Content Archive: November 2006

Int’l Acft Registry Working, But Few Bizav Fans

Activity on the Web-based International Registry (IR) of Mobile Assets has been high since it opened for business on March 1, according to Aviareto of Dubl
Aircraft

Another Start-up Hopes To Ride VLJ Bandwagon

Earthjet–a proposed new light-jet air-taxi network–says that it has narrowed the choice of manufacturers to two companies to build the start-up’s envisaged

Eurocopter partnership boosts Chinese helo biz

Last December’s agreement between Eurocopter and China for the codevelopment of a new medium-size helicopter, the EC 175 (known in China as the Z-15), mark

EADS money woes no object for Sogerma

Employees at EADS Sogerma Services’ Merignac aircraft maintenance near Bordeaux in southwest France still have jobs thanks to French Prime Minister Dominiq
ATC

Joint venture seeks key to NATO radar RFP

AGS Industries, a recently formed joint-venture company headquartered in Ottobrunn, Germany, is working on a response to a formal request for proposal for
Aircraft

Embraer's Bizjets Selling Phenomenally Well

Embraer today revealed the firm order backlog and production schedule for its business jets–the Phenom 100 and 300, Legacy 600 and Lineage 1000.

CMC helps breathe life into ‘legacy’ airframes

CMC Electronics (Hall 4 Stand C16a) is showing off its latest avionics technology here at the Farnborough show, but it is also looking for customers wishin
Engines

Orders by discount lines sustain CFM sales surge

Engine manufacturers are enjoying the boom in civil aircraft sales as much as other suppliers, but this does not mean the battle for orders is any less tou

New ICAO rules to render aging ELTs obsolete

Imagine that a malfunction on an aircraft forces the captain to make an emergency crash landing in the middle of an unforgiving landmass, such as Siberia,

All-electric brakes set for Boeing 787 by year-end

Messier-Bugatti (Hall 4 Stand B12) is scheduled to deliver the first complete braking system for the Boeing 787-8 airliner by December.