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Merpati concludes BAe 146 lease agreement with NJS
NATIONAL JET Systems (NJS), of Australia, has signed an agreement to sublease up to ten BAe 146s to Merpati Nusantara Airlines. The aircraft will partially replace the Indonesian domestic carrier's ageing Fokker fleet of 15 F27s and 25 F28s on regional routes, beginning in November. Adelaide-based NJS, which ...
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Samsung presents Dutch with Fokker business plan
Julian Moxon/PARIS Paul Lewis/SINGAPORE SOUTH KOREA'S Samsung Aerospace has finally presented to the Dutch Government its business plan for the acquisition of Fokker Aircraft. A response from the Hague is due by 18 October and, if the plan is accepted, will lead to the launch of ...
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Deutsche BA will sell turboprops to French carrier
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DEUTSCHE BA IS TO sell its loss-making turboprop activities to French carrier Regional Airlines, leaving the German British Airways daughter to focus on its jet-airliner operations. The sale comes just a month after BA announced that it was to restructure its European operation as part of ...
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Suitors consider Air Liberte bids as deadline approaches
BIDS FOR STRUGGLING French independent airline Air Liberté, were due to be deposited with legal administrators at a Paris court on 14 October. British Airways, Virgin Express and Corsair owner Nouvelle Frontiéres were all considering whether to make offers. Foreign airline interest centres mainly on the valuable slots ...
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Saab completes restructuring with turboprop division
THE FINAL PART of a major restructuring of Saab's aircraft units is in place, with the announcement that turboprop manufacturer Saab Aircraft is to be divided in two. Saab Aircraft will remain as an independent subsidiary of Saab, but will focus only on sales, marketing and product support. ...
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No-gain pain
AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS ARE effective, if often tragic, teachers, and the aviation community always learns greatly from them. Incidents - the accidents which didn't quite happen -- can be just as effective teachers, but the aviation community learns far less from them. The reason is fear of disclosure- a fear which ...
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German budget-juggling delays Tiger production
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH GERMAN DEFENCE minister Volker Rühe has delayed by 12 months production of the Eurocopter Tiger helicopter. The move is an attempt to ease pressure on an overloaded and heavily cut German defence budget. Tough negotiations with industry over funding for production of the Eurofighter ...
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At cross purposes
Sir - In the article "Highly rated" (Flight International, 11-17 September, P46) the acronym CCQ is written as cross-crew qualification. I have heard, however, the term crew cross-qualification. I believe that the latter is correct, since it depicts what it is, the cross qualification of crews between two or more ...
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Brunei finalises MPA configuration
The Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF) has finalised its choice of avionic sensors for a planned fleet of Indonesian-built Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) CN-235MPA maritime patrol aircraft. Its long-awaited selection of a search radar, forward-looking infra-red imager (FLIR), electronic support measures (ESM) and identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) interrogator, ...
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Paveway III cleared for carriage on F-16
THE TEXAS Instruments Paveway III (GBU-22) laser-guided bomb has been cleared for carriage on the Lockheed Martin F-16. The company-funded trials programme was carried out by the US Air Force at Eglin AFB, Florida. Source: Flight International
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Into the space corridor
RUSSIAN COSMONAUT VALERI KORZUN is pictured inside the node connecting the modules of the Mir 1 space station during the recent STS79 Shuttle Mir Mission 4. The node, attached to the Mir core module, which was launched in 1986, now provides access to the Kvant 2, Kristall, Priroda and Spektr ...
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Stretching forward
Guy Norris was among delegates to the 40th symposium of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, in Beverly Hills on 2-3 October, to hear progress reports on several new aircraft.Source: Flight International
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FBO acquisition
AMR Combs has agreed to acquire the recently renovated Martin Aviation fixed-base operation (FBO) at Orange County Airport in California, to add to its chain of ten FBOs in the USA plus two in Mexico. Source: Flight International
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Air-taxi purchase
Oklahoma City-based FBO Downtown Airpark has acquired a local air-taxi company OKC Flight, renamed Downtown AirCharter, and plans to add a Cessna Citation or similar business jet to its charter fleet. Source: Flight International
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Noisy phase-out
The US Federal Aviation Administration reports that US air carriers are ahead of schedule in phasing out noisier Stage 2 aircraft such as the Boeing 727 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9. The number of Stage 2 aircraft in service declined in 1995, from 2,250 to 2,048. By 31 December, 1996, airlines ...
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Debonair expansion
New UK low-cost carrier Debonair will introduce flights from London/Luton to Rome's Ciampino Airport on 21 November. Source: Flight International
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Good business
Scottish regional airline Business Air is to add two ex-American Eagle Saab 340As to its fleet, bringing the total to ten. The airline wants to develop further its Manchester-based routes and take advantage of its new code-sharing agreement with Continental Airlines. Business Air, which recently became part of the Airlines ...
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Canadian spaceport
Canada's Akjuit Aerospace, which is planning to establish a national satellite-launching base, has formed an alliance with Russia's STS Komplex for launches of the Start booster fleet. Spaceport Canada plans to provide complete turnkey services to commercial space customers, starting in late 1998. Source: Flight International
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Argentine delivery
Schweizer Aircraft has delivered two Model 300C light helicopters to the Argentinian Coast Guard. Both float-equipped aircraft are being used for training and river-patrol operations. The helicopters are equipped with litter kits for medical evacuations and cargo hooks for external cargo hauling. Source: Flight International
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Dunlop de-ices
Dunlop Aviation Ice Protection & Structures has been selected by Rinaldo Piaggio to provide anti-icing heater mats for the fore-planes of the Italian manufacturer's P180 Avanti turboprop-powered business aircraft. The mats are bonded to the leading edges of the fore-planes, and can be retrofitted to existing aircraft, says Coventry, UK-based ...