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AAR Unites Operations
AAR has combined its two Singapore-based aircraft support operations into to a single expanded unit near Changi International Airport. The new factory houses the sales offices for the company's US-based inventory services and the local maintenance base. Source: Flight International
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Battery Approval
Fairchild Aircraft Services has obtained supplemental type certification for the replacement of nickel-cadmium batteries with lead-acid batteries on Fairchild Metro III and SA227 AC/BC aircraft. Fairchild says that the conversion improves hot-and-cold temperature starts, lessens engine and starter-generator maintenance requirements, eliminates the battery- temperature monitoring system, and reduces the number ...
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BAe/ATR finalise deal as Germany looks to Asia
THE REGIONAL-aircraft joint venture between British Aerospace and ATR partners Aerospatiale and Alenia has been signed and intense negotiations are now expected to take place at the Paris air show over bringing Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) into an enlarged consortium. Speaking in the run-up to the air show, new ...
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Building Starts
CFM International and the Civil Aviation Administration of China have begun construction of a new joint venture, engine maintenance training centre, in Chengdu. The school, due to open in 1997, is modeled on General Electric and CFMI training sites in the USA and France. A temporary centre, in ...
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Honeywell clinches TracLink GPS deal at Minneapolis
HONEYWELL HAS BEEN selected by the Minneapolis/St Paul Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), Minnesota, to install a Honeywell/Pelorus SLS-2000 satellite-landing system and the company's recently developed vehicle-tracking system, the TracLink. Both systems are based on the global-positioning system (GPS) and will use correctional positioning information from a local-area GPS ...
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Safety concerns hit Express One
EXPRESS ONE International, the Dallas, Texas-based cargo and charter carrier, has grounded its 39-aircraft fleet voluntarily after a US Federal Aviation Administration audit discovered serious safety concerns. The FAA says that Express One International, which operates Boeing 727s and McDonnell Douglas DC-9s, failed to produce documentation on compulsory ...
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EC sets open-skies schedule
Julian Moxon/BRUSSELS THE EUROPEAN Commission (EC) wants to achieve a full open-skies air-transport agreement with the USA within five years, and will ask European transport ministers at the end of this month for a mandate to carry out negotiations. In a 20-page draft proposal to ...
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Flight
Andrew Doyle has joined Flight International as technical reporter, based at the magazine's London head office. Doyle was previously assistant editor on Airline Maintenance World and the Air Letter. He has an honours degree in aeronautical engineering, and will be responsible for general technical and news reporting. Source: ...
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IAE works on variable-area nozzle
INTERNATIONAL AERO Engines (IAE) and Calcor Aero Systems are to develop the world's first variable-area exhaust nozzle for a civil aero-engine. IAE, a joint venture between Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, MTU, FiatAvio and Japanese Aero Engines, will work with California-based Calcor to produce a technology demonstrator for IAE's ...
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Jetstream Maintenance
ASE Maintenance has contracted to provide technical support for Air Ostrava's fleet of Jetstream 31s. Eindhoven-based ASE will also supply training for the Czech airline's maintenance staff. Source: Flight International
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Long-Range Tie-Up
Auxiliary-fuel-systems supplier PATS and BFGoodrich Aerospace/Tramco are to offer jointly long-range fuel-system installations at BFGoodrich Aerospace/Tramco's aircraft maintenance/modification plant in Everett, Washington. PATS' long-range fuel tanks can be installed as a post-delivery modification, or as a separate installation for in-service aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Maintenance Record
US maintenance specialist Greenwich Air Services has posted record results for the six months ended 31 March, with sales more than doubling, to $83.1 million, and net income up to $2.4 million, from $1.6 million for the same period in 1994. Source: ...
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Northwest
Ruthie McKee has been named senior vice-president for customer service and line maintenance at Northwest Airlines, of St Paul, Minneapolis. She was formerly vice-president for customer service, ground operations. Frank Jauregui becomes vice-president for line maintenance. He was previously managing director of international line maintenance. Marilyn Rogers is named vice-president ...
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Impulse future threatened by Pacific administration
THE FUTURE OF Impulse Airlines, the fast growing Australian regional carrier, has been called into doubt following the appointment of an administrator at its aircraft sales and maintenance subsidiary, Pacific Aviation. Impulse managing director Gerry McGowan purchased Pacific from Ansett Transport Industries in 1994, to service his fleet ...
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Southern Air
Stephen Van Gordon has been appointed senior vice-president of technical services for US carrier Southern Air Transport, of Miami, Florida. He was formerly general manager for airframe maintenance at United Airlines. Michael Vogt has been named director of sales for the Pacific Rim. He was most recently regional manager for ...
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Shannon takes Lufthansa work
LUFTHANSA PLANS TO move all overhaul work on its Boeing 737s from Lufthansa Technik at Berlin-Schonefeld Airport to Shannon Aerospace (SAL) in Ireland, threatening jobs at the German site. The airline says that the move was agreed as part of the recently announced bail out plan, for the ...
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Ogden Skycare
Roy Kinnell, now general manager for operations at UK maintenance company Ogden Sky- Care Cargo (formerly Ogden Aviation Services) of London Heathrow, has been appointed the company's accountable manager to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. ...
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Financial results
An exceptional charge of £139.2m ($226.8m) for restructuring contributed to the loss. Team Aer Lingus, the maintenance unit, lost £27.9m. Air France expects losses of FFr3.5b ($713m) for its 15 month 'year'. Debt fell from FFr33.6b to FFr27b due to the state capital injection. Lower ticket prices and ...
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Suppliers
Amadeus has signed new partners, the Colombian flag carrier Avianca, and ANATO, the country's travel agency association, to operate the CRS in Colombia. GE Aircraft Engines has signed an MoU with IHI for the Japanese company to develop and manufacture 25 to 30 per cent of the CF34-8C ...
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A fighting chance
Aer Lingus managers have yet to solve the airline's problems on UK regional routes and must complete the restructuring of the rest of the group in order to secure the final payment of state aid. Mark Odell reports from Dublin.When the European Commission gave a derogation to the Irish government ...