EBACE Show News - May 20, 2008 - (Page 1) TUESDAY, MAY 20 EBACE 2008 Premier II, Hawker 4000 Improvements for one, and key certificate for the other. –Page 30 G650 Is Already a Hit One analyst pegs orders for new Gulfstream jet at 500. –Page 36 Cessna’s Grand Columbus New flagship termed ‘greatest achievement.’ –Page 38 New Jets Large and Small Airbus, Boeing, Diamond, Grob, Honda, Embraer. –Pages 42, 46 Aerion Claims 40 Orders Sales agents do their job, but who will build the SSBJ? –Page 48 Comlux and Airbus yesterday unveiled their partnership in the Airbus Corporate Jet Center in Toulouse. Above, l to r, are Comlux’s Mohammed Al-Zeer, Airbus corporate jet vp Arnaud Martin, head of Comlux Creatives Isabelle Bevilacqua, Airbus Corporate Jet Center CEO Benoit Defforge, and Airbus svp for international development Christian Robach. Lufthansa Business Jets Formal launch for first class flyers is set for June 1. –Page 50 XOJET Wins Record $2.4bn Financing The biggest ever financing for business aircraft—a whopping $2.46 billion—has been won by XOJET president & CEO Paul Touw to finance his fleet of 127 Cessna Citation X and Bombardier Challenger 300 jets. The deal, which involves major investment by an Abu Dhabi company, will fund global expansion starting with a joint venture in the Middle East. The deal is even more remarkable in that it was made in the current environment of tight credit. –Page 70 New Airplanes by Cessna Pistons and a large jet figure in an expanded line. –Page 52 PW810 for the Columbus Pratt & Whitney Canada scores a major victory. –Page 58 Lufthansa Technik Grows Expansion plans even include a new facility in the U.S. –Page 60 Premier II Unveiled A mockup of the new Hawker Beechcraft Premier II—a substantially improved, better performing development of the Premier IA light jet—was unveiled here yesterday at EBACE by Jim Schwartz, chairman of Hawker Beechcraft owner ONEX, and Hawker Beechcraft chairman and CEO –Page 30 Jim Schuster. Honeywell Celebrates Organizational changes key to recent program wins. –Page 62 GE Launches a GA Unit Watch for enginemaker to go far beyond HondaJet. –Page 66 Blink Banks on Mustangs Farnborough-based air taxi startup plans to fly 45 of them. –Page 74 NEWSMAKERS ExecuJet, Grob and Learjet Grow Closer Niall Olver, CEO of both the ExecuJet Aviation Group and Grob Aerospace, features prominently at EBACE this year as he leads ExecuJet through a broad expansion, develops the Grob SPn utility jet, and plays a crucial role in the development of –Page 56 Bombardier’s new Learjet 85. Selling Those Playthings The Aero Toy Store has jets ready for purchase now. –Page 76 Collins Fusion for Lear 85 Successor to Pro Line 21 for the new Bombardier jet. –Page 82 A Big Deal for VistaJet Bing Chen, CEO of Swiss-based VistaJet Group, is scheduled to announce a gamechanging deal at 1 p.m. today with Bombardier that will likely include one of the largest orders ever for Bombardier aircraft. Bigger than the Battlers Forecasts indicate that bizjets far outweigh fighters. –Page 83
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