract, to upgrade three MD-82 simulators for SAS, early in 1992. Frasca International an nounced the formation of a certified devices group in 1991 to build FFS and flight training devices. The group's first sale was a generic twinjet simulator for All Nippon Airways. De spite difficult trading condi tions, Mitsubishi Electric last year announced plans to enter the commercial flight simula tion market. Orders for flight training de vices (FTDs) increased as pre dicted in 1991, to 28 from a level of around 20 in 1990, with the three major simulator manufacturers taking the major share the market. All but one of 12 FTDs sold in 1991 by Rediffusion (up from one in 1990) were ordered by Delta. The total included eight computer-aided procedures trainers (CAPTs) — lower-fidelity devices designed to bridge the gap between class rooms and Level 5/6 FTDs for the 737 and 757. The 11 FTD orders booked by CAE in 1991 (six in 1990) included the first devices for the 777 and MD-90. Boeing ordered a maintenance-training simulator and Level 7 flight-training device for the 777, while Delta bought a Level 6 FTD and two Level 4 CAPTs for the MD-90. The three FTDs sold by Thomson-CSF in 1991 (three in 1990) were all Level 5 devices for Air China and all will be built by Burtek. It was a lean year for other FTD manufacturers. FlightSafety sold a Beech King Air device to Japan Airlines, and Xionix sold a 737-300 FTD to Brazil's Varig. Atlantis Aerospace sold a King Air Level 5/6 This Rediffusion Simulation 747-400 FFS is at Johannesburg for South African Airways 30 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 8 - 14 April, 1992
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