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G280 DELIVERIES BEGIN Two months after the Gulfstream G280 was awarded full certification, deliveries of the super-midsize type have begun. About a dozen of the 10-passenger aircraft are earmarked for [...]

AIRBUS SYSTEMS UNIT TRANSFERS TO AEROLIA STRATEGY Airbus' wholly owned French aerostructures subsidiary Aerolia has completed its takeover of the airframer's systems unit at Saint-Nazaire, which employs 154 people and [...]

SINGLE FINANCE Cessna's sister company Cessna Finance is offering a finance programme for new owners of its propeller-driven aircraft including the 172, 182, Corvalis and Caravan models. 'Many people are [...]

business briefs COMPOSITES TO 'FORCE TIER 1 RESTRUCTURING' MANUFACTURING The aerostructures industry will restructure around a handful of tier 1 companies capable of investing enough to keep up with rising [...]

UK business aviation services provider Ocean Sky is expanding rapidly and aggressively despite the economic crisis pummelling sectors of its business. Within the next couple of weeks the London-based company [...]

DIAMOND IN RUSSIA Diamond Airborne Sensing has gained a foothold in the Russian airborne surveillance market following approval of the DA42 multipurpose platform by the Russian civil aviation authority. Diamond [...]

SALE EMMA KELLY PERTH Hawker Pacific to offload piston engine overhaul arm Proceeds to fund growth opportunities in fixed-base operations and aircraft management Australian aircraft sales and flight services company [...]

CONSOLIDATION vladimir karnozov moscow Russian combat aircraft makers to form one unit Russia's United Aircraft (OAK) is to create a single combat aircraft division by merging its RSK MiG and [...]

electromagnetics ALAN RADECKI MOJAVE BAE's Flight Systems tests airborne ground-penetrating sensor pod BAE Systems' Flight Systems division in Mojave, California has completed the design, fabrication and initial flight testing of [...]

Airbus's Corporate Jet Centre in Toulouse has completed its first cabin outfitting since it opened its doors last September in a move designed to relieve growing pressure and lengthy backlogs [...]

China Aviation Industry Corporation I (AVIC I) has separated the civilian and military work of subsidiaries Shenyang Aircraft (SAC) and Chengdu Aircraft (CAC), a move that it hopes will make [...]

COUNTERMEASURES john croft washington dc Counter-Manpads system up for test General Dynamics' North Carolina-based Armament and Technical Products division will perform a $2 million test of a ground-based counter-Manpads system [...]

UK companies score well in DTI table Ranking UK aerospace companies feature heavily within Europe's strongest performers in the UK Department of Trade and Industry's annual value-added scoreboard. Four of [...]

Raytheon completes RAC sell-off Divestment Raytheon plans to use the proceeds of the sale of its Raytheon Aircraft (RAC) division to fund stock repurchasing and the early repayment of around [...]

Stork welcomes court ruling Dispute Stork has welcomed an Amsterdam court of appeal's ruling launching an investigation into the company's affairs, but blocking a vote on rebel shareholders' proposed motion [...]

stork. First came the news shareholders Centaurus and Paulson were demanding a judicial probe into its refusal to bow to demands to divest non-core businesses. Now Stork's Fokker Services division [...]

Raytheon has agreed to sell its Raytheon Aircraft (RAC) business unit to a partnership made up of Goldman Sachs' investment arm GS Capital Partners and Canada's Onex for $3.3 billion. [...]

Like once-indulgent parents whose patience with the wayward antics of their offspring has been exhausted, EADS's board of directors will in future keep a much closer watch on the everyday [...]

Diamond Aircraft? Canadian subsidiary has received a C$10 million ($8.9 million) repayable loan from the Ontario provincial government to support development of the D-Jet very light jet. Development and manufacture [...]

Swiss business aviation holding company Sparfell Aviation Technology is restructuring its three European business units in an effort to raise awareness of its Masterjet brand and strengthen the company? identity. [...]

JetBlue Airways and Republic Airways Holdings are expected to begin testing a new Embraer programme to monitor the health of their E-Jet fleets. Dubbed AHeAD (aircraft, health analysis and diagnosis), [...]

EADS Space Transportation and the Netherlands Foundation for Astronomy will launch in June the first phase of a study for a proposed [euro]1.3 billion ($1.54 billion) radio telescope to be [...]

South Korea has agreed to acquire a Cessna Citation Encore with a flight inspection system supplied by Okalahoma-based NXT. Industry sources say a $12 million contract was tentatively awarded at [...]

Finmeccanica's Alenia Aeronautica unit is negotiating to increase its contribution to Airbus production activities, which could see the company take a minority share in the A350 programme by the middle [...]

Northrop Grumman is creating a logistics support and technical services unit in a move that reflects the growing trend for aerospace and defence companies to seek a tighter grip on [...]

Israel Aircraft Industries' (IAI) Bedek division has won the $150 million contract to convert 12 ex-Delta Air Lines Boeing 767-200s from passenger to cargo configuration for US carrier ABX Air, [...]

Bombardier will receive [pounds sterling]180 million ($296 million) from the UK government in support of the business jet manufacturer's CSeries programme, which could create around 1,700 jobs at the company's [...]

Airbus was brought back to earth with a bump late last week as a stand-off between French and German shareholders of parent company EADS over who should succeed the division's [...]

NetJets' European division is set to make an operational profit next year as it ramps up operations to accommodate Europe's largest-ever order for business aircraft. NetJets Europe signed a $160 [...]

Boeing has formed a new organisation to co-ordinate analysis, modelling and simulation (AMS) capabilities across its Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) business. The unit will focus on large-scale system-of-system modelling and [...]

L-3 Communications is to buy Northrop Grumman's Canadian navigation systems and space sensors division for $65 million in cash. Acquisition of the former Litton Systems Canada is expected to add [...]

Australian aircraft sales and maintenance group Aeromil hopes to kick-start sales of Cessna's full range of aircraft in the Asia-Pacific region after buying the manufacturer's Cessna Pacific operation. Sydney Bankstown [...]

'The boom project was a natural evolution from our involvement in tanker aircraft', says Rafael Acedo, head of programmes at EADS's Military Transport Aircraft division (MTAD). 'It was obvious that [...]

EADS can lay claim to having the most diverse portfolio of products of any aerospace company. The company's subsidiaries and joint ventures include French light-aircraft builder Socata, regional aircraft manufacturer [...]

EADS's German maintenance subsidiary Aircraft Services Lemwerder (ASL) has performed its final civil aircraft work as it begins a controversial transformation into a military component workshop and Eurofighter production facility. [...]

Bombardier has formed a separate business unit to manage its New Commercial Aircraft Programme (NCAP), another sign of the scope and seriousness of its study of the market for a [...]

Russian manufacturer Irkut has created a systems integration division and will offer its expertise to other Russian companies seeking to upgrade military aircraft for the export market. Irkut president Alexei [...]

Royal Brunei Airlines plans to spin off its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) business later this year into a separate subsidiary that will initially be wholly owned by the airline, [...]