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Avionics Update: EMS Technologies brings high-speed data to MagnaStar phones

Los Angeles-based Teledyne Controls announced an agreement with satcom antenna maker EMS Technologies to design and integrate a high-speed data terminal fo
Avionics

Avionics Update: Qualcomm demonstrates live video conferencing

Wireless communications company Qualcomm last month put on an impressive demonstration of its medium data rate satcom system (MDSS) on the show floor at NB
Avionics

Avionics Update: Thales throws hat into EVS ring

Thales Avionics, the French firm that changed its name from Sextant Avionique last year, announced last month that it will design and certify an enhanced v

DAT gets reprieve as investors move to settle Sabena debts

Belgian regional airline Delta Air Transport (DAT) moved closer to its goal of becoming the successor to the defunct Sabena Airlines late last month, after

RJX orders in limbo as BAE shuts down program

BAE Systems may have to build another 14 of its Avro RJX regional jets, despite announcing its intention to scrap the program in late November.

Crossair Embraer seized

French authorities on December 13 acted on a court order to seize one of Crossair’s Embraer ERJ-145s at Nice Côte d’Azur Airport at the behest of Air Lib,

Crossair trustees oust Suter, retain Dosé as chief executive

In his opening speech at Crossair’s December 6 extraordinary shareholders assembly in Basel, Switzerland, Crossair founder and outgoing chairman Moritz Sut
Airports

Midway reopens for business, but without its regional jets

Some $10.1 million in direct government aid allowed Midway Airlines to reopen for business December 19, but its days as a regional/national hybrid operatin

Eagle pilots stew over new Connection contracts

As Chautauqua Airlines took delivery of its first four 44-seat Embraer ERJ-140s on December 1, the Air Line Pilots Association prepared to intensify effort
Regulations and Government

Senate defense bill may salvage 44 EAS cities

The $63 million appropriated for the Essential Air Service program in this year’s transportation bill appeared likely to increase to a level closer to the

CEO's abrupt departure fuels uncertainty at Great Plains

Since it began flying a pair of 32-seat Fairchild Dornier 328JETs from its base in Tulsa, Okla., last April, Great Plains Airlines has been promoting plans

Regionals Update: Northwest Airlink reorganizes Memphis ops

Northwest Airlink subsidiary Express Airlines I will move to an all-regional-jet fleet and Minneapolis-based Mesaba Airlines will provide all Northwest Air

Regionals Update: Delta Connection accelerates realignment

All four of Delta Air Lines’ regional affiliates benefited from the company’s continuing network realignment last month, as Delta concentrates ever more in

Regionals Update: Eagle to bring RJs to LAX

American Eagle last month announced plans to launch regional jet service from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) beginning next month, with service to

Regionals Update: Mesa returns to Denver next month

Mesa Air Group’s recently signed code-share agreement with Frontier Airlines calls for the Phoenix-based regional airline to begin flights from Denver Inte
Aircraft

Regionals Update: ACA retires last of J32s

0Atlantic Coast Airlines ended 13 years of 19-seat aircraft operations when it retired the last of its Jetstream 32 turboprops on December 3.
Aircraft

In The Works: VisionAire Vantage

Last year, VisionAire of Chesterfield, Mo., signed a contract with Israel Aircraft Industries for the Tel Aviv OEM to conduct a nine-month technical assess
Aircraft

In The Works: Phoenix Fanjet

The future of this Williams-Rolls FJ44-1A-powered evolution of the former Promavia Jet Squalus is murkier following the closure of Alberta Aerospace, the C
Aircraft

In The Works: Boeing BBJ3

The uncertainty of the near future has reached the big airframers, too.
Aircraft

In The Works: American Utilicraft

Lawrenceville, Ga.-based American Utilicraft, which is developing the twin-turboprop FF-1080 freight feeder, saw its share price drop from its 52-week high
Aircraft

In The Works: AASI Jetcruzer 500

The developer of the single-turboprop pusher Jetcruzer 500 gave holders of its Class A and B warrants an additional month to convert their warrants, purcha

In The Works Summary

Last year was not friendly to startup companies dreaming of producing airplanes, but there are glimmerings of hope for some.
Charter & Fractional

Charter firms riding out economic turbulence

Charter aircraft operators seem to be weathering the double whammy of a recession and increased aviation security measures with reasonable success, with re
Security

Panic buttons could be part of future cockpits

Banks have them, and so do many convenience stores and passenger cars.
ATC

Datalink decisions are urgent, but true consensus is lacking

A recent FAA briefing note concluded, “The future of ATC is all about data communications,” and government and industry officials, both in the U.S.
Airports

Reduced airline traffic at SFO opens door for more bizav ops

The major reductions in airline passenger traffic at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) since September 11 may actually benefit business aviation ac
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Ibis shows off new executive interior for Ae270

Ibis Aerospace came to last month’s NBAA Convention with a restyled full-scale cabin mockup of its Ae270 turboprop single.

Honeywell revises its bizav industry forecast

Just three months after issuing its annual 10-year business jet delivery forecast, Honeywell published a revised and less optimistic forecast.
Charter & Fractional

Hex’Air finds opportunity in ERJ-135 charter operations

Since mid-September, a French operator  has been flying the first Embraer ERJ-135 dedicated to charter in Europe.
Regulations and Government

Opponents raise objections over Subpart K frax rules

“We oppose this proposal in every part and recommend that it be withdrawn.” This was the terse comment from fractional pilot Thomas Gasta to the FAA’s prop