CANADAIR IS CLOSE TO completing the first Bombardier Global Express long-range business jet following delivery of the horizontal stabiliser - the last major structural subassembly yet to be joined to the aircraft. The all-composite stabiliser is supplied by Bombardier's Shorts subsidiary in Northern Ireland.
in late February aboard an Antonov An-124 (Flight International, 6 - 12 March).
Source: Flight International
US firm Sierra Nevada (SNC) has been awarded a $170 million contract to deliver two Rapcon-X surveillance aircraft to the Finnish Border Guard.
Turkish business jet charter company Air Sapphire has been heavily fined by the US government for flying a Gulfstream GIV to Russia without authorisation.
The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered inspections of the Gulfstream G500 and G600 fleet in response to a “quality escape” involving improperly installed engine-mounting hardware.
