De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd said on Tuesday it had obtained 11 more orders for
its Dash 8-400 plane at the Dubai Airshow, as it revives the recently acquired turboprop
business from Bombardier Inc.
Aurora, a subsidiary of Aeroflot-Rossiyskiye Avialinii PAO, signed a letter of intent to
purchase up to five Dash 8-400 aircraft, while the Republic of Ghana agreed to buy six aircraft
during the Dubai Airshow, which runs between Nov. 17-21.
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Longview Aviation Capital closed its deal for the Q400 turboprop aircraft program from
Canada’s Bombardier this year and revived its previous model name - Dash 8 - under a
restored corporate brand of De Havilland Aircraft of Canada.
Transport Canada is responsible for Canada’s aircraft registration program, which is managed
through the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register (CCAR).
As of that date, there was a total of 33,149 aircraft registered in Canada: 29,284 airplanes,
2,558 helicopters, 654 gliders, 474 balloons, and 179 gyroplanes.
Aircraft registrations are categorized by intended purpose (private, commercial, or
state).
Commercially registered aircraft can be operated for hire or reward and are required to meet
more rigorous maintenance requirements than those registered for private purposes.
The vast majority (97%) of privately registered airplanes had piston engines, while helicopters
were almost evenly split between piston and turboshaft engines.
Beechcraft is an American aircraft manufacturer based in Wichita, Kansas that knows a thing
or two about producing light and regional aircraft.
Beechcraft produced more than 9,000 examples of this six to 11-seater between 1937 and
1969.
Of these, some 4,500 were made for military use in the Second World War.
The Beech 1900D has significantly better performance capabilities and safety margins when compared
to other aircraft in a competitive analysis.
Beechcraft ended up producing numerous versions of its 1900 family to suit various operational
criteria.
The original version was known simply as 1900, and seated 19 passengers in a 1-1 configuration,
as seen below.
Passengers could board at both the front and rear of the aircraft.
Air Georgian has been providing aviation services and charter flight solutions for more than
25 years.
Air Canada currently has capacity purchase agreements with four regional airline partners:
Jazz Aviation, Sky Regional Airlines, Air Georgian, and Exploits Valley Air Services
(EVAS).
Jazz Aviation is the main provider of current regional services to Air Canada and has a
mixed fleet of around 120 regional jets and turboprops ranging from 38-seat Bombardier
Dash 8-100s to 70 plus seater Dash 8-Q400s and CRJ705s.
Sky Regional is the carrier that is now operating the Embraer 175s for Air Canada alongside
its initial fleet of Bombardier Dash 8-Q400s, while Air Georgian and EVAS operate smaller
18-seat Beech 1900s on thinner routes.
"We are excited with this opportunity to expand Air Georgian's presence as an Air Canada Express
regional operator beginning in 2014," said Eric Edmondson, president, of Air Georgian.
"The selection of Air Georgian for this expanded role is based on our proven ability to offer
seamless connections and service for Air Canada customers that is of mutual benefit for both
airlines."
The route suspensions in the U.S. include flights to New York, Boston, Washington, D.C.,
Seattle, Denver, and Fort Myers, Air Canada said.
Air Canada is also suspending flights to Bogota from Montreal, London, and Tokyo from Vancouver,
and Bogota, Dublin, and Sao Paulo from Toronto, among other routes, the company said.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has continued to crack down on international travel, saying
Tuesday that anyone entering Canada through a land border will have to show proof of a
negative COVID-19 test.
Canada's biggest airline has informed 1,500 of its workers that they'll soon be out of
jobs as a result of new travel restrictions and a dramatic reduction in demand for flying.
The airline will "temporarily reduce its unionized workforce by 1,500 people and by an as-yet-undetermined
number of management positions," Air Canada told CBC NeAws.
The move comes on the heels of a decision last week to temporarily shut down all Rouge
flights, which resulted in the loss of 80 jobs.
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has launched its Extended Service Program (ESP) to extend
the economic life of the Dash 8-100 turboprop to 120,000 flight cycles from the original
80,000 flight cycles.
The launch customer for the Dash 8-100 ESP is Widerøe’s Flyveselskap AS of Norway.
Bombardier estimates the near-term market for the ESP would be the approximately 100
Dash 8-100 aircraft that have flown 50,000 or more cycles.
The original de Havilland Dash 8-100/200/300 aircraft, delivered from 1984 through the
mid-1990s, established themselves as rugged and reliable turboprop aircraft.
Bombardier explains that the aircraft is well suited for use by airlines operating in the
high-frequency, short-haul regional airline environment.
The company continues to explain how the flexibility of the aircraft has also resulted in their
adaptation for a variety of non-airline roles such as cargo operations, medical evacuation,
corporate transport, airways, and navigation aid calibration, navigator training, maritime
patrol, and aerial firefighting.
A regional aircraft is designed to operate from airfields challenged by runway length
and surrounding terrain where high thrust, high-lift wings, and low all-up weights are
prerequisites.
For high-lift, low-speed wings, the low exhaust speed option offered by large diameter propellers,
is a natural choice.
Turboprop aircraft quickly reach the speed at which the efficiencies are the best and
usually do not climb above 25,000 ft.
The lower speed provides for lower drag and the massive, variable pitch propellers offer
unparalleled efficiencies.
PAL Airlines, which serves destinations in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, has just
signed an interline agreement with Air Canada.
The agreement allows passengers to make bookings through a single reservation and transfer
between PAL Airlines flights and Air Canada service to domestic and transborder destinations
and several destinations on Air Canada’s international network.
Passengers won’t have to reclaim luggage or complete a new checking process.
By the end of June, it is going to serve more than 30 points in Eastern Canada.
Aug. 2 will see Ottawa added to the PAL network, with flights from Moncton and Fredericton.
With a view to servicing regional routes, Swedish startup Heart Aerospace is developing
an all-electric aircraft designed for short trips that simply aren't economically feasible
for conventional planes.
The company has just attracted a new round of investors to help get its turboprop plane
off the ground, among which is United Airlines which plans to incorporate 100 of the aircraft
into its fleet a few years down the track.
Electric aircraft are a long way from completing the type of long-haul, international flights
today's commercial airliners are capable of, with current battery technology limiting the
kinds of distances these planes can travel.
Heart Aerospace's ES-19 joins them as a 19-passenger all-electric aircraft, which the company says
will have a maximum range of 400 km (250 miles) in its first iteration, though that figure
will increase in line with future advances in battery technology.
The company says it's electric motor is around 20 times less expensive than the engine in
a conventional turboprop of the same size, and maintenance costs are more than 100 times
lower.
The Cessna SkyCourier 408 features a high-wing monoplane design, integrating a T-tail empennage
configuration.
The clean-sheet design will deliver superior cabin flexibility, payload capability, and
performance at low operating costs.
Specifically designed for revenue service, the cargo version will be fitted with a built-in
roller system and rigid cargo barrier.
The dual crew doors and a separate aft passenger door will enable crew and passengers to easily
access the aircraft.
The economic shockwaves from the Covid-19 pandemic have prompted airlines to consider
the prospect of operating turboprop aircraft through new eyes.
Deutsche Aircraft maintains that an urgent need for carriers to recalibrate yield calculations
as traffic levels slowly recover provides a strong springboard for its plans to step
up the development of an updated version of the Dornier 328 regional turboprop.
During the first half of 2021, the German company intends to introduce new branding
around the new D328eco that will deliver a two-meter stretch to the fuselage to accommodate
up to 43 passengers and new Pratt & Whitney PW127S engines that can run on sustainable
aviation fuel (SAF).
De Havilland Canada has announced a new partnership with Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) to integrate
hybrid-electric technology into a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-100 flight demonstrator.
As announced by P&WC, the hybrid-electric propulsion technology and flight demonstrator
program is part of a CAD$163 million investment, supported by the governments of Canada and
Quebec.
Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace are both businesses of Raytheon Technologies Corp.
P&WC will target ground testing in 2022, leading to flight testing of the Dash 8-100 demonstrator
in 2024.
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