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EBACE 2008 Hawker Beechcraft Names India Parts House Phenom-enal Legacy Deal Just May Indicate Plans for Even More Embraers When Honeywell announced a $23 billion deal to power Embraer’s new Legacy 450 midlight and Legacy 500 midsize jets (known until yesterday as the MLJ and MSJ) with its HTF7500-E engine, observers sharpened their pencils and said, “This just doesn’t add up.” Honeywell explained away its estimate by saying this included engine support over the life of the program, which could well be 20 years or so. But aren’t these new engines supposed to need less support, not more? The Brazilian manufacturer expects the midlight and midsize segments of the business jet market will account for 2,780 new aircraft valued at $38 billion over the next decade. Embraer has said it wants a 20 to 30% share of those two market segments; a 30% share would amount to 834 aircraft over the next 10 years. On Honeywell’s sums this amounts to a whopping $27.5 million per aircraft, just for Honeywell’s engines. And these are engines that on Bombardier’s Challenger 300 haven’t had a single in-flight shutdown since they entered service. Pressed for an explanation Honeywell later said the $23 billion also includes APUs for the two new Embraer jets. Can APUs really be that expensive? Or is there something else that neither Honeywell nor Embraer are telling us? What else might be covered in their $23 billion deal? —John Morris Hawker Beechcraft (Booth 7462) has selected India-based Arrow Aviation as an authorized distributor for its Rapid Aircraft Parts Inventory and Distribution (RAPID) factory-direct source for aircraft parts. Arrow Aviation Services will distribute parts for all Hawker and Beechcraft aircraft throughout the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, Morocco and Algeria from two facilities located in Kolkata, India, and Dubai, UAE. Arrow Aviation Services is a leading parts supplier in the Indian subcontinent. Its recently opened facility in Dubai, which houses the main warehouse, will offer 24-hour yearround support for spare parts to be distributed across the Middle East and India. Avidyne’s Alliant STCed for Conquest II Avidyne (Booth 563) and S-TEC have an STC to retrofit the Alliant Integrated Flight Deck into Cessna 441 Conquest II twin-turboprop aircraft. The Conquest II is the third model that combines Avidyne’s Envision series of retrofit integrated flight deck products and S-TEC’s IntelliFlight 2100 Digital Flight Control System, joining Hawker Beechcraft’s King Air 90 and 200-series airplanes. The Alliant package for the Conquest II includes dual-redundant Avidyne EXP5000 10.4-inch PFDs, EX500 MFD (shown), S-TEC IntelliFlight 2100 digital autopilot and Mid-Continent two-inch standby instruments, and interfaces to most popular traffic, terrain, lightning, radar and radar altimeter systems. AgustaWestland, Alitalica for Italy Helo Hub AgustaWestland (Booth 7550) and Alitalica of Italy have signed a collaboration agreement to establish the first helicopter hub in Italy at Rome’s Urbe Airport. AgustaWestland will set up a helicopter maintenance center for its helicopters, while Alitalica will offer passenger hospitality services, passenger transport provision and corporate helicopter management services. The helicopter hub is expected to become operational in 2009. The development will include new hangars, hospitality and office areas to support the growth of the VIP/corporate helicopter market in and around the Italian capital and in southern Italy. P&WC Signs Russia’s Dexter Air Taxi Dexter Air Taxi of Russia operates Pilatus PC-12 single-engine turboprop aircraft powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67P engines. This month, Dexter, part of Air Management Group, signed on for a Fleet Management Program with P&WC that covers maintenance for its eight engines. The agreement is the first for P&WC in Russia. Dexter operates its air taxis on routes with a radius of 1,000 km from origin to destination and is expanding into Scandinavia, the Baltic region, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the north Caucases and former Soviet republics, with fleet expansion plans for 13 PC-12s and cargo aircraft by end of 2008. FBO and Airports Forum Here Thursday A forum for FBOs and business airports will be held at 9 a.m. on Thursday in Room E at the Conference Area (Hall 1) of Palexpo. Speakers at the first session, “Quality, Standards and Evaluation,” include Kerry Besgrove, general manager of the UK’s Harrods Aviation; Kim Dimetro, customer relations manager of Avitat FBOs; Zelda Evans, guest services manager of Odyssey Aviation, Nassau, Bahamas; Brandon O’Reilly, CEO TAG Farnborough; Graham Stephenson, Group FBO manager of ExecuJet at Zurich; and Deb Zener, vp of Million Air FBOs. Speakers for the second session, “American FBO-vs.-European FBO,” include Debbie Zener of Million Air and Graham Stephenson of ExecuJet. Registration is not required, but organizers ask that an e-mail from those planning to attend be sent to b.slabbaert@stgallen-airport.ch 12 May 21, 2008 www.aviationweek.com/shownews http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews

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A318 Elite is on a Roll A Circle Around London P&WC Deliveries Triple Avanti Sees Sales Shift RUAG Eyes Needy Cabins Global Gets Even NICEr Embraer Beefs Up Support Honeywell ‘Virtual VFR’ Signature Europe Grows Gestair Seeks to Double Aero-Dienst Turns 50 Gama Doubles in Size All is Not Woe with Oil Ocean Sky is Aggressive

EBACE Show News - May 21, 2008

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