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Charter & Fractional

Gestair’s 100 pilots keep very, very busy

Gestair makes a fair claim to being Spain’s leading business aviation group, with about 60 percent of the national executive charter market.
Charter & Fractional

Spain’s second-largest charter firm expanding

Executive Airlines, Spain’s second-ranking executive charter operator, has increased its fleet from four aircraft to seven and expects to add five more in
Charter & Fractional

Jet Personales offers a personal touch

Jet Personales (Booth No.
Regulations and Government

EBAA France realigns its agenda

The French chapter of the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA France) is preparing for a restructuring under the leadership of its new president,
Charter & Fractional

Unique charter program debuts

UK operator Club328 (Booth No.
Engines

Snecma chief says time is right for SM-X turbofan

Snecma’s announcement in January that it is to develop the new SM-X turbofan for small regional airliners and mid-sized/large business jets took many by su
Aircraft

China regional jet market remains on slow simmer

Last month’s order for five ERJ 145s placed by China Eastern Airlines no doubt came as welcome news to the management of the Brazilian-Chinese joint manufa
Aircraft

Asia/Pacific Forms Bedrock of ATR’s Good Year

Customers from the Asia/Pacific region played a big part in the banner year European airframer Avions de Transport Regional posted in 2005.
Aircraft

Raptor in the running for Japan’s next fighter

Japan’s Air Self Defence Force (JASDF), which is accustomed to having the most modern variants of U.S.
Aircraft

UAVs bring their own set of stealth challenges

Four decades after the first truly stealthy air vehicles were secretly flown in the U.S., the technology has matured and proliferated.
Aircraft

USAF Counts the True Cost of B-2 Stealth

Brian Kilburn of the Boeing B-2 System Program Office presented insights into the true cost of a stealth operation at the Stealth Conference conducted rece
Aircraft

Boeing speeds into AA06 on a road to redemption

Boeing employees who remember the sorry state of the airline industry and, frankly, their company during the last Asian Aerospace exposition in 2004 should
ATC

Netcentric ops a test of wills and miracles

It would take a miracle–in fact, two miracles–for network-centric operations (NCO) to become a reality.
Engines

Safran’s Bechat lays out strategy for small engine battle with GE

Since Snecma dropped the idea of taking a share in General Electric’s GEnx turbofan program the two long-time partners now find themselves competing in
Aircraft

India’s airlines confident but wary

Remember the days not too long ago, when any aspiring young computer whiz with a domain name and a smile could convince a venture capitalist to invest six
Aircraft

Kingfisher Airlines brews up ‘value-added’ recipe for flying

Aviation International News traveled from Delhi to Mumbai for the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) conference on Kingfisher Airlines, because
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
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

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
Engines

Safran profits from spirit of Sino-French cooperation

Sichuan Snecma Aero-engine Maintenance Co.
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.
Aircraft

Cessna sells three bizjets here

Cessna sold three Citation business jets here at Asian Aerospace yesterday. First, Japan Aerospace Corp.
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.
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.
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.
Aircraft

TCAS 2000 Now Standard on Cessna Bizjets

Aviation Communications & Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a joint L-3 Communications and Thales company, has announced that Cessna has selected the TCAS 2
Charter & Fractional

CharterX Adds Russian to Its Database

CharterX has added Russian to the available languages in its online “trip-builder” executive charter capacity database that already offers English, French,
Maintenance and Modifications

Matrix Keeps ’em Flying

A fast response to AOG alarms is a challenge to which Matrix Aviation (Booth No.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Geneva-based Burnet Interiors to bid for Grob SPn production

Burnet Interiors has made the interior of the Grob SPn cabin mockup that showgoers can see here on the German airframer’s exhibit (Booth No.
Airports

Oxford Airport adds hangars, ILS and lighting

Britain’s Oxford Airport is adding two hangars, each big enough to accommodate a very large-cabin business jet.