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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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In The Works: Air Tractor S-22 Surveyor
Air Tractor of Olney, Texas, better known for its line of Air Tractor agplanes, is working on an amphibious 10-passenger turboprop called the S-22 Surveyor
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In The Works: Atlas Aerospace Liftmaster
Overnight-package carriers FedEx, UPS and Airborne Express use big jets to move cargo between major hubs and rely on smaller piston and turboprop airplanes
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In The Works: Gippsland Aeronautics GA-10T
Gippsland Aeronautics, Australia’s only commercial aircraft manufacturer, is developing a 10-seat turboprop version of its eight-seat, GA-8 Airvan piston s
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In The Works: Grob-Werke G-140
Grob Aerospace of Tussenhausen-Mattsies, Germany, has jumped on the turboprop-single bandwagon with a four-seat, Rolls-Royce 250-B17F-powered version of it
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In The Works: Sino Swearingen SJ30-2
After 10 years in development, Sino Swearingen is now building the first customer SJ30-2 business jet, S/N 005, at the company’s 87,500-sq-ft Martinsburg,
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An Apex for Spectrum’s Freedom
Carlsbad, Calif.-based Spectrum Aeronautical yesterday announced that it selected the Honeywell Primus Apex integrated avionics suite for the all-composite
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Florida Plant To Increase Embraer Phenom Output
The 149,500-sq-ft Phenom 100/300 final assembly and completions facility that Embraer is building at Melbourne (Fla.) Airport will substantially increase t
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Siberian airline to operate Gulfstream IV-SP
Surgut, Siberia-based TyumenAviaTrans (TAT) is scheduled to take delivery of a Gulfstream IV-SP in August and operate it on behalf of the owner, “one of th
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Sales Up, Deliveries Down at Hawker Beechcraft
Hawker Beechcraft reported continued strong sales for its airplane offerings in the first quarter, though snags with the Hawker 4000 resulted in the Wichit
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In The Works Analysis: Startup OEMs scratch for financing
This year and last were not kind to the startup airplane manufacturers, those OEM wannabes that are–or in some cases were–attempting to grab the brass ring
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Big Jet Rolls Into Big Apple
Brazil’s Embraer celebrated the first anniversary of its listing on the New York Stock Exchange by taking its ERJ-190 road show to the Big Apple’s Rockefel
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ERJ-140 Gets FAA Nod
Embraer’s new 44-seat ERJ-140 regional jet gained FAA certification on July 26, two weeks after launch customer American Eagle took the keys to the first p
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Regionals Update: Bombardier signs new training deal in China
Bombardier announced during last month’s Zuhai Air Show that the Qingdao Fei Sheng International Aviation Technology Development Training Co.
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RJX tests accelerate as jet No. 2 joins program
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has completed four months of test flights in its new Avro RJX85, leaving officials “very confident” of meeting, if not exceed
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News Note: UK's LEA places Mustang order
The UK’s London Executive Aviation (LEA) has placed a $12 million order for five Citation Mustang very light business jets.
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Concorde’s return to service is imminent
British Airways (BA) flew a modified Concorde to Shannon, Ireland, on August 7 before conducting refresher crew-training operations last month.
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CIS aerospace firms to develop Be-132MK
Russia’s Beriev, Irkutsk Aircraft Production Association (IAPO) and Klimov and the Ukraine’s Motor-Sich on June 19 signed a memorandum of understanding on
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Sukhoi leads Boeing, Ilyushin in Russian Regional Jet effort
A day before the opening of last month’s Moscow airshow, Sukhoi, Ilyushin and Boeing signed a series of agreements on the regional jet program proposed in
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Piedmont marketing Saab 340 shuttles
Piedmont Hawthorne has entered an agreement with Saab Aircraft Leasing (SAL) to market twin-turboprop Saab 340s for corporate shuttle use.
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Falcon 7X to fly with Rockwell Collins HUD
Dassault has settled on a new, smaller version of the Rockwell Collins Flight Dynamics HGS 4000 head-up display as an option for its 5,700-nm Falcon 7X tri
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With no. 500, GIV and siblings get new names
Following a special ceremony planned for December 3 marking the end of production of the Gulfstream IV series at the 500th aircraft, the popular business j
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Nimbus eyes Adam 700, quashes merger plan
Nimbus Group is now looking at the recently announced Adam 700 very light twinjet for its proposed affordable nationwide jet-taxi network.
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Goodrich Hella Lighting picked for Global 5000
Bombardier chose Goodrich Hella Aerospace Lighting Systems to provide LED technology for internal and external lighting on the new Global 5000.
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U. of N. Dakota will help train Eclipse 500 pilots
Eclipse Aviation introduced an in-house mandatory training program for customers of its Eclipse 500 very light twinjet, which includes pilot qualification
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Embraer’s Finances, Backlog Flying High
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer recorded first-quarter sales of $1.34 billion, a nearly 61-percent increase year-over-year, and a profit of $85 mil
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In The Works: Adam Aircraft A500
With the first flight of A500 S/N 0001 on July 11, the centerline-thrust, six-seat piston twin is poised to begin flight testing leading to certification,
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In The Works: Cessna Citation Sovereign
All major milestones with the Sovereign have been completed on or ahead of schedule, according to Brad Thress, Sovereign senior product director, who added
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In The Works: Myasishchev M-101T Gzhel
First shown as a model at a 1990 Moscow exhibition, the single-turboprop M-101T Gzhel is nearing Russian certification, expected by the end of the year, fo
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Collins’ Pro Line 21 scores a coup on CJ3, G150 programs
Rockwell Collins emerged a winner at the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Fla., last month with the announcement that the Cedar Rapids, Iowa company’s Pro Line
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Tilt Could Get Twisted as Test Flights Continue
While the immediate effect on the ongoing tests of the MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor is questionable, the U.S.
