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Dassault Falcon Jet Corp dfjc023704 LABACE 2017 - AIN Coverwrap Proof 2 BACK COVER FRONT COVER PUBLICATIONS LABACE 8.17.2017 Convention NewsTM THURSDAY AINONLINE.COM Edição bilíngue ADVERTISEMENT WWW.DASSAULTFALCON.COM I RODRIGO PESOA: +55 11 3521 7201 I [email protected] ADVERTISEMENT dfjc023704.indd 1-2 8/15/17 12:30 PM Dassault Falcon Jet Corp dfjc023704 LABACE 2017 - AIN Coverwrap Proof 1 INSIDE FRONT COVER WWW.DASSAULTFALCON.COM I RODRIGO PESOA: +55 11 3521 7201 I [email protected] dfjc023704.indd 3 Jul/31/17 Jul/31/17 1:47 PM PUBLICATIONS ‘Cirrus Experience’ LABACE 8.17.2017 stops by at LABACE by Richard Pedicini Cirrus Aircraft’s presence at TM LABACE (Static Display Convention News EHE01) is a compact version of the “Cirrus Experience” road show that happens around Brazil THURSDAY AINONLINE.COM Edição bilíngue about once a month, generally in smaller cities, although the event took place at São Paulo’s Campo de Marte earlier this year. Partners in the project include aviation insurance broker Vokan, leisure clothing line Hangar 33, two leisure real-estate develop- ments featuring airstrips, Furnas Park and Flyville; TopAviation maintenance; aircraft, manage- ment and fractional firm Next Aviation; and in the LABACE incarnation, a party van with “a Legacy interior” called Truckvan. At Campo de Marte, the Cirrus Experience featured Maseratis. Luiz Eduardo Moreira of Vokan explained that the bro- ker and the other partners fre- quently participate in fairs with Cirrus, represented in Brazil by Embraer changes focus from product to support by David Donald Last December, Embraer merged its service and support activi- Here Comes the Sun ties into a single business unit. Headed by president and CEO The economic and political storm that’s been dogging Latin Johann Bourdais, Embraer America, while perhaps symbolized by the inclement weather Service & Support is a unified during LABACE, is showing signs of fading away. organization that now looks PHOTOS: DAVID McINTOSH PHOTOS: DAVID after all Embraer aircraft, bring- ing together support operations Otimismo Radiante dos for the commercial, defense and Confidence Organizadores Inabalado pela Chuva executive jet segments. This development recognizes “O tempo está ruim, mas o clima para os negócios está bom,” the growing importance of prod- high despite é como o CEO da ABAG Flávio Pires resumiu a chuvosa LABACE uct support in the marketplace. 2017. “Nossa visão é de uma economia mais favorável no ano “We don’t sell a product any more,” que vem, e a aviação executiva reflete a economia. Nós todos said Bourdais, “we sell the solution. low overcast torcemos e esperamos que o Brasil sairá da crise atual. A feira by Richard Pedicini do ano que vem será melhor.” Pires ofereceu mais do que esperança, notando que pro- “The weather’s bad, but the business climate postas e demonstrações estiveram ambas aumentando. “O Confidence high is good,” is how ABAG CEO Flávio Pires processo de compra demora, e todo o movimento que está summed up the rainy LABACE 2017. “Our acontecendo vai resultar em novas entregas nos próximos 12 despite weather vision is of a better economy next year, and meses. Nada entrou na fila no ano passado, mas agora a fila uContinued from page 1 business aviation reflects the economy. We all está cheia.” hope and expect that Brazil will leave the cur- LABACE 2017 lacked major A LABACE 2017 careceu de estréias maiores, mas teve chuva, debuts, but it had rain, lots and ABAG CELEBRATES rent crisis. Next year’s fair should be better.” muita muita chuva. O ato de Deus, no entanto, foi antecipado e Pires offered more than hope, noting that lots of rain. Tuesday was wet, 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF LABACE aliviado por atos humanos. Um grande estoque de guarda-chu- and Wednesday delivered on proposals and demos have all been on the vas grandes e resistentes com o logo da LABACE foi a prova final forecasts of even wetter. The New ABAG director general/CEO Flávio Pires toasts the 15th anniver- increase. “Client visits have been intense de que alguém havia planejado adiante—algo que nem Paris sary of LABACE during the show on Tuesday. With him (L to R) are José since the start of the year. Last year, they act of God, however, was antic- conseguiu realizar no ano passado. ipated and mitigated by acts of Eduardo Brandão, Synerjet general director; Embraer Executive Jets v-p just weren’t visiting. The purchase process “Eu gostaria de sediar a feira em um local que fosse mais sales for Latin America, Gustavo Teixeira; Rui Aquino, ex ABAG chair- takes time, and all the movement that’s tak- man. The organizers spent six bem adaptado, com uma melhor infraestrutura,” Pires refle- days repairing the aging roof of man and president of TWOFlex (air taxi), Adalberto Febeliano, former ing place will result in new deliveries in six tiu. Ele reconheceu, no entanto, que a atual localização é the hangar that holds the stands, ABAG secretary general (now with Brazil’s ABEAR airline association); to 12 months. Nothing entered the pipeline acessível e oferece o charme da proximidade entre estandes, and former ABAG chairman, Francisco Lyra. last year, but now the pipeline is full.” exposição estática e chalés. —R.P. Continued on page 21 u www.ainonline.com • August 17, 2017 • LABACE Convention News 21 Agora CERTIFICADO no Brasil HondaJet A VANGUARDA NA AVIAÇÃO Como o design inovador do HondaJet o transformou no jato leve mais avançado do mundo. Visite o HondaJet no estande #5120 hondajet.com MAGA magic bus transforms mobile Bombardier service by Richard Pedicini Bombardier brought its newest Autho- The mobile service facility is the brain- rized Service Facility to LABACE 2017, child of Edivaldo S. Coelho, pilot, mechanic a customized long-distance bus. It’s got and engineer, president of MAGA Aviation, a crane on the roof that can remove an headquartered at Campos dos Amarais engine from a Challenger and a lift that airfield in Campinas. Widely known as can extend to a height of seven meters “Engineer MacGyver,” (for the scientific (23 feet) to work on a tail. crimebusting television character) Coelho In the baggage compartment, there’s a is at the Bombardier stand (5122) through- McINTOSH PHOTOS: DAVID ground power unit that can provide four out the LABACE show. He’s joined by a Designed by a talented pilot/mechanic/engineer and his son, the MAGA Aviation mobile service bus has impressive capabilities. aircraft with 28 VDC and 115AC at 400Hz; team that includes his wife, who “admin- a 380 volt 125 kva generator; and 600 liters isters the firm, and does all the MAGA aircraft to Campinas.” The smaller MAGA Challenger, and Coelho gestures, “If the [air- (159 gallons) of Jet A, enough to keep an paperwork;” The couple’s three daughters; bus also visits such neighboring airports as plane’s] APU is out of commission, the main aircraft APU running for five hours. and a son who “designed the bus conver- Sorocaba and Jundiaí. engine won’t start. Well, I’ve got an APU.” The bus body has a hydraulic tailgate, sion” along with his father. While the flamboyant exterior of the bus Two of Coelho’s daughters are now in strong enough to support a cradle for an Several LABACEs ago, MAGA showed is the first thing to catch the eye, its backbone college in Florida, one at Embry-Riddle engine lowered by the crane. From there, (independent of Bombardier) a smaller is strong. The steel column that supports the Aeronautical University. He has some 7,000 the cradle can be rolled into a steel-walled van. “The small one is for Learjets, the crane runs through the work room beside hours’ flying in his logbook, in Learjets or work room in the rear of the bus, where it big one is for Globals and Challengers,” an industrial-style panel that controls all the Challengers, and is currently flying a 350 can be serviced. Or the engine, work room, Coelho boasts. The new bus was completed custom equipment, including the APU and out of Sorocaba Airport for a brewery. bus and all can drive to another facility. two days ago, but the smaller one remains the crane. A remote control maneuvers the Asked to compare Sorocaba, MRO What’s the customer to do while wait- in service; “Sometimes it goes to São Paulo crane from outside the bus, and stabilizers base for the other manufacturers, to ing? The front of the bus is outfitted as four, five times a week,” a daughter noted. lower from the undercarriage. The hydrau- Campo dos Amarais, his verdict is, “The a VIP room with internet, galley, and a “It’s much cheaper to bring the bus to São lics can handle 56 gal/min of MIL5606 fluid. runway at Sorocaba is longer, but the high- skylit shower. Paulo to repair a tire than to bring the At LABACE, the bus is parked beside a way to Campinas is better.” o support the type. The aircraft shares a Pratt Amazonia in Ecuador has used three of Kodiak utility t-prop single & Whitney Canada PT6A powerplant with the aircraft to provide a commercial ser- the Thrush agricultural airplane, and it can vice that reaches to outlying communities fit in to the service network already in place in the remote parts of the Amazon region. looks to penetrate local market for that engine type. Quest has now built more than 200 One of the key attractions of the Kodiaks at its Sandpoint, Idaho facil- by David Donald Kodiak is that, as a wholly built U.S. prod- ity.