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Leases set for Tu-204
Sirocco Aerospace International plans to announce its first lease commitments for the Rolls-Royce RB.211-535E4-powered Tupolev Tu-204-120, following the certification of the engine/airframe combination by the Russian Air Registry, and the first delivery later this month. Sirocco was officially launched in Moscow in December 1996 by Egypt's Kato Group ...
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Swissair closes on MD-10 conversion work
Swissair's SR Technics maintenance subsidiary has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to fit up to 25 DC-10-10s with an advanced, Honeywell-designed, two-crew flightdeck under Phase II of the FedEx MD-10 programme. MDC confirms that the MoU has been agreed, but adds that "-it ...
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UK carriers close on A300F contracts
SEVERAL UK-based cargo airlines are confirming plans to begin operating Airbus A300 freighters, as DHL works towards the introduction of the widebody on its intra-European network. Heavylift Cargo Airlines is understood to have concluded a deal with C-S Aviation Services for two British Aerospace Aviation Services (BAeAS)-converted A300B4 ...
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Vietnam nears decision on long-haul fleet
Vietnam Airlines expects to make a decision on a new long-range passenger aircraft before the end of the year, but says that its final type selection will be largely contingent on the availability of either US or European export-credit financing. The airline has narrowed its choice down to ...
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Japanese majors look to improve on a poor 1996
Japan's major airlines have revealed disappointing financial performances in 1996/7, as higher fuel charges and a weak yen eroded operating profits, but the carriers are optimistic that there will be improvements this year. Japan Airlines (JAL) swung back into the red with an overall net loss of ´9.2 ...
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Power shortage
According to current folklore, engine makers don't actually make any money out of building engines: they give them away, and then hope they will recoup the cost out of spares and maintenance in years to come. The engine makers, at least in public, will reject that as a wild exaggeration, ...
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Turkish clearance
US manufacturers have been cleared to bid to provide Turkey with more than 100 advanced attack helicopters. The US Government says that it is in the US national security interest to provide assistance to Turkey. In 1996, political controversy over US concerns that they would be used against Kurdish civilians ...
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The cost of free flight
RUNNING an orderly air-traffic-management (ATM) system using airways, by definition, confines aircraft to a fraction of the airspace available. At a time when the skies are becoming increasingly crowded - particularly in Europe - any ATM system which fails to use all available airspace is, therefore, giving up part of ...
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The necessity for European mergers
Sir - The Comment "Hands off" (Flight International, 21-27 May) appropriately addresses the real problem of European aerospace-industry integration. This difÌculty is also highlighted in the problems surrounding Aerospatiale and the valuation of its intellectual property rights in the negotiations to formalise Airbus Industrie as a standalone corporation. ...
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KLM
The supervisory board of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines intends to appoint Peter Hartman, now executive vice-president for engineering and maintenance, as a managing director. He has been with KLM since 1973. From 6 August, the board of managing directors will be Leo van Wijk, the new president and chief executive; ...
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H+S Aviation
UK engine-overhaul company H+S Aviation, of Portsmouth, Hampshire, has appointed David McRobert to the new position of marketing and business-development director. He was previously responsible for H+S' Pratt & Whitney Canada and Allison repair and overhaul businesses. Source: Flight International
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Helijet cross-border
Vancouver-based Helijet Airways has launched North America's first scheduled international helicopter service, with three daily flights between Victoria, British Columbia, and Seattle, Washington, using 12-seat Sikorsky S-76s. East Asia Airlines, meanwhile, plans to take delivery of three improved S-76C+ helicopters later this year, also in 12-passenger configuration, for use on ...
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Super 27 completed
UK maintenance company FLS Aerospace has completed the first Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 Boeing 727 re-engineing under Rohr's Super 27 Stage 3 modification programme. The aircraft was delivered to a Middle East government in mid-May. Source: Flight International
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Boeing orders fuel-tank checks on all 747s
All Boeing 747 operators will receive a service bulletin (SB) this month detailing inspection procedures for centre-wing fuel tanks, the manufacturer says. The SB relates to the continuing investigation into the July 1996 crash of a Trans World Airways (TWA) 747 which has "-determined that the centre-wing tank ...
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NTSB wants 1900 CVRs improved
Beech 1900 regional-aircraft operators should be required to inspect and repair deficient cockpit-voice recorders, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended. Safety Board investigators say that they had trouble understanding crucial radio transmissions from the United Express Beech 1900 which collided with a Beech King Air ...
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Great Lakes rebuilds its route structure
GREAT LAKES Aviation has started to rebuild its route structure after its aircraft were grounded in a dispute with the US Federal Aviation Administration over maintenance procedures. The regional airline, which feeds traffic to United Airlines and Midway Airlines, began offering limited services from 23 May to five ...
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Africa faces the call to improve ATC
Measures to improve airport, air-traffic-control (ATC) and communications infrastructures in Africa have been agreed at an International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) meeting in Abija, Nigeria. ATC safety standards in Africa were recently condemned by organisations such as the International Federation of Air Line Pilots and the International Air ...
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Workshop
++ Hunting Aviation Aircraft Engineering Centre at East Midlands Airport in the UK has become an approved maintenance centre for all models in the Boeing 727 series ++ Finnair's Technical division and Lufthansa Technik have signed a letter of intent on forming a strategic partnership in aircraft maintenance. As a ...
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Harbin signs CAG to complete Y-12s in Canada
CANADIAN AEROSPACE Group (CAG) has agreed to become the Western completion centre for China's Harbin Y-12 twin-turboprop 19-seat aircraft. A contract for two aircraft from an Alaskan operator is close to being finalised, says CAG, and the Ìrst airframe is almost complete at Harbin Aircraft Manufacturing. ...
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Deutsche BA losses leaked in report
A secret auditors' report detailing Deutsche BA's debts and losses has revealed that the company would have gone bankrupt last year, but for a cash bail-out from British Airways. The report, compiled by Ernst & Young, was leaked to the German press. It states that the five-year-old company's ...