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P&WC To Service Air Deccan ATR Engines

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) has signed an exclusive five-year agreement with Avions de Transport Regional to maintain engines for Air Deccan’s fleet of A
FBOs

TAG Aviation Has New Office in Hong Kong

Business aviation services group TAG Aviation (Stand A405) has opened a new office in Hong Kong.

Boeing, Alteon Offer Third-Party Training

Boeing subsidiary Alteon Training and Australian flag-carrier Qantas plan to offer third-party training services under a letter of intent signed here yeste

Embaer: Sales of Regionals Will Drop Here

Embraer has lowered its 20-year projection for deliveries of small commercial airplanes to reflect a less optimistic outlook for both China and the rest of

Selex developes surveillance system for Britten-Norman 4000

The Airborne Tactical Observation & Surveillance (ATOS) system developed by Selex Sensors and Airborne Systems (Stand A1029) has been a key feature of the

Tadiran has cell net encryption

Tadiran (Stand A943) is here introducing its MobileNet military cellular mobile network for encrypted communications.
Engines

Meggitt’s Vibro-Meter division monitors engine bearing health

Meggitt (Stand A536) is introducing a number of products, including new developments in engine monitoring equipment revealed by its Vibro-Meter subsidiary.

ST Aerospace To MRO Panama’s Narrowbodies

Singapore Technologies Aerospace and the Panamanian government yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding to establish an airframe, heavy maintenance,

Checking the ‘office’

Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Airbus have taken advantage of the A380 very large airliner’s presence here to introduce the operator’s senior personnel and f

Eight JSF partners to be briefed next month

Briefings to the eight international partners in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program on what role their industries can play in the massive F-35 producti
Aircraft

Aussies will need quick decision on C-17 buy

Australia is mulling the acquisition of four Boeing C-17s, but will probably have to make its mind up by the end of June.

BVR Buys blue ridge sims

BVR Systems is to acquire Blue Ridge Simulation, a leading U.S.
Aircraft

Cessna sells three bizjets here

Cessna sold three Citation business jets here at Asian Aerospace yesterday.

First, Japan Aerospace Corp.

LHT boss predicts bizjet boom in Asia

The mushrooming airlines in India and China were largely responsible for last year’s record levels of airliner orders, and the still-embryonic market for p

RSAF’s F-15s shop far and wide for warfighter excellence

The Boeing F-15SG fighter recently selected by the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) will feature some of the avionics found on the F-15I version alre

Asian Aerospace exits Changi in blaze of glory

Singapore’s 15th and final Asian Aerospace show, and the last airshow to be held here at the Changi Exhibition Centre, is living up to the promoters’ predi
Engines

Snecma develops new bizav engine

French engine maker Snecma is here at Asian Aerospace 2006 courting prospective partners and applications for its proposed new SM-X engine.
Engines

Safran profits from spirit of Sino-French cooperation

Sichuan Snecma Aero-engine Maintenance Co.

Asia-Pacific market outlooks highlight Airbus-Boeing divide

On one thing Boeing and Airbus agree: the Asia/Pacific region will generate enough demand for their products to keep them busy building lots of airplanes o
ATC

ATM planners wary of Chinese vulnerabilities

China has been emerging lately as a truly global player in commerce and tourism, but as the Beijing Olympic Games approach in 2008, followed by the Shangha
ATC

Modern Jets Can Leapfrog ATC Technology

Dramatic reductions in approach minimums at terrain-challenged airports are among the more spectacular results of applying RNP-Rnav.
ATC

RNP gains signal FANS breakthrough

The vision of a future air navigation system developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) at the beginning of the 1990s has taken a lo

BAE struggles to move idle craft in ‘tough’ market

While ATR and Bombardier’s de Havilland division enjoy a renaissance of sorts in the new turboprop airliner business, companies no longer involved in airpl

China takes accounting of traffic boom

The official statistics confirm what the aerospace industry has long anticipated: China’s air transport market is booming.

Fresh power for Indian, Chinese jets

Both China’s J-10 fighter and the Indian air force Bakhadur MiG-27ML fighter bomber are set to be re-engined with two new variations of the Russian Salyut

Emirates Sets Sights High for China

Emirates Airline plans to be one of the major international carriers for the 2008 Beijing Olympic games and the Shanghai World Expo two years later.

Australia in no hurry to throw Qantas to free-market wolves

Pressure from a growing chorus of free market proponents has Qantas scrambling to prepare for a likely “phased” introduction of open skies with Singapore.

What Is the End Game for China’s Military Modernization?

The concern of some watchers is just what the end game is for China’s more than 15-year drive to modernize its defense industrial base.

Dragon threatening to become the next bear

For the better part of the last 20 years an increasing number of defense policy makers and military analysts assumed that the People’s Republic of China (P

Boeing Plans Shanghai Maintenance Joint Venture

Boeing is preparing to invest more than $100 million in a new MRO joint venture in Shanghai.