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Avionics Update: Intheairnet acquires passenger networks

Irvine, Calif.-based Intheairnet last month announced it has purchased most of the assets of Passenger Networks, a Santa, Ana, Calif.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Tenzing, Baker introduce airborne e-mail service

Seattle-based Tenzing Communications announced a partnership with avionics manufacturer Baker Electronics to develop e-mail and information services for co
Avionics

Avionics Update: FAA proposes new TAWS class

Recognizing that some aircraft operators will want to equip with terrain awareness and warning systems (TAWS) even though they are not required to do so, t

Avionics Update: Apex databus maker gearing up for mass production

An ad that carmaker Audi began running on radio stations in select cities last month  proclaims that the German company’s automobiles “now feature the
Avionics

Avionics Update: Apex glass cockpit tests proceeding on pace

Honeywell said it has removed the Apex 1000 glass displays from its Cessna 206 flying testbed in Olathe, Kan., to make way for evaluations of the Apex 2000
Avionics

Avionics Update: Thales evaluating EVS infrared sensors

Thales Avionics has completed the first round of assessments of infrared sensors from “potential partners” that the company said could be incorporated with
Aircraft

See You at LBA2009

NBAA president Ed Bolen, left, peeked in on Cirrus CEO Alan Klapmeier yesterday as he sat behind the controls of the Minnesota lightplane maker’s single-en
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Aircraft

Aerion SSBJ by 2014 unlikely, despite 40 LOIs

Aerion is still hoping to convince an OEM partner to join it by the end of this year in its quest to build a supersonic business jet capable of sprinting f
Aircraft

In the Works: Explorer 500T/500R/750T

Graham Swannell, CEO; Donald Joseph, president; and Geoffrey Danes, director of operations, research and development–the three principals of Explorer Aircr
Aircraft

In the Works: Century Jet CA-100

New  life could be breathed into the Century Jet program if owner Bill Northrup and Roy Norris, chairman and CEO of AASI, can reach an agreement.
Safety

Bombardier will continue its Safety Standdown Europe

Bombardier Aerospace marked EBACE eve with its second annual day-long European Safety Standdown, and made it clear that the program in Europe will continue
Aircraft

In the Works: American Utilicraft FF-1080-200

In the seven months after September 11 American Utilicraft Corp.
Avionics

Sandel Shipping Collins-compatible Display

Sandel Avionics (Booth No.
Aircraft

In the Works: Aerostar FJ-100

The search for funding, aggravated by the infarction of the private financial markets after the dot-com meltdown in 2000 and made worse by September 11, ha
Maintenance and Modifications

Canada’s Innotech Opening High-tech Paint Shop

Innotech Aviation plans to open a new 41,000-sq-ft paint preparation and application facility this July.
Charter & Fractional

Long and healthy life forecast for fractionals

The demise of Avolar before it really got started is not an omen for the fractional aircraft provider industry.
Charter & Fractional

Dedicated crewing?

One of Flight Options’ claimed advantages over the competition is what it calls “dedicated crewing,” a dispatch system under which captains are assigned a
Charter & Fractional

A pilot's life at Flight Options

Flight Options pilots work eight days on, seven days off, a schedule that for the most part is popular with crews.
Charter & Fractional

Factory-supported pricing

Flight Options’ foundation since its launch in October 1998 has been the tenet that a fractional share in a pre-owned jet makes better financial sense than

IPS Providing Starter/Generators for Learjet 85

Bombardier Aerospace has selected Innovative Power Solutions to provide its brushless starter/generator (BS/G) system for the new Learjet 85.
Charter & Fractional

‘ShAirForceOne’ plans ‘frax’ BBJ2 ops by pax hours, not aircraft hours

“The ShAirForceOne program will deliver the ultimate corporate flight experience with respect to safety, security, comfort and productivity,” Art Brown, pr

New startups count on ‘anti-airline’ sentiment

Phil Garfinkle has nothing to fear but the lack of fear itself.
Avionics

Sabena Takes EFB Software To New Level

Sabena Flight Academy Consulting is debuting its newly developed integrated electronic flight bag (EFB) software here at EBACE.
Aircraft

Piiots Take Solar Impulse Sim on 25-hour Flight

Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg recently spent their first 25 hours at the controls of a flight simulator that replicates the cockpit in the first So
Charter & Fractional

Prestige Jet buys five G650s

Prestige Jet of Abu Dhabi signed a letter of intent at EBACE for the purchase of five Gulfstream G650 long-range executive jets to be delivered in 2012.
Avionics

Avidyne has datalink Wx for Europe

Hoping to duplicate the success of in-flight datalink weather services that have exploded in the U.S., Avidyne (Booth No.
Aircraft

Single-engine version of Falcon 7X is remote-controlled

Remote-controlled model specialist Aviation Design has started offering 1/7th model kits of the Dassault Falcon 7X business jet and expects many of the cus

Rolls-Royce forecasts steady bizjet growth

Rolls-Royce has again peered into its crystal ball and is predicting steady growth in business jet deliveries through the remainder of the decade, it said
Charter & Fractional

XOJet starting joint venture in Middle East

XOJet, the fast-growing on-demand charter company operating a fleet of Cessna Citation X and (starting this fall) Bombardier Challenger 300 aircraft, has s
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Florida-based Banyan Air Service is expanding its capabilities

Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Banyan Air Service is expanding its capabilities to include avionics installations in large-cabin business jets.