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Aviation Industry Expo 2007 Report

Aviation Industry Expo 2007 hosted attendees from across the nation and around the globe, including a 30-person contingent from Russia.
FBOs

FBO Survey 2007

When business aviation is booming, as it is now, nowhere is it more evident than at FBOs, the place at airports where everybody ends up hanging out, workin
Aircraft

Honda chooses suppliers for nascent jet

Honda Aircraft officials have decided to outsource manufacture of major portions of the HondaJet, including the fuselage and wings.
FBOs

Reserve Pittsburgh space now

The United States Golf Association’s U.S.
FBOs

Airports closing (temporarily)

• Runway reconstruction will close Friedman Memorial Airport, Sun Valley, Idaho, from April 24 at 9 a.m.
FBOs

EMAS offers max coating

Engineered Arresting Systems (Esco) has developed a third-generation coating system for its engineered materials arresting systems (EMAS) placed at the end
FBOs

Dublin FBO adds fuel service

Encore FBO’s Dublin, Ireland facility made history on March 6 when a company line service technician drove an Encore fuel truck onto the airport’s general
FBOs

Asheville seeking FBO

North Carolina’s Asheville Regional Airport will be the site of a $37 million, 373,000-sq-ft terminal, office and hangar development spearheaded by Aviatio
FBOs

Elliott renovating Omaha Base

The first phase of Elliott Aviation’s renovation of its Omaha, Neb.
FBOs

Discovery cancels VIH buy

A plan for Discovery Air to buy VIH Aviation Group, which would have included VIH affiliate YYJ FBO Services at Victoria International Airport in British C
FBOs

Stop calling JeffCo tower

Following the name change of the former Jefferson County Airport in Broomfield, Colo., to Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport last October, the tower’s app
FBOs

New GA hours, gateway for DCA

Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mass., is now a gateway airport for companies that want to fly into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).
FBOs

Wilson Air hosts VLJ exhibit

When big crowds transit through Wilson Air Center’s Charlotte, N.C.
FBOs

Second BWI FBO still pending

Although Mercury Air Centers/Corporate Wings won the bid to build an FBO at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) early last y
FBOs

Runway shortening opposed

NBAA and the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) have submitted comments to the FAA about the proposed shortening of Santa Monica, Calif.’s sing
FBOs

Florida FBO focuses on amenities

Florida FBO focuses on amenities Plenty of FBOs at popular destinations offer movie rooms with giant projector screens, comfortable seating an
Engines

Engine ready for PiperJet prototype

The first flight-worthy Williams FJ44-3AP engine for the prototype PiperJet has arrived at Piper Aircraft’s factory in Vero Beach, Fla.
Safety

NTSB takes a close look at ice bridging

Every few years, a debate erupts about whether the phenomenon of ice bridging is real or something questionable that pilots discuss while hangar flying or
Aircraft

In The Works: Comp Air CA12

Expect to see the first flying Comp Air Model 12 single-engine turboprop at the Sun ’n’ Fun Fly-In from April 17 through 23 in Lakeland, Fla.
Aircraft

In The Works: Embraer Phenom 100 and 300

Embraer technicians were scheduled to begin final assembly of the Phenom 100 very light jet (VLJ) prototype in preparation for the jet’s mid-year first fli
Aircraft

In The Works: Bell/Agusta BA609 Tiltrotor

The BA609 Tiltrotor program is continuing slowly toward certification, now planned for 2010.
Aircraft

In The Works: Grob Aerospace SPn

Grob Aerospace resumed the SPn flight-test program on February 23, with acting chief test pilot Tore Reimers and flight-test engineer Alan Lawless taking t
Training and Workforce

FSI tool tracks training progress

FlightSafety International (FSI) is expanding its training options, offering a Web-based eLearning system that also provides a learning management system (
Aircraft

Gulfstream Demonstrates 'Quiet Spike' for Potential Supersonic Bizjet

Gulfstream Aerospace hosted a NASA F-15 in Savannah, Ga., on February 14 for an aerial demonstration of its Quite Spike telescopic nose spike installation.

Chelton’s helo autopilot nears STC

The new Chelton Flight Systems Heli-SAS autopilot should be certified on the Bell 206 and 407 late this year, according to Chelton president Gordon Pratt.

NH90 still strong

AgustaWestland and Eurocopter have confirmed “their joint commitment to the NH90 program,” the two companies announced here at Heli-Expo’07.

Helo UAV turning heads here

First-time Heli-Expo exhibitor Cybaero (Booth No.

Searchlight wins RTCA approval

The slightly worn helicopter searchlight at the Vectorbeam Technologies booth (No.

SuperHUMS sees anomalies

Intelligent Automation Corp.

Wescam cuts weight on new sensing turret

The Wescam division of L-3 Communications is here with the first installation of its new MX-15i imaging turret installed on a UK Maritime and Coastguard Ag