Content Archive: August 2011

AIN Blog: Brazil Is Aviation

Last week the Associação Brasileira de Aviação Geral, better known as ABAG, sponsored the eighth annual Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhib
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Aircraft

First United Airlines 787 Dreamliner Enters Final Assembly

United Continental Holdings announced that the first of its 50
Charter & Fractional

Flexjet Launches Learjet 85 Frax Program

Flexjet, Bombardier’s Texas-based fractional ownership program, launched a Learjet 85 program yesterday.
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Training and Workforce

SimCom Closes Deal To Buy 14 FlightSafety Programs

SimCom Training Centers closed the deal to acquire 14 s
Regulations and Government

FltPlan Offers Flight Privacy Program for Bizav

In the wake of the Block Aircraft Registration Request (Barr) program’s demise, FltPlan is offering a “call sign” program that allows business aircraft own
FBOs

PrivateSky Sues Landlord, Claiming Unfair Competition

Florida FBO and MRO provider PrivateSky Aviation has filed a lawsuit against its Southwest Florida International Airport landlord, the Lee County Port Auth
Regulations and Government

GA Rebuffs Obama Attacks at Iowa Rally

General Aviation Manufacturers Association president Pete Bunce decried President Obama’s “negative rhetoric” about the GA industry and sent a blunt messag
Aircraft

MAKS 2011: Bombardier Signs Landmark C Series Deal with Russia’s Ilyushin Finance Company

Bombardier Aerospace might well have secured its place in the Russian airline market during the Moscow Air Show (MAKS 2011) this week, when the country’s l
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AIN Blog: Essential Air Service Is a Promise Worth Keeping

A measure in the latest temporary FAA funding extension to completely cut the
Maintenance and Modifications

Wichita State Spends Big on R&D

Wichita State University has risen to second among the nation’s universities in aeronautical research and development expenditures, according to the latest