May 22, 2008

Like the green jacket, trying the G650 on for size

Here at EBACE, Gulfstream signed an agreement with Australian-born professional golfer Adam Scott to promote the company’s business jets in the Asia-Pacific region. Scott visited the company’s booth yesterday when the announcement was made, and while there couldn’t help but check out the G650 cabin mockup. The wide-cabin G650, announced in March, costs $59.5 million, fully outfitted. At least 74 G more

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Ruag to link its six shops into one maintenance network

By Thomas Stocker

Ruag (Booth No. 1313), the Swiss technology and defense corporation, has created or acquired six business aircraft maintenance and service establishments in Switzerland and Germany since its inception in 1999. It has now announced the setting up of a maintenance network linking the different shops into one operational unit called Ruag Aircraft Services Network. The goal is to exchange experience a more

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P&WC is fine-tuning its global customer support

As part of ongoing initiatives to boost global customer support, Pratt & Whitney Canada (Booth No. 463) has appointed Gate V Aircraft Maintenance of Vienna, Austria, as a recognized maintenance facility to provide line maintenance support for PW500 and JT15D series engines. Gate V, a Part-145 approved maintenance organization, operates a 27,000-sq-ft hangar at Vienna International Airport.
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Russian Operator Takes PT6 Support

By Charles Alcock

Russian charter operator Dexter Air Taxi has signed a fleet management program with Pratt & Whitney Canada covering eight PT6A-67P engines on its fleet of Pilatus PC-12 aircraft. “The agreement with Dexter represents our first-ever fleet management program with a P&WC engine operator in Russia and underscores its growing popularity worldwide,” said Geoffrey Corbeil, general manager of P&WC Custome more

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AgustaWestland AW101 adopts bizjet-like interior

By Thierry Dubois

Helicopter manufacturer AgustaWestland is here showing a mockup of an AW101 cabin in a luxury layout, probably the ultimate for a VVIP helicopter, as it is the heaviest civil helicopter available in the Western world. “This is just one of the possible layouts in such a roomy cabin,” an AgustaWestland spokesman told EBACE Convention News.
Commercial business unit senior v-p Renzo Lunardi adde more

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Aircraft orders announced at EBACE

LET’S DO THE NUMBERS . . .
You know an aviation convention or airshow has arrived when exhibitors and others start planning months in advance to consummate and announce deals at the event. By this measure, EBACE has not only arrived, it’s here to stay.
Though there’s always some wiggle room in the value of orders announced at any show and a seller can never really count the money more

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Soccer in Moscow drives jet charters

By Ian Goold

If parts of northern Europe were overshadowed yesterday by large numbers of aircraft flying east, it was not the much-vaunted arrival of very-light jets but merely private and chartered business-jets flying well-heeled soccer enthusiasts to Moscow for the European Champions League soccer final. The event is perhaps the greatest sporting occasion in the region’s calendar, ranking in popularity amon more

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Bizav encouraged to be more vocal in making slot requests

By Thierry Duboisd

Business aircraft operators should be more vocal when requesting slots at congested European airports, according to presenters yesterday at an information session on airport access. But a European Commission representative and the chairman of the EU airport coordinators association (EUACA) had converging viewpoints when pressed by operators who worry about getting kicked out of airports. Separatel more

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Converting CRJs to executive use may be a boon to completion shops

By Gregory Polek

Divergent conditions in the regional airline business and the business jet realm have conspired to create a potential boon for completion companies involved in converting Bombardier CRJs into executive transports. As most anyone in the airline industry knows, the market environment for regional jets has changed drastically in the past few years, as the major airlines that control the fleets have g more

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Fliteport opens new handling service

First-time EBACE exhibitor Fliteport is here to launch a new trip-planning service for the Middle East, Asia and Africa regions.

Fliteport is based in Dubai and is owned by Executive Aviation Group, which is planning to expand beyond trip-handling into other business aviation services including FBOs, said Mazher Hussain, operations manager.

“We’re very much an operations com more

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