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Jet Aviation award
Jet Aviation has added three hangars to its fixed-base operation at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport, bringing the total hangar capacity to more than 4,700m2 (52,000ft2). The Swiss business-aviation service company has received two awards in recognition of its contribution to the Las Vegas economy. Source: ...
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Cirrus breaks ground
Cirrus Design has begun construction of a manufacturing plant in Duluth, Minnesota, for the SR20 light aircraft. Cirrus has orders for 115 SR50s, with certification scheduled for early 1998. Source: Flight International
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Alliant takes fuze lead
Alliant Techsystems is to acquire part of Motorola's military-fuze business for $12 million in a move likely to allay US Department of Defense fears over the decision by Motorola, its biggest fuze supplier, to leave the business. Source: Flight International
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ITT supplies CV-22 EW
ITT Avionics has received a $25 million contract to supply the ALQ-211 integrated radio-frequency countermeasures system for the USAir Force's CV-22 special-operations version of the Bell Boeing Osprey tilt-rotor. Source: Flight International
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F110 F-15 evaluation
The second General Electric F110-129-powered Boeing F-15E has entered flight tests at the US Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron based at Nellis AFB, Nevada. The full programme is due to run for 12 months and will involve more than 1,000 engine flight hours on two F-15Es. The first ...
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RSAF expands in USA
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) plans to establish a small KC-135R training base at McConnell AFB, Kansas. The decision is the result of Singapore's purchase of four Boeing KC-135Rs from the USA through foreign-military-sales channels. RSAF training sites exist at Luke AFB, Arizona (F-16), and at Grand Prairie, ...
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Huzar claims denied
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski says that a long-awaited decision on a missile to arm the PZL-Swidnik Huzar attack helicopter will only be taken after a new round of test launches has been carried out "on Polish soil, under Polish conditions". Kwasniewski has told reporters in Warsaw that fiÌnal choice of ...
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Mexico upgrades ATC
Mexico is to install Northrop Grumman surveillance radars in the first phase of air-traffic-control (ATC) modernisation. Primary and secondary radar will be installed at Guadalajara and near Mexico City. Source: Flight International
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Finnair co-operation
Air France and Finnair are to co-operate on the Helsinki-Paris route, starting on 26 October. The three daily flights will operate on a codeshare basis. Finnair will also transfer its Paris operation to Terminal Two at Charles de Gaulle. Air France is believed to be one of the airlines which ...
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Eurowings doubles up
German regional carrier Eurowings is doubling its frequencies between Frankfurt and Berlin Tempelhof with up to eight flights daily. Source: Flight International
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S Korean grounding
The South Korean air force has grounded its fleet of 49 locally built Lockheed Martin Block 52 F-16C/Ds, following the loss on 18 September - the second recorded in six weeks - of the Pratt & Whitney F100-229-powered fighter because of an engine flame-out. An air force investigation into the ...
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C-17s record
US Air Force Boeing C-17s completed what is thought to be the longest-distance airborne mission in history on 15 September, when eight aircraft were flown 14,508km (7,842nm) non-stop from Pope AFB, North Carolina, to Uzbekistan. The aircraft underwent three aerial refuellings during the flight, which lasted for 20.7h. ...
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Lufthansa expands
Lufthansa is to expand its long-range fleet by the addition of two Airbus A340-300s and two Boeing 747-400s. It has also formed two new subsidiaries. The board also approved the transfer of 550 accounting staff dealing with passenger operations to a new subsidiary, LRS Lufthansa Revenue Service in Norderstedt, as ...
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Boeing may increase range of 767-400ER
Paul Lewis/SEATTLE Boeing is studying development of an increased-range version of the recently launched 767-400ER stretched derivative in response to demands from potential buyers for better performance. The US manufacturer says that it is considering extending the range of the new 767-400 by up to a ...
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Antonov An-140 takes to the air
Alexander Velovich/MOSCOW Antonov'S An-140 twin-turboprop regional transport had its first flight on 17 September from Svyatoshino airfield in Kiev to the nearby Gostomel flight-test centre. The flight lasted 1.5h. The first effort to fly the aircraft six days before was unsuccessful because of the failure of ...
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Deal opens French door for Swissair
French independent airline AOM has agreed a "commercial and industrial" alliance with Swissair. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union (EU), and the alliance with AOM will provide Swissair with access to the lucrative French internal market for the first time. The deal, which is expected ...
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Colourful Canadian
Air Canada has taken delivery of its an Airbus A319 painted in the historic Trans-Canada Airlines' colours to commemorate the airline's 60th birthday, which takes place this month. The aircraft, the fourteenth of 35 A319s on order, uses a small portion of all the different liveries flown by the airline ...
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easyJet expands fleet and starts Liverpool operation
easyJet has ordered 12 Boeing 737-300s, for the first time directly from Boeing. The London Luton-based low-cost carrier has previously acquired secondhand aircraft, primarily from leasing companies. The airline had also considered acquiring new-generation 737s and had looked at Airbus narrowbodies. The new aircraft will be added to ...
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Fijian start-up plans scheduled services
A Fijian start-up carrier is planning to launch scheduled passenger and freight services from Nadi to selected Asian, European, Indian and South Pacific destinations from early 1998. According to Fiji International Airway's Singapore-based chief executive, Alan Lindrea, the company hopes to be granted an air operator's certificate by ...
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Iberia starts work on American alliance
Iberia has cemented the first element of its recent commercial agreement with American Airlines. The Spanish Government has also reconfirmed that the flag carrier will be "fully privatised" by 1999. Iberia now has frequent-flier and codesharing programmes in place with the US carrier, and expects to tie up ...