Content Archive: March 2007

Jet fuel prices averaging $2.63 a gallon

The average price of jet fuel in the U.S.
Charter & Fractional

Flight Options offers bargain into rate on Legacy

To inaugurate its newest aircraft type, fractional provider Flight Options is offering a reduced hourly occupied rate for customers who sign up for shares
Safety

Safety Improved in All Aviation Segments

The number of accidents in all segments of civil aviation last year was less than in 2005, according to the NTSB, with general aviation recording the lowes
Engines

Hartzell Competes with Aftermarket Suppliers

Hartzell Propeller introduced its own line of de-ice components to support the entire line of Hartzell propellers.
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.

Engine makers peer into Crystal Ball

Rolls-Royce and Honeywell both aired their market forecasts for the helicopter industry at last month’s Heli-Expo show in Las Vegas.
Maintenance and Modifications

Stevens Aims for Learjet 35 Immortality

As Stevens Aviation’s Memphis, Tenn.

Adam Aircraft names 'group' president

Adam Aircraft named former Gulfstream and Cessna executive Joe Walker as its group president of commercial sales, as the Denver-based firm simultaneously d
Regulations and Government

Jets To Be Certified under Commuter Rule

Because the Grob SPn Utility jet and the Embraer Phenom 300 weigh more than 12,500 pounds but less than 19,000 pounds, their respective manufacturers are r
Airports

OSU eyes runway extention, users polled

The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, has initiated an environmental assessment for extending one of the runways of its airport (OSU) to 6,000 feet