Content Archive: May 2016

Airports

California's Bob Hope Airport To Rebrand

Airport officials seeking better geographic recognition of their facility, voted to rebrand with some Tinseltown glamour.
Accidents

EASA Issues Emergency AD for Airbus Helicopters H225

Norwegian investigators rule out “human error on board."
Safety

Canada’s NRC Develops Two New Systems To Detect Airframe, Engine Icing

The ultrasound ice accretion sensor and particle ice probe address “an industry-wide gap” in cost-effective icing mitigation.
Accidents

Accidents: May 2016

Preliminary, final and factual reports
Aircraft

Quebec’s Aerospace Cluster Seeks More Tier 1 Integrators

Looks to fill gap in aerostructures supply, flight control systems
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

For Now, FAA Is Not Considering Airspace Changes for Drones

The low-altitude system NASA is developing through the UAS traffic management project will inform any airspace restructuring, the FAA says.
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Rotorcraft

Rulemaking Group Tasked with Helo Bird-strike Defense

Present bird protection regulations apply only to transport category rotiorcraft and have not been updated since being adopted in 1966.
FBOs

Sheltair Building New Savannah Hangar

The new structure will handle the latest large business jets.
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Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Aircraft Transactions Seminar Returns To EBACE

May 23 seminar will provide an in-depth review of the tax, legal and regulatory issues involved in business aircraft transactions.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Amazon Principal Argues Case for 'Federated' ATC System

Amazon Prime Air's ambition is to deliver packages by small drones in an airspace system with multiple, overlapping controllers.
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