SECOND U.S. TRIP

After the trip to the U.S. in June, and doing a pre-buy inspection of the Lake 250 Seaplane mentioned during that trip, Hampshire General Aviation has completed the purchase of the said Aircraft.

We are making a second trip to the U.S. on 21st July to take possession of the Lake 250 Serial Number 125 on behalf of Hampshire Capital of Malaysia and Duesenberg Motors, Inc, USA.

Thanks to all our well wishers for their continued support and good wishes, see you all soon in Singapore with the Seaplane!

Cheers!

US Trip June-July 2013

Our Director Capt. Anup Murthy was in the U.S. between 25th June and 2nd July for meetings in Gilford, NH and subsequently flew down to Orlando-Bartow to do the pre-buy inspection of the Lake 250 Aircraft 51D.

Below pictures are of the Seaplane at Bartow Airport, Florida, U.S.A.

Following the visit to Bartow, our Director traveled to Tavares, FL to visit the Seaplane base there and evaluate the model for replicating the same in S.E. Asia.

Tavares Pics here below:

 

Lake 250 N8551D SOLD

 

We are pleased to update that a private party has purchased N8551D that has been posted here previously on our blog page (shown above). The Aircraft will serve as a demonstrator in the South East Asia region and from time to time it will be brought to Singapore.

We hope that the Aircraft/Seaplane makes waves (pun intended) and serves as a catalyst for growth of boat-hulled amphibious Aircraft in the region. Capt. Murthy will be in the U.S. throughout July 2013 for co-orindating the export and ferry of the amphibious Aircraft and is available on e-mail.

We are also pleased to be working on a consulting project involving the sale of a Gulfstream G550 premium long range Jet Aircraft for a private buyer in the region.

Thanks always to our well-wishers for your support! We shall publish details of the Lake 250 Renegade's visit to Singapore in August for viewing.

Sun N Fun 2013 comes to a close

We attended the last Sun N Fun Fly In and Splash In at Lakeland, Florida in 2012 and were unable to make it this year for the 39th year of this famous General Aviation event. To know more about the event itself and our photos/details from last year, click here to re-visit our archives.

However, this year's event was mentioned as "different" because the US Sequestration put a squeeze on military Aircraft participation and therefore the fly in remained largely civilian. However, reports from Aviator friends who made it to the event indicates that the show was a success and that everyone enjoyed the various static and flying events as well as the Seaplane Splash In event at nearby Lake Agnes.

Seaplane Associations in the U.S. have been posting pictures and videos from the Splash In events and we have shared some pictures on our facebook page as well. There are 2 large General Aviation Shows in the U.S. annually. Sun N Fun and EAA Airventure at Oshkosh are the one's to look out for and attend. These are great networking events for GA manufacturers, buyers, sellers and aviation aficionados.

April is half done already, how time flies, we will be updating on our regular aviation activities for the month, including our much anticipated but slightly delayed Seaplane services.

End.

ATR42/72 March 2013 updates

We continue to work with Amphibious Aircraft through Jeteezy although much of the operational aspects of that business has been hived off to our associate company "Hampshire General Aviation Pte Ltd" recently incorporated in the Republic of Singapore.

Jeteezy is also acting as consultants to new Seaplane projects in Vietnam and Philippines, with the Philippines entity working with us for introducing landplane services including Fokker 50s on lease. Our current projects include placing an extensively refurbished ATR72-500 with far east clients.

The ATR72's are primarily undergoing heavy checks with complete refurbishment on the interior as well as new exterior paint (white-customer livery as per spec). First Aircraft project starts early April and is being delivered to client by June 2013 on sale. 2 more ATR72s will be coming into our associate facilities for heavy checks and refurbishment from June 2013 onwards and available by August 2013 for lease or sale. We are also actively sourcing ATR42-320/500s for our existing client, on an urgent basis. This is a month end update for the month of March 2013.

Thank you for reading!

HAMPSHIRE GENERAL AVIATION

We are pleased to announce that a new start-up Company "Hampshire General Aviation Pte Ltd" has been incorporated in Singapore. They will be operating Seaplanes of the Lake 250 pedigree in the region and SE Asia locations, throughout the geographical region.

Jeteezy will handle all the consulting, sales, support of this venture and are please to be associated with the same.

In other recent news, Jeteezy is working on lease/purchase of unlisted ATR-72 passenger turboprop Aircraft and is closely associated with Banks, owners and end users in E Asia.

Jeteezy is holding talks with hangar developers in Singapore who are building hangars for upcoming General Aviation projects at Seletar Aerospace Park. These are projects in the pipeline.

Jeteezy is also adding personnel to the workforce with addition of a Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineer who is quite senior in experience, more than 25 years in aviation maintenance. An addition of one pilot and Operations Crew trainee is also in the works. All positions are local Singaporeans.

It is already March 2013! Have a great month everybody!

GONG XI FA CAI

HAPPY NEW YEAR! To all our Chinese origin friends, wishing you a great year of the Snake! All the best in all your endeavours.