Healthy sales of transports to expanding airlines in Asia and equally strong sales of corporate aircraft, including very light jets, will help drive annual aero-turbine production to more than 10,000 units by 2011. Also contributing to this increase of 1,000 engines over the estimate for 2010 is a strong market for both military and civilian helicopters. Total engine production is expected to peak in 2013, and then begin a decline as the cyclical process is repeated.
Presidente Riesco 5711, Piso 20 Las Condes, CHILE CODE: LA EMPLOYEES: 15,099 WWW.LANCHILE.COM TEL. (56-2) 565-2525 FAX (56-2) 565-2817 OWNERSHIP: 5.38% NYSE; 83.22% MAJORITY SHAREHOLDERS; 11.40% CHILEAN STOCK EXCHANGE EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT PRESIDENT & COO IGNACIO CUETO PLAZA CEO ENRIQUE CUETO PLAZA CFO ALEJANDRO DE LA FUENTE GOIC CEO OF CARGO CRISTIAN URETA LARRAIN
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Provided with the Assistance of Alexander Velovich (Russian Correspondent, Forecast Interational)
ARSENYEV AVIATION CO. PROGRESS (Arsenyev) is in relatively good shape due to a diverse product line. Hopes for financing its main product, the Kamov Ka-50 rotorcraft, have been revived, with the defense ministry expected to order a dozen for the GRU Spetnaz support role. The company manufactures the Mil Mi-34 light helicopter, which has been exported to Kazakhstan and Nigeria; overhauls Mil Mi-24/35 attack helicopters, which it built until 1989; builds parts for the Be-103 amphibian; and produces Moskit 3M-80E supersonic anti-ship missiles, which are exported to China.
Jeanne Cook, who is chief pilot of Columbia, S.C.-based Bankair Inc., has been elected chair of the Plymouth, Mass.-based Regional Air Cargo Carriers Assn. She succeeds David Corey, who is president/CEO of AirNow, Bennington, Vt. John W. Hazlet, Jr., who is vice president-safety and standards/director of operations for Burbank, Calif.-based Ameriflight, has been named vice president-technical affairs.
The commercial transport market is seeing a new form of competitive environment, as airlines restructure and overhaul their operations, and airframers adjust business models to meet their customers' evolving requirements.
Air Force AgustaWestland Merlin HC3 (22) BAE Systems 146 CC Mk 2 (2) BAE Systems Harrier GR7 (51) BAE Systems Nimrod Mk 2 (20) BAE Systems Nimrod R1 (3) Bell Helicopter Textron 412 (14) Bell Helicopter Textron 412EP (2) Boeing Helicopter Chinook HC2 (34) Boeing Helicopter Chinook HC3 (8) Boeing C-17A (4) Boeing E-3D (6) Bombardier Sentinel R1 (2) British Aerospace 125-1 (5) British Aerospace Dominie T Mk 1 (3)
The new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Carl Levin (D-Mich.), says he doesn't know yet whether he will fight the F-22 multi-year production plan Lockheed Martin officials say they need to keep production costs down and a stealth fighter production line active until F-35 manufacturing begins. "It depends on what's presented to us," he says. A key question will be whether the Air Force and the company can prove there will be savings. "It depends on what [an independent cost] study and other facts disclose," Levin says. "I don't want to prejudge that.
Jonas Hjelm, former secretary of the Swedish Defense Ministry, has been appointed a government affairs executive for the Corporate Strategy and Business Developmenrt Div. of Saab.
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Air Force Beech RC-12D (5) Beech RC-12K (2) Bell Helicopter Textron 206B (4) Bell Helicopter Textron AH-1E (10) Bell Helicopter Textron AH-1F (9) Bell Helicopter Textron AH-1G (5) Bell Helicopter Textron AH-1S (25) Bell Helicopter Textron OH-58D (7) Boeing Helicopter AH-64A (40) Boeing Helicopter AH-64D (3) Boeing 707-300 (14) Boeing F-15I (25) Dornier Do 28 (12) Gulfstream G550 (2) IAI CM 170 (40)
