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Raytheon Aircraft's Travel Air fractional-ownership subsidiary has sold its 100th share, just over one year since beginning operations. The Travel Air fleet now consists of 27 aircraft: seven Raytheon Beech King Air 200s, 13 Beechjet 400As and seven Hawker 800XPs. Source: Flight International
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New GPS
Northstar Technologies has introduced a global positioning system (GPS) trainer to enable Raytheon Beech Bonanza and Baron pilots to practise GPS approaches. The company expects the simulator, which operates with its M3 GPS navigator, to be used by some 750 pilots this year. Source: Flight International
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Galaxy Phasing in
Galaxy Aerospace plans to ease service introduction of its Galaxy business jet next year by having a pilot, maintenance technician and field service representative stay with each new operator for two weeks after delivery, discounting initial spares and performing a free maintenance check after 150h. Source: Flight International
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Finance widened
Cessna Finance is realigning and expanding its domestic and international financing activities for the manufacturer's Caravans, Citations and piston singles, focusing support for sales of the latter to Cessna pilot centres and flight schools. Source: Flight International
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Bell 407 approved
Eurojet Aviation has received UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approval to operate a Bell 407 on the public transport register. The Birmingham, UK-based executive aircraft charter and management company is now operating the single-engined 407 on the Canadian register, pending CAA certification, scheduled for late this year. Source: Flight ...
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Defender delivery
Britten-Norman will deliver a Defender 4000 twin-engined utility aircraft to UK-based Police Aviation Services (PAS) by the middle of the month. This marks the first sale for the Bembridge, Isle of Wight-based manufacturer since it was acquired by investment company Litchfield Continental earlier in the year. The Defender 4000 will ...
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Marshall selection
Bombardier has selected Marshall Aerospace in the UK as its first European independent authorised service centre for the Global Express ultra long-range business jet. Source: Flight International
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BAe Contract
Raytheon Aircraft has awarded British Aerospace long-term contracts, worth over $100 million a year, to produce airframes for the Hawker 800XP business jet. BAe Airbus at Broughton,Wales, will supply fuselages and wings, and BAe Military Aircraft &Aerostructures at Prestwick will supply doors, fuel tanks and flaps. Source: Flight International
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Target contract
The US Air Force has awarded Coleman Research a $165 million contract to develop an air launched target missile, using rocket motors from de-activated Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missiles. Source: Flight International
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Hungarian MIGs
Russia has offered to supply Hungary between five and eight secondhand MiG-29 fighters in exchange for wheat, in a deal expected to be finalised by the end of October. They would bolster the existing Hungarian MiG-29 fleet of nearly 30 aircraft. The barter deal aircraft are relatively new machines from ...
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Herculean task
Lockheed Martin has won a $47 million contract from the US Air Force to modify six USAF Reserve C-130Js to perform weather reconnaissance missions. The latest model Hercules will replace WC-130Es used to monitor hurricanes. The US Department of Defense has ordered 28 C-130Js to date. Source: Flight International
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Missile snags
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is trying to determine whether new technical snags with the Lockheed Martin Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile will delay the next test, which is scheduled to take place before the end of the year. In October, THAAD programme officials disclosed a short-circuit ...
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Sabena turbine failure
A Sabena Boeing 737-200 with 104 people on board suffered an uncontained starboard engine failure just after take off from Brussels Zaventem for Lisbon, Portugal, on 26 September. Upwind from runway 25R, engine parts from the Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 rained on the village of Diegem, damaging cars and houses. ...
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Crossair CAT III
Swiss national carrier Crossair is expected by the middle of this month to be cleared to operate its British Aerospace Avro RJ fleet of aircraft to Category IIIb weather minima, using a low-cost Honeywell automatic landing system. Source: Flight International
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Australia throws challenge to flailing Air Niugini
Brisbane-based Flight West Airlines has expanded plans for new services between northern Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG), further challenging embattled Air Niugini on one of its prime revenue earning routes. The Australian regional carrier now plans to add two direct flights weekly between Cairns and PNG's second city, Lae, ...
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Airports
-Saudi Arabia's Presidency of Civil Aviation has invited bids from Saudi Arabian companies and Saudi Arabian foreign joint ventures for the operation and maintenance of 24 domestic airports. The tender covers all airports except Riyadh and Jeddah. -Lufthansa's supervisory board has cleared plans for the airline to take a stake ...
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FAA free flight programme to retain existing ground navaids
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC A new airspace system modernisation plan drawn up by the US Federal Aviation Administration will retain at least one-third of the existing ground-based navigation and landing aids beyond 2015. The plan, expected to be released within a month, also foresees the introduction of automatic dependent ...
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MD-82 overrun at Ulsan adds to Korean Air's catalogue of woe
Korean Air's (KAL) battered safety record suffered another blow on 30 September when a Boeing MD-82 landing in wet weather at Ulsan Airport overran the runway by 150m (470ft), less than two months after another major incident at Seoul involving a KAL Boeing 747-400. According to the airline, three ...
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BA 777 order leads to launch of Trent 895
Rolls-Royce has launched the 95,000lb (423kN)-thrust Trent 895 engine on the back of an order to power up to 32 Boeing 777-200ERs ordered by British Airways (Flight International, 30 September-6 October). The 895 is identical to the current Trent 800, but has increased thrust because of higher temperature margins. ...
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SilkAir replaces 737s and Fokker 70s with V2500 Airbus A319/320s
SilkAir has added the first of eight International Aero Engines V2500-powered Airbus A320s and A319s to its fleet. The regional arm of Singapore Airlines has orders for four A319s and four A320s, with a further 10 aircraft on option. Because of the downturn in the region, SilkAir will use ...