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FlightSafety/Boeing
Boeing has reached agreement with staff at its Renton, Washington, customer-training centre allowing them to remain company employees after the airline-training joint venture with FlightSafety starts on 30 June. The 400 staff had been asked to join FlightSafety and about half have done so. Source: Flight ...
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Kiwi financing
Kiwi International Airlines expects a bankruptcy-court ruling in July over the $16 million rescue plan put in place by orthopedic surgeon Dr Charles Edwards and Wasatch Enterprises. Kiwi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 1996 and was forced to suspend services, but began flying again at the start of ...
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Frontier loss grows
Losses at Frontier Airlines doubled, to $12 million, over the latest 1996/7 financial year to March. The three-year-old carrier, based at Denver International, Colorado, hopes that three more Boeing 737-300s, bringing the fleet to 11 by the start of 1998, will help profitability, while talks continue over a possible merger ...
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Predator sensor
Northrop Grumman has received $16 million from the US Army to produce additional Tactical Endurance Synthetic Aperture Radar (TESAR) payloads for the General Atomics Predator unmanned air vehicle. The contract provides for nine TESAR payloads, two spares and a set of ground control-station displays. Delivery will be between May 1998 ...
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Southcentral upgrades
Raytheon Aircraft has delivered two used Beech 1900Cs to SouthCentral Air, of Kenai, Alaska. The airline has options on four additional 1900Cs and will use the aircraft to replace cabin-class piston twins now flown on scheduled services. Source: Flight International
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Delta heads south
Delta Air Lines has begun services to South America, with a daily round-trip Boeing 767 flight from Atlanta, Georgia, to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The airline will also seek additional authority to expand services to Brazil and other South American countries. Source: ...
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Power play
Greenwich Air Services has secured a ten-year deal with Britannia Airways for the repair and overhaul of General Electric CF6-80A2 and -80C2 engines. The contract value is put at around $85 million. Greenwich, which is in the throes of a takeover by General Electric, has also signed a $40 million ...
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Landing contract
The new Fairchild Dornier 328-300 regional jet is to be fitted with a Messier-Dowty landing gear. The deal is expected to be worth $70 million to the Anglo-French venture over the life of the programme. Source: Flight International
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Maintenance venture
GE Engine Services and EVA Airways have signed a memorandum of intent to explore the formation of an engine- overhaul and maintenance venture in Taiwan. The deal, in which EVA would have the majority stake, will handle engine overhaul for EVA and other airlines. Source: Flight ...
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CIS certification
The CIS has certificated Bombardier's Canadair Regional Jet, the de Havilland Dash 8 series turboprops and the Challenger 604 and 601corporate jets. Source: Flight International
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Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127 powers Ilyushin Il-114
The Ilyushin design bureau and Pratt & Whitney Canada finalised negotiations for a PW127F-powered version of the Il-114 turboprop on the opening day of the show. The Western-engined version, which is intended to be offered alongside the Klimov TV7-117-powered model, will have its maiden flight in 1998. Passenger and freighter ...
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Fairchild Dornier wins 328Jet launch orders
Regional-aircraft manufacturer Fairchild Dornier has secured the first sales of its new 32-seat 328Jet derivative of the Dornier 328 turboprop with two separate orders. The first firm order for six aircraft has come from Dijon-based regional carrier Proteus Airlines. A second order for four aircraft with four options ...
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Airbus waits for orders before committing to growth A340s
Airbus Industrie says that it needs a "significant" number of orders for the new A340-500/600 versions of the A340 before committing to full development and production. Despite that, sales chief John Leahy is "optimistic" that sufficient airlines to justify the $2.5 billion development cost will commit to the ...
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AMR Eagle divides regional-jet order: Embraer wins key deal
AMR Eagle has divided its long-awaited order for regional jets between Embraer and Bombardier, although the Brazilian manufacturer has won the key competition to supply 50-seaters. AMR Eagle will take delivery of the first of 42 firmly ordered EMB-145LRs, powered by the Allison AE3007A1 engine, in February 1998, ...
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Work begins on low-maintenance Adour
Rolls-Royce and Turboméca have launched development of a new low-maintenance version of the Adour 871 turbofan which powers the British Aerospace Hawk and McDonnell Douglas T-45 trainers. The Adour 900 will offer 4,000h between overhauls to meet what R-R military-engines chief Terry Graham describes as a demand for ...
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Airbus partners bicker on restructuring
Friction between the partners in the European Airbus consortium remained strongly in evidence during the show, with Germany launching thinly veiled attacks against the French position on restructuring the consortium. "We have no time to indulge in the favourite game of Europeans, which is summed up by the ...
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Airbus Industrie nets two new customers
Finnair and Brazil's TAM have become new Airbus Industrie customers, with orders for a total of 17 aircraft and options on a further 29. Finnair has chosen the Airbus A319/A320/A321 narrowbody range to replace its fleet of McDonnell Douglas DC-9s. The Finnish carrier will take an ...
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AI(R) and Embraer start talks on joint 70-seat regional-jet
Aero International (Regional) (AI(R)) and Embraer are holding talks on the possible joint development of a 70-seat regional jet. The companies have separate projects on the drawing board for regional aircraft, although uncertainties over their viability has been delaying progress towards a launch. Embraer chief executive Mauricio Botelho ...
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Royal Navy is poised to join ASTOR project
The UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD) £800 million ($1.3 billion) Airborne Stand-off Radar (ASTOR) project is on the brink of becoming a tri-service requirement. The Royal Navy is likely to join the programme, which is designed to provide the UK armed forces with an advanced airborne-surveillance capability. The ...
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MTU targets European military engines
Daimler-Benz Aerospace (Dasa) aero-engine unit MTU Munich hopes to set up a European military-engines company around its international partnership with France, Italy and Spain to develop the M138. The M138 is a turboprop derivative of Snecma's 50-105kN (11,250-23,600lb)-thrust M88 turbofan, which powers the Dassault Rafale Ìghter. The new ...