All General aviation articles – Page 608
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Unleaded avgas 'more expensive'
Fuel supplier Phillips 66 has warned that environmental pressure to switch to unleaded aviation gasoline could increase US avgas prices by up to 50%. The Oklahoma-based firm expects today's 100-octane low-lead (100LL) avgas to be available for the next five years, but admits that pressure to eliminate this last ...
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Soloy Dual Pac receives FAA STC
The US Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Soloy a supplementary type certificate (STC) for its 1,330shp (1,000kW) Dual Pac, which uses two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 engines to drive a single propeller. A special condition specifies that the powerplant should continue to run if one side loses power, which ...
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Jet increases support
Raytheon Aircraft has expanded Jet Aviation's service-centre authorisation to include support of the Beech King Air and Beechjet at Geneva and the King Air at Zurich, in Switzerland, and the King Air, Baron and Bonanza at Düsseldorf, Germany. Source: Flight International
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Jet Support in maintenance link
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Jet Support Services has teamed with two business-jet manufacturers to provide hourly-cost maintenance programmes for their aircraft. The Chicago-based company will administer Dassault's Falcon First programme, initially available for the Falcon 2000, and the ServiceCare programme for the Gulfstream IV-SP. Both will cover scheduled and ...
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Safe and sound
Once in a while, a proposal emerges that has so many clear benefits and so few potential dangers, that the only question is why it is still just a proposal. Within a few weeks, Europe's transport ministers will be faced with just such a compelling idea when they are asked ...
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Airports survey - Airport financial results
City or country Airport company Revenue 1996 Revenue % change Net result 1996 Net result 1995 Year End United Kingdom BAA plc 2,175.9 11.0 469.1 492.9 Mar-97 Frankfurt Flughafen ...
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Latin airport sales closer
Brazil and Argentina are both looking to private investors to help finance airport expansion, as traffic in the region increases following the creation of the Mercosur free trade zone incorporating Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Brazil has included airports on its list of assets to be privatised by the ...
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Appointments
Andrew Sentance has joined British Airways from the London Business School as chief economist. BritishAirways Engineering has appointed Ferdinando Bruno as general manager business development and Mike Hodgson as general manager fleet 2. Lawrence Urquhart is to succeed Brian Smith as UKairport operator BAA's chairman in July 1998. ...
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Chinese revolution?
What gets bigger must get smaller. An unlikely paradox? Not for the Civil Aviation Administration of China. In its eyes, domestic traffic growth makes only one conclusion possible - the number of airlines must fall. Most airline CEOs would be positively drooling. A population of 1.224 billion is set ...
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Easy does it
Easy come, easy go. Hopefully EasyJet's use of this slogan to depict its ticketless booking and rapid check-in and boarding procedures will never apply to its presence in the European airline industry. Few think it will. The airline's charismatic chairman, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has made sure his startup uses technology ...
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Hub fever
In many industries, concentration forces have led to a few large mass producers with a global reach, each striving to achieve the lowest unit costs through increased efficiencies and higher production volumes. In the airline industry, global alliances are being created to achieve similar goals. However, the individual airline operators ...
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Ross Aircraft is given amber light on amphibian
KateSarsfield/LONDON Ross Aircraft (RAC) plans to start developing its first twin-engined amphibian aircraft in early 1998 after appointing UK investment bank Austin Friars to provide a financing package for the certification programme. Chief executive Kenn Heeley says that the UK company needs about $9 million to take a ...
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Cessna success
Arabian Support and Services has become the second Saudi Arabian customer for the Citation X, following the signing of a contract at the show. To date, the two Saudi aircraft are the only orders for the high-speed Citation X in the region, although marketing vice-president, Philip Michels, expects to sell ...
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ICAO grasps global safety-oversight
Members of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) have endorsed a wide-ranging plan set of recommendations to expand its Safety Oversight Programme (SOP) and give it policing powers for the first time. During a landmark conference on 10-12 November in Montreal, attended by 148 of the 185 member ...
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STAe seeks second overhaul/maintenance site in USA
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (STAe) is planning to acquire a second overhaul-and-maintenance site in the USA in a bid to relieve capacity constraints at its Mobile subsidiary. Speaking at the show, STAe chief operating officer Wee Siew Kim said that the company is in the process of looking for a ...
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Uniformity
Dubai-based High Tech Enterprises is one of the largest suppliers in the UAE of all types of military and police uniforms and associated accessories, including pyrotechnics and civil defence equipment. Its stand (A120) is packed with hats, boots, jackets, badges and gold braid galore. As a ...
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Grob builds variant of GF200
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH German composite aircraft manufacturer Burkhart Grob Aerospace is making a prototype variant of its four-seat GF200 business aircraft. The company, which has been searching for a partner for the project, says that it has decided to proceed with the prototype because a Teal Group ...
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Let revitalises L-420 as L-410 production winds down
Let Kunovice is expecting a fresh boost to its 19-seat L-420 twin turboprop programme as the Czech regional-aircraft manufacturer prepares for international certification of the aircraft early in 1998. The L-420 is a "Westernised" development of the existing 17-seat L-410 model, equipped with 580kW (780hp) Walter M601F turboprops ...
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AlliedSignal expands package for Hawker Horizon controller
AlliedSignal has revised its recent systems agreement with Raytheon Aircraft for the Hawker Horizon to cover the development of a single integrated pneumatic controller (IPC) which effectively links the auxiliary power unit (APU) and the environmental-control system (ECS) to act as a single system. The IPC is believed ...
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Myasishchev forms niche venture with US investors
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON GrahamWarwick/WASHINGTON DC Russia's Myasishchev Design Bureau has formed a joint venture with General Aircraft USA and several other US investors to "produce four niche aircraft for the world market". General Aircraft USA will be responsible for assembly, engine and avionics installation, and US ...