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AASI raises funds
Long Beach, California-based Advanced Aerodynamics &Structures (AASI) has raised $32.4 million from a private placement to continue work on the Jetcruzer single-turboprop business aircraft. Source: Flight International
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European approval
BMW Rolls-Royce has received European certification for the BR710 turbofan powering the Bombardier Global Express business jet, one month ahead of schedule. Initial approval of the BR710 was received in August 1996, when the BR700-710A1-10 variant was certificated for the rival Gulfstream V . The variant powering the Global Express ...
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Egypt opens airports
Egypt has passed a law allowing private investors to build and run airports, paving the way for a series of build-operate-transfer (BOT) schemes. The first such scheme is under negotiation for Mersa Alam Airport, which will serve the Red Sea tourist resorts. A Kuwaiti-led consortium is in talks with the ...
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Fairchild fastens on
Fairchild Fasteners is to acquire Simmonds, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of aerospace and automotive fasteners, for $21 million in cash and $35.5 million in debt. Fairchild already has a German manufacturing operation and says the move will strengthen its presence in Europe. Source: Flight International
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Barco buys EIS
Belgian projector manufacturer BARCO is expanding into the US simulation market with the acquisition of Electronic Image Systems (EIS). The ten-year-old Ohio-based company, which builds high-resolution projection systems for civil and military simulators, will form the core of a new simulation centre, says BARCO. Source: Flight ...
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Banner ADDS fasteners
Banner Aerospace has acquired aerospace-fastener distributor P B Herndon. The St Louis, Missouri-based company, with annual sales of $20 million, joins Banner's fastener group. This includes Harco, acquired in 1996. Source: Flight International
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Fairchild data
Orbital Sciences' Fairchild Defense division has received an $18.9 million contract to supply mission-planning and data-transfer systems for Taiwan's AIDC Ching Kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter. Source: Flight International
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Aydin supplies Tusas
Aydin is to supply telemetry systems to Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS), under a $3 million contract, for use at an aircraft and missile flight-test centre to be established at Eskisehir AB. Source: Flight International
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P-3 training contract
Hughes Training, a unit of Hughes Electronics, has won a $9 million contract from the US Navy to design and build simulation equipment which will be used to train Lockheed Martin P-3C aircraft crews for anti-surface warfare and anti-submarine warfare missions. Source: Flight International
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Boeing-Sikorsky bid
A Boeing-Sikorsky joint venture has bid for the US Special Operations Forces Support Activity contract, which is to maintain US special-operations Boeing MH-47s, Lockheed Martin HC/MC-130s, McDonnell Douglas AH/ MH-6s and Sikorsky MH-60s. Source: Flight International
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Transponders for CIS
Spurred by the mid-air collision between a Saudi Arabian Boeing 747-100 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 in November 1996 near New Delhi, India, the US Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the feasibility of employing used transponders to reduce the risk of collision. The shelved transponders were those replaced by traffic-alert ...
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AMT transactions
British Aerospace Asset Management - Turboprops has leased eight BAe ATPs to Air Europa Express. The Spanish regional has already put the first three into service from Palma, Majorca. AMT has also sold three Fokker 50s to the Netherlands-based Frevag Group, parent of Fokker 50 operator VLM of Antwerp, Belgium. ...
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TATRA orders Saab 2000
Slovakian airline Tatra Air has placed an order for two 50-seat Saab 2000 turboprops to operate on routes including Bratislava to London Gatwick, as well as on other routes. The first aircraft will be delivered in October, with the second to follow in March 1998. Tatra Air operates two Saab ...
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Italy signs for Opher
Italy and Israel have signed a $25 million deal covering the purchase of the Elbit Opher autonomous terminal guidance kit. The contract, signed on January 28, is intended to provide the air force with an improved guided-bomb capability. Source: Flight International
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SAA reselects RB.211
South African Airways (SAA) has selected the Rolls-Royce RB.211-524H to power two Boeing 747-400s it has on order. The aircraft will be delivered in May and October 1998. The UK company's engines are already fitted to the airline's other -400s. Source: Flight International
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Yak-40 crash-lands
The pilot of a Krasnoyarsk Airlines Yakovlev Yak-40 successfully force-landed his aircraft in a Siberian field 28km (15nm) from his destination on 29 January. There was no injury to the four crew and 20 passengers on board as the aircraft landed in white-out conditions with 400m (1,300ft) visibility in snow. ...
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MBA for dash 8-200
MBA of Papua New Guinea has ordered one Bombardier de Havilland Dash 8-200, and taken an option on a second. The first will be delivered in September 1998. MBA has also purchased two Dash 8-100s and four DHC-6 Twin Otters from norOntair. Source: Flight International
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Wolf leaves Lair
McDonnell Douglas (MDC) MD-95 vice-president and programme manager John Wolf has left to become programme manager of Teledesic, a new Washington- based company created by Microsoft owner Bill Gates and cellular phone pioneer Craig McCaw, to "-develop a global broad band 'internet in the sky' using low Earth-orbit satellites." A ...
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P&WC acquisition
Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is to acquire part of Portsmouth, UK-based H+S Aviation's small-engine overhaul activities, as part of its "ongoing strategy to create a strong and efficient global service centre network". The sale involves P&WC PW100, PW901A and PT6T overhaul lines. Meanwhile, H+S has formed H+S Proptech, which ...
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Lord NVX system quietens DC-9/MD-80 cabin
LORDHASRECEIVED US certification for its NVX active noise-and-vibration control system on the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 and MD-80. The company says that its system is the first to be approved for use on large commercial aircraft, and "...is being considered for several DC-9/MD-80 installation programmes." Approval follows installation of the NVX ...