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Trislander production line restarts
ANGLO NORMANDY Aero-engineering has put the Britten Norman Trislander back into limited production, 14 years after the last airframe was built by the UK aviation company. The Guernsey, Channel Islands-based Anglo Normandy received two Trislander kits late in 1995 from the USA where they have been kept in ...
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World Airways seeks share of transatlantic leisure markets
US CARRIER WORLD Airways is bidding to re-enter the transatlantic-passenger charter business. Perceiving a strong demand in the leisure market because of the weak dollar, the airline is planning to introduce routes from Germany, Switzerland and the UK from May. Application has been made for weekly routes from ...
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United order
United Airlines has ordered two Pratt & Whitney PW4000-powered Boeing 747-400s for delivery in 1997. United now operates 24 747-400s. Source: Flight International
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Business Express cancels remaining RJ70 orders
BUSINESS EXPRESS IS TO cancel nine remaining firm orders for Avro International Aerospace RJ70s, following its decision to return the three aircraft, which it already operates and to withdraw from jet-powered operations (Flight International, 10-16 January). The orders are being converted into options. Avro says that it and ...
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GECAS set to seal $8 billion order
Guy Norris/LOSANGELES ONE OF THE LARGEST commercial-aircraft orders ever placed is expected to be announced within the next few weeks by GE Capital Services (GECAS), the leasing arm of US engineering conglomerate General Electric. The deal is widely expected to include orders and options for ...
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The fight goes on
Airliner markets are on the mend, but the fight for orders remains as fierce as ever. Kevin O'Toole/LONDON THE AIRLINER MARKET is finally on the upturn. While 1995 may not have been a vintage year for the big-three jet-aircraft manufacturers, the tally of new orders was respectable ...
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Business Express will return RJ70s
Andrew Doyle/LONDON US REGIONAL OPERATOR Business Express is to hand back all three of its Avro International Aerospace RJ70s to the leasing company, casting doubts over the future of its remaining nine firm orders and eight options for the type. The first of the three ...
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Filling the gap
THE 1995 BUSINESS FIGURES for the airliner manufacturers tell many stories. Boeing regained market leadership with an outstanding year, selling 346 aircraft worth some $31.2 billion. Airbus Industrie, which outsold Boeing in 1994, dropped back into second place in 1995, but delivered more aircraft than ever, giving it record revenues. ...
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Boeing beats rivals to Malaysian deal
Andrew Chuter/LONDON BOEING HAS made a clean sweep of a $4 billion Malaysian Airlines (MAS) order for long-range, high-capacity, aircraft, beating Airbus and McDonnell Douglas (MDC) to a deal, which could eventually cover 65 aircraft. MAS was expected to announce on 9 January an order ...
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Airlines turn to ultrasonic/ eddy-current wheel testing
METOPTIC International is marketing what it claims to be the world's first system for testing aircraft wheels, which combines the use of eddy currents and ultrasonics. Eddy-current inspection systems are used to detect surface faults on the outer surface of a wheel hub, while more sophisticated ultrasonic ...
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Qantas leases Dash 8 simulator from CAE
QANTAS HAS SIGNED a ten-year lease with CAE for a de Havilland Canada Dash 8 simulator. The simulator will be housed at the Qantas jet base in Sydney. Three Qantas-owned regional airlines (Southern Australia, Sunstate and Eastern Australia), along with National Jet Systems, will be among the users, ...
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Airborne chooses 767 freighter
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA US CARGO CARRIER Airborne Express has agreed to acquire 12 used Boeing 767-200s for conversion to freighters, and plans to acquire between ten and 15 additional aircraft for a total investment of $600 million over eight years. The 767s will be the first wide-body aircraft operated ...
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China starts investing in its infrastructure
CHINA'S AIRLINES are beginning to make substantial investments in infrastructure to match their rapidly growing fleets. China Southern Airlines has awarded AMR's Sabre Decision Technologies (SDT) a contract to develop an operations control centre, while China Eastern has ordered Airbus A300-600R training equipment from Thomson Training & Simulation. ...
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Boeing re-asserts its lead in recovering airliner market
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON BOEING RE-ASSERTED its dominance of world airliner markets in 1995, revealing a total of 346 new orders for the year, more than treble the result of either Airbus or McDonnell Douglas (MDC). Ron Woodard, president of Boeing's Commercial Airplane Group, is upbeat about ...
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US airlines 'will make $2 billion'
Ramon Lopez/WASHINGTON DC US SCHEDULED airlines are expected to report net profits of $2 billion for 1995, says the US Air Transport Association (ATA) in its year-end report. The ATA says that long-haul carriers earned $2.2 billion in the first nine months of the year, ...
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Airbus pressured to speed up A3XX studies
Julian Moxon/PARIS A STRING OF major airline orders involving the Boeing 747/777 combination is increasing pressure on Airbus Industrie to "accelerate its studies" into a rival programme known as the A3XX. "We can't leave the 747 to dominate the market," says an Airbus source, "so ...
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SIA orders ATEC test system for use on 777s and A340s
Julian Moxon/TOULOUSE AEROSPATIALE HAS sold one of its ATEC Series 6 automated test systems to Singapore Airlines (SIA) for use on the carrier's Boeing 777s and Airbus A340s. The French company says that it expects the airline to order more "...once its 777 budget is in place". ...
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CAL places 737-800 order
CHINA AIRLINES (CAL) of Taiwan, after considerable delay, has finally placed an order for six Boeing 737-800s, plus nine options, to meet its requirement for a new 150-seat passenger airliner. The aircraft will replace CAL's three early-build 737-200s and two wet-leased Airbus A320s due to be returned by ...
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Boeing optimistic about GE-powered 777s
Graham Warwick/ATLANTA BOEING delivered three General Electric GE90-powered 777s by the end of 1995, after GE's proposed increase of the fan-blade-tip clearances had been approved by the US Federal Aviation Administration (Flight International, 20 December, 1995-2 January, P4). Efforts continued to determine the cause of an engine ...
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DASA stands by ailing Fokker
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH DAIMLER-BENZ Aerospace (DASA) has confirmed it will continue to fund Fokker into the new year, in a move to counter growing fears that the manufacturer would be left to fend for itself unless a funding agreement was agreed with the Dutch Government before the year-end. ...