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GENERAL AVIATION Boeing adds to sales of corporate 737-700 GRAHAM WARWICK/ATLANTA BOEING BUSINESS Jets has sold a corporate 737-700 to an unidentified customer. The order marks die first outside sale for the joint venture formed by Boeing and General Electric in July to market the new-generation 737 as a long-range business jet. GE launched the programme witfi an order for two aircraft—die first to be delivered in trie fourth quarter of 1998. The first outside sale was arranged by San Fran cisco-based aviation management and consulting firm Aviation Methods, and the aircraft will be delivered in late 1998. Boeing will deliver the green aircraft, costing $30.5 million, to a completion cen tre to be selected by the customer, for installation of the interior. The corporate 737 is being offered in competition with the Bombardier Global Express and Gulfstream V long-range business jets, both of which are capable of carrying eight passengers up to 12,000km(6,500nm)atMach0.85. Boeing says that the 737 business jet will cruise atup to M0.§2, and its auxiliary fuel-tanks will allow a range approaching 11,000km. • AlliedSignal puts GPS on the Internet ALLIEDSIGNAL Aerospace has introduced a system which allows operators of its Bendix/King global-positioning system (GPS) products to download database updates via the Internet, rather than waiting for them to arrive on diskettes or cartridges. All GPS-based navigation sys tems require regular updates of the database to remain current, particu larly when used for approaches. AlliedSignal, like its competitors, sends out monthly updates for its KLN89,89B,90B, 100and900sys- tems. GPS product manager Bruce Hensel expects users to be able to downloade database updates from the Internet by January. Allied- Signal estimates net savings of 20- 35%, depending upon how frequendy the updates are made.Q Automobile engine growth motors on RAPID GROWTH in the use of modified automobile en gines to power amateur-built air craft was a key feature of this year's US Experimental Aircraft Assoc iation (EAA) Copperstate Fly-In which was held at Phoenix, Ari zona, on 10-13 October. Tucson, Arizona-based SWAG Aeromotive proved the fuel econo my of its modified Geo Metro three-cylinder engine by mounting the engine in an 80%-scale replica of a Curtiss Jenny canard biplane and flying it from Tucson to the Fly-In with an average fuel-con sumption of less than 3.41itres/h. At the other end of the power scale, Copperstate saw the public debut of Performance Aircraft's Legend racing kitplane, powered by a modified Chevrolet Vee-8 engine developing 3 3 5kW(450hp) in its non-turbocharged form. • Raytheon raises turboprop output rates RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT says that deliveries of turbo prop aircraft increased in the third quarter, and it expects full-year shipments of all aircraft types to exceed its 1995 total of 409. Deliveries of 16 Beech King Airs and one Beech Starship took busi ness-turboprop shipments for the first nine months to 65 aircraft, compared to 57 in the same period ofl995. Raytheon also delivered 51 Beech 1900D regional turboprops in the first nine months, up from 47 in 1995. It expects business-jet deliveries to pick up in the fourth quarter: six Beechjet 400As and two Hawker 800XPs were shipped in the third quarter. • Four-seat Katana plan DIAMOND AIRCRAFT HOPES to fly a four-seat derivative of its popular Katana DA20 "within 36 months", says the Cana dian-based company. A second line is already being built to meet demand at the London, Ontario, factory. The company says that it has around 280 orders, and production for the rest of the year is sold out. Output is around one a day, and there is a "12-16- week waiting time for new aircraft". EXPERIENCE = RESULTS AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING INSTALLATION SERVICES INC. SETTING THE WORLDWIDE INDUSTRY STANDARD FOR AVIONICS INSTALLATION KITS • AVIONICS SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, CERTIFICATION & INSTALLATIONS • EXCELLENT CUSTOMER & ON-SITE SUPPORT • SPECIALIZING IN TCAS/MODE S, RADAR.WINDSHEAR, GPS, SATCOM etc. • FLEET STANDARDIZATION V • CUSTOM AEROSPACE SHEETMETAL FABRICATION • FAA-PMA AEIINC-. 6901 TPC Drive, Suite 300 Orlando, Florida, 32822 Tel: (954) 351-0079 Tel: (407) 438-4436 • Fax: (407) 438-0776 UK+ 44(0) 1252 850 393 SITA: ORLAECR FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 30 October - 5 November 1996 23
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