Bombardier’s new Premier cabin, which is now standard in the Global 6000 (formerly Global Express) and its short-fuselage Global G5000 derivative, is making its China debut here in the company’s G6000 demonstrator.
A strategic partnership between ExecuJet Haite Aviation Services China Co. and Tianjin Binhai International Airport aims to cross-promote Execujet Haite’s maintenance services and the airport’s exclusive business aviation fixed base operation.
Bombardier’s full-size mock-up of its Global 7000 ultra long-range business jet is making its first appearance in China here at ABACE as part of an extensive world tour that included Dubai and Singapore.
Refurbishing the interiors of business jets has become big business for completions and MRO specialist Flying Colours, which three years ago opened an Asia base in Bombardier Business Aircraft’s Service Center at Seletar Airport, Singapore.
Gulfstream Aerospace expects to win type certificates for two new business jet types – the G500 and G600 – and putting both into service in 2018. It’s never done two at a time before.
The first business jet version of a Boeing 737 MAX is about to fly from the factory, marking the beginning of a journey to be outfitted as a BBJ MAX 8.
Shanghai Hawker Pacific has completed construction of a 4,500-sq-meter second hangar to support business aviation at Hongqiao International Airport—and its first use is to house this year’s ABACE show.
Deer Jet became the first Chinese private jet operator to fly from China to the Antarctica in December, when one of its Gulfstream G650 business jets landed on the blue ice runway of Wolfs Fang airport.
Russia’s United Engine Corporation hopes to supply its future PD-35 engine for the Russo-Chinese CR929 widebody airliner. The contract calls for the engine to meet both Russian and Chinese airworthiness and certification requirements.
The PD-14 turbofan engine secured its place under the wing of the Irkut MC-21 narrowbody airliner. Russia’s largest carrier, Aeroflot, plans to equip half of its future MC-21 fleet with the Russian powerplants.
Seyed Mohseni is at the Singapore Airshow to raise some of the GBP90 million (US$126 million) he estimates is necessary to fulfill his vision for a 10-seat, composite-structure, pressurized, VTOL, economic and environmentally friendly airplane.
Rockwell Collins is talking up Japan Airlines’ deployment of its ARINC AviNet Airport network solution at 51 of its domestic and international airport locations.
The civil helicopter market in China is less skewed toward the oil and gas sector than Southeast Asia’s helicopter market, and last year posted the strongest fleet growth in the region.
Lufthansa Technik and the U.S. component manufacturer Crane Aerospace & Electronics have teamed together for component supply for Asia-Pacific Europe, the Near and Middle East and Africa, and Europe.
Elbe Flugzeugwerke has secured a launch contract from Luxembourg-based Vallair Solutions Sàrl for its Airbus A321 P2F/passenger-to-freighter conversions.
Embraer has not yet received a proposal from Boeing for a possible combination of the manufacturers, Embraer Commercial Aviation President and CEO John Slattery said at the Singapore Airshow.
Bombardier and Airbus could have a final assembly line in the U.S. up and running within a year of a go-ahead, but it remains undecided where Delta C Series jets ordered will be produced.
Airlines across Asia-Pacific are giving Boeing’s proposed new mid-market airplane high marks on the basis of the concept’s unusual combination of a relatively high passenger capacity and wide range capability.
