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Airports
Touching Bases: Silverwing building LUX fly-in cmmunity
The former Sandpoint Aviation FBO at Sandpoint Municipal Airport next to Northern Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille is now SilverWing Aviation.
FBOs
Touching Bases: ASA opens in Dubai
The ASA Group has opened an office in Dubai to expand its VIP handling services.
Airports
Touching Bases: New hangar taking shape at Florida’s Cecil Field
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Aviation Authority is building a 21,000-sq-ft hangar and hoping a maintenance company will lease the facility.
FBOs
Touching Bases: Milliion Air acquires jet center Medford facility
Million Air Medford purchased competing FBO Jet Center Medford and now has 90 percent of the fuel market on the Oregon airport.
FBOs
Touching Bases: NATA sets conference agenda
On the agenda for this year’s National Air Transportation Association FBO Leadership Conference are a variety of events covering marketing, airports
FBOs
Touching Bases: Air BP QC Seminar dayes
Fuel provider Air BP has released dates for its nationwide two-day safety and quality-control seminar series.
FBOs
Touching Bases: New FBO offers choice at lakefront
Flightline First opened a new FBO facility at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans late last month.
FBOs
FBO Profile: Banyan Air Service
Thirty years ago, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was the sleepy undeveloped South Florida of novelist John D.
Eclipse Investor Bankrupt
Anyone attempting to view information on the Web site of European Technology and Investment Research Center (Etirc) will find what looks like a television
Eclipse Embroiled in Legal Actions
A new legal dispute has emerged in the Eclipse Aviation saga, this time involving investor Alfred Mann; Etirc Aviation, subsidiary of recently insolvent in
Aircraft
In The Works: Gulfstream Aerospace G250 and G650
Although Gulfstream has joined the rest of the aviation industry in announcing layoffs, the company remains on schedule with new-airplane programs.
Aircraft
In The Works: Diamond Aircraft D-Jet
Certification of the single-engine Diamond D-Jet has been delayed again and is now scheduled for early next year.
Regulations and Government
Industry moves toward a quieter supersonic bizjet
Reductions in supersonic boom intensity could allow for overland operation of future supersonic civil aircraft, according to a panel of supersonic technolo
Aircraft
Remnants of Adam Aircraft See Final Shutdown
AAI Acquisition, the company formed to buy the assets of bankrupt Adam Aircraft Industries, is closing its doors at Centennial Airport in Englewood, Colo.
Aircraft
Cessna Looks at Spending, Program Deferrals
Cessna has “slowed down the Columbus program significantly,” company chairman, CEO and president Jack Pelton said during a Q&A session after giving the key
Charter & Fractional
Wayfarer Aviation takes over assets of shuttered JetDirect
The soaring enterprise that started as JetDirect Aviation and grew into a charter/ management operator of 300 aircraft by swallowing up some of the biggest
Aircraft
Demise of Eclipse opens the field for mx service
The current status of the 259 Eclipse 500 very light jets that were delivered before the manufacturer went bankrupt in February remains tenuous.
Safety
FAA Plans Helo EMS Rulemaking
Yesterday the House subcommittee on aviation held a hearing on helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) safety.
Charter & Fractional
Air-taxi Plans a Nonstarter for Pogo Jet
Former American Airlines chief Robert Crandall’s plans to blanket the Northeast U.S.
Aircraft
Etirc Insolvency Signals End of Eclipse Europe Era
Roel Pieper’s European Technology and Investment Research Center (Etirc) has filed for bankruptcy, ending Etirc Aviation’s once-lofty plans to distribute E
Charter & Fractional
JetDirect Closes, Wayfarer Aviation Takes Over
On Friday, JetDirect Aviation chairman and CEO Greg C
FBOs
JPMorgan Lease at Westchester Delayed
Westchester County authorized the county executive to sign a lease with JPMorgan Chase for Hangar E-1 at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y.,
Aircraft
Special Conditions for Spectrum S.40 Reveal Weights
Spectrum Aeronautical’s all-composite S.40 Freedom light jet is subject to a number of special conditions mandated by the FAA to achieve type certification
Maintenance and Modifications
FAA Withdrawing Divisive Repair Station NPRM
The FAA has begun the process of withdrawing a controversial December 2006
Maintenance and Modifications
Kurt Sutterer Retiring from Midcoast Aviation
Jet Aviation, which purchased Midcoast Aviation in 2006 and then was bought by General Dynamics last year, announced that Don Petersen is taking over as pr
Maintenance and Modifications
Sierra Industries Offering Free Loaner Jets
Customers who bring their Cessna Citation to Sierra Industries of Uvalde, Texas, for major maintenance or inspection events can now drop off their jet and
Safety
SAIB Warns of Carbon Brake Freezing Problem
The FAA issued a special airworthiness information bulletin (SAIB NM-09-18) last month warning operators of aircraft equipped with carbon disc brakes that
