Aircraft News.For more aircraft data, fleets and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm South American Carriers are becoming freed up in their desire to fly to the US after Washington softened its stance on two countries which were previously restricted on services. Ecuador has now been rated as category 1 for safety instead of category 2, which made it hard for the country's airlines to fly to US cities. The decision follows a similar move over Venezuelan airlines. A Category 2 status meant those countries had to lease aircraft off category 1 nations to fly to the US. May 26, 2006 Farnborough International Air Show, set to take place July 17-23, will feature a variety of large and small commercial transports. Airbus already has committed to display and fly the A380, and yesterday FIA FIA feline infectious anemia. said Boeing will bring a 777-300ER in the livery of EVA Air. Airbus also will display the A340-600 and A319, according to FIA, while regional aircraft manufacturers will be represented by the Embraer 190, CRJ CRJ Canadair Regional Jet CRJ Chiropractic Research Journal CRJ Commission for Racial Justice CRJ Cylinder Reduction Jumper 900, Q400 and ATR ATR Achilles tendon reflex, see Ankle reflex 42. May 26, 2006 Aerosim Technologies, Japan Airlines Aerosim Technologies said Japan Airlines signed an agreement for the supply of a Virtual Procedure Trainer for the A300-600ER. May 25, 2006 Air Canada Technical Services Air Canada Technical Services signed a $2.8 million MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. agreement with S7 Airlines covering 10 newly leased A319s. ACTS will perform C1 and C4 airframe maintenance checks as well as "major" required and requested modifications prior to the aircrafts' entry into service. Work will be performed in Montreal and Winnipeg and will be completed by the end of August. May 23, 2006 Air China Cargo Air China Cargo is a cargo airline based in Beijing, China. It is an all-cargo subsidiary of Air China and operates services to 36 cities in 27 countries around the world. Its main base is Beijing Capital International Airport[1]. Air China is set to buy two more 747-400Fs for its Air China Cargo unit, in which it holds a 51% stake, according to London financial market sources. The cargo carrier will take one 747-400F this year from Boeing and two 747-400BCFs. May 25, 2006 Air France, Rockwell Collins Rockwell Collins extended its current Preferred Supplier Agreement with Air France through 2010 and signed a new five-year PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. with KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) . Under the terms of the agreements, both airlines will purchase Rockwell Collins communication, navigation and surveillance avionics for their forward-fit aircraft and retrofit activities. The Air France agreement also covers data link avionics, while a separate KLM agreement covers MultiScan weather radar on 777s. May 26, 2006 Airbus Airbus' plans for the A350 long haul aircraft will be much clearer in time for the start of the Farnborough Air Show The Farnborough International Airshow is a seven-day international trade fair for the aerospace business which is held biennially in England. The airshow is organised by Farnborough International Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of British aerospace industry's body the Society in July. Transport ministers of the four countries involved with Airbus will decide before July 17 on any loans for the A350. Ministers are currently discussing the project and will meet imminently to consider a major revamp of the project. This follows calls for changes from potential customers who say that the aircraft is not competitive with Boeing's all new 787. Qatar Airways is apparently poised to rethink a [pounds sterling]5.3bn deal to buy 60 A350s from Airbus. http://www.airbus.com May 26, 2006 Airbus NYT NYT New York Times NYT National Youth Theatre (UK) NYT New York Transit (New York, USA) NYT New York Tribune standing-room only story was wrong. A New York Times story about Airbus pitching a standing section on commercial jetliners was wrong, the New York Times public editor Byron Calame writes. In fact, Airbus decided against the idea in 2004. Calame said editors found the story fascinating and "were caught with their skepticism down." May 23, 2006 Airbus, Indian Airlines Indian Airlines signed an MOU (Minutes Of Usage) A metric used to compute billing and/or statistics for telephone calls or other network use. with India's ICICI Bank for funding of the pre-delivery payments required for aircraft acquisition. Indian finalized a $2 billion deal for 43 A320 family aircraft in February. Funding will come from a syndicated external commercial borrowing of $152 million spread from June 2006 to January 2010. The airline said the Indian government is not a guarantor and that it would be working with European Export Credit Agencies to acquire long-term funds with ICICI's assistance. May 24, 2006 Aviation Refinancing Transaction, GA Telesis Aviation Refinancing Transaction awarded GA Telesis a five-year servicing contract to manage and remarket more than 50 Boeing aircraft and approximately 70 spare engines. May 24, 2006 BAE Systems Regional Aircraft BAE Systems Regional Aircraft produced the last fully UK-built airliner in November 2001, the Avro RJX (formerly the BAE 146). While this unit no longer produces aircraft it continues to lease aircraft and provide support, spares and training for its products, the BAE Systems Regional Aircraft said it covered the placement of an Avro RJ100 to FaroeJet of the Faroe Islands, two ATP ATP: see adenosine triphosphate. ATP in full adenosine triphosphate Organic compound, substrate in many enzyme-catalyzed reactions (see catalysis) in the cells of animals, plants, and microorganisms. freighters with MagicBird Airlines of the Netherlands and four Jetstream 41s with Yeti Airlines of Nepal. May 23, 2006 Boeing NTSB NTSB abbr. National Transportation Safety Board to investigate 727 fuel-tank explosion in India. National Transportation Safety Board investigators will travel to India to assist in a probe of a reported wing fuel-tank explosion on a Boeing 727-200. No one was injured in the explosion, which happened May 4. May 25, 2006 Boeing Boeing designs 787 with comfort in mind. Boeing's new 787 jetliner is a more comfortable plane for fliers, The Wall Street Journal's Scott McCartney writes. The plane features larger windows, better air quality and more storage space. Boeing originally designed the plane with eight seats across each coach row, but most airlines have requested nine seats. May 23, 2006 Boeing Boeing said yesterday that it has completed 25% of the releases required for the 787 that allow purchases to be made, tools to be developed and parts to be built. All releases for the Dreamliner program are digital. "We have seen tremendous progress by our international partners and the Boeing team working on the detailed design of this airplane," said Mike Bair, VP and GM of the 787 program. "Twenty-five percent release signifies that the largest elements, like fuselage and wing skins, are defined from the tooling requirements to the specific raw material elements." Boeing said 29 airlines have placed 393 Dreamliner orders and commitments worth more than $55 billion at current list prices. The 787 is scheduled to begin delivering in 2008. May 23, 2006 Boeing, Etihad Airways Etihad took delivery of its fifth and final 777-300ER this week. The aircraft will be used on flights to Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila and London Gatwick. Etihad will add Casablanca in June and Khartoum in July to its network. May 25, 2006 Boeing, Flyglobespan Flyglobespan will add seven Boeing aircraft, nearly doubling its current fleet of one 767 and nine 737s, with an eye toward expanding its long-haul services, according to press reports. The Edinburgh-based LCC (Leadless Chip Carrier, Leaded Chip Carrier) See leadless chip carrier, CLCC and PLCC. 1. LCC - Language for Conversational Computing. Written at CMU in the 1960's. will lease two more 767s, two 757s and three 737s. "We would like to be recognized as Scotland's national airline. Our drive is to develop a network to match that aspiration," Chairman Tom Dalrymple told The Scotsman, mentioning New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco as possible US destinations along with the Caribbean, Mexico, Africa and the Middle East. "To fly each of the new 767s alone we will need to train up to seven different crews. That works out at 14 pilots and 70 cabin crewmembers," Dalrymple said. "Multiply those numbers for the new aircraft which will be arriving in the future and you begin to get a true scale of the employment opportunities we are creating." He also said the carrier is looking into establishing its first codeshare agreement next month. May 23, 2006 Boeing, Lauda Air Lauda Air took delivery of its seventh and final 737-800 earlier this month. The carrier this summer will operate a fleet of nine aircraft including two A320s and expects to transport around 1.6 million passengers this fiscal year and generate turnover of [euro]250-[euro]260 million, MD Thomas Surtisch said. May 22, 2006 Boeing, Varig Varig has confirmed one of its Boeing 777s has been seized by lessors in JFK in New York due to nonpayment. The airline said representatives of the leasing firm seized the plane after presenting themselves to airport authorities as the owner of the aircraft. The Brazilian carrier has run up millions of dollars of debt and sought bankruptcy protection last year. Most foreign embassies in Brazil are recommending to their nationals not to use Varig. May 26, 2006 Cathay Pacific, CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. CAE won contracts for flight simulators last week from Cathay Pacific, ATR and Ryanair valued at a combined C$48 million ($43 million. Cathay signed a contract for a 777-300ER FFS (Flash File System) Software from Microsoft that made flash memory look like a disk drive. It was superseded by the Flash Translation Layer (FTL) from PCMCIA and M-Systems. See flash memory. , an accompanying integrated procedures trainer and seven virtual maintenance trainers. It is the fifth simulator the airline has purchased from CAE since 1992. Regional aircraft manufacturer ATR awarded CAE a contract for an ATR 72-500 FFS as well as two Tropos visual systems and an upgrade to the visual system of an existing simulator. Ryanair exercised an option for a 737-800 FFS. May 22, 2006 GE Commercial Aviation Training GE Commercial Aviation Training received approval from CAAC CAAC Civil Aviation Administration of China CAAC Civilian Agency Acquisition Council CAAC Capital Area Activities Conference (Lansing, Michigan, USA) CAAC Clean Air Action Corporation CAAC Citizens' Action Against Crime to conduct Airbus initial and conversion training on behalf of Chinese airlines. GECAT shortly will begin the first A320 initial/transition training and A320/A330/A340 transition/CCQ training at its Hong Kong Training Center. May 26, 2006 Japan Airlines Japan Airlines took delivery of the second 747-400BCF BCF Billion Cubic Feet BCF Bioconcentration Factor BCF British Chess Federation BCF British Coatings Federation BCF Breast Cancer Fund BCF Bank Credit Facility BCF Bulked Continuous Filament BCF British Cycling Federation BCF Boeing Converted Freighter Sunday in Xiamen. JAL JAL Jalisco (Mexican state) JAL Jalapa (Guatemala territorial division) JAL Jump And Link JAL Japan Airlines Company, Ltd. has orders for eight conversions and four options. The first dash 400BCF was redelivered to Cathay Pacific in December. May 23, 2006 Lufthansa Flight Training Lufthansa Flight Training subsidiary Aviation Quality Services is inspecting Dragonair for conformity with the IATA IATA International Air Transport Association, which sets the rules for air transport, including those concerning air transport of animals. Operational Safety Audit. It is the 50th safety audit conducted by AQS AQS American Quilter's Society AQS Air Quality Standard AQS Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Förderung der Qualitätssicherung in der Medizin (Koeln, Germany) AQS Air Quality Subsystem AQS Advanced Quality System AQS AetherQuest Solutions out of a total of 150 IOSA IOSA Iata Operational Safety Audit IOSA Islands' Oil Spill Association (San Juan County, WA) IOSA Internet and Open Source in Archaeology IOSA International Oil Scouts Association IOSA International Organizational Studies Association audits, according to AQS. May 23, 2006 Lufthansa Technik Lufthansa Technik Shenzhen will overhaul CF6-80 thrust-reverser units under a three-year contract with Thai Airways. LTS LTS 1 Latent tetany syndrome, see there 2. Low-threshold spike–neurology already is overhauling CFM56-3 thrust reverser units for Thai. May 22, 2006 Lufthansa Technik Lufthansa Technik's Mobile Access Router "flying office solution" was made available for A380 customers as a standard option. LHT LHT Long Haul Trucker (bicycle) LHT Long Holding Time LHT Long Haul Transmission LHT Lord High Treasurer LHT Low Harmonic Technology (Siemens) LHT Long Haul Terminal (Alcatel) also announced it signed an MRO contract with KrasAir covering the Russian carrier's 11 737-500s. May 22, 2006 Menzies Aviation, Aeroground Menzies Aviation completed its acquisition of Aeroground Inc., a San Francisco-based air cargo service provider. Menzies will create new operations at New York JFK, Chicago O'Hare, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Vancouver and Calgary while expanding services at Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Ore., and SFO. May 24, 2006 NAV Canada NAV Canada will replace 100 DME units across the country at a cost of some C$15 million ($13.4 million). Contract for the purchase of the DMEs together with associated spares and services was awarded to UK-based Fernau Avionics. May 26, 2006 Rockwell Collins, TAAG TAAG Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls TAAG Toronto Area Archivists' Group (chapter of the Archives Association of Ontario) TAAG Transportes Aereos Angolanos (Angolan Airways) Air Angola Rockwell Collins and its enCompass group signed a two-year deal with TAAG Air Angola for complete IFE Ife (ē`fā), city (1991 est. pop. 262,000), SW Nigeria. Located in a farm region, the city is an important center for marketing and shipping cacao. According to tradition, Ife is the oldest Yoruba town (founded c.1300). solutions for its 777-200s and 737-700s. May 23, 2006 SkyQuest International SkyQuest International arranged the sale of a DHC-6-300 to Alberta Aircraft Leasing on behalf of CAE Aviation. May 24, 2006 Unison Industries Unison Industries was selected by Aircelle, a member of Safran Group, to build several systems for the PowerJet SaM 146 engine to be used for Sukhoi Civilian Aircraft's RRJ. Unison will deliver more than 1,000 sets to Aircelle worth more than $20 million over the duration of the 10-year agreement. May 22, 2006 |
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