All United States articles – Page 118
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AnalysisANALYSIS: US regionals eye expansion into neglected markets
US regional airlines and aircraft manufacturers see significant opportunity to expand on short-haul regional routes that suffered cuts following airline consolidation.
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NBAA: The campaign steps up against ATC privatisation
The biggest threat to the future of our industry we have ever seen: that is how NBAA chief Ed Bolen this morning described airline-backed moves to privatise the US air traffic control system.
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NBAA: AirNav looks skyward with new space-based aircraft tracking
Worldwide flight tracking and data provider AirNav Systems is upping its game, announcing plans to offer space-based aircraft tracking next year.
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NBAA: GE nears milestones on $1.5bn bet on business aircraft
GE Aviation’s $1.5 billion investment in developing new engines for the business and general aviation market is close to reaching key milestones in projects ranging from small turboprops to supersonic jets.
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NBAA: VistaJet plans to double US fleet
Three years after launching in the USA, VistaJet – one of the world’s largest charter operators – plans to increase its N-registered fleet of 11 to at least 16 in the “next few months” to reflect demand in the booming Stateside market.
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NBAA: Global Jet Capital promotes end-of-lease remarketing programme
Global Jet Capital – the business aviation financing house headed by former Hawker Beechcraft boss Shawn Vick – is at NBAA to promote its new programme, redeploying its end-of-lease aircraft.
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NBAA: Universal Avionics rolls out avionics upgrades
Universal Avionics Systems Corporation is using NBAA to highlight upgrades to its avionics equipment that will enable aircraft to meet regulatory mandates set for 2020.
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NBAA: MSB shines new light on glass racks
Aerospace engineering company MSB Design is spotlighting a newly designed crystal rack that uses individual lights to separately illuminate glassware on Gulfstream G500s and G600s
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NBAA: Guardian Jet leaps higher with Vault 2.0
Aircraft brokerage Guardian Jet is seeking to differentiate itself with the roll-out of Vault 2.0, an online asset management portal designed to help users make more-informed fleet decisions.
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NBAA: Web Manuals doubles US client base
Web Manuals, which offers an application that allows business aircraft operators to store operating manuals and other documents in the cloud – says it has doubled its US client base since the last NBAA convention in Orlando.
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Commerce Department tags on additional 80% tariff on CS100
The US Department of Commerce has landed another blow against Bombardier, ruling preliminarily that the company dumped CS100s in the US market and recommending a 79.8% tariff on CS100 imports.
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NBAA: Boeing Business Jets' 'fast and furious' year to date
Boeing Business Jets has upped its sales tally for 2017 to 13, adding six since the EBACE business aviation show in May, in what new BBJ president Greg Laxton calls a “fast and furious” year to date.
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NewsVirgin America flights become Alaska next April
Alaska Airlines will operate all Virgin America flights as its own from 25 April 2018, with users of Virgin's website will directed to Alaska's site from that day.
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Zunum launches hybrid-electric aircraft for regional market
Seeking to serve a neglected market for inexpensive, short-range air transport, Zunum Aero formally launched development of a 6-to-12-seat hybrid-electric vehicle on 5 October and promised to deliver the aircraft within five years, says company founder Ashish Kumar.
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Boeing agrees to acquire autonomy pioneer Aurora Flight Sciences
Boeing has agreed to acquire Aurora Flight Sciences as the company grapples with plotting an innovation strategy amidst fast-moving developments in composite structures, autonomous systems and electric propulsion.
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Boeing starts building first 737 Max 7
Boeing workers are now building components for the 737 Max 7, the third of five major variants planned for the re-engined narrowbody, the company announces on 4 October.
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ANALYSIS: ADS-B high on agenda at NBAA
Technology that allows air traffic controllers in the USA to more accurately chart the position of aircraft becomes compulsory in just over two years’ time, and the race to ensure operators are compliant will be a major focus of avionics providers exhibiting at this year’s National Business Aviation Association convention. ...
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Intrepid replaces chief executive
Intrepid Aviation Group has appointed Doug Winter as its new chief executive, the lessor confirms.
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777X's first test wing enters final assembly
Boeing in late September began assembling the first test example of a composite wing for its in-development 777X widebody twin, two years ahead of the aircraft's flight debut.
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Boeing not rushing decision on NMA: commercial chief
Boeing will not be rushing into a decision on whether to launch a New Mid-market Airplane (NMA), despite seeing a clear opportunity for such a product, the head of its commercial unit tells FlightGlobal.