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Shownews Is Published by Penton Media Inc., 9800 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS 66212-2216 D A Y 2 AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY / AIR TRANSPORT WORLD / SPEEDNEWS February 17, 2016 Singapore Airshow P&W Bids on New Boeing Display Stays Static, Says it can provide a geared turbofan for Boeing midsize. PAGE 4 but the Numbers Grow! Thales Wins at Singapore IFE for the airline’s A350 XWBs is a major victory, it says. PAGE 8 Simulation in Borneo CAE Brunei seeks role as a regional training center. PAGE 12 Rocketsan Shows Talents Turkish company aims rockets, missiles at world markets. PAGE 52 This year’s show boasts the BIGGEST AIRCRAFT STATIC DISPLAY that we can recall at Singapore. Through the entrance arch the little lion points the way to 60+ EXHIBITS, from light aircraft through helicopters, business jets, military New World Ordnance fighters, drones and transports to today’s airliner behemoths. Alas, he’s not a guide – you’ll have to find your own way through the massed machines! Asia’s fighters are more capable than those of the U.S. PAGE 61 A New Ameco Takes Shape Mitsubishi Signs First MRJ Lease A restructured Ameco Beijing Aerolease Aviation, a Florida-based lessor with Mitsubishi Aircraft president Hiromichi says it is even stronger. PAGE 60 a portfolio of 40 used Boeing 757s, has signed Morimoto said here. a letter of intent for 10 Mitsubishi Regional The 10 firm MRJ90s are slated to start Opinion: Singapore Puzzle Jets plus 10 options. delivering to Aerolease in 2018. Mitsubishi Aerolease thus becomes the first lessor to Aircraft (Booth U01) expects the letter of intent to Richard Aboulafia points to a gap commit to the MRJ. “We firmly believe that be turned into a definitive agreement “in the in Singapore’s defenses. PAGE 62 the asset value of the MRJ has now been next month or so,” said sales and marketing recognized in the aircraft finance market,” VP and GM Yugo Fukuhara. AESA Radar for Eurofighter The first, fitted to a test aircraft, was unveiled yesterday. PAGE 52 SingaporeSingapore Lessoresessor OrdersOrdersrs Fiveive ATRsATATRsR Singapore-based lessor Aviation PLC has ordered five ATR 72-600s valued at US$130 million. They will join the company’s current fleet of 20, and bring to 35 the total number of ATR 72s it has on firm order. Here ATR CEO Patrick de Castelbajac (left) and Aviation PLC executive chairman Jeff Chatfield clinch the deal. Aviation PLC’s ATRs, which are mostly -600 models, fly in the liveries of Virgin Australia, MOBILE NEWS ACCESS: Flybe, UNI Air (Taiwan), Air India and Fiji Airways. “We believe the ATR 72 is Get the Latest Singapore the most efficient aircraft type for regional routes. It provides the News and Insight Online lowest fuel burn and the most Visit AviationWeek.com/Singapore and reduced operating costs among all regional receive the latest news and insight right aircraft of its on your mobile device. category,” said Chatfield. Whatever the mission – be it medevac, intelligence and surveillance, or search and rescue – Bombardier has an aircraft that can be readily adapted to your needs. Bombardier, and the Evolution of Mobility, are trademarks of Bombardier Inc. or its subsidiaries. ©2015 Bombardier Inc. All rights reserved. Editor-in-Chief John Morris [email protected] +1 860-316-8750 Senior Editors Scot Greenan, Mike Jerram Writers Paul Jackson, Aaron Karp, Guy Norris, Rich Piellisch, Bill Sweetman Copy Editor Polly Watson Senior Art Director & IT Manager Kirk Fetzer Art Director Ariel Fristoe Photographer Mike Vines Digital Photo Editor Fran Vines Digital Data Manager Theresa Petruso Managing Director Iain Blackhall [email protected] Cutting the ribbon to open the U.S. Pavilion here yesterday are (front row, L to R): Robert Durbin, COO, Aerospace Industries Association; Tom Kallman, president and CEO, Kallman Worldwide; Gen. Lori Robinson, Commander U.S./CANADA ADVERTISING SALES PACAF; Kirk Wagar, U.S. Ambassador to Singapore; Marcus Jadotte, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and FAA Beth Wagner – [email protected] Tom Davis – [email protected] Administrator Michael Huerta. Rob Howlett – [email protected] Leah Vickers – [email protected] Tim Reed – [email protected] Richard Brown – [email protected] Greg Smith – [email protected] Americans Seek to Capitalize on TPP David Seaberg – [email protected] Miguel Ornelas –[email protected] Chris Salem – [email protected] .S. companies see reinvigorated impe- patrol aircraft and F-22 Raptor – not INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING SALES Utus for Asia-Pacific sales following available for export sale, but here to show Andrea Rossi Prudente [email protected] the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership America’s technological progress and the Germany, Switzerland agreed to this past October, government strength of its partnership with Singapore, Robert Rottmeier – [email protected] and industry officials said here Monday. said U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Joe Rixey. France, Portugal, Spain, Benelux [email protected] “We are looking to build on a $48 bil- “We think we have the best product,” United Kingdom, Ireland lion annual base,” said Marcus Jadotte, Rixey said. “Not only do we have the best Michael Elmes – [email protected] U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for product, but we pride ourselves on full- Ann Haigh – [email protected] Industry and Analysis. “Obviously this is a spectrum capability” – not only the initial Operations Manager Erving Dockery region of impressive growth.” sales, but training and service and support Marketing Communications Manager According to Robert Durbin, COO at for the long term. Elizabeth Sisk the Washington, D.C.-based Aerospace “It means a real partnership,” agreed Printing & Distribution Management MM Print Services Limited Industries Association, the TPP “will help Jadotte. “The partnership extends through www.mmprintservices.com us as we build the cooperative ties that are the life of the product. That is the value ShowNews is published by Penton Media Inc., 9800 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS 66212-2216. Also the publisher so important to the peace, stability and proposition.” of Air Transport World, Aviation Daily, Aviation Week & Space prosperity of this region.” Kallman and AIA signed a new memo- Technology, Business & Commercial Aviation, SpeedNews, The Weekly of Business Aviation and World Aerospace Database. “There’s a big market out here and [now] randum of agreement on Monday to work ShowNews at Singapore Airshow: Chalet CS40 that market is easier to access,” said Tom together to enhance access and opportu- tel: +1 860-316-8750, Singapore +65 6821 2034 Kallman, president and CEO of Kallman nity to regional markets for small and Worldwide, organizer of the largest-yet U.S. medium-size U.S. aerospace and defense pavilion at the Singapore Airshow. “We firms to attend shows like the one here Chief Executive Officer were able to conjure up 27 new exhibi- this week. David Kieselstein tors this year,” he said. “We’re moving in a They vowed to “encourage greater busi- Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development Warren N. Bimblick really, really strong direction.” ness-to-business engagement among the Chief Financial Officer/Executive Vice President “It is in our national interest to be here,” companies and their global customers Nicola Allais said Kirk Wagar, the U.S. ambassador to and suppliers, elevate the conversation Senior Vice President & General Counsel Andrew Schmolka Singapore. between U.S. industry and government to Kallman Worldwide and AIA are coor- strengthen America’s global aerospace and President, Aviation Week Gregory Hamilton dinating the U.S. military presence at defense competitiveness, and unite U.S. ©Copyright 2016 by Penton Media. All rights reserved. Singapore Airshow 2016 from Chalet DC75. industry to extend America’s global leader- Material in this publication may not be reproduced in any form without permission. Aircraft on show include the F-16 Fighting ship in aerospace and defense.” Falcon, KC-130J tanker, P-8 maritime —Rich Piellisch AviationWeek.com/ShowNews | February 17, 2016 3 P&W Says GTF Will Suit Boeing’s Midsize Plan Pratt & Whitney says Boeing has fully embraced the concept of the geared turbofan (GTF), and is in discussion with the engine maker over its potential use for the new middle-of- the-market aircraft now in the early study phase. o many people pooh- “Right now the “Spoohed it,” says Pratt & only airplane we Whitney president Bob Leduc see out there is of the PurePower Geared Boeing’s middle- Turbofan. “Now virtually of-the-market air- every airframer you go to, even plane. The Airbus Boeing, are all believers.” Pratt product line is is “starting to have middle-of- basically set top the-market-airplane discus- to bottom,” says sions,” with Boeing, and sees Leduc. Boeing The new engine will use similar architecture to the PW1000G the project as a rare near-to- is targeting the geared turbofan. midterm opportunity to expand 220-seat-class the geared turbofan family into area “... because the higher thrust bracket cur- the Airbus A321 is just kill- that market.” they haven’t even defined the rently occupied by the out-of- ing them, particularly the In Leduc’s view, Boeing thrust requirement, though it production PW2000 and Rolls- A321 with the geared turbo- needs to move sooner rather is nominally 40,000 lb.,” says Royce RB211-535. fan on it – and we have 71% of than later to attack the gap in Leduc. “It’s all paper and is in the Airbus lineup. “Boeing has their advanced group and in got to do something, because our advanced group. So it is all the 737 cannot compete early days but we will figure it against it. So the question has out. I certainly would love to get got to be, do they do a new air- back on a Boeing airplane.” plane, because they have got While publicly saying nothing nothing between the A321 new on the middle of the mar- and the A330.
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