Content Archive: September 2008

Maintenance and Modifications

Economical, Environmentally Friendly Aircraft Disposal

What do you do with an airplane when you’re done flying it and no one wants to buy it? According to Aircraft End-of-Life Solutions (AELS) of Delft, Netherl
Rotorcraft

Hummingbird To Fly Higher

Boeing plans to expand the flight envelope of its unmanned vertical aerial vehicle A160T Hummingbird from the Southern California Logistics Airport in Vict
Avionics

Avidyne Introduces PFD4000 Retrofit Display

Avidyne last month introduced the Entegra PFD4000, an eight-inch primary flight display system intended to compete with Garmin’s G600 retrofit display prod
Maintenance and Modifications

M7 and San Antonio Aircraft Support Open Mod Center

M7 Aerospace and San Antonio Aircraft Support (SAAS) have launched a major modification center combining M7’s maintenance and engineering expertise with SA
ATC

FAA video outlines NextGen plans

Everybody in aviation has heard about NextGen, the buzzterm that stands for the ponderous Next Generation Air Transportation System.

DAE Capital To Equip 50 737s with Blended Winglets

DAE Capital, the aircraft leasing and financial business arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), has signed a deal with Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) to
Rotorcraft

After years of asking, Agusta might get more work on 609

Bell Helicopter in July at the Farnborough 2008 airshow strongly hinted it is about to transfer more work to partner AgustaWestland in the protracted BA609
Rotorcraft

More ground tests before X2 can fly

Sikorsky has nearly finished building its X2 coaxial compound helicopter demonstrator in Elmira, N.Y.
Maintenance and Modifications

Ohio Repair Station Adds Class 4 Rating

Constant Aviation has become the first Ohio maintenance facility to receive an FAA Class 4 repair station rating.
Avionics

Garmin Starts Shipments of G600 Cockpit

Garmin announced at EAA AirVenture that its G600 combined PFD/MFD six-pack instrument cluster replacement unit received FAA TSO approval and is now availab