Saab said the system, currently available on the out-of-production Saab 2000 turboprop airliner, would now be offered on Bombardier's Global 6000 business jet and the Q400 turboprop.
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"I continue to be interested in exploring the business case for a turboprop but I can assure you there are no immediate plans to launch any turboprop program," he told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Turboprop aircraft deliveries also rose to 67 units from 45.
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Reflections of turboprop planes flit across the building's mirrored panes.
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Commercial turboprop deliveries rose to 44 aircraft from 29 last year.
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N) and 20 from smaller Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR (LDOF.MI).
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The four-engine turboprop is used transport troops, equipment and cargo.
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The Canadian-built Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 turboprop can carry 78 passengers.
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They're common in turboprop aircraft because they allow for single-speed engines.
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The Piper Aztec she flew had two piston engines; not a turboprop.
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The twin-engined turboprop ATR 763 was just over 24 years old.
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ATR is a Franco-Italian aviation company known for its turboprop planes.
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China is also targeting the turboprop market with its future Xian MA700.
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Snyder's office tweeted a photo of the turboprop plane and emergency responders.
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The four-spoke turboprop is used in developing countries, including China and Sudan.
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Still, some companies announced deals at the show including European turboprop maker ATR.
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The Q400 turboprop has a lower market share than Franco-Italian rival ATR.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Regional turboprop planemaker ATR, a joint venture between Airbus Group (AIR.
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The twin-engined turboprop ATR 72 that crashed was over 24 years old.
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As they boarded an eight-seater turboprop, one of them took his passport.
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The plane, a twin-engine turboprop, can carry as many as 78 passengers.
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IranAir is meanwhile negotiating the purchase of 20 European turboprop planes from ATR.
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Schultz said that Textron, which has built its Caravan turboprop plane and the Citation XLS+ in China as part of a joint venture with state-owned aerospace firm AVIC, was focusing on the market for smaller jets and utilitarian turboprop craft.
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The twin-engined turboprop ATR 72 that crashed was more than 24 years old.
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They occurred on two regional airlines, both of which were small turboprop (propeller-powered) planes.
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We then climbed aboard a Pilatus PC-2000, a pretty luxurious single-engine turboprop plane.
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The world's largest turboprop maker is jointly owned by Airbus and Italian aerospace group Leonardo .
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The P-3 is a turboprop aircraft capable of long-duration flights, according to NASA.
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The 76-seat Horizon Air turboprop plane took off without authorization at 7:32 p.m.
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Airbus will display some of its defense products, like the C295 twin-turboprop transport aircraft.
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The plane in which Ms. Fileva and the others died was an Epic LT turboprop.
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Flightradar24, a flight-tracking website, said the aircraft is a Short 330 small turboprop passenger plane.
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The aircraft, a twin-engined turboprop Antonov AN-26, had taken off at 6:38 a.m.
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The aircraft, with four turboprop engines on its overhead wing, banked left as it rapidly descended.
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ATR's family of two sizes of turboprop aircraft competes mainly with the Q400 of Canada's Bombardier.
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The jet, with four turboprop engines on its overhead wing, banks left as it comes down.
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There were no fatalities involving commercial jets and 13 that resulted from crashes of turboprop planes.
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Bartlett previously headed Textron's Beechcraft Defense unit, maker of the T-6 turboprop air force training aircraft.
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The aircraft was a twin turboprop, fixed-wing aircraft, operated by U.S. contractors, according to the official.
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LGW is a regional carrier which flew turboprop planes under a wet lease deal for Air Berlin.
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Pratt & Whitney Canada makes turbofan, turboprop and turboshaft engines for business jets, other small aircraft and helicopters.
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BO) have ordered dozens of new, small planes from European turboprop maker ATR and Canada's Bombardier (BBDb.
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Inc to buy two CS300 jetliners and one Q400 turboprop aircraft at a cost of $200 million.
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The single-engine turboprop had been flying in blizzard-like conditions when it crashed shortly after takeoff.
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It was Ms. Jenner calling to report on repairs to her private plane, a Beechcraft Baron turboprop.
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ATR predicts annual average growth of 10.9 percent in 50-70-seat turboprop traffic in South Asia.
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There were 13 deaths in 2017 in two fatal crashes worldwide, but both were on regional turboprop aircraft.
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Bombardier, meanwhile, said Ethiopian had signed a purchase agreement for an additional five of its Q1403 turboprop aircraft.
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The Providence, Rhode Island-based company delivered 3.43 King Air turboprop aircraft, down from 23.4 a year earlier.
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Alaska Airlines said there were no other passengers or crew aboard the aircraft, a Horizon Air Q400 turboprop.
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"During the landing approach there was a failure in the second turboprop engine," Rosaviatsiya said in a statement.
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He said the price of the 40-minute turboprop flight has nearly doubled to 700,000 to 800,000 rupiah.
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IranAir is also in talks to finalise a deal to buy 20 aircraft from European turboprop maker ATR.
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The Super Tucano, a turboprop aircraft, is designed for light attack, counterinsurgency, close air support and reconnaissance missions.
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The BBC identified the plane as a King Air 350 turboprop, which can be used for surveillance purposes.
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EMBRAER COMMERCIAL CEO SAYS DOES NOT HAVE APPETITE TO DEVELOP TURBOPROP ON STANDALONE BASIS OUTSIDE PROPOSED BOEING JV
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The ATR aircraft, a twin-engine turboprop typically used for short-distance regional flights, hit the Dena Mountains.
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The Bombardier Q400 turboprop is designed for short-distance flights and can seat 76 passengers, Alaska Air said.
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The aircraft is a single-engine turboprop valued on her financial disclosure forms at more than $1 million dollars.
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In just the past couple of years, Kelly has masterminded the switch from tour bus to chartered turboprop planes.
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Bombardier is also tasked with winning orders for its regional Q400 turboprop, which sources say the company considered selling.
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Video showed the turboprop plane doing large loops and other dangerous maneuvers as the sun set on Puget Sound.
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Jiatai has been in the seats business since 1995, mainly supplying China-made aircraft like the Xian MA60 turboprop.
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For what seems like decades, I've flown in and out of Huntington Tri-State Airport on turboprop regional planes.
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European turboprop maker ATR said on Tuesday its new airplane orders could outpace deliveries by 50 percent in 2017.
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EMBRAER COMMERCIAL CEO SAYS IN TALKS WITH ENGINE MAKERS GE, ROLLS-ROYCE AND PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA ON POTENTIAL TURBOPROP
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IranAir had ordered 200 passenger aircraft - 100 from Airbus, 80 from Boeing and 20 from Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR.
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Five of the aircraft will be delivered after the planned sale of its Q1703 turboprop business closes at mid-year.
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The turboprop planes have already been seen landing on Woody Island, China's key offshore holding in the South China Sea.
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EBIT rose to $371 million for the quarter, helped by proceeds from the sale of the company's Q400 turboprop program.
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Officials say an airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane and took off from the airport Friday night.
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The J-model also has improved turboprop engines, which reduce operational costs with better flight sustainability, the service has said.
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It is expected to be followed by a formal deal to buy turboprop aircraft from ATR, half-owned by Airbus.
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Airbus and Leonardo disagree over whether to invest in a new turboprop program, a move supported on the Italian side.
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There we boarded a lumbering Bombardier turboprop plane and watched the boreal forest give way to treeless, rocky tundra below.
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Iran has so far imported only about 11 aircraft, three from Airbus and eight from Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR (LDOF.MI).
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GE Aviation is a top manufacturer of jet and turboprop engines and components for commercial, military, business and general aviation aircraft.
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IranAir had ordered 200 passenger aircraft - 100 from Airbus SE, 80 from Boeing and 20 from Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR.
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The year-round route begins on May 21 with once-daily service onboard the airline's new ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft.
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The ATR aircraft, a twin-engine turboprop typically used for short-distance regional flights, hit the Dena Mountains, the report said.
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A Bombardier Q400 Horizon Airlines turboprop plane, the same model stolen in Seattle, is pictured at Los Angeles International Airport in 2011.
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Aerospace and defense giant United Technologies says it's working to put a hybrid-electric turboprop airplane into the sky within three years.
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The Bombardier Q400 turboprop airplane is designed for shorter-distance flights and can seat 76 passengers, Alaska Air said on its website.
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Toulouse, France-based ATR, a partnership between Airbus and Italy's Leonardo, will deliver the two turboprop planes in November, the ministry said.
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As the bags were loaded into the cargo hold of the turboprop, ruddy-faced locals said littering would no longer be tolerated.
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Muhammad Azam Saigol, chairman of Pakistan International Airlines, said one of the planes turboprop engines may have failed just before the crash.
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"Let me correct that misconception, the turboprop engine first of all, is driven by turbo machinery just like jet engines," Scherer explained.
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ATR dominates the turboprop market, competing against the Bombardier-developed Q400, recently acquired by Canadian manufacturer Viking Air, and China's upcoming MA700.
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Bombardier, which last month signed a deal to sell its Q400 turboprop program, is weighing options for its money-losing regional jet program.
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Even small aircraft like the Franco-Italian ATR turboprop are benefiting from stronger trade winds, with FedEX recently ordering a new cargo version.
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The company also said it expected $900 million net proceeds mainly from the sale of two programs including its Q400 turboprop plane program.
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The airline, which operates short-haul flights out of Toronto's city airport using a fleet of turboprop jets, did not provide further details.
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Thirty days later, a turboprop Britannia passenger aircraft, carrying a hundred and thirty people, attempted to land in Nicosia, Cyprus, during bad weather.
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The alleged bribery helped Embraer secure a $92 million contract in 2008 to sell eight turboprop attack support aircraft to the Carribean country.
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Deliveries of Embraer's turboprop defense plane, the Super Tucano, should also edge up to 10 in 2019, from nine last year, management said.
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Silver is known for its inexpensive flights on single-class turboprop aircraft with no extravagances such as first-class or in-flight entertainment.
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According to preliminary information from the F.A.A., the plane was a Beechcraft King Air 350, a small turboprop often used for business trips.
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The chief executive also brushed off those who claimed that turboprop engines were past their expiration date in the era of jet engines.
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The pilot of the ATR-42 turboprop aircraft contacted ground authorities after one engine failed and issued a mayday call at 4:14 p.m.
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ATR Chief Executive Christian Scherer told reporters in Paris on Wednesday there was limited room in the market for a third Western turboprop manufacturer.
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He used a vehicle known as a pushback tractor to move the empty turboprop plane and took off without authorization at 7:32 p.m.
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Pilot Miriam Martinez Magaña flew a T-6C Texan turboprop aircraft during the celebration, becoming the first woman aircraft commander in a military parade.
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The FBI responded to a similar incident in August when a ground service agent stole a turboprop passenger plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
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Italy's determination to keep a presence in missiles through MBDA leaves unresolved questions over the future of ATR, the world's largest civil turboprop maker.
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Pressure on ATR to examine its successful but aging portfolio rose this week when Brazil's Embraer said it was thinking about developing a turboprop.
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The latest under development is the An-132, a twin-engined turboprop used for military transportation which is being jointly developed with Saudi Arabia.
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In September 2012, a turboprop plane carrying trekkers to Mount Everest hit a bird and crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 19 on board.
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LONDON (Reuters) - IranAir has signed a contract to buy 20 planes from turboprop maker ATR, Iranian deputy transport minister was quoted as saying on Monday.
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ATR, co-owned by Airbus and Italy's Leonardo Finmeccanica, in February reported preliminary orders from Iran for 20 twin-engine turboprop ATR 72-600 aircraft.
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Industry sources say he will bring a staunchly commercial focus as the European turboprop maker, and its main rival Bombardier of Canada, face volatile markets.
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A Horizon Airlines ground agent stole a Horizon Air Q400, a turboprop plane that seats 76 people, from Sea-Tac International Airport on Friday night.
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Denmark-based NAC, the world's largest turboprop lessor recently announced its expansion into regional jet leasing with the purchase of Jetscape, another jet leasing company.
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In January, the United States also provided Afghanistan with four turboprop A-29 Super Tucano planes, the Afghan air force's first fixed-wing combat aircraft.
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Agnelli, his wife and two children were among seven killed when his Comp Air 22008 turboprop monoplane slammed into two homes around 22011:20 p.m.
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N) and is in talks to finalize a deal to buy 20 turboprop aircraft from ATR, jointly owned by Airbus and Italy's Leonardo Finmeccanica (LDOF.MI).
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F-15 jets chased the plane The plane was a Q400, a Bombardier turboprop plane, one of about 40 the airline has in its fleet.
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The drones are the size of a small plane and powered by a turboprop engine capable of speeds of up to 275 miles an hour.
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Rohit Pandey was working on a SpiceJet Bombardier-developed Q400 turboprop plane when the hydraulic landing gear doors closed, the airline said in a statement.
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Astra, with a fleet of four aircraft, three of which are ATR turboprop planes, launched operations in 2008, starting with flights from Thessaloniki to Rhodes.
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Together with the fatal crash of a Colgan Air turboprop near Buffalo, New York, in 2009, the AF447 tragedy led to new procedures and training.
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On Sunday night, five 70-seat turboprop passenger planes built by an Italian and French consortium landed at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran's capital.
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On Monday, Denmark-based Nordic Aviation Capital, the world's largest turboprop aircraft lessor, said it would expand into regional jets by acquiring Florida-based Jetscape Aviation.
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Saigol said the ATR turboprop aircraft had undergone regular maintenance and in October had passed an "A-check" maintenance certification, performed after every 20063 flight hours.
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Iran's Fars news agency reported Saturday that another Western airplane manufacturer, French-Italian aircraft company ATR, was preparing to sell turboprop short-haul airplanes to Iran.
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Here's some specs:The MQ-9B has a wingspan of 79 ft (24 m) and is powered by a Honeywell TPE331-123 Turboprop engine providing 45 kVA.
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The company is considering disposal of assets including its Q20153 turboprop and CRJ regional-jet unit, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. bloom.
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Police say he was suicidal when he stole an empty turboprop plane and took it on an hour-long joyride while being chased by fighter jets.
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The plane was a twin turboprop, fixed-wing aircraft and the cause of the crash was under investigation, the Defense Department official said in a statement.
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According to Granma, the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces announced the Russian-made twin-engine turboprop crashed into Loma de la Pimienta in western Cuba.
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If finalized, the deal would be a record single-order for the turboprop from a lessor, De Havilland vice president sales & marketing Philippe Poutissou told Reuters.
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A total of 71 people were on board flight BS 211 from Dhaka, which was operated by a 17-year-old Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop.
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It also called for talks with Europrop International (EPI), the consortium responsible for providing the troop carrier's turboprop engines, which have been involved in some delays.
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For all he knew, this treasure might have already been dismantled for conversion into a more modern turboprop airplane — that, after all, is what Basler does.
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The European planemaker is a stakeholder in ATR, which already controls 75 percent of the turboprop market and such a deal would likely raise anti-trust concerns.
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The captain of the ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft mistakenly switched off the plane's working engine after the other lost power, according to Taiwan's Aviation Safety Council.
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Shares of Bombardier Inc rose 3.6 percent to C$2.29 after the company sealed a deal to sell up to 50 Q400 turboprop planes to India's SpiceJet.
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Before joining turboprop affiliate ATR in 2016, Scherer forged the successful A320neo jet program and Airbus's jet manufacturing entry to the U.S. with a plant in Alabama.
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Officials say the "suicidal" airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane and took off from Sea-Tac Friday night before crashing into a small island.
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Video showed the Horizon Air Q400, a turboprop plane that seats 76 people, doing large loops and other dangerous maneuvers as the sun set on Puget Sound.
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Two of the photos also show military planes: a Chinese-made Shaanxi Y-8 capable of transporting more than 100 soldiers; and a smaller, French-made turboprop.
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Analysts say the turboprop maker has had a good Iran deal so far, managing to deliver more aircraft than its larger rivals with 8 already in service.
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The Epic-Lt, a single-engined turboprop designed for private flights, crashed while landing at Egelsbach airport, S7, also known as Siberia Airlines, said in a statement.
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The Bombardier Q400 turboprop plane with 52 passengers and four crew on board was on route from Belfast City Airport to Inverness when an emergency was declared.
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IranAir has ordered 200 passenger aircraft worth $38.3 billion at list prices, including 100 from Airbus, 80 from Boeing and 20 from Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR.
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Shares of Textron dropped 10.5 percent after the Cessna jet maker reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit, partly due to lower sales of its turboprop aircraft.
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In another turboprop battle, Bombardier said last month it had won a deal from Hawaii-based Island Air, knocking out ATR as the airline's sole aircraft supplier.
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Embraer, the world's third-largest commercial planemaker, said it recently consulted with airlines about "potential opportunities in the turboprop market," but added any decision was far off.
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Japan's Self-Defence Forces said the KC-130, a turboprop airplane capable of aerial refueling, and the F/A-18 Hornet, a combat jet, collided and crashed.
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At the Paris Airshow in June, Eremenko unveiled an initiative dubbed "Project 804" to build a hybrid-electric turboprop demonstrator aimed at saving 30% of fuel consumption.
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At the Paris Airshow in June, Eremenko unveiled an initiative dubbed "Project 804" to build a hybrid-electric turboprop demonstrator aimed at saving 30% of fuel consumption.
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The Dash 8 is a short- and medium-range turboprop plane which can carry between 37 and 86 people, depending on the model, according to Bombardier's website.
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The Swiss-made turboprop carrying the family was destined for Idaho Falls Regional Airport in the southeast portion of Idaho, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said.
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LONDON, April 10 (Reuters) - IranAir has signed a contract to buy 20 planes from turboprop maker ATR, Iranian deputy transport minister was quoted as saying on Monday.
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A government inquiry blamed the Bangladeshi pilot and local air traffic controllers for a "lack of assertiveness" in safely guiding the twin-engine turboprop to the ground.
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The turboprop maker, owned jointly by Airbus and Italy's Leonardo, has delivered only a handful of aircraft in 2019 but aims to recover in the second half.
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In May it said it has placed a provisional order for 50 ATR 72-600 aircraft from European turboprop maker ATR, worth over $1.3 billion at list price.
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Modern engines, however, also use the jet's revolving shaft to spin either a propeller, creating a turboprop, or a ducted set of blades, creating a turbofan (see diagram).
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SINGAPORE, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Turboprop maker ATR said on Wednesday it had signed a deal worth more than $100 million to sell 4 ATR-72s to Bangkok Airways.
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The MA60 turboprop, China's first passenger aircraft - developed by state-owned Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC) and delivered from 2000 - has been involved in 20133 major incidents.
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The two P-3 Orion aircraft — with their four turboprop engines and sturdy airframes — are used by NOAA to collect data from within hurricanes and tropical storm systems.
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It is interested in buying narrow and wide-body jets from Airbus and Boeing, and turboprop aircraft from ATR which is co-owned by Airbus and Italy's Leonardo.
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He used a vehicle known as a pushback tractor to move the empty 76-seat Horizon Air turboprop plane and took off without authorization at 7:32 p.m.
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The privately owned carrier, which competes with Aegean Airlines' subsidiary Olympic Airways on domestic routes, flies to 24 Greek destinations on ATR42 and ATR72 twin engine turboprop aircraft.
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Problems that the company partially blames on the gearbox of the aircraft's large turboprop engines have disrupted deliveries of the already delayed military plane and driven up costs.
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The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 is a delightful, two-engine turboprop relic of an airplane, with metal everywhere you expect plastic, made to land on gravel or ice.
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The theft of an Alaska Air Group turboprop plane by an employee whom authorities described as "suicidal" underscores a challenge in the aviation sector: Balancing access with security.
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Employees held him down The FBI responded to a similar incident last month when a ground service agent stole a turboprop passenger plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR is tackling a slump in deliveries resulting from a combination of industrial delays, unsold aircraft and pilot shortages, industry sources said.
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The airline had also initially said 276 passengers and six crew were on board the twin-engined turboprop ATR 2276 that was flying to the southwestern city of Yasuj.
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Under Chief Executive Alain Bellemare, Bombardier has been selling off businesses, including the money-losing Q400 turboprop program, to focus on more profitable units like rail and corporate jets.
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The man who stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane from Sea-Tac International Airport was Richard Russell, a U.S. official briefed on the matter told The Associated Press.
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The airline's existing fleet includes one Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, two Airbus A220-300 jets and three DHC Dash 8-400 aircaft, formerly known as the Bombardier Q400 turboprop.
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The Czech Republic was one of several European locations that GE had been considering for the new plant, which will manufacture GE's advanced turboprop engine powering Textron Aviation Inc.
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Turboprop maker ATR, a joint venture between Airbus Group and Leonardo said it had received U.S. approvals needed to finalise the sale of up to 40 aircraft to Iran.
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After years of operating a single aircraft type, Silver decided to upgrade to a larger turboprop, the 46-seat ATR 72-600, ordering 19 with options for 30 more.
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It is about to become a standard feature on the Piper M600/SLS, a six-seater single-engined turboprop, and the Cirrus Vision Jet, a single-engined personal jet.
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The unit delivered 212 Citation jets and 21 King Air turboprop aircraft in the quarter, compared to 36 jets and 30 King Airs in the same period last year.
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Air Tanzania's existing fleet includes one Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, two Airbus A220-300 jets and three DHC Dash 8-400 aircraft, formerly known as the Bombardier Q400 turboprop.
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The Indian Air Force said it has not been able to locate the Antonov AN-32, a Soviet-era twin-engine turboprop transport aircraft, after it disappeared mid-flight Monday.
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PARIS, June 13 (Reuters) - Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR is tackling a slump in deliveries resulting from a combination of industrial delays, unsold aircraft and pilot shortages, industry sources said.
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ATR predicts demand for 2,800 turboprop aircraft in the next 20 years, about two thirds of which would come from new routes and growth in countries like China and India.
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Federal investigators say a stolen Horizon Air turboprop plane broke into many pieces when it crashed into an area of thick brush on a small island in the Puget Sound.
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PARIS, Nov 8 (Reuters) - ATR, the world's largest maker of turboprop planes, announced on Wednesday an order from FedEx Express for up to 50 of its 72-600F freighter planes.
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The man who stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane from Sea-Tac International Airport was named Richard Russell, a U.S. official briefed on the matter told The Associated Press.
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Powered by two turboprop engines from Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies, Indonesia's N203 is similar to the Airbus CASA CN220 that PTDI manufactured under license in the 22013s.
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Thursday about 200 miles off the coast of Japan, involved a KC-130 Hercules, a turboprop airplane capable of aerial refueling, and an F/A-18 Hornet, a combat jet.
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He used a tractor to move the 76-seat Q400 turboprop plane 180 degrees before taxiing to the runway, when an air traffic controller repeatedly asked him to identify himself.
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The prospect of greater competition in turboprop adds zest to efforts by Embraer to complete a tie up with Boeing, which has agreed to acquire control of its commercial division.
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The P-1, which is designed to operate both at high altitude and at low speeds closer to the water, is replacing Japan's fleet of turboprop Lockheed Martin P-3C Orions.
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Bravo's Logística division, which consists of Bravo Cargas and Bravo MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul), plans to operate the turboprop LM-100J for air cargo operations in Brazil, the companies said.
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Shares of Textron fell 24.3 percent in premarket trading after the Cessna jet maker reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit, hit by a slump in sales of its turboprop aircraft.
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The launch partners for Autoland are Piper and Cirrus, which are making it an option in the 2020 models of the Piper M600 turboprop and Cirrus Vision Jet, pending FAA authorization.
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Last year, eight passengers and two pilots were killed when a single turboprop Cessna Caravan plane operated by local firm FlySax on a domestic flight to Nairobi crashed into a mountain.
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The drone, with two turboprop engines, is planned to enter into service in the middle of next decade and will mainly focus on surveillance although a weaponized version is an option.
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Silver Airways primarily operates turboprop aircraft on regional and commuter routes across the Florida panhandle with service to neighboring Caribbean islands, as well as a handful of routes in other regions.
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Mohammad Taghi Tabatabai, a spokesman for Aseman Airlines, initially told state television that everyone aboard the ATR-21993, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flights, had been killed.
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The aircraft appeared to have suffered a failure in one of its two turboprop engines just before the crash, he added, but this would have to be confirmed by an investigation.
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ENGLISH WORLD CUP TEAM REFUSING FOOD FROM RUSSIAN ROOM SERVICE OVER POISONING FEARS, SOURCE CLAIMS The plane, a twin-turboprop ATR-72 flown by the UTAir airline, landed safely, the agency said.
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The company said revenue in its aviation business, which makes the Cessna business jets, fell 21 percent in the first quarter ended April 246, partly due to lower commercial turboprop aircraft volumes.
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Scherer said he saw untapped potential for 300-400 turboprop sales in China in the coming 20 years, representing a sharp boost to a global market running at around 100 a year.
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Authorities say the man who stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane from Sea-Tac International Airport in Seattle was a 4003-year Horizon employee and had clearance to be among aircraft.
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The Pakistan International Airlines flight smashed into a hillside in the country's north after one of its two turboprop engines failed while traveling from the city of Chitral to the capital, Islamabad.
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READ: Defense chief says A-10s needed in ISIS fight Scharre also thinks that these turboprop aircraft will prove ideal for equipping and arming U.S. partners that are fighting insurgencies and terrorists.
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ANKARA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - IranAir has finalised a deal to buy 20 turboprop aircraft from Franco-Italian ATR, the minister overseeing Iran's post-sanctions fleet renewal was quoted on Wednesday as saying.
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Longview Aviation Capital bought the turboprop aircraft program from Canada's Bombardier last year and revived its previous model name - Dash 8 - under a restored corporate brand of De Havilland Aircraft of Canada.
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The plane, a twin-turboprop Beechcraft King Air, crashed into the roof of a shopping mall just after takeoff Monday, exploding into what witnesses called a "massive fireball," according to NBC News.
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Since switching to fixed wing, she's flown the T-6 Texan II tandem-seat, turboprop trainer and the T-45C Goshawk carrier capable jet trainer, which prepares naval aviators for tactical missions.
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SA) is considering the development of a new turboprop passenger plane, the company said on Thursday, potentially returning to a segment dominated by the Franco-Italian ATR and Canada's Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO).
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech government approved a deal with GE Aviation on Wednesday for an investment in a new turboprop engine plant that will cost an estimated 350 million euros ($384.76 million).
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Lohani said the airline, which already leases eight ATR turboprop planes and three Bombardier CRJ-700 70-seater aircraft, would launch "a major foray" in to flying to smaller cities this year.
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Police said the 68-passenger turboprop plane with 42 passengers on board on a domestic flight was evacuated at the airport in Albury, in southern New South Wales, and a man was arrested.
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The design is premised on a mid-sized regional turboprop, using a typical existing airframe, control systems and propellers but adding in new battery technology and a 2-megawatt hybrid-electric propulsion system.
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Germany has ordered 53 of the planes from Airbus, but only three planes have been delivered so far due to production delays caused in part by gearbox glitches on the plane's turboprop engines.
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"It is important to emphasize that Embraer is far from any decision to launch a new turboprop program and the process is in the evaluation phase," the company said in an emailed statement.
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SINGAPORE, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Regional turboprop planemaker ATR, a joint venture between Airbus Group and Italy's Finmeccanica, signed a deal to supply five ATR 72-600 aircraft to Singapore-based lessor Avation PLC.
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Because, for example, an Air Force obsessed with acquiring fifth-generation stealth fighters still can't bring itself to purchase a squadron of cheap turboprop planes to patrol, say, the skies of northern Iraq.
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Embraer makes the turboprop Super Tucano in Florida with partner Sierra Nevada Corp, following an order from the U.S. military to supply the aircraft to allied forces for close air support in Afghanistan.
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The report also blamed air traffic controllers in Nepal for a "lack of assertiveness" in safely guiding the plane, a twin-engine turboprop that can carry up to 78 passengers, to the ground.
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Working with the electric motor, the hybrid combination on a regional turboprop airliner, which typically flies routes of around one hour's duration, would result in fuel savings of at least 30%, says Mr Eremenko.
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Scherer is expected to serve the full four-year term at the world's largest regional turboprop maker, whose top post usually alternates every four years between joint shareholders Airbus Group and Italy's Leonardo Finmeccanica.
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On Friday an employee stole a turboprop plane from Sea-Tac International Airport in Seattle and flew it for more than an hour before dying in a crash on an island southwest of Tacoma.
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SpiceJet, which operates narrowbody and turboprop planes, does not have firm plans to become a widebody operator with longer-range flights in the wake of Jet's collapse in April, SpiceJet Chairman Ajay Singh said.
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IranAir took delivery of five more ATR turboprop aircraft, Iranian state media said on Sunday, shortly before Washington imposes new sanctions on Iran after exiting a nuclear pact between Tehran and major world powers.
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The airline, which operates short-haul flights out of Toronto's city airport using a fleet of turboprop aircraft, said the unidentified outage affected about 400 passengers and five flights were cancelled, the airline said.
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While De Havilland does not divulge its financials, Bombardier had previously disclosed the delivery of 15 Q400s, and 24 net orders for the turboprop in 2018, about half the amount from a year earlier.
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In 2017 the company signed a contract with Saudi Arabia to support a fleet of PC-21 turboprop planes operated by the Royal Saudi Air Force, according to the Stans-based firm's annual report.
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The turboprop aircraft, a Beechcraft King Air C90, was out for a short test flight around the western suburbs of Mumbai before it crashed into a half-built structure near several high-rise buildings.
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Hailed at the time as an innovative, fixed-price deal, the contract foundered over problems with the West's largest turboprop engines and an over-ambitious schedule for ground-hugging navigation and other military capabilities.
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IranAir has finalised a deal to buy 20 turboprop aircraft from Franco-Italian ATR, the minister overseeing Iran's post-sanctions fleet renewal was quoted on Wednesday as saying by the Iranian Students News Agency.
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To reach some of the country's more out-of-the-way regions, like Drake Bay or Punta Islita, smaller, turboprop aircraft are used for their versatility and ability to access places large jets can't.
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AltaCorp analyst Chris Murray said in a note to clients that the CRJ program would likely fetch similar proceeds to Bombardier's recent Q400 turboprop sale to Longview Capital, which garnered gross proceeds of $300 million.
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The twin-turboprop Beechcraft King Air plane suffered engine failure and crashed into the mall near the end of the runway at Essendon Airport, Victoria state police assistant commissioner Stephen Leane told reporters in Melbourne.
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Bombardier said it expects to deliver only 30 commercial planes in 2019, compared with 35 it had previously forecast, as the planned sale of its Q1.153 turboprop business is now anticipated to close mid-year.
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Flying two supersonic fighter jets within 50 feet of a four-engine turboprop aircraft is dangerous, especially when the pilots cannot communicate effectively with each other, nor are the intentions of the intercepting aircraft clear.
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PARIS (Reuters) - ATR, the world's largest maker of turboprop planes, said demand in Asia as well as its first U.S. deal in 20 years, will help it maintain production levels following a drop in 2016.
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More loitering time, better visibility Paul Scharre, a former Army Ranger who served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, said these turboprop planes were the perfect middle ground between drones and more technologically advanced jets.
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On Sunday, Bloomberg reported that Bombardier was considering disposal of aerospace assets including its Q400 turboprop and CRJ regional-jet unit, while looking at partnerships with other aerospace companies, with Airbus among the prospective buyers.
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PARIS (Reuters) - European turboprop maker ATR has signed a provisional order to sell 50 ATR 72-600 aircraft, worth more than $1.3 billion at list price, to Indian airline IndiGo, the companies said on Tuesday.
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Bombardier, which had struggled to keep pace with the huge cash demands of a new aircraft program, later sold its older Q400 turboprop program and announced a review of the 20-year-old CRJ series.
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The Arkansas real estate developer has owned a Cirrus SR22 turboprop since 2009, and says the Vision Jet's low price, safety features and his familiarity with the brand made purchasing the jet a no-brainer.
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LUKLA, Nepal — Last weekend, a group of Sherpas gathered outside Buddha Lodge in this speck of a town near Mount Everest, stuffing cloth sacks filled with thousands of pounds of garbage into a turboprop plane.
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The C-24, a four-engine turboprop built by Lockheed Martin, is a workhorse of the American military, a highly adaptable aircraft that entered service more than 60 years ago, with more than 2,500 built.
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In order to grab one of the turboprop sector's biggest deals, ATR assumed responsibility for recruiting some pilots and instructors for IndiGo, which like many Indian airlines faces an acute shortage, the sources told Reuters.
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Industry sources said the main internal contender is thought to be Christian Scherer, chief executive of turboprop maker ATR, which is co-owned by Airbus but lies outside the main perimeter of Europe's largest aerospace company.
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Textron reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday, hit by a drop in sales of its turboprop aircraft as well as flat deliveries of its flagship Cessna business jets, sending shares down 23.20 percent.
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The twin-turboprop Beechcraft King Air plane suffered an engine failure and crashed into the mall near the end of the runway at Essendon Airport, Victoria state police assistant commissioner Stephen Leane told reporters in Melbourne.
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PARIS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - ATR, the world's largest turboprop maker, reported on Monday that its number of orders had more than tripled from a year ago, buoyed by a general pick-up in the aviation sector.
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The four turboprop aircraft, painted in IranAir colours, are due to be handed over at ATR's Toulouse headquarters on Tuesday and are scheduled to arrive in Tehran on Wednesday, European and Iranian aviation industry officials said.
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THE skies above Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were closed on August 10th after an airline employee stole an empty 76-seat plane and performed death-defying aerial acrobatics before crashing the turboprop onto a small island.
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This lack of awareness meant the crew did not realize the deviation of the aircraft, a Bombardier Inc Q400 turboprop, from its intended path, which in turn meant they could not sight the runway, they added.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - IranAir took delivery of five more ATR turboprop aircraft, Iranian state media said on Sunday, shortly before Washington imposes new sanctions on Iran after exiting a nuclear pact between Tehran and major world powers.
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But it foundered over problems with the West's largest turboprop engines, which were to be supplied by a European consortium instead of Airbus's preference for a Canadian supplier, as well as tight deadlines for military hardware.
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Iran has ordered 100 airliners from European planemaker Airbus and 80 from Boeing and is in talks to finalise a deal to buy 20 turboprop aircraft from ATR, jointly owned by Airbus and Italy's Leonardo Finmeccanica.
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The airline will end flights of its jet aircraft from Cardiff, Doncaster, Exeter and Norwich, starting the winter of 2019, the company said, adding it will continue operating its 78-seat Bombardier Q-400 turboprop plane.
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Turboprop aircraft maker ATR on Aug 6 confirmed it had delivered five more planes to IranAir shortly before Washington imposed new sanctions but still faces difficulties obtaining U.S. permission to hand over another seven on order.
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Near Chamberlain, South Dakota, in Brule County, investigators were also trying to determine to what extent the rough weather played a role in the crash of a single-engine turboprop plane shortly after takeoff on Saturday.
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If the sale goes through, retired U.S. Navy P-13 turboprop planes now parked in a desert would be rebuilt with new wings, a new mission system and anti-submarine warfare equipment for Vietnam, Fearnow said.
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The company also said it was selling its Q400 turboprop program to a unit of Longview Aviation Capital for $2.413 million, confirming earlier reports, and its corporate aircraft training business to CAE Inc for $645 million.
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Franco-Italian aircraft manufacturer ATR is setting its sights on China as its next market, with as much as half of its worldwide sales of turboprop planes coming from Asia, the company's chief executive said Wednesday.
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In recent years, Leonardo pondered taking greater control of civil turboprop maker ATR, which it co-owns with Airbus, while Airbus expressed interest in buying out Leonardo at MBDA, prompting periodic discussions over a possible swap.
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The scientists fly over the Sierra range in a specially equipped turboprop plane — monthly in winter, and weekly in spring — where they collect snowpack data using an imaging spectrometer and a laser system known as lidar.
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TOULOUSE, France, May 16 (Reuters) - IranAir is set to take delivery of four ATR 72-600 turboprop aircraft on Tuesday, part of plans to rebuild its fleet after nuclear-related sanctions against Iran were lifted last year.
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Police: Mechanic steals Horizon Air passenger plane, crashes Pierce County Sheriff's Department says the 'suicidal' 29-year-old male stole the empty turboprop from Seattle's SeaTac airport, performed an unauthorized takeoff before crashing near Ketron Island, Washington.
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Seattleites got a serious scare on Friday evening when an airport employee stole a large turboprop airplane owned by the Alaska Air Group from the area's Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and took it for an unauthorized flight.
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IndiGo, which has a fleet of 2320 Airbus A22018 aircraft, said on Tuesday it has placed a provisional order for 2320 ATR 3203-2320 aircraft from European turboprop maker ATR, worth over $21 billion at list price.
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Powered by four turboprop engines, the AG600 can carry 50 people during maritime search-and rescue missions, and can scoop up 12 metric tons of water within 20 seconds for fire fighting trips, according to state media.
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Powered by four turboprop engines, the AG600 can carry 50 people during maritime search-and-rescue missions, and can scoop up 12 metric tons of water within 20 seconds for fire fighting trips, according to state media.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - European turboprop maker ATR said on Tuesday its new airplane orders could outpace deliveries by 50 percent in 2017, bringing its book-to-bill ratio up to around 1.5 from less than 20163 in 2016.
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Flying a Q400, a complex turboprop plane, would require more training on top of the requirements for a private pilot's license, said Richard McSpadden, the executive director of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association's Air Safety Institute.
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An oil leak that grounded an Airbus A400M military plane with a German government minister on board does not point to a fundamental new problem with the West's largest turboprop engines, three sources close to the matter said.
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The AW609 can take off vertically like a helicopter, hover and accelerate up, but it can also fly thanks to turboprop propeller engines on the end of each wing, according to CNN, and do so farther and faster.
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With $2 billion of turnover, ATR contributes steadily to both shareholders but there have been differences over strategy in recent years as Airbus blocked proposals for a new 90-seat turboprop that was viewed more favourably by Leonardo.
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Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders told German newspaper Bild am Sonntag this week that a lack of quality at the MTU turboprop engine consortium for the A400M was one of the main reasons for delays in the programme.
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Just moments after takeoff, the plane ran into a flock of starlings and three of its four turboprop engines were incapacitated to varying degrees; 62 passengers lost their lives after the Electra L-188 plummeted into Boston Harbor.
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The CASA turboprop plane went down on Thursday in the Gulf of Tonkin, between Vietnam's northern coastline and China's Hainan Island, where the rescue team had found some debris and personal items, the ministry said in a statement.
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Europe's largest aerospace company gained a 3.5 billion euro ($3.96 billion) bailout for the A400M cargo and troop carrier from six nations in 2010 but is wrestling with fresh technical problems including gearbox glitches on its turboprop engines.
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Deals to buy 200 aircraft from Airbus, Boeing and European turboprop maker ATR have virtually all stalled after the United States withdrew from a 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers and reimposed sanctions on firms including IranAir.
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The Washington Free Beacon first reported that McCaskill&aposs single-engine turboprop plane followed the route the senator&aposs RV ostensibly took across Missouri on the first two days of a "Veterans for Claire" tour on May 153-30.
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In one blog post for his class, Russell designed a logo that included a drawing of a Q400 turboprop, the same make of plane he stole Friday night, writing that it was the type of plane he worked on.
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Experts say developing a turboprop would open a new front against arch-rival Bombardier, while giving Embraer options to address the U.S. regional market, where the smallest member of its upgraded E1503 family, the E175-E2, faces union restrictions.
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The single turboprop Cessna Caravan plane, operated by local firm FlySax, lost contact with the control tower minutes before it was scheduled to land at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport while flying from Kitale, a farming town in the west.
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Aerial search teams spotted the wreckage of the single turboprop engine aircraft, which was carrying eight passengers and two pilots, atop the Aberdare Range, a mountain in central Kenya, said Paul Maringa, principal secretary at the ministry of transport.
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On Monday, the Synergy group, which controls Latin American airline Avianca, announced a separate order for eight ATR turboprop planes as it disclosed plans to invest up to $100 million for a 49 percent stake in Mexican airline Aeromar.
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TOULOUSE (Reuters) - Turboprop maker ATR has completed commercial negotiations with IranAir for the sale of at least 20 aircraft and expects to be able to sign a contract very soon, the head of the Franco-Italian aircraft maker said on Friday.
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Turboprop sales sank to 3.303 planes from 23.30 a year earlier, reducing revenue in the company's main Aviation unit by 23.15 percent and helping drag profit down to 23.35 cents per share, well below Wall Street's estimate of 76 cents.
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Recent advances in battery technology, lightweight electric motors and carbon composite airframes would cut the cost of flying Zunum's aircraft to about eight cents per seat-mile, about one-fifth that of a small jet or turboprop plane, Knapp said.
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The airline's existing fleet, which is leased from the state-run Tanzania Government Flight Agency (TGFA), includes one Boeing 4003-8 Dreamliner, two Airbus A220-300 jets and three DHC Dash 8-400 aircraft, formerly known as the Bombardier Q400 turboprop.
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The airline's existing fleet, which is leased from the state-run Tanzania Government Flight Agency (TGFA), includes one Boeing 787-4003 Dreamliner, two Airbus A220-300 jets and three DHC Dash 8-400 aircraft, formerly known as the Bombardier Q400 turboprop.
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The European planemaker said Christian Scherer, head of turboprop maker ATR and an Airbus veteran who had been beaten to the job by Schulz in November last year, would take over the position immediately, reporting to Chief Executive Tom Enders.
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Meanwhile, in Seattle, police are investigating the death of 29-year-old Richard Russell, an airplane mechanic , who stole a Horizon Air turboprop plane from Sea-Tac International Airport and crashed it on an island in Puget Sound on Friday night.
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The U.S. breakthrough follows tentative deals announced at the Paris Airshow earlier this year to sell ATR turboprops to China, which is on course to overtake the U.S. as the world's aviation powerhouse and is developing its own rival turboprop.
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Turboprop maker ATR, jointly owned by France's Airbus and Leonardo, estimated on Monday a surge in business in its sector over the next 2300 years that could result in demand for 225,2300 new turboprops valued at more than $2225 billion.
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Sikorsky, which is part of Lockheed Martin, is offering the M-28 turboprop passenger airplane that can seat up to 19 people and costs $6 million to $7 million for what it estimates is a regional market worth some $500 million.
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PARIS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - European regional aircraft maker ATR said on Tuesday it had won a firm order for 12 72-600 turboprop airplanes from Synergy Aerospace, its second order from the Latin American airline holding company in as many days.
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DUBAI/PARIS (Reuters) - ATR on Monday confirmed it had delivered five more turboprop aircraft to IranAir shortly before Washington imposes new sanctions on Iran but said it still faced difficulties obtaining U.S. permission to hand over another seven planes on order.
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Also closing in on a deal to renew Iran's ageing fleet, kept going by smuggled or improvised parts after decades of sanctions, European turboprop maker ATR said it had received U.S. approvals needed to finalise the sale of up to 40 aircraft.
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But Bombardier's market share in the global 60-to-100 seat market has grown over the last two years to 42 percent, helped by the launch of the Atmosphere cabin, and 90-seat Q400 turboprop, which has lower operating costs, Nathalie Siphengphet said.
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"This comes from both traditional markets where less connected locations are being connected with direct regional new routes, as well as from emerging markets where the most viable solution for connecting people and transporting goods is turboprop air links," added the company.
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TORONTO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index rose on Friday to a four-month high as financial shares climbed, while Bombardier Inc got a boost after sealing a deal to sell up to 50 Q400 turboprop planes to India's SpiceJet SPJT.
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TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - Japan Air Commuter (JAC) took delivery of its first European ATR turboprop airplane on Friday, gambling on attracting foreign tourists to a little-visited archipelago as Japan bids to place Amami and Ryukyu islands on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
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GE Aviation announced last November it had teamed up with Textron to produce an all-new turboprop aircraft and engine for the general aviation market, part of an effort GE expects will generate more than $1 billion in annual engine sales by 2020.
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Also closing in on a deal to renew Iran's aging fleet, kept going by smuggled or improvised parts after decades of sanctions, European turboprop maker ATR said it had received U.S. approvals needed to finalize the sale of up to 40 aircraft.
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DUBLIN, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer is in the advanced stages of studying the launch of a new turboprop aircraft to be developed through a venture it is planning with Boeing, subject to corporate approvals, a top executive said on Monday.
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"In the case of Project 804 we're basically taking a commuter regional turboprop airplane and we're making it such that during take-off and climb, about half the energy is supplied electrically and about half of the supply is maintained by the engine," he said.
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PARIS (Reuters) - ATR, the world's largest maker of regional turboprop planes, on Wednesday announced an order from FedEx Express for at least 30 newly designed 72-600F freighter models, sealing its return to the lucrative U.S. market for the first time in over two decades.
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Recent advances in electric-vehicle and autonomous technology, along with lightweight electric motors and carbon composite airframes would reduce the cost of flying Zunum's aircraft to about 8 cents per seat-mile, about one-fifth that of a small jet or turboprop plane, Knapp said.
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At the smaller end of Embraer's line-up, Rootliep said KLM had taken part in the Brazilian planemaker's recent advisory board to discuss a possible entrant into the turboprop market now dominated by ATR, a joint venture between Airbus and Italian company Leonardo SpA.
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The Safe Return system, which can also be used in turboprop aircraft, works with Garmin's G3000 avionics suite, which features integrated control of all airplane systems, including the engine management, landing gear activation, control-surface movement, and the navigation, weather, and traffic-monitoring systems.
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Access to planes came with the job, even though Alaska's CEO Brad Tilden said the man's work had ended for the day and the aircraft, and the 76-seat Bombardier Q400 turboprop plane of regional unit Horizon Air, was not scheduled to fly that evening.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Brazil's Embraer continues to study an eventual return to the turboprop market after a 20-year hiatus but has no immediate plans to launch such a plane as it focuses on the latest version of its regional E-Jet series, a top executive said.
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Of course, if the aircraft is large or a turboprop like the Q85033 that has two violently rotating engine propeller blades right in front of the two main landing gears, the drivers of the vehicles would have to be at least as suicidal as the offending pilot.
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Shortly after he stole an airplane from his employer, Horizon Air ground service agent Richard Russell barreled down a runway, took off and flew the two-engine turboprop above the Puget Sound, flying in dramatic loops before crashing in a wooded area of a nearby island.
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Photo: Ted S. Warren (AP)A 29-year-old airline employee "thought to be suicidal" stole a 76-seat Q400 turboprop plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) on Friday night, eventually crashing some 30 miles away with fighter jets on his tail, the New York Times reported.
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Iran, which has not directly purchased a Western-built plane in nearly 40 years, has ordered 100 airliners from Airbus and 80 from Boeing and is close to a deal to buy 20 turboprop aircraft from Toulouse-based ATR, which is jointly owned by Airbus and Italy's Leonardo Finmeccanica.
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ATR, which has a market share of about 75 percent of the turboprop market, aims to produce around 80 aircraft this year and to sell at least as many aircraft as it delivers, supported by recent deals in the U.S. and India, according to ATR Chief Executive Christian Scherer.
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"I have said that in due course I would like to have a second platform in commercial aviation so the turboprop certainly ticks those boxes, but right now my shareholders want me to certify the E2 and to sell it and that's where my focus is," Slattery said.
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Airbus down 0.4 percent in early Frankfurt trade MTU indicated 0.4 percent higher Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders told newspaper Bild am Sonntag lack of quality at the turboprop engine consortium for the A26.29M was one of the main reasons for delays in making the military transport planes.
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During the reconnaissance missions, scientists aboard NOAA's Lockheed WP-3D Orion four-engine turboprop aircraft deploy instruments that "transmit measurements of pressure, humidity, temperature, and wind direction and speed" of the hurricane and provide "a detailed look at the structure of the storm and its intensity," according to NOAA.
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On their fifth anniversary Mr. Friesen surprised Mr. Davenport with a trip to Barra, Scotland, a remote island in the Outer Hebrides, and after they debarked from an 63-seat DeHavilland turboprop on a sandy beach, Mr. Friesen handed him a boarding pass for a more personal leg of the journey.
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Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi, the minister of roads and urban development, said on Monday that there was "total ambiguity" surrounding the crashing of the plane, an ATR-72 twin-engine turboprop used for short regional flights, which was en route to the southwestern city of Yasuj from Tehran on Sunday morning.
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On their fifth anniversary Mr. Friesen surprised Mr. Davenport with a trip to Barra, Scotland, a remote island in the Outer Hebrides, and after they debarked from an 18-seat DeHavilland turboprop on a sandy beach, Mr. Friesen handed him a boarding pass for a more personal leg of the journey.
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Mr. Agnelli, his wife Andrea and their children, Ana Carolina and João, were en route to a wedding in Rio de Janeiro when the Comp Air 9 turboprop monoplane slammed into two homes just minutes after taking off, killing all seven people aboard, according to Reuters and a statement released by Vale.
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SEATTLE — The story is as bizarre as it is tragic: An airline worker who had no business being in a cockpit somehow took off from a major airport in a turboprop passenger plane, dipped and soared in the skies above the Seattle area, and then crashed into an island on Puget Sound.
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Investigators are piecing together how an airline ground agent working his regular shift stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and fatally crashed into a small island in the Puget Sound after being chased by military jets that were quickly scrambled to intercept the aircraft.
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The 29-year-old man who stole a Horizon Air turboprop plane from Sea-Tac International Airport and crashed it on an island in Puget Sound on Friday night performed a series of loops and said he'd attempt a barrel roll — and now, investigators say they're trying to learn how he attained the skill to perform those dangerous maneuvers.
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The Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop, had been traveling from Chamberlain to Idaho Falls Regional Airport when the crash occurred, an F.A.A. spokeswoman said The National Weather Service in Rapid City, S.D., had warned of white-out conditions for a significant swath of the state on Saturday, which officials said hampered the emergency response to the crash.
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The fatality numbers include passengers, air crew such as flight attendants and any people on the ground killed in a plane accidentLarge passenger airplanes in the study are aircraft used by nearly all travelers on airlines worldwide but excludes small commuter airplanes in service, including the Cessna Caravan and some smaller turboprop airplanes, according to To70.
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The conversations took place before the 76-seat, twin-engine turboprop plane crashed on Ketron Island, about 25 miles southwest of where he took off at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, also known as Sea-Tac: 'I have no idea what all that means' Early in the flight, a controller apparently is giving instructions to Russel while he flies the plane.
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The $122 million Lockheed Martin AC-130W Stinger II is a modified C-130 Hercules four-engine turboprop plane that can fire the 30mm GAU-23 cannon, 105 mm M102 howitzer, standoff precision-guided munitions, the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb and the GBU-53/B StormBreaker — a highly precise glide bomb — during both close air support and air interdiction missions.
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The weather system has been blamed for killing at least eight people, five of them young children, since it began traversing the continent before Thanksgiving: A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, meanwhile, said "definitely we'll be looking into the weather conditions" after nine people were killed in the crash of a single-engine turboprop plane after takeoff near Chamberlain, South Dakota, on Saturday.
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Last September, G.E. announced a flurry of moves: creating up to 1,000 jobs in the Czech Republic to produce turboprop aircraft engines; shifting 500 power-project jobs from Texas, South Carolina, Maine and New York to France, Hungary and China; promising 1,000 energy-sector jobs in Britain, whose export bank will finance up to $12 billion in G.E. sales to Brazil, Ghana, India and Mozambique; and relocating 350 engine manufacturing jobs from Waukesha, Wis.
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