RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT delivered a Beech King Air B200 to Purdue University in West LaFayette, Ind. The university's School of Aviation Technology will use the aircraft for training. The purchase agreement calls for Raytheon Aircraft to provide Purdue with engineering data to develop a King Air simulator. Raytheon also will help develop a software package with specific flight planning data. In addition to the B200, Purdue operates a King Air C90, two Duchess 76s and a Diamond I-A.
But ATR insists that the data are being misinterpreted, and that they prove only that a freak icing condition - one not normally found in nature - could cause a dramatic loss of control.
FRED BERNARD was named senior vice president of charter sales for Flight Services Group. Bernard will be responsible for managing existing accounts and marketing the company's charter services to major corporations.
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION is seeking comment on a proposed advisory circular, AC 21-20B, Supplier Surveillance Procedures. The proposed AC 21- 20B provides guidance on ways to comply with Part 21 - certification procedures for products and parts. Comments on the proposal must be submitted before March 21 to FAA, Aircraft Certification Service, Production and Airworthiness Certification Division, Policy and Procedures Branch, AIR-230, 800 Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20591.
Cessna Aircraft has sold four modified Citation Ultras to Korean Air Lines for crew training. The contract calls for the first Ultra to be delivered in second quarter 1995. "The Citation Ultras will provide KAL with a step-up aircraft between their piston-engine and turboprop fleet and their airliners," said Gary Hay, Cessna senior vice president of marketing and product support.
A lengthy and hotly contested competition by the Japanese Air Self- Defense Force has finally concluded with the selection of Gulfstream Aerospace to provide nine Gulfstream IV business jets that will be used for a variety of missions. Gulfstream's selection follows nearly four years of intense competition that pitted Gulfstream against Dassault Aviation of France (which was bidding the Falcon 900B) and Canadair (which was offering the Challenger 601) for the U-X contract to provide a fleet of long-range, multi-mission aircraft.
Flight International, the Newport News, Va. aviation services company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February, received approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Eastern Virginia for a joint plan of reorganization. Under the plan, existing common stock of The Flight International Group, Inc. will be canceled and one million shares of new common stock will be issued. Shareholders of record on Dec. 20 will receive 10 percent of the new common stock and 51 percent of the new common stock will be issued to unsecured creditors owed more than $2,000.
