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DC-8-50/61 hushkit wins FAA certification
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Quiet Technology Venture (QTV), a unit of Fine Air Services, has become the first company to be awarded a supplemental type certificate by the US Federal Aviation Administration for a Stage 3 hushkit for the McDonnell Douglas DC-8-50/61. Martin Gardner, QTV's director of engineering, says ...
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EVA ditches plans for A340-500
Brent Hannon/TAIPEI EVA Airways has dropped plans to purchase 12 Airbus A340-500 and -600s after posting its first loss in over three years. The privately owned Taiwanese airline was among the launch customers for the new Rolls-Royce Trent 500-powered 313/380-seat A340 family, even though it never got beyond placing ...
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FAA close to finalising Flight 2000
Emma Kelly/LONDON The US Federal Aviation Administration is to present its final plans for the revised Flight 2000 programme in December. Flight 2000, formerly dubbed Ha'laska, was intended to be the FAA's operational demonstration of integrated flight system capabilities in Hawaii and Alaska. The programme, based on ...
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Boeing finds home for Garuda 737s
Boeing has found a home for two of the 737-300s that had been destined for Garuda. The manufacturer is also believed to be negotiating to place other aircraft previously destined for the Indonesian carrier with Air New Zealand. Heller Financial has signed a deal for the two "whitetail" 737-300s ...
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Kitty Hawk follows Fine Air and drops plans to buy Southern Air
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC Kitty Hawk has terminated negotiations to buy financially troubled Southern Air Transport (SAT), after the two companies failed to reach a final agreement. Neither airline would say what led to the decision to break off talks, which started soon after Miami, Florida-based Fine Air Services ...
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Lufthansa clears plans for $2.3 billion fleet expansion
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Lufthansa has cleared plans for $2.3 billion of new aircraft orders for the airline and its regional and freight subsidiaries. A total of 42 new aircraft is to be ordered for delivery from 2000. The airline says that this order is in line with anticipated traffic increases in ...
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Italy rethinks airport proposals after Malpensa rejection
The Italian Government is revising its proposals ordering airlines to transfer from Milan Linate to Malpensa Airport after the European Commission (EC) had rejected the plan, calling it "discriminatory, disproportionate and therefore illegal". Despite the decision, Italian transport minister Claudio Burlando still insists that the airport will open as ...
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Marketplace
-Debis AirFinance has confirmed its order for two A319s, which will increase its Airbus fleet to a total of 22, including aircraft on order. Debis recently acquired two new Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered A330-200s from Korean Air, the first of which has been delivered to the airline, while the second ...
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Northwest faces mechanics after pilot deal
Northwest Airlines managers face more unrest as they turn their attention to mechanics who are threatening to strike over pay and work rules. This follows resolution of a pilot strike earlier this month. The 27,000 maintenance workers of the USA's fourth-largest airline, who are represented by the International Association ...
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TNT introduces A300 freighter on European network
TNT began Airbus A300 freighter operations in early September with the charter of an A300B4-200F from Channel Express on an aircraft, crew, maintenance, insurance (ACMI) lease. The A300 has joined Channel's fleet of two A300Fs following conversion by Daimler-Benz Aerospace Airbus and is being operated on the nightly return service ...
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Workshop
-AvAero will supply Stage 3 hushkits for five Boeing 737-200s operated by Calgary, Canada-based WestJet Airlines. -Lucas Aerospace, which supplies 14 different line replacement units (LRUs) for the Embraer RJ-145, has signed a 10-year spares deal with Trans States Airlines to provide LRUs, plus maintenance on a cost-per-flight-hour basis. -United ...
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Upgrade house Aerostar hunts for strategic partnerships
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH Romanian fighter upgrade specialist Aerostar is looking for strategic partnerships in the civil and military sectors, possibly including the sale of equity in the Bacau-based company. On the military side, Aerostar is hoping to build on its experience in the $300 million MiG-21MF Lancer upgrade for ...
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French space agency may dilute stake in Arianespace
The director general of CNES, Gérard Brachet, has offered to reduce the French space agency's stake in Arianespace by some 12% to "around 20%", to open up the possibility of new shareholders joining the European launcher consortium. The move is part of what may turn out to be a ...
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Parc postpones
Pilot recruitment specialist PARC has postponed plans to float its shares. The Dublin-based company, once part of Aer Lingus, deferred plans to list on the Dublin and London stock exchanges in the face of volatile financial market conditions. Source: Flight International
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Rafael president threatens to quit
Itzhak Gat, president of Rafael, Israel's armament development authority, is threatening to resign on 1 January if the Israeli Government's decision to change the status of Rafael to a company is not implemented. The Government decided more than four years ago to change the status of Rafael from a ...
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Two's Company
The announcement of the American Airlines/British Airways-led strategic alliance brings into sharp focus the long term destiny for the world's airlines. The move, which was announced on 21 September, creates a second major power to rival the Star Alliance, which until now has existed in splendid isolation. Working on ...
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Powerplant failure grounds Outriders
Alliant Techsystems Outrider tactical unmanned air vehicles being test flown by the US Army have been grounded after the failure of a UAV Engines 801R gasoline powerplant during a flight on 9 September at the company's test centre in Glasscock, Texas. The fleet will remain grounded until the Joint ...
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Russian design bureau develops new R-77 seeker
Russian radar seeker design bureau AGAT has produced a prototype of a variant of the 9B1103M active radar seeker used in the Vympel R-77 (AA-12 Adder) , suitable for use in air-to-air and surface-to air-missiles. The system is likely to be fitted to Vympel's upgraded R-77M missile. Although sharing ...
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Raytheon supplies UK with AMRAAM costs
Raytheon of the USA has supplied the UK Ministry of Defence with cost estimates on buying several hundred Amraam AIM-120 B missiles for use on Royal Air Force Panavia Tornado F3s and Eurofighter EF2000s as an interim weapon while a next generation missile is developed. The estimates were delivered ...
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Arrow flies straight and true in first full test
A successful first test of the complete Israeli Arrow tactical anti-ballistic missile system was carried out on 14 September. The Arrow 2 was launched from the Israeli air force's test site at Palmachim. No target missile was flown, but the system's fire control computers simulated a target. The Arrow ...