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Indian Acquisition
Indian airline Raj Air, has been taken over by local industrialist, P Rajarathinam. The carrier, was previously owned by Raj chairman, Lalith Seth. Source: Flight International
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Alcatel Satellite
Alcatel Espace and WorldSpace of Washington DC have signed a $500 million contract to build three satellites to establish the world's first global digital-audio broadcast-satellite service by 1998. The French company, leading a consortium including Alenia of Italy, will build the CaribStar, AfriStar and AsiaStar satellites, and invest in the ...
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Universal Approval
Universal Navigation has received US Federal Aviation Administration approval for its UNS-1M navigation-management system fitted with a 12-channel global-positioning-system receiver. The system has been certificated on the Embraer EMB-120. Source: Flight International
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Battery Back-Up
Avtech of Seattle, Washington has teamed with GEC-Marconi InFlight Systems of the UK to develop a battery back-up unit, which provides power to the cabin file-server during power interruptions. The unit will be used on Boeing 777s fitted with the GEC in-flight entertainment system. Source: Flight ...
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Fedex Increases Capacity
FedEx is to replace two of three McDonnell Douglas DC-10Fs used on daily transatlantic services with higher-capacity MD-11 freighters, one based at London Stansted and one at Paris Charles de Gaulle, and is considering adding a fourth aircraft on the North Atlantic early in 1996. Source: ...
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Beech Deal With Impulse
Australian regional airline Impulse Transportation has ordered two Beech 1900Ds, for delivery by April. The Sydney-based carrier already operates one 1900D and a pre-owned 1900C acquired in 1993, when Impulse became the first Australian operator of the 19-seat twin-turboprop. Source: Flight International
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Rumbold
Philip Bullivant has been named managing director of aircraft-interior Equipment Company Rumbold, of Camberley, Surrey UK. Bullivant, chief executive of the Midland Newspaper Group since 1993, was formerly chief executive of Airborne Logistics, also of the UK. Source: Flight International
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Vickers
James Wehri has been named vice-president and general manager for the systems-monitoring division of the Vickers Aerospace Marine Defense Group of Maumee, Ohio. Before joining Vickers in 1991, he was director of European operations for the Aeroquip Aerospace Group, based in the UK. Source: Flight International
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Simuflite
Dick Wigton has been appointed to the new position of manager of Challenger training programmes at Simuflite Training International, based at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, Texas. He was most recently director of operations for Rainin Instrument, of Emeryville, California, and, before that, he was manager of aviation for The Cloux Company, ...
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Duncan
Fred Hensley has become manager of design services at fixed-based operator Duncan Aviation, of Lincoln, Nebraska. He was most recently director of maintenance at Page Avjet, based at Fort Worth, Texas. Cecil Sloan has been promoted to engine sales representative. Sloan, with Duncan since 1979, was most recently service manager. ...
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ERA
ERA Technology, the UK research-and-development organisation based in Leatherhead, Surrey, has appointed Chris Perks financial and commercial director. He succeeds Keith Sedgwick, who becomes a non-executive director. Perks, was previously finance and information director at Travers Morgan. Source: Flight International
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Gulfstream
Gene Rainville has been named executive vice-president of international sales at business-jet manufacturer Gulfstream Aerospace, of Savannah, Georgia. He was most recently senior vice-president of marketing for Dassault FalconJet of Paramus, New Jersey, and, before that, spent 13 years with Cessna of Wichita, Kansas. Source: Flight International
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Collins
Ben Thurlow has been appointed manager of a new avionics service centre opened recently in Singapore by the Collins Commercial Avionics division of Rockwell International. He was previously manager of the Tullamarine service centre, near Melbourne, Australia. Source: Flight International
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Sloane Helicopters
Seen on a recent visit to helicopter distributor Sloane Helicopters is UK Minister of Aviation and Shipping, Lord Goschen (left), with Sloane technical director Richard Sanford. Sloane claimed to be the world's largest distributor of Robinson R22 and R44 helicopters, discussed with the minister the applications of the aircraft in ...
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Big liability
Aviation insurance suffered a bad year in 1994, with a steep rise in combined hull and liability losses. Claims increased by some $1 billion, almost doubling to an estimated $2.2 billion, according to Airclaims. Premiums amounted to some $1.3 billion, trebling the shortfall in the amount needed to cover claims. ...
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DOT scales back the Clinton way
In targeting the Department of Transportation for halving from its 1993 level, the Clinton administration is not only seeking to get ahead of the Republican-controlled Congress in its frenzy to downsize federal government, it is also courting opposition from airlines and airports. Transportation secretary Federico Peña has announced the administration's ...
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ANZ weighs Oz options
Air New Zealand is believed to be close to deciding on a bold strategic move towards domestic operations in Australia, despite Canberra's shock decision late last year to abandon the proposed Australia-New Zealand single aviation market. Sources say ANZ majority shareholder Brierley Investments Ltd is considering two options, ...