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Maintenance and Modifications

Innotech gets company service awards

Raytheon Aircraft has awarded Montreal’s Innotech Aviation Gold Bar status for service center excellence for Hawkers and King Airs.
Maintenance and Modifications

Premier Aircraft boosts Falcon 50

Premier Aircraft of East Alton, Ill., has entered an agreement with Honeywell Aerospace to upgrade the existing TFE731-3-1C and TFE731-3D-1C engines instal
Maintenance and Modifications

RAS Toluca is now Part 145 certified

Raytheon Aircraft Services Toluca, Mexico, is now FAA-certified as a Part 145 repair station.
Maintenance and Modifications

Duncan Battle Creek is Learjet facility

Bombardier Aerospace has named Duncan Aviation’s Battle Creek operation a Learjet authorized service facility (ASF).
Maintenance and Modifications

Hawker Pacific adds 800 gear overhaul

Hawker Pacific Aerospace is expanding its service to respond to a Raytheon maintenance communiqué regarding a Hawker 800 landing gear requirement.
Maintenance and Modifications

Raytheon slashes parts costs

Rapid (Raytheon Aircraft parts inventory and distribution) has launched the largest parts price-reduction campaign in the company’s history.
Maintenance and Modifications

Nevada company extends PT6 life

If the idea of extending your PT6 overhaul period from 3,600 to 8,000 hours is appealing, Wood Group Turbopower can do it for you.
Maintenance and Modifications

Jet Parts expands into Europe

Building upon 11 years of U.S.
Airports

All-new airport planned for Panama City, Fla.

Panama City (Fla.) Airport officials must be pinching themselves to see if they’re dreaming.

Move over turbos, the hydrotug is coming

Hydrogenics, a Toronto design and manufacturing firm, has won a contract to supply 65-kilowatt hydrogen fuel cells for aircraft tow tractors.
FBOs

FBO calculates profits by the truckload

No, Craig and Kim Powell, co-owners of Colorado Aviation in Colorado Springs, Colo., are not hauling in cash by the truckload.
Airports

FAA to buy airport development rights

An FAA program to buy private airport development rights is targeting “troubled airports” that the agency believes could be at risk for sale to developers
FBOs

ACM building terminal and hangar at San Jose

ACM Aviation has broken ground on a new, 17,000-sq-ft executive terminal with a 60,000-sq-ft hangar on the west side of Mineta San Jose International Airpo
FBOs

FirstAir FBO expands beyond New York State

FirstAir, an FBO with two existing locations, is adding its third branch at Addison Airport serving Dallas.
FBOs

Guardian Jet center to open new terminal

Construction has begun on the new executive terminal at the Guardian Jet Center at Ontario International Airport, Ontario, Calif.
Airports

New York Airport wins environmental approval

The environmental management system at New York’s Westchester County Airport (HPN) in White Plains has become the third such airport entity in the U.S.
Airports

New condo-style hangars at AUS

Aviation Development Group (ADG), in affiliation with Signature Flight Support, has announced plans to construct a private, master-planned hangar community
Maintenance and Modifications

JetCorp upgrades maintenance status

JetCorp, at Spirit of St.

New vision-correction alternatives for pilots

Pilots considering vision-correction surgery take note: a recent study by the U.S.
Aircraft

Speed Sells, But Who’s Buying?

In an exclusive interview with AIN, Aerion vice chairman Brian Barents discussed why he believes it’s time to bring a supersonic business

Asian Business Aviation Association Elects Board of Directors

The Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA), which in July renewed its mission to support business aviation in the Asia-Pacific region, has elected a n
FBOs

Signature Flight Support expands European network

After working to put down roots in Europe for the best part of a decade, Signature Flight Support now appears to be gathering some real momentum with its r

Meeting on air-tour regs fails to break deadlock

Those among the 100 or so who came to a September 29 informational meeting in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Grand Canyon overflight issues, hosted by the National P
FBOs

Aviaxess brings FBO services to Paris heliport

Aviaxess, a company that has been offering helicopter and business jet charter since early 2002, is trying to create a market for FBO-type services at Pari
Maintenance and Modifications

CGTM Develops Air Filter for Eurocopter AS 350

Turbomeca’s subsidiary CGTM, known primarily as the engine manufacturer’s flight-test center, plans to offer a new air filter for the Eurocopter AS 350 Ecu
Rotorcraft

Helips Plans New Light Helo Family

Swiss start-up company Helips is striving to raise funds that would allow full program launch for a family of three- to five-seat, diesel-powered helicopte
Avionics

Vintage heavy lifter gets new-generation avionics

Erickson Air-Crane is giving its star heavy lifter, the S-64 Aircrane, a makeover.
Training and Workforce

Elite Offers Helo FTD

Swiss-based simulation specialist Elite is now offering a helicopter flight-training device (FTD).
Rotorcraft

First Heli Trade show meets exhibitors’ expectations

The first edition of the International Heli Trade helicopter show in Geneva last month seems to have met exhibitors’ expectations.
Rotorcraft

First Italian Aircrane Delivered

As AIN was going to press, the first of four S-64 Aircranes arrived in Italy (see '