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FBOs

Touching Bases: Sunborne set to build FBO?

SunBorne broke ground on a 36,000-sq-ft office and hangar facility on the company’s 125-acre Centennial InterPort property at Centennial Airport near Denve
FBOs

Touching Bases: Spectra Jet joins FBO set

Learjet and Challenger maintenance company Spectra Jet has opened an FBO at Springfield Airport in Ohio.
Airports

Airport Profile: Aeroport de Sion

Although it seems that there are not many alternatives to big-city airports in Europe, small underutilized airports such as Sion, east of Geneva offer a wa
Regulations and Government

Congress Investigating Eclipse Aviation, Won’t Say Why

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has asked the Department of Transportation’s inspector general (IG) to investigate Eclipse Aviation.
Charter & Fractional

Charter Industry Changes May Have Significant Effects

Charter volume is dropping significantly in some markets, according to information provided to AIN by charter industry insiders.
FBOs

FBOs explain sky-high fuel prices

In just one year, the price paid at the refinery for jet-A in the U.S.

Innovation, funding woes mark rise and fall of Adam

In 1998, entrepreneur George Frederick “Rick” Adam and attorney John Knudsen began a journey that few dare to try and even fewer succeed at, launching a ne
Airports

FAA: SMO cannot ban large-airplane operations

The FAA has concluded that the city of Santa Monica, Calif., “is currently in violation of its federal obligations,” a determination made as an initial res
Regulations and Government

Nightime Curfew Proposed for Bob Hope Airport

Following the end of the comment period for the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena (Calif.) Airport Authority’s plan to impose a nighttime curfew on Bob Hope Airpor
Aircraft

Bizjet Market Expected To Ride Out Economic Storm

“Things are better than they appear,” Sentient Flight Group vice president of aircraft management Gil Wolin said today at the 13th annual Corporate Aircraf
Aircraft

Excel-Jet Expects Second Sport-Jet To Fly by Year-end

Monument, Colo.-based Excel-Jet plans to bring the composite fuselage of its second Sport-Jet to EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., next month and fly the ne
Regulations and Government

FAA seeks comments on ETOPS OPSEC

The final rule on extended operations (ETOPS) remains mandatory starting on August 13.
FBOs

Touching Bases: Panorama logs 50th year at HPN

There are fewer and fewer full-service FBOs, the kind that offer charter, maintenance and even a flying school in addition to fuel and aircraft storage.
FBOs

Touching Bases: Ross Aviation buys Bradley Pacific's Hawaii FBOs

Ross Aviation, backed by private equity firm Centre Partners Management, purchased a majority interest in Bradley Pacific Aviation’s five-FBO chain in Hawa
FBOs

Touching Bases: Oxfordjet new FBO name

After buying Oxford Airport in the UK last year from BBA Aviation, new owners the Reuben Brothers and Dawnay Day have selected a name for the airport’s FBO

Touching Bases: Mali could see bizav growth

A study conducted by Millennium Challenge, MWH Americas and HNTB Federal Services projects a 51-percent increase in passenger traffic to Mali’s Bamako Airp
FBOs

FBO Profile: Preofessional Jet Center

During Donald Staszko’s 42 years and 30,000 hours of flying and 32 years with American Airlines, he wisely built a real estate and commercial property deve
FBOs

Touching Bases: Midcoast finds permanent work for temporary hangar

While Midcoast Aviation was building yet another new hangar at its St.
FBOs

Touching Bases: Fuel volumes double at BJC

In the three years that Business Jet Center (BJC) has been open at Oakland (Calif.) International Airport, the FBO has doubled the number of gallons of fue
FBOs

Touching Bases: Kuwait FBO open for business

Since December, business aircraft have been able to park at the new Royal Terminal at Kuwait International Airport, and the facility opened for passenger s
FBOs

Touching Bases: DB Aviation building new hangar

DB Aviation is building a new 43,000-sq-ft hangar at its Waukegan (Ill.) Regional Airport FBO.
FBOs

Touching Bases: IFBOA, JFI cut credit-card costs

Members of the Independent Fixed Base Operators Association (IFBOA) can save money on credit-card processing charges under a new program offered by Jet Fle
FBOs

Touching Bases: New lease for Beverly FBO

North Atlantic Air at Beverly Airport north of Boston has signed a 40-year lease extension and is adding 7,200 sq ft of hangar space and 50,000 sq ft of tr
FBOs

Touching Bases: Free portable airport/FBO guide

FltPlan.com released a free airport and FBO guide that can be downloaded onto PDAs such as the Palm Treo, Windows Mobile devices and BlackBerrys as well as
Aircraft

Embraer’s Phenom 300 enters flight-test phase

Embraer achieved two milestones on April 29, the first flight of the Phenom 300 light jet and the first time any airplane has made a first flight from Embr
Aircraft

In The Works: Cessna CitationJet CJ4

Cessna flew the first prototype CitationJet CJ4 on May 5, with senior engineering test pilot Dan Morris at the controls and engineering flight-test manager
Aircraft

In The Works: Cessna Citation XLS+

On April 28 Cessna rolled out the first production version of the XLS+, the latest version of the Citation that entered production in 1998 as the Excel.
Aircraft

In The Works: Embraer Phenom 300

The Phenom 300 made its first flight on April 29, months ahead of Embraer’s previously announced schedule.
Aircraft

In The Works: Grob Aerospace SPn

Grob Aerospace has settled on a strategy to perform completions and provide pilot training for its all-composite SPn business jet at St.
Aircraft

In The Works: EADS Socata TBM 850

After AIN reported that EADS was considering selling its Socata division to French aerospace, defense, nuclear and automotive manufacturin