B/CA Show News - NBAA 2007 Day 2 - (Page 1)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 NBAA 2007 Spectrum Stresses Freedom Is developing its Model 40 for 2009 deliveries. –Page 30 Adam Shows A700 Cabin Now the big challenge is series –Page 32 production. User Fee War of Words Gloves come off as the blame game intensifies. –Pages 34-35 Execujet Boosts Services Firm broadens its view of valid business opportunities. –Page 36 Bombardier Business Aircraft president Pierre Gabriel Côté (l), XOJet president & CEO Paul Touw and Bombardier sales vp Jahid Fazal-Karim ceremonially sign on the deal for up to 80 Challenger 300s. Story Page 4. Saab’s Got Your Back Avitronics unit promotes missile –Page 38 defense system. XOJet Signs Up for 80 Challenger 300s XOJet did it again Tuesday, stealing the show with another grand order—this time the biggest ever for Bombardier’s Challenger 300 super mid-size jet. XOJet signed for 20 firm and 60 options, with a total value of $1.9 billion. Bombardier Business Aircraft senior vice president for sales Jahid Fazal-Karim described the sale as “a milestone, a story to tell your grandchildren.” On Monday XOJet signed up for 30 Cessna Citation X aircraft worth more than $600 million at list price. CAE Covers the Field CAE SimuFlite promises to cover all bizav training needs. –Page 40 London Airports Roundup Numerous fields vie for business jet business. –Pages 50-54 Pratt & Whitney Canada Parts delivery? How about when a jet returns to service? –Page 60 Taiwan Sells Chunk of Sino Sino Swearingen’s Taiwanese investors have sold a majority stake in the company to Action Aviation, headed by Hamish Harding, and ACQ Capital of California, headed by John Sabovich. Taiwan will remain a minor shareholder as the new investors take the program through to volume production “and profitability,” said Harding. Page 8. Another Show! Farnborough 2008 is to be very –Page 64 bizjet-friendly. A More Digital Jeppesen Closer and closer to the truly paperless cockpit. –Page 68 ACQ Capital principal Richard Ransier (l), ACQ chairman John Sabovich and Action Aviation chairman Hamish Harding here yesterday. Page 4. NEWSMAKERS CMC Rides Bizjet Wave SureSight for enhanced vision, and cockpit EFBs. –Page 70 Jack Pelton, Cessna Aircraft Cessna Aircraft, under the leadership of its chairman, president & CEO Jack Pelton, is in talks to buy Columbia Aircraft Corp., marking the first time in its 80 year history that it will have acquired a line of aircraft designed by another company. And they’re low-wing, too. Thales Weighs In European brings military knowhow to business jets. –Page 72 Vijay Mallya, Kingfisher Airlines The flamboyant chairman of India’s Kingfisher Airlines, Vijay Mallya, will send a representative here today to invest up to $200 million in VLJ-maker Epic Aircraft, taking up to 50% of the company. He plans to add VLJs to his airline network. We Fly the Eclipse 500 Speed is good, cockpit needs some work. –Pages 80-81

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Contents Spectrum Stresses Freedom Adam Shows A700 Cabin User Fee War of Words Execujet Boosts Services Saab's Got Your Back CAE Covers the Field London Airports Roundup Pratt & Whitney Canada Another Show! A More Digital Jeppesen CMC Rides Bizjet Wave Thales Weighs In We Fly the Eclipse 500

B/CA Show News - NBAA 2007 Day 2

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