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News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.
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Gulfstream set order record for non-fractional aircraft last year
Gulfstream Aerospace president Bryan Moss had hard numbers here at the EBACE show yesterday as evidence of business aviation’s improving fortunes.
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Europe suits Premier IA, Hawker 850XP just fine
While the Premier IA and Hawker 850XP business twinjets are targeted at very different buyers, Raytheon (Booth No.
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Adam Aircraft expects Euro sales for A500/A700 to grow
Adam Aircraft president and COO Joe Walker is about to appoint a factory direct sales representative to promote sales in Europe and sees this region as hav
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Honeywell Apex will guide Grob SPn business jet
The Grob SPn light business jet will feature an enhanced Apex cockpit, provided by Honeywell.
Charter & Fractional
Zurich start-up is just Phenom(enal)
Embraer’s European unveiling of its Phenom 100 very light and 300 light jet full-scale cabin mockups here yesterday provided a platform for the Phenom’s fl
Charter & Fractional
Airbus Corporate Jet makes a JetAlliance
Austrian charter operator Jet-Alliance (Booth No.
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G150 claims Tel Aviv/GVA city-pair record
Gulfstream Aerospace is claiming a record for a G150 flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, to Geneva on May 1.
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Customers asked Socata for speed, more speed and even more speed
EADS Socata is confident that it has the answer to the challenge of the very light jet (VLJ) threat in its latest single turboprop, the six-seat TBM 850.
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Launch Customer Can't Wait To Get Flying
Socata’s owner customer survey shows that 63 percent of typical TBM pilots regularly fly more than 500 nm and 15 percent regularly fly more than 1,000 nm.
Charter & Fractional
Sovereign on display here toils for Bookajet
Still factory fresh from Cessna is the new Citation Sovereign being shown in the EBACE static aircraft park by UK business aircraft charter and management
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LHT finishing Challenger 850
Lufthansa Technik is celebrating the arrival at its Hamburg base of the fifth Challenger 850 executive jet.
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ATR benefits from high fuel costs
Sales have been brisk for regional turboprop aircraft manufacturer Avions de Transport Regional, which is here at Farnborough International exhibiting an A
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Dassault Leads SSBJ Research Project
Dassault’s plans for a supersonic business jet are still pretty much alive.
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Black Hawk ‘lite’ for foreign sales
Sikorsky Aircraft yesterday announced plans to develop two new versions of its H-60 Black Hawk aimed at sales outside the U.S.: the International Black Haw
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Skylark mini UAV struts its stuff for potential sales
Launched from a 14,000-foot mountain top, Elbit’s Skylark mini UAV recently climbed to an altitude exceeding 15,000 feet before landing at a designated poi
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FPT increases loiter time for Korean UAV
The FPT Industries division of GKN Aerospace has been selected to supply an ultra-lightweight fuel system for the Korean Smart unmanned air vehicle to help
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Airbus eyes A318 steep landings
Airbus’ A318, and the A318 Elite executive version, are undergoing approval to make 5.5-degree steep approaches, such as that used into London City Airport
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Mandarin To Lease GECAS Embraer RJs
Taipei’s Mandarin Airlines is to lease three Embraer Model 190 and five Model 195 regional jets from GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS).
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Raven B SUAV prepares for special missions duty, exports
Last month AeroVironment’s RQ-11B Raven B small unmanned air vehicle (SUAV) passed its initial operational test and evaluation.
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Alenia, Sukhoi spool-upsupersonic bizjet plans
Research carried out in the field of supersonic transport within the European Commission’s 6th Research Framework Program (FP6) has come into the spotlight
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Availability is the name of the game
British thinking on through-life management of military aircraft and systems is already way ahead of that of most countries.
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Saab 340B Leased to Australia’s Rex
Saab Aircraft Leasing (Chalet C24-26) here on Monday announced that Australian regional airline Regional Express (Rex) has taken an additional Saab 340B on
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Ukraine, Russia cooperate on Antonov
At a time when relations between Russia and Ukraine are at an all time low, an aircraft program may be the key to finding new opportunities for the two nat
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Indian airline GoAir takes 10 Airbus A320s
Indian low-fare airline GoAir inked a deal yesterday with Airbus for 10 CFM-powered A320-family jets and an option for another 10.
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Emirates signs for son of 747 as Boeing gets on sales roll
Boeing has made a start here at Farnborough International toward fulfilling its recent prophecy of airlines spending $2,600 billion, over the next 20 years
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JSF Briefing Soothes the Nerves of Partner Nations
Program officials provided some assurance that the international partners won’t be burdened by U.S. restrictions on technology transfer.
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Bombardier logs new jet sales
Highlighting the rising demand for business jets in Europe, Bombardier Aerospace yesterday announced sales for its two newest models, the Challenger 605 an
