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Loadmaster tests
Light Helicopter Turbine Engine (LHTEC) has successfully completed the first series of engine tests on its CTP800-4T turboprop propulsion system for the Ayres Loadmaster. The joint AlliedSignal/Rolls-Royce engine, rated at 2,000kW (2,700shp) has completed 40h of testing, during which it reached a maximum power setting of 1,000kW. Clearance for full ...
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SIA profits down
Singapore Airlines (SIA) blamed the Asian economic downturn for its poor financial performance for the first half of its 1998 financial year with operating profits plummeting 44% to S$246 million ($x million), a drop of S$195 million on 1997 first half figures. Revenues were down $87 million at $3.43 billion. ...
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Cargo boosts ANA
All Nippon Airways has boosted its net profit by 68% for the first six months of the year, ending 30 September, partially on the back of increased cargo volume. The Japanese carrier reported an interim net profit of YEN10 billion ($85 million) off marginally higher revenue of ´468 billion. Cargo ...
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Derco F-5 support
Northrop Grumman has selected Derco Aerospace to take over the manufacture and supply of parts and assemblies for the F-5, RF-5 and the T-38 Talon trainer. Derco will supply kits to support F-5/T-38 overhaul and upgrade programmes. Source: Flight International
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Cirrus prepares to clear final SR-20 certification hurdles
Cirrus Design is scurrying to find a new avionics vendor and perform tests on a final seat design before clearing the last certification hurdles for its SR-20 business aircraft. The first customer deliveries are scheduled to start in December. The Cirrus SR-20 received US Federal Aviation Administration type approval ...
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Delays put back first Lancair Columbia delivery
Lancair now plans to deliver the first Columbia 300 four-seater in February 1999 and hopes to have completed the handover of the 200th aircraft by early in 2001. The February delivery date is almost five months behind the company's original schedule, which slipped after design changes were made to improve ...
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VisionAire revises Spirit design
VisionAire has made major alterations to its ambitious Spirit VA-12B "personal jet" sports aircraft and has begun construction of a prototype at its Chesterfield site in Missouri. "It should be flying within 18 months," says Tom Stark, senior vice-president of the company's Future Works advanced development division. The ...
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Aerospatiale stakes claim for A3XX assembly at Toulouse
Julian Moxon/PARIS The new chief of Aerospatiale's aeronautics division, Jean-Francois Bigay, has added to the controversy over the location of the new assembly line for the Airbus A3XX by pitching strongly to set up a plant at the existing Toulouse location. Aerospatiale is responsible for the final assembly of all ...
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Bombardier refines 90-seater
Guy Norris/PALM SPRINGS Bombardier has refined its plans for the proposed BRJ-X regional jet family and says a launch decision is likely to be taken around October 1999, pending the conclusion of a solid business case. Bombardier is now outlining plans for two main family members, a 90-seater ...
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USA moves to block Northwest bid for Continental
The civil lawsuit which the US Department of Justice (DoJ) filed in late October to block Northwest Airlines from purchasing a controlling stake in Continental Airlines could take federal courts years to resolve. The airlines describe the DoJ's claims as groundless, and Northwest still plans to buy the 51% ...
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FlightSafety adds new Miami hub
FlightSafety Boeing Training International is to establish a $100 million Latin American training hub in Miami, Florida. This follows the August announcement by the Boeing/ FlightSafety joint venture of plans to build an $85 million European training hub in London. The new Miami centre is scheduled to open in ...
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MD-11 probe leads to entertainment disconnection
Swissair has voluntarily disconnected the in-flight entertainment systems on its Boeing 747 and MD-11 fleets as a precaution because some heat-damaged wiring associated with it has been found in the MD-11 which crashed off Nova Scotia, Canada, on 2 September. Both the airline and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada ...
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Marketplace
-Frontier Airlines is leasing a Boeing 737-200 from Interlease Aviation Investors, and two new 737-300s, one from Air New Zealand and another from Heller Financial. The -200 has been delivered, while the two 136-seat -300s will go into service with the Denver-based airline in December. -TransAer has introduced its tenth ...
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ATR targets January launch for regional twinjet
An ATR Jet study team has submitted its final proposals to Aerospatiale and Aeritalia, parent companies in the ATR consortium, which could pave the way for the launch of its planned regional twinjet in January 1999. ATR marketing president Antoine Bouissou, speaking at the Speednews regional and corporate aviation ...
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More Air Do routes
Japan's transport ministry has licensed Hokkaido International Airlines, known as Air Do, to fly between Tokyo and Sapporo. The new carrier will fly three round trip services daily from 20 December, with fares to be set at 36% lower than existing ticket prices. Air Do is the second new Japanese ...
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Routes
-Transavia will begin year-round, scheduled services from Amsterdam Schiphol to Seville and to Rhodes in its 1999 summer season. -LTU resumes weekly non-stop flights between Munich and Cape Town on 6 November with a Boeing 767-300ER. The airline temporarily suspended flights to Cape Town six months ago, quoting less demand ...
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SIA wants slice of China Airlines
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI Singapore Airlines (SIA) wants to buy an equity stake of up to 30% in China Airlines (CAL), but the Taiwanese flag carrier will insist upon taking an equal share of SIA in return, according to CAL vice-president-commercial Sandy Liu. SIA has indicated a willingness to consider the 30% ...
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Russian engine makers call for shake-up
Lyubov Pronina/MOSCOW Russian aero-engine manufacturers have called for wholesale restructuring of the industry to produce a single domestic engine manufacturer, as well as for sweeping new legislation to save the nation's industry from extinction in the next century, including a law on leasing. The appeal came during a debate on ...
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BAe insures itself against lease portfolio losses
British Aerospace has finalised a novel plan to protect itself financially from any dramatic swings in the regional aircraft market, with the setting up of its "financial risk insurance programme" . BAe has a portfolio of some 600 aircraft, including BAe 146 regional jets and turboprops such as Jetstreams ...
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American and BA in accord on Iberia stake
American Airlines and British Airways, leaders of the oneworld alliance, have reached a tentative agreement with Iberia's state holding company to acquire jointly a 10% stake in the Spanish flag carrier as it is transferred into private ownership. The agreement, which signals the next likely move to bolster the new ...