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Flightcraft additions
Portland, Oregon-based Flightcraft has added a Cessna Citation II and III to its corporate-aircraft management fleet, and now manages more than 30 aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Chilean Piper
New Piper Aircraft has appointed Piper Chile, based at Santiago's Tobalaba Airport, as its sales and support representative for Chile. Source: Flight International
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Wing competition
British Aerospace faces competition from Northrop Grumman and possibly two Asian manufacturers to produce the wing for Raytheon Aircraft's planned replacement for the Hawker 1000 business jet. Fuji and Mitsubishi are believed to be possible bidders. Source: Flight International
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Rear entry
Avcon Industries has received US certification for an extended Raytheon Beech King Air rear-entry door, developed jointly with Hawker Pacific. Kansas-based Avcon expects installations of its King Air baggage door to begin in the second quarter. Source: Flight International
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Seminole registration
New Piper Aircraft has delivered two Seminole piston twins to Sault College, Ontario, Canada, for advanced flight-training. The college's first twins are the first Seminoles registered in Canada since 1980. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream service
Gulfstream has opened a new service centre adjacent to its headquarters in Savannah, Georgia. The centre, with a staff of 374, can accommodate 16-20 Gulfstreams and can perform inspections, repairs and modifications. Source: Flight International
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Space bottle
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which will despatched towards the planet Saturn in October 1997, will carry the space-age equivalent of a message in a bottle - 1 million signatures stored on a disc. The space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has invited interested "space travellers" to send signatures on a postcard. ...
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Failure scenarios
China Great Wall Industry has identified four possible reasons for the failure of the inertial-guidance platform of the first Long March 3B booster which was destroyed moments after launch on 14 February. They are a broken wire leading to the torque motor, a blockage in the interior of the unit, ...
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The X-prize
The X-Prize Foundation has been established to find private benefactors to provide $10 million funding to award to the first private team to build a re-usable spacecraft to carry three people on a sub-orbital spaceflight, "...doing for space what the Orteig Prize (won by Lindbergh) did for aviation", say the ...
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Atlas Air to sell shares
US cargo carrier Atlas Air plans to sell 3 million shares to help pay for six Boeing 747-200s to be purchased from Thai Airways International. The sale will reduce chairman Michael Chowdry's stake by 6.7%, to 63.5%. Source: Flight International
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Textron buys Valois
US company Textron has completed the acquisition of French fastener manufacturer Valois for $120 million, plus the assumption of $130 million in debt. Paris-based Valois had 1995 revenues of $435 million. Source: Flight International
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Continental repays debt
Continental Airlines has repaid almost $260 million in debt to its largest creditor, including a prepayment of $210 million, and negotiated more-favourable terms on most of its remaining debt with the creditor. Source: Flight International
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Cambodian expansion
Royal Air Cambodge (RAC) has signed an agreement to lease a third ATR 72 turboprop from June. The move follows recent threats made by the Cambodian Government to revoke RAC's monopoly, unless the flag carrier acquired more aircraft and improved its services. RAC was relaunched in January 1995 as a ...
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Vienna expansion
Vienna's Schwechat Airport has opened a new terminal, pushing capacity up to 12 million passengers. The addition of the Pier West terminal follows a record 1995 for the Austrian airport, reporting passenger growth of 10.6%, compared with the previous year, to top 8 million passengers for the first time. Airport ...
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Saudi selection
Saudi Arabian Airlines has selected Honeywell/Racal multi-channel satellite-communications systems for 23 Boeing 777s, five 747-400s, 29 McDonnell Douglas MD-90s and four MD-11s on order. The systems will provide cockpit and cabin communications. Source: Flight International
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Fokker talks
Negotiations, between a group of Russian companies led by Yakovlev and Tupolev, over the possible purchase of Fokker, continued during the first week of April, with a visit by Russian executives, to the Dutch aircraft makers plant. Yakovlev general designer Alexander Dondukov says agreement could be reached by the end ...
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Swift action
Australia's newly elected government has ordered swift action to remove the chronic air-traffic bottleneck at Sydney's Kingsford Smith (KSA) Airport, and boost its capacity by about 25%. Movements on KSA's intersecting east-west runway 07/25, whose approaches over-flew the electorates of two ex-government members including former transport minister Laurie Brereton, will ...
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Sheffield Airport
Amsterdam and Paris are the most likely destinations for scheduled services when Sheffield City airport opens late in 1997. Plans for the privately funded airport are expected to be unveiled on 9 May. The northern English city of Sheffield, reputedly, the largest in Europe without an airport, was to have ...
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Third success is achieved for Shuttle-Mir programme
THE SPACE Shuttle STS76/Atlantis landed at Edwards AFB, California, on 31 March after the successful third Shuttle Mir Mission (SMM). The Atlantis, launched on 22 March, docked with the Russian Mir 1 space station, delivering US astronaut Shannon Lucid to the station to undertake a 143-day flight ...
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First replacement GPS satellite launched
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) launched the first replacement Navstar global-positioning satellite (GPS) into orbit aboard a Delta 2 from Cape Canaveral in Florida on 27 March. The launch demonstrated MDC's capability to support the 24-satellite operational constellation which could become an industry-standard for air navigation and other civilian applications, ...