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FIRST
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Tarek Bin Laden, a Saudi
businessman and half-brother to Osama Bin Laden, was the first to put a
deposit on an Aerion supersonic business jet when positions went on sale
at the Dubai Air Show on Monday. Reno-based Aerion has yet to start work
on a flying example of its Mach 1.6, eight-to-12-passenger aircraft but
company spokesman Brian Barents told reporters that market demand
dictated they start taking deposits. The aircraft are expected to cost
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company is buying Bombardier CRJ-200 regional jets on the secondary
market and giving them the executive treatment, along with a mechanical
makeover. Project Phoenix is estimating each converted RJ will cost
about $17.9 million and will “present as new.”
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DUBAI
AIR SHOW ORDERS TOP $100 BILLION
Middle Eastern airlines went
on a shopping spree at the 10th Dubai Air Show, currently underway, and
Airbus appears to have regained its position as the top-selling
commercial planemaker. Airbus says it’s taken a total of 290 orders
at the show while Boeing was at 153 on Tuesday. The redesigned A350 is
proving especially popular among the carriers with their very fat
checkbooks out. On the opening day of the show, Emirates Airlines
announced it would buy 120 A350s and 11 A380s. Boeing had hoped to sell
its 787 Dreamliner to Emirates but got the (relatively) small portion of
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EMBRAER’S
ORDER BOOK SWELLS IN DUBAI
Embraer’s foray into the
business jet market looks like a good move as it counts up the orders
from the Dubai Air Show. The Brazilian planemaker took in 63 orders in
the first couple of days of the show. Most were for Phenom 100, 300 and
Legacy 600 business jets, but there were also some for its Lineage 1000
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WORLD-WIDE
BUSINESS JET SALES SOAR
The boom in business jet sales shows
no signs of abating and the expected influx of very light jets has
barely begun. The General Aviation Manufacturers Association released third quarter figures last week and there was a
staggering 20 percent increase in the number of bizjets sold in the
first nine months of the year compared to the same period of 2006. In
all, 759 jets were sold between January and September, up from 628 in
the same time period the previous year, a year that was celebrated as
one of the best ever. More... |
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TURBOPROPS
GAIN MORE GROUND
With jet fuel prices in the $3-a-gallon
range, the fuel efficiency of turboprops is boosting sales and the total
number of shipments was up 14.5 percent in the first nine months of 2007
over 2006. A total of 293 general aviation turboprops were delivered in
the period compared to 256 in the same time last year, according to the
General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) third quarter report “…we expect shipments
to continue on a strong, upward trend in the months ahead,” said
GAMA President Pete Bunce. More... |
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NO
SERIOUS INJURIES IN GLOBAL 5000 CRASH LANDING
Heavy, wet snow
and strong winds were present when a Bombardier Global 5000 business
jet's landing gear collapsed after the aircraft apparently landed short
of the runway at a private airport at a golf resort in Nova Scotia on
Sunday. None of the eight passengers and two crew was seriously hurt,
although some were checked in to the hospital. Aircraft owner Ron Joyce,
who is also the owner of the golf course and a pilot, told the Canadian Press the crash was like a car accident,
only more spectacular. "We don't know, I don't know what happened,"
Joyce said. "... I am just happy to be standing here talking to you. It
scared the hell out of me." More... |
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Aviation Consumer, will soon publish an in-depth report on
aircraft batteries. As part of that report, the magazine would like to
hear about your experiences with aircraft batteries -- good, bad or
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