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Sabena Successor Named SN Brussels Airlines

The successor to Belgium’s Sabena Airlines unveiled its new name last month as talks continued between shareholders in Sabena regional subsidiary Delta Air

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March 25, 2008

Service Reps Gear Up for HondaJet Entrance

HondaJet Midwest distributor Des Moines Flying Service plans to open a 5,000-sq-ft showroom and maintenance center at the Aurora (Ill.) Airport in July 201

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March 25, 2008

Alliance To Be Gulfstream Sales, Design Center

Over the next several months, Gulfstream will end Gulfstream 200 (nee Galaxy) business jet completion work at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, and tu

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March 25, 2008

How Soon Is ‘Soon’ for Hawker 4000 Deliveries?

There are now 23 Hawker 4000s in the completion pipeline as Hawker Beechcraft continues function and reliability testing, the last phase before the FAA wil

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March 25, 2008

Bombardier Taps Budding Mideast RJ Market

Bombardier Regional Aircraft’s Middle East sales force saw years of persistence bear fruit this month as the company landed a firm order for six CRJ900s fr

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March 24, 2008

IAI brings ‘attitude’ to AEW

When Singapore revealed that it had chosen the Gulfstream G550 business jet as its new airborne early warning (AEW) platform last April, Northrop Grumman o

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March 24, 2008

It’s a go for the Global 5000…

When the going gets tough, the tough launch airplane programs.

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March 20, 2008

...But Raytheon's Hawker 450 in on hold

Raytheon Aircraft, which lost millions of dollars last year, has placed “on hold” further development of the Hawker 450, a light midsize business jet that

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March 20, 2008

Viking Air Chooses Honeywell Apex for Twin Otter

Viking Air told AIN it will use Honeywell Primus Apex avionics in the Twin Otter Series 400, which the company plans to build new at its f

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March 20, 2008

Diamond Looks To a Higher Power for D-Jet

Late last week, Diamond Aircraft selected a more powerful version of the Williams FJ33 turbofan–the FJ33-4A-19–for its single-engine D-Jet.

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March 20, 2008

600th Challenger delivered on eve of silver flight anniversary

With 600 now in service, the Bombardier (née Canadair) Challenger is assured a place in history 25 years after its first flight on Nov.

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March 19, 2008

In The Works: Convention Reflections

As most in the industry have come to understand, business aviation follows the general economy, but lags behind it by a year or two.

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March 19, 2008

Moscow MAKS 2003: debut of two business turboprops

The Moscow Aerospace Salon, MAKS 2003, held in mid-August at the Gromov Flight Test Institute in Zhukovsky, attracted a dozen business jets and saw for the

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March 19, 2008

Flap over premier I

The FAA issued a special airworthiness bulletin on October 7 alerting operators of the Raytheon Beech Premier I that the agency has determined that the jet

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March 19, 2008

Pro Line 21 all-glass cockpit joins King Air production line

All production Beech King Air 350s and B200s are now being equipped at the factory with Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics in a configuration that is ne

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March 19, 2008

ERJ-135 gets LCY nod

Embraer’s 37-seat ERJ-135 regional jet last month won JAA approval to fly the steep approach into London City Airport.

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March 19, 2008