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New TAG company
TAG Group has formed an operating company, TAG Aviation Holding, bringing together Aviation Methods, Aero Leasing of Switzerland and TAG Aviation UK. It will have bases in San Francisco, Geneva and London. Its aim is to make "-international business travel convenient and economical". Source: Flight International
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Bell displays
Rogerson Kratos' NeoAV integrated instrument display system (IIDS) has been selected as standard fit by Bell Helicopter Textron for its new, light twin Model 427 helicopter. The company also plans to offer the NeoAV EFIS(electronic flight instrument system) as an option on the 427. First deliveries of the helicopter are ...
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Piper autopilots
The System 55 autopilot produced by Texas-based S-TEC will be available on New Piper aircraft from 1999. Those fitted include the Saratoga II HP and II TC, which will have it as standard. The system will also be offered as an option on the Piper Archer III. The autopilot will ...
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Bond contract
Bond Helicopters has won a £35 million (54 million), three-year contract with British Petroleum. The Aberdeen, Scotland-based firm will transport North Sea oil rig personnel using two Eurocopter AS332L Mark 2 Super Puma helicopters. Source: Flight International
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Zimex support
Zimex Aviation has been appointed a Dassault authorised service centre providing maintenance and support for the range of Falcon Jets from its Geneva, Switzerland base. The contract is scheduled to start in January. Source: Flight International
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Cueing test
The Joint Helmet-Mounted Cueing System (JHMCS), which will allow pilots to lock on and fire at enemy aircraft by simply pointing their head at the target, has been successfully demonstrated on two test aircraft in California. The JHMCS, which is a joint US Air Force, Navy, Boeing and Lockheed Martin ...
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KLM's alpine deal
KLM has signed a partnership deal with new Austrian airline Air Alps Aviation, due to begin operations in mid-1999, with two 31-seat Fairchild Dornier 328. Air Alps, 49% owned by Air Engiadina, will serve Amsterdam Schipol three times daily from Salzburg and Innsbruck. Source: Flight International
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American thinks again on 1999 expansion plans
The weakening international economy has caused American Airlines to rethink its growth programme for 1999, with proposals for certain new routes being dropped and aircraft retirements increased. The US major is to retire eight McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10s and two Boeing 727-200s several years earlier than planned, bringing its total ...
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Lufthansa objections to Aeroflot 737 services resolved
A dispute over Aeroflot's use of its new Boeing 737-400s, which are not registered in Russia or the European Union, on services to Germany has been resolved. A ban on the operations had been implemented in early October, after an objection was made by Lufthansa. The Bermudan registered Boeings ...
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Amakusa takes Dash 8 for island link
Amakusa Airlines, a new Japanese regional carrier, is to start operations with a recently ordered Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8, according to Bombardier Aerospace. Delivery of the 39-seat Dash 8-100 will take place next October, but the airline does not plan to launch revenue services until early 2000. Amakusa ...
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More airlines sign up for used ATR 42s and 72s
Julian Moxon/PARIS The recently formed Asset Management arm of Franco-Italian regional aircraft manufacturer ATR has signed new contracts placing 23 used ATR 42s and 72s with nine airlines. The organisation predicts that it will have placed around 50 used aircraft by the end of the year, by which time "-we ...
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ERJ-135 prototype testing forges ahead
The two Embraer RJ-135 prototypes in flight test have accumulated some 235h of testing and demonstration flights. The second aircraft, which joined the programme on 24 September, is a conversion of the second pre-series ERJ-145 and is being used for system testing. The first aircraft, which is being used to ...
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Britannia 737 deal heralds regional return
Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON Britannia Airways has confirmed its move back to the sub-200-seat market after an eight year break, with a deal for up to 10 Boeing 737-800s. The move will enable the UK charter carrier to increase services from UK regional airports and boost its Scandinavian operations. Britannia has ...
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Mandarin/Formosa set to merge in June
Andrzej Jeziorski/SINGAPORE Taiwan's China Airlines (CAL) has fixed a June target date for the merger of its two subsidiaries, Mandarin Airlines and Formosa Airlines. The move is intended to create a new domestic carrier, allowing CALto concentrate on international services. It has been under examination since mid-1998, following ...
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Airbus revamp slips back
Julian Moxon/PARIS The managing director of Airbus Industrie, Noel Forgeard, has confirmed that the restructuring of the four-nation consortium around a single corporate entity (SCE) is not now likely until the end of 1999. He reiterates that the reorganisation is so urgent that it should go ahead independently of ...
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Litton flight tests gyro retrofit on Boeing 727
Litton Aero Products is flight testing its LTR-97 fibre optic gyro-based system on a Boeing 727-200 as a strap-down replacement for potentially thousands of aircraft equipped with older electro-mechanical, vertical and directional gyros. The market, estimated to be for around 5,000 systems, includes McDonnell Douglas DC-8s, DC-9s and MD-80s, ...
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Sticky problems tar Malpensa operations
The latest in a stream of mishaps and malfunctions to have plagued Milan Malpensa Airport since its 25 October "relaunch" as Milan's primary international airport is the melting of the newly laid surface of runway 1. Aircraft were disabled on 5 and 6 November when lumps of tar stuck to ...
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767 instrument system mystery failure traced to battery faults
David Learmount/LONDON AN Almost total failure of a Boeing 767's electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) during a transatlantic flight has been attributed to battery installation faults, according to a US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report. The 28 May, 1996, Martinair Holland 767-300ER flight from Amsterdam Schiphol to ...
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Marketplace
-Atlas Air has placed one Boeing 747-200F and two Boeing 747-400Fs with FedEx on wet-lease, by the end of the year. -Cebu Pacific is boosting its McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 fleet to ten with the addition of three more aircraft.The first aircraft, an ex-Air Canada example, was delivered last month. Two ...
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ANA/China agreement
All Nippon Airways (ANA) and China Eastern have signed a commercial deal, including codesharing, to come into effect on 1 February, subject to a Government go-ahead. Initially there will be 18 codeshare flights a week from Osaka to Shanghai and Beijing via Qingdao. Source: Flight International