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FBOs
Hawker Beechcraft FBOs added to BBA’s holdings
Signature Flight Support owner BBA Aviation announced that it is buying seven FBOs from Hawker Beechcraft, including a facility at busy and highly competit
FBOs
Encore now Landmark
Encore FBO and its financial backers, GTCR Golder Rauner and Platform Partners, finalized the purchase of Landmark Aviation’s Airport Services Division fro
FBOs
Colt signs up with Passur
Contract fuel and flight planning/handling company Colt International has signed up to use Megadata’s Passur flight tracking and software services suite.
FBOs
China Olympics flying guide
Ac-U-Kwik has published the guide for flight plan application and approval for China Olympic Games flights from July 1 through September 30 at
FBOs
Burbank may set night curfew
The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena (Calif.) airport authority met on March 17 to deliver a presentation on its application for a mandatory nighttime curfew at B
FBOs
Blue City now FBO at Coventry
Blue City Aviation has been appointed to handle all FBO operations at Coventry Airport, in recognition of growing business aviation traffic at the UK airpo
FBOs
ExecuJet adds Singapore hangar
ExecuJet Aviation Group bought a 30,000-sq-ft hangar at Singapore’s Seletar Airport and is offering maintenance and hangar storage at the facility, its fir
Airports
LA studying LAX pollution
The Los Angeles board of airport commissioners awarded a $2.15 million contract to Jacobs Consultancy for a three-year study to evaluate air pollution emis
Airports
LAX installing safety lights
The FAA and City of Los Angeles have partnered to install runway status lights at Los Angeles International Airport.
FBOs
FBO Profile: Ocean Sky
The growing success of UK FBO Ocean Sky is another sign of the improving picture for business aviation in Europe.
Airports
FAA Ups Legal Ante Against Santa Monica Airport
In its ongoing battle with the Santa Monica City Council, which is trying to figure out a way to restrict jet operations at California’s Santa Monica Airpo
FBOs
Results Are In: Top FBOs Selected by AIN Readers
In the official results of the 2008 AIN FBO Survey for the Americas,
Safety
AD noncompliance yields penalty for Southwest
After conducting an internal investigation, last month Southwest Airlines leaders switched from defending the airline’s maintenance practices to suspending
FBO Survey 2008
It seems that not a week goes by without an FBO company announcing either the acquisition of more FBOs or a one-FBO company buying half a dozen more FBOs t
FBOs
Aviation Industry Expo
The Aviation Industry Expo took on a new flavor this year, with the AMTSociety providing the maintenance-related content and joining the National Air Trans
PrivatAir U.S. division sold to Gama Holdings
Farnborough, UK-based business aircraft operations company Gama Holdings purchased PrivatAir Inc., the U.S.
Aircraft
In The Works: Cessna 850 Citation Columbus
Cessna is adopting “hybrid” fly-by-wire technology to actuate the flight controls on the Citation Columbus, formerly known as the Large Cabin Concept jet.
Aircraft
In The Works: Freight Feeder Aircraft FF5000
Freight Feeder Aircraft supplier Metalcraft Technologies restarted production of detail parts for the FF5000 fuselage in February.
Aircraft
In The Works: Adam Aircraft A700
Adam Aircraft’s suspension of operations on February 11 was followed by a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing on February 15, which means the company will be liqui
Aircraft
In The Works: Hawker Beechcraft Hawker 750
The Hawker 750 is now entering service, following FAA certification in February, and thus drops off the In The Works list.
Aircraft
In The Works: Aviation Technology Group Javelin
The twin-engine military-style ATG Javelin might yet survive.
Safety
Air charter safety draws a crowd at forum
The charter industry is shifting to a new way of thinking about safety.
Aircraft
Cessna warms to fly-by-wire for Columbus, but system is a hybrid
Whenever a manufacturer develops a new airplane, engineers have the opportunity to incorporate new technology into the design.
Questions linger after Adam collapse
Among the bits of information flowing from the February 15 bankruptcy of Adam Aircraft Industries is a petition filed by Adam attorney Frances Cetrulo and
Safety
FAA ‘Willing to Accept’ $10.2 Million from Southwest
The FAA sent a letter to Southwest Airlines on Thursday, notifying the carrier that because some Southwest Boeing 737s were flown while not in compliance w
Aircraft
In The Works: Eviation EV-20
The latest iteration of what was the Visionaire Vantage single-engine jet still has a pulse, although progress has slowed considerably.
Aircraft
In The Works: Hawker Beechcraft King Air C90GTi
The FAA awarded certification to the King Air C90GTi on January 28, and Hawker Beechcraft has begun deliveries, so it’s time to remove the turboprop twin f
Aircraft
In The Works: SSBJ
The prospect of designing a supersonic business jet that meets market requirements and environmental noise constraints at a price that will attract buyers
Aircraft
In The Works: Cessna 850 Citation Columbus (née Large Cabin Concept)
Cessna’s newest project, first unveiled as a concept airplane at NBAA 2006 and dubbed the Large Cabin jet, is now the biggest jet in the company’s lineup a
Aircraft
In The Works: Grob Aerospace SPn
Grob has delayed certification of its all-composite SPn utility jet from the first quarter until the fourth quarter of this year.
