B/CA Show News - NBAA 2007 Day 1 - (Page 1) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 NBAA 2007 Boeing Sets New Record The BBJ business sets a sales mark of $2.9 billion. –Page 3 Marketplace 2007 Manufacturers develop a host of new airplanes. –Pages 44-66 Completions Catch Up? Widebody buyers have to be prepared to wait. –Pages 80-86 Falcon 7X and Super-Mid New flagship is here and market niche will be filled. –Page 98 User fees are still NBAA’s most critical issue. NBAA president & CEO Ed Bolen says everyone must join the fight. Story Page 3. Barrington’s Inspiration World solo flyer aims to steer youth to aero careers.–Page 104 Business Jet Boom Just Won’t Let Up A record NBAA opens here today on an ebullient note, with enthusiasm bolstered by Honeywell’s forecast that the market will need 14,000 jets worth $233 billion over the next 10 years (Story on Page 30.) Among the first of many orders to be announced during the show were 30 Cessna Citation X business jets worth more than $600 million for XOJet, and 25 German-made Grob SPn utility jets for Plane Sense of Londonderry, N.H., marking the aircraft’s entry into the U.S. fractional market. The Carbon Offset Craze NetJets, Bombardier and others let you go green. –Pages 106-108 Flying the New 900XP Show News brings Hawker jet from Wichita. –Page 110 Cessna Works Both Ends After the little Mustang comes Large Cabin Concept. –Page 112 Airbus Celebrates a Century of ACJs With cake and an excellent Californian sparkling wine, the Airbus executive and private aviation team celebrated the 100th sale of an ACJ business jet. In fact orders are fast moving past even that milestone. Sales so far this year total 36 VIP aircraft, including seven widebodies and the first confirmed sale of an A380. GE Honda Market Grows HF120 for HondaJet chosen for Spectrum 40 too. –Page 118 Adam Begins to Produce New CEO Wolf has two types to manufacture. –Page 120 NEWSMAKERS The Long Arm of DAE Dubai parent pulls Landmark and Standard Aero closer. –Page 122 Rob Wilson, Honeywell Aerospace President Deliveries of business jets will top 1,000 this year for the first time ever, according to Honeywell’s annual forecast. The market will remain strong for years to come, and it will be an increasingly global market—the one soft spot on the horizon appears to –Page 30 be the United States. Embraer’s New Concepts Brazilian floats two ‘differentiated’ midsized jets. –Pages 126-128 Ed Iacobucci, DayJet Founder The business jet business has nothing to fear, says DayJet, which has begun its radical new service of offering seats rather than aircraft for charter, with prices based on customers’ schedule flexibility. Grob Notches SPn Orders Records 25 sales of the new composite jet. –Page 134 –Pages 114-116
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