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DPI, Airchow in a joint venture

Industry rivals DPI Labs and Airshow have joined forces, at least for the time being, to produce a total cabin avionics system for business aviation travel
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Eurocopter's bizjet-caliber interiors are 'first cabin'

Compared with business jet cabins, helicopter cabins–even those in many executive helicopters–lean toward the utilitarian.
Training and Workforce

First flight to right seat, ERAU gets you there, fast

Nearby Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) is now offering an accelerated first officer flight training (FOFT) program, which trains first officer
Avionics

MxVision tracks weather in real time via satellite

MxVision AviationSentry, a PC-based weather system designed exclusively for the aviation industry, now provides pilots and FBOs with storm tracking and lig
Aircraft

Piaggio on its way to a complete recovery

There is a line in an old episode of the television series “M*A*S*H” in which one of the doctors, informed of a patient’s recovery, remarks, “I thought he
Maintenance and Modifications

DeCrane creates SFAR 88 compliance team

DeCrane Aircraft Systems Integration Group, as a major supplier of fuel systems, has established an SFAR (Special Federal Aviation Regulation) 88 support t
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Precision Pattern subsidiary picked for Cessna

Precision Pattern of Wichita, a subsidiary of DeCrane Aircraft’s Cabin Management Group, has been selected by Cessna Aircraft to provide cabinetry for the
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Thales MOU gets cabin management all together

Thales Avionics North America announced Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding to team with Audio International of Little Rock, Ark., in
Maintenance and Modifications

GKN acquisition upgrades its capabilities

GKN Aerospace’s acquisition of the U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

ASO's PhotoZOOM fills in the details

It has become a lot easier for prospective aircraft buyers to go shopping since the market was discovered by the Internet industry.
Maintenance and Modifications

TCAC supports an active fleet

Although they haven’t been manufactured for a decade and a half, Twin Commanders continue as workhorses for many small- to medium-size companies, thanks to
Safety

Medical diagnostic firms join in market dogfight

A new inflight medical diagnostic system is being launched here at the NBAA show, claiming to be cheaper and easier to use than existing equipment.

BizJet continues to grow

BizJet International, on the strength of its acquisition last fall by Lufthansa Technik and “exceptional growth” over the past year, sees continued growth

HR firm has aviation group

Right Management Consultants, a $415 million global firm specializing in career transition and organizational consulting services, announced the launch of
Maintenance and Modifications

The race is on for Lear 20-series RVSM

First there were none, now suddenly there are four companies here that announced their intention to develop a reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM) ST
Maintenance and Modifications

'Check you oil, sir?' Jet-Care does it all

The last year has been a rewarding one for Jet-Care International of Cedar Knolls, N.J., a subsidiary of UK’s Spectro Laboratories, its representatives rep
Aircraft

Cessna's 1 millionth customer takes CJ3

Cessna is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and the company’s 1 millionth customer was on hand here yesterday to mark his purchase of a Citation
Avionics

All-digital phone to ship this fall

Deliveries of the first RCOM-100 satphone equipment, designed for use with the Globalstar Satellite system, will begin this November, Arnav Systems announc
Maintenance and Modifications

Engines and avionics are Garrett's focus

Garrett Aviation Services (Booth No.
Maintenance and Modifications

Packed room shows need for hush kits

The race is heating up in the Gulfstream hush kit market, as three providers maneuver for the inside track.
Aircraft

Maverick saunters in with turbine kitplane

Imagine being a new aircraft manufacturer and having Gene Cernan and Bob Hoover check out your airplane in one day.
Charter & Fractional

Flight Options mulling an Envoy 7 replacement

Embraer and Airbus are trying to persuade fractional ownership operator Flight Options to switch its 25-aircraft commitment for Fairchild Dornier’s Envoy 7

$2.2M Javelin collecting orders

In a unique approach to corporate transportation, Englewood, Colo.-based Aviation Technology Group (ATG) has introduced a two-place executive jet called th
Avionics

Max-Viz EVS will fly on Cessna Citations

Cessna has selected Max-Viz (Booth No.

How goes the show?

Considering all that has happened in the past 365 days, exhibitors seemed generally pleased with NBAA’s 55th Annual Meeting and Convention.

Robot man serves food for thought at Dassault breakfast

Attendees at Falcon Jet’s annual NBAA Convention breakfast yesterday probably noticed, some with disdain, that one of the people at the head table stood ou
Security

Security expert warns business aviation: 'Threats are out there'

With America on a major terror alert for the commemoration yesterday of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks (U.S.

Cessna's order book tops show scorecard

Cessna confirmed yesterday that it now holds purchase agreements for no less than 160 of the Citation Mustang jet that it unveiled here at NBAA on Tuesday.
Aircraft

Meridian ups mtow

Newly built Piper Meridian turboprops will be more “useful” than their predecessors after FAA approval of modifications that will increase useful load by 2