Content Archive: March 2007

Charter & Fractional

Flexjet launches 'Jet Rich Quick' financing

Last month, fractional provider Bombardier Flexjet announced a program for substituting a finance lease for the acquisition payment of a fractional share.
Maintenance and Modifications

Stevens Aims for Learjet 35 Immortality

As Stevens Aviation’s Memphis, Tenn.
Accidents

S-76 wreckage and bodies found

Wreckage of an Era Aviation Sikorsky S-76 was found late last month, two days after it crashed into the Gulf of Mexico about 60 miles south of Galveston, T
Aircraft

Honda chooses suppliers for nascent jet

Honda Aircraft officials have decided to outsource manufacture of major portions of the HondaJet, including the fuselage and wings.
Aircraft

Texas firm offers Learjet 20 series ‘total upgrade’

An upgrade to the General Electric J85 engine in U.S.
Regulations and Government

ADs, SAIBs To Be Available Only by E-mail

The FAA will transition to e-mail distribution of ADs and special airworthiness information bulletins (SAIBs) and eliminate mailed paper versions.
Regulations and Government

ETOPS proposal flawed, say bizav trade groups

Lack of critical single-engine speed and distance data from manufacturers makes the FAA’s proposal to establish extended twin-engine operations (ETOPS) thr

Gulfstream to match competitor parts prices

Between March 15 and May 15, Gulfstream is reducing the price of parts to match those of competitors.
Charter & Fractional

Helicopter frax provider goes charter and adds S-76

HeliFlite Shares, which has its operations center at Alliance Airport in Texas, obtained its Part 135 charter certificate in February and last month added
Charter & Fractional

Charter firm rebuilds in wake of fraud charges

In what is being described as the largest money-laundering investigation in Alaska’s history, Mark Avery, the former owner of Anchorage-based air charter a