Content Archive: March 2007

Aircraft

Preliminary report: Wingtip strikes runway

BOMBARDIER CL-600-2B19, RAPID CITY, S.D., JAN.
Aircraft

Production and deliveries challenge jet OEM start-ups

Given their current predicaments, Eclipse Aviation and Sino Swearingen share some similarities.
Aircraft

Midcoast offers mid-cabin door for Falcon 900

Midcoast Aviation of Cahokia, Ill., has received a special regulatory exemption for installation of a mid-cabin door on the Falcon 900B and 900EX.

Catering: special report

In his eight-volume work, Physiology of Taste, French lawyer, magistrate, politician and gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, “Animals feed them
Regulations and Government

Meeting at DCA hangar places TSA in hot seat

Can and should Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) be opened to general aviation and charter aircraft? That was the principal topic during an u
Regulations and Government

Print name on aircraft registration form

Starting on June 1, the FAA will no longer accept aircraft registration applications (AC Form 8050-1) that do not contain the printed or typed name of the
Safety

NTSB reports increase in aviation accidents

No fatal accident involving Part 121 or 135 scheduled carriers occurred in 2002, versus three last year in which 24 people died, according to NTSB data.
Regulations and Government

NTSB lashes out at FAA on maintenance scrutiny

The NTSB issued a scathing indictment of the FAA’s oversight of contract maintenance providers, essentially validating a DOT inspector general’s report tha
Airports

N.C. airport back to normal again

At Dare County Regional Airport (MQI), N.C., Hank Stock grabs an armload of North Carolina aeronautical charts, centennial year edition, from among thousan
Aircraft

VLJs propel GA growth

The business and corporate side of general aviation should continue to benefit from a growing market for new microjets over the next 14 fiscal years, and t