Bombardier has announced four business jet sales in Latin America: a Learjet 40 to a Toluca, Mexico-based corporation; Learjet 60SEs for operators based in Brazil and Mexico; and a Challenger 604 for a Toluca-based operator. These follow Bombardier's first Global 5000 sales to operators in Brazil and Honduras.
Source: Flight International
French investigators have found that a Cessna 525A Citation departed Paris Le Bourget after personnel failed to realise nose-gear maintenance was incomplete, forcing the jet to return for a gear-up landing.
Textron Aviation now says it will exhibit at this month’s NBAA business aviation exhibition in Las Vegas, reserving course after last week backing out of the event amid a machinists strike in Wichita.
Textron Aviation’s machinists walked off the job on 23 September after members of the 5,000-strong work group voted down the company’s proposed new employment contract. The Wichita-based aircraft manufacturer, which owns the Cessna and Beechcraft brands, confirms that workers represented by the International Association of Machinists (IAM) went on strike. ...
