All Business Jets articles – Page 711
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Raytheon modifies its plans for advanced Hawker 1000
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT has slashed the development budget of a proposed stretched Hawker 1000 upgrade, and is now considering a more modest improvement to the aircraft than originally planned. The next-generation Hawker could be unveiled at the 1996 National Business Aircraft Association (NBAA) ...
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MHI takes major share in Dash 8-400 programme
BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE has signed up Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) as a major risk-sharing partner in its recently launched de Havilland Dash 8-400 70-seat turboprop programme. The Japanese company will be responsible for the design and manufacture of the aircraft's forward-, mid- and aft-fuselage sections, wing-to-body fairing, and vertical ...
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Learjet 45 Flight
Learjet hoped to make the first flight of its Model 45 business jet at Wichita, Kansas on 7 October. The first flight had been delayed by test-equipment problems, but Learjet was optimistic that everything would be ready for the flight. Source: Flight International
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Czech bank offers Let funding to certificate GE-powered L-610G
CZECH REGIONAL manufacturer Let Kunovice has been offered funding to complete certification of its General Electric-powered L-610G turboprop. The money - understood to be CKr450 million ($17 million) - is being provided by Czech bank Komercni Banka as a long-term loan. Let now believes that it can complete ...
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Airbus ozone project gathers momentum
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE is close to completing in-flight analysis of the ozone layer in the first phase of a European Union (EU)-backed atmospheric research programme. Airbus, which is leading the project with France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientific (CNRS), hopes that the results of the project will be used by ...
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Northrop Grumman enters DoD UAV battle Pentagon contest
Northrop Grumman is to take part in the Pentagon's competition for a joint tactical manoeuvre unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The Maneuver UAV will provide an intelligence-gathering capability at up to 32km (17nm) range with electro-optical and forward-looking infra-red sensors. The Pentagon could buy as many as 100 ...
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Stowaway benefits
Bombardier Aviation Services is to sell and install Raisbeck Engineering's aft-fuselage stowage locker for the Learjet 30-series business jet at its network of Learjet service centres. The $75,000 locker increases cargo capacity and stability and reduces drag. Four Learjet 35/36 lockers have been installed and a Learjet 31/31A unit will ...
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Shuttles mean business
CORPORATE SHUTTLES are becoming more commonplace, with the NBAA debut of a corporate version of the Saab 2000 high-speed regional turboprop. The aircraft was one of three ordered by General Motors to replace its aging Convair 580 shuttles. Inside, the aircraft is outfitted with 36 passenger seats instead of the ...
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Meggitt in Citation deal
Meggitt Avionics has won a production contract for its solid-state secondary flight-display system from Cessna Aircraft, for incorporation in the Citation family of business jets. Meggitt Avionics, based in Fareham, UK, claims that the product is the first system integrating conventional instruments indicating attitude, altitude and airspeed into a single ...
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Piper eyes corporate market for Malibu
NEW PIPER Aircraft is offering the Malibu Mirage high-performance piston single as an economical alternative to turboprops and light business jets for companies considering moving to smaller corporate aircraft. Piper president Chuck Suma says that, on a 300nm (550km) mission with four passengers, the 250kt (460km/h)-cruising speed Malibu ...
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Dassault
Dassault Falcon Jet in New Jersey has made three appointments. Randolph Kennedy takes up the new position of director, market development. His role will be to represent Falcon business jets to the secondary market (aircraft management companies, time-sharing organisations etc). David Salkovitz, has been appointed supervisor of interior design, and ...
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FBOS expand presence
SIGNATURE FLIGHT Support's new Las Vegas general-aviation terminal, at McCarran Airport, was host to the 130-aircraft NBAA static display. The flight-support organisation (FSO) opened for business in early August and is the second of Signature's "new-generation" FSOs, modeled on the two-story terminal at Bradley International Airport in Hartford, Connecticut. ...
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Grob fears for Strato future funds
GERMAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer Burkhart Grob says that its Strato 2C high-altitude research aircraft programme is being threatened by the refusal of the Government to hand over outstanding funding for the project. The Federal Ministry of Research and Technology has still not paid the DM46.75 million ($31 million) ...
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HUDS gain ground
HEAD-UP DISPLAYS (HUDs) for business aircraft are finally catching on says Flight Visions. The Sugar Grove, Illinois-based company says, that its FV-2000 low-cost HUD is now certificated on the Cessna Citation II, Learjet 55 and Gulfstream IV. By the end of the year, says President Robert Atac, the ...
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PC-12 part-shares available
A US COMPANY has launched a fractional-ownership programme offering part shares in the single-turboprop Pilatus PC-12. Massachusetts-based Alpha Flying has ordered five PC-12s for delivery by the end of 1996, and the fractional-ownership company has received its first aircraft, which is being used by Pilatus as a demonstrator. ...
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SSAC launches new SJ30
SINO SWEARINGEN Aircraft (SSAC) has repositioned the SJ30 light business-jet to avoid competing head-on with Raytheon Aircraft's new Premier I. The Taiwanese-backed company now plans to develop an increased-performance SJ30-2 concurrently with the original aircraft, now designated the SJ30-1. The SJ30-2 will be powered by two uprated, 10kN ...
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Two new orders for Fokker 70
A new customer and an existing operator have placed orders for four Fokker 70 regional jets. Vietnam Airlines has confirmed a previously unannounced order for two aircraft as a first step in replacing its 12 Tupolev Tu-134s. Based at Hanoi, the Fokker 70s will be operated in a 79-seat single-class ...
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Cessna aims Citation X at Hawker 800 market
CESSNA HAS SET ITS Citation X sales sights firmly on the Raytheon Hawker 800 and other similar types in the mid-sized business-jet-replacement market. Cessna says that the larger aircraft's direct operating costs per kilometre are "...guaranteed not to exceed those of the much smaller Raytheon Hawker 800". Cessna ...
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Dassault demonstrates Falcon 900EX design range
DASSAULT AVIATION flew its first Falcon 900EX long-range business jet non-stop from Luton,UK, to Las Vegas, Nevada, for its NBAA debut. The flight demonstrated the aircraft's 8,320km (4,500nm) design range, the manufacturer says, covering an air distance of 8,700km with a payload equivalent to more than eight passengers and three ...
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Ageing-airliner census
Compiled by Martin Fendt/Jennifer Pite/LONDON THIS SURVEY SHOWS THAT there has been a growth in the number of aging jet-powered aircraft in service (aged 15 years or older), from 5,204 in 1994 to 5,671 in 1995 - an increase of 467. The figures for turboprops are 2,509 and ...