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Flight Safety
Edward Beauvais, chairman, president and chief executive of Western Pacific Airlines, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, has been appointed to the board of governors of the Flight Safety Foundation in the USA. Beauvais, who founded Western Pacific, also founded America West Airlines, serving as chairman and chief executive. ...
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Western Pacific
At Colorado Springs, Colorado-based Western Pacific Airlines' first annual shareholders' meeting, Martin Dugan was re-elected as a director and Clayton Bennett, Ivan Irwin, Glenn Stinchcomb and James Wikert were elected directors. Edward Beauvais, founder, chairman, president and chief executive, and Trevor Van Horn also continue to serve on the board. ...
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Rohr
Daniel Abehsera has been appointed president and director-general of Chula Vista, California-based Rohr's European office. He is now a senior vice-president with Latecoere of France. Abehsera, who will be responsible for activities in France and Germany, replaces Jean-Pierre Rouziere, who is to retire. Source: Flight International
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Wind Of Change
Aero Systems Engineering (ASE) of St Paul, Minnesota, is teaming with Kilpatrick Green, an Australian engineering and construction firm, to modify a transonic windtunnel for the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation's Aeronautical and Maritime Research Laboratory in Melbourne. The contract, valued in excess of $9 million, calls for improvements ...
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Jetstream Certification
The second Reflectone-built Jetstream 41 flight-simulator has received Level C certification. The simulator, equipped with an IVEX VDS-2000 visual system, will be based at Reflectone's Tampa, Florida, training centre until Jetstream Aircraft decides where to locate the machine. Source: Flight International
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Training China Southern
Wicat is to supply computer-based training hardware to China Southern Airlines' Zhuhai centre for Boeing 777 training. The equipment will also provide, 737 flight training and 737 and 757 flight-management system "free-play" simulations. Source: Flight International
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ANA Group Loss
All Nippon Airways (ANA) says that it made another loss at group level for the 1994/5 financial year. The results, which include subsidiaries such as hotels, show a net loss of '7.5 billion ($88 million). A similar deficit is expected for the coming year, to March 1996. ...
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Air Canada Financing
Air Canada has signed its $1,466 million export-credit lease-financing agreement for the six Airbus A340s and 25 A319s ordered in 1994. The deal was arranged, by a syndicate of French, German and UK banks. The aircraft will arrive between November 1996 and May 1998, by which time the airline believes ...
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Final Thorn Sale
Thorn EMI has completed its exit from defence electronics with the management buy-out of its Thorn Microwave Devices unit. The operation, which employs 150 manufactures, of microwave tubes and power supplier for radar and electronic-warfare systems. Source: Flight International
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CAE Tests CC-130 EW Kit
CAE Aviation has flight-tested an electronic-warfare self-protection suite on the first of two Canadian Forces Lockheed Martin CC-130 Hercules, modified under a C$3.3 million ($2.4 million) contract. The suite consists of an ALR-56M radar-warning receiver, AAR-47 missile approach-warning system and ALE-47 countermeasures dispenser. ...
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USAF GEN Pays Fares
US Air Force Gen Joseph Ashy, head of US Space Command, has reimbursed the Pentagon $5,020 for a C-21 flight, he and his wife took between Colorado and Washington. The payment was made as the Pentagon's inspector general issued a critical report about Ashy's travel aboard USAF transports in 1994. ...
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Fokker Support
Coltax Aerospace, a subsidiary of Meggit Aerospace, has finalised an agreement with Fokker Aircraft Services (FAS) to provide overhaul and maintenance on landing-gear components. The accord covers all Fokker's jet-powered and turboprop aircraft, as well as other aircraft undergoing third-party maintenance at FAS. Coltax has also won a contract to ...
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BAC One-Eleven Spares
World Aviation Support, the sister company of British World Airlines, has bought British Aerospace's complete spares stock for the BAC One-Eleven. The £20 million package of rotables and consumables will be held at the company's South end base in the UK and together with maintenance services, will be offered to ...
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Back In Business
Finland's only independent airline, Air Botnia, has resumed passenger services after coming close to bankruptcy. The restructured regional carrier, under new management and believed to have re-scheduled its debts, provides domestic services, operating three Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirantes. Source: Flight International
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Lockheed Drops Thiokol
Thiokol has become an early casualty of Lockheed Martin's post-merger consolidation. Lockheed Martin will take back Space Shuttle processing work performed by Thiokol, worth about $30 million a year, when the contract expires in October. Source: Flight International
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Hughes Lay-Offs
Hughes Aircraft is to lay off 300 employees, about 40% of the workforce, at its Newport Beach, California, electronics plant because of declining demand for microprocessors for missile systems. Hughes is already cutting its California-based radar-systems group, from 5,500 to 1,200 employees. Source: Flight International
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Sirius Contractor Appointed
Aerospatiale has been selected to build the Sirius 2 communications satellite for Nordiska Satellitaktiebolaget of Sweden and GE Americom's Capital Satellites division. Source: Flight International
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French Spy In Orbit
France's Helios 1A intelligence satellite, was due to be launched on 7 July, from Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite will be operated from the French air force base at Creil. It carries an Aerospatiale high-resolution camera. Source: Flight International
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Atlantic Southeast 146s
Atlantic Southeast Airlines is to lease five British Aerospace 146-200s, in a deal which not only represents the US feeder carrier's first move into jet-airliner operations, but also sweeps up most of BAe's remaining owned-fleet of regional jets. The aircraft, which are being taken on five-year leases from BAe's Assett ...