Content Archive: December 2008

Avionics

New players follow Garmin into SVS market for GA

It didn’t take long for competitors to introduce synthetic-vision system (SVS) avionics enhancements after Garmin last spring removed the cloak of secrecy

Middle East companies delve into bizav market

Al Jaber Aviation’s $1.2 billion order for 21 new aircraft placed during November’s MEBA show in Dubai confirmed the business aviation industry’s hopes tha
Charter & Fractional

AvJet Opens ‘Green’ Bizjet Hangar

The first private aircraft hangar certified to the platinum level by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system
Maintenance and Modifications

ARSA Gears Up To Fight Stimulus Bill

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is gearing up to ask lawmakers to include in an upcoming economic stimulus bill a moratorium on the use of forei

The Forecast for Forecasting Technology

Without the ability to understand and accurately forecast weather, NextGen technology won’t amount to much.
Airports

Movements limit is years away for London Stansted

Swift lobbying work by the British Business and General Aviation Association (BBGA) and its members appears to have averted the threat of a new limit on th
Charter & Fractional

Avantair Defies Industry Slowdown…

Piaggio Avanti fractional provider Avantair said it logged a record number of flights during the Thanksgiving holiday (November 25 to 30), “in sharp contra
Charter & Fractional

ExecuJet Extends ‘Simply Fly’ Program

The roll-out of ExecuJet Aviation’s new Simply Fly lease-based alternative to fractional ownership, block charter and traditional aircraft management has b

…and Takes 50th Avanti

Avantair on December 15 took delivery of its 50th Piaggio Avanti turboprop twin–in line, it said, with Avantair’s steady fleet expansion since it was start
Aircraft

SCAC Eyes First Potential Customer

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) identified its first potential customer in Southeast Asia last month when it announced an agreement with Indonesia’s Kartika A