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Gulfstream says its range of business jets satisfies the time-poor frequent traveller’s need for speed. “If a CEO wastes 10 minutes he could live to be a billion years old and never make up that 10 minutes,” said Gulfstream regional senior vice-president for international sales Roger Sperry at the Avalon Airshow this week. This content
Fancy a 25-year-old Boeing 757-200 previously owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and used to fly the Portland Trail Blazers around the US during the National Basketball Association season? Then bring $30 million or so down to the Avalon Airshow. The aircraft, with Bermuda registration VQ-BTF, has been on static display during the six-day event
Pilatus is displaying a full-scale fuselage and cabin mock-up of its new PC-24 ‘super versatile jet’ (SVJ) at Avalon. The company says it has created the new super versatile category for the jet as it does not fit into any of the current light or light-medium categories. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation
Airbus says its A350-900 can fly virtually unrestricted from any two cities in the world with 370-minute extended twin-engine operation approval (ETOPS) – so it’s no longer seeking the 420-minute ETOPS for which it originally applied. When the European Aviation Safety Agency certified the A350-900 on September 30 2014, it allowed the aircraft to fly
Lockheed Martin is promoting its LM-100J multi-purpose freighter, a civil derivative of the C-130J Super Hercules airlifter, at the Avalon airshow, with the company aiming to attract orders from existing L-100 customers and new operators looking for an aircraft to support niche missions. The LM-100J will be able to operate from short, unprepared airfields without
Business aviation operator Execujet says it will add two more aircraft to its charter fleet and has plans for a third in the next few months as economic growth in Australasia fuels demand. The company says a Bombardier Challenger 604 and Cessna Citation VII will be based in Sydney and serve destinations in Australia, New
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