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Maintenance and Modifications

UK Group Forms Completions Consortium

Aircraft spares and logistics specialist AJ Walter Aviation has established a UK-based consortium to provide more capacity in the business aircraft complet

GE Installs President in Czech Subsidiary

Paul Theofan, a veteran of more than 20 years at Unison Industries, has been named president and managing executive of General Electric subsidiary GE Aviat

China To Open Business Jet Hub

The first business jet hub in China is expected to open this year at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport.
Avionics

Barco CDMS-3000 gets EASA approval

The European Aviation Safety Agency has completed ETSO-C113 certification of Barco’s new CDMS-3000 control display unit.
Avionics

Jury: No infringement of TAWS patent

A federal jury last month rejected a claim by Honeywell that Sandel Avionics of Vista, Calif., violated its patents, ending more than six years of legal ba
Airports

Movements limit is years away for London Stansted

Swift lobbying work by the British Business and General Aviation Association (BBGA) and its members appears to have averted the threat of a new limit on th
Avionics

New players follow Garmin into SVS market for GA

It didn’t take long for competitors to introduce synthetic-vision system (SVS) avionics enhancements after Garmin last spring removed the cloak of secrecy
Aircraft

SCAC Eyes First Potential Customer

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) identified its first potential customer in Southeast Asia last month when it announced an agreement with Indonesia’s Kartika A
Charter & Fractional

ExecuJet Extends ‘Simply Fly’ Program

The roll-out of ExecuJet Aviation’s new Simply Fly lease-based alternative to fractional ownership, block charter and traditional aircraft management has b
Charter & Fractional

AvJet Opens ‘Green’ Bizjet Hangar

The first private aircraft hangar certified to the platinum level by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system

…and Takes 50th Avanti

Avantair on December 15 took delivery of its 50th Piaggio Avanti turboprop twin–in line, it said, with Avantair’s steady fleet expansion since it was start
Charter & Fractional

Avantair Defies Industry Slowdown…

Piaggio Avanti fractional provider Avantair said it logged a record number of flights during the Thanksgiving holiday (November 25 to 30), “in sharp contra
Maintenance and Modifications

ARSA Gears Up To Fight Stimulus Bill

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is gearing up to ask lawmakers to include in an upcoming economic stimulus bill a moratorium on the use of forei

Growth Market Spawns Partnerships

Western companies are still flocking to the Middle East to secure a piece of the business aviation action in a marketplace that continues to defy global ec

Middle East companies delve into bizav market

Al Jaber Aviation’s $1.2 billion order for 21 new aircraft placed during November’s MEBA show in Dubai confirmed the business aviation industry’s hopes tha
Regulations and Government

Lyon Hosts BA-Meetup

A new forum for the European business aviation community to discuss operational issues will be held in Lyon, France, from March 18 to 20.
Maintenance and Modifications

BAE Completes Avro RJ70 Conversion

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft last month announced that its London Stansted airport-based partner, Inflite Engineering, completed the first conversion in t

EADS Breaks Ground in Morocco

EADS Socata last month broke ground for a factory to be operated by Socaero, the company’s Moroccan subsidiary at Casablanca Mohammed V International Airpo
Engines

China/Embraer Negotiations ‘Ongoing’

Embraer last month said it has received no indication that a Chinese government recommendation to its airlines to cancel or delay delivery of aircraft sche
Charter & Fractional

Trump/Sentient Sign Partnership Agreement

The Trump Organization and Sentient Flight Group have signed a partnership agreement in which Trump clients will have special access to Sentient’s programs
Charter & Fractional

Flight Options Furloughs 100+ Employees

Fractional share operator Flight Options has furloughed more than 100 pilots, according to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 1108, which is

Analyst Predicts Earlier Market Recovery

Sparta, N.J.-based business aviation consultancy Brian Foley Associates last month said it believes the business jet market will recover sooner than previo
Aircraft

Analyst: expect demand for very light jets to slow

The market for very light jets (VLJs) is set to dip significantly as recession sweeps across western economies, according to PMI Media’s latest study, The
Airports

TEB noise program begins to quiet critics

In honor of the second anniversary of the launch of the Teterboro Airport Working Group’s “Pledge to the Community” program–which has as its mission improv

EADS Appoints Sales Reps Down Under

EADS Socata last month appointed Executive Airlines the long-term area sales representative for the TBM 850 turboprop single in Australia and New Zealand.

AOPA: GA Global Impact Is ‘Exceedingly Small’

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has commented on a set of proposed regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that seek t
Regulations and Government

Nav Canada Warns of Fraudulent E-mail

Nav Canada is warning aviators about a fraudulent e-mail, purportedly from the organization, that attempts to notify operators “of an outstanding debt in t
Charter & Fractional

Open Sky Launches Charter Services in Beirut

Cessna has delivered the first of two Citation Mustangs to Lebanese charter company Open Sky Aviation.

FlightTime Takes Delivery of Sierra Super II

San Antonio-based aircraft charter, management, sales and maintenance firm FlightTime Business Jets took delivery last month of the first Sierra Industries
Charter & Fractional

Schubach Aviation Launches Jet Card Program

Schubach Aviation has introduced the Schubach Jet Card, a premier membership program.