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Airports

Naples will appeal FAA ruling on Stage 2 ban

Naples Airport Authority (NAA) officials have appealed the FAA’s ruling, announced in early March, against the Florida airport’s ban on Stage 2 aircraft op
Maintenance and Modifications

Five-year Maintenance Plan Offered for G200

Buyers of new Gulfstream 200s now will receive a five-year or 2,500-hour maintenance and training program, similar to what Gulfstream has been offering buy
Safety

Guidelines Issued for Flight Crews about SARS

Guidelines for flight crewmembers regarding severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) have been published by the Centers for Disease Control.
Charter & Fractional

CitationShares Boasts of All-RVSM Fleet

CitationShares, the fractional aircraft ownership venture between Cessna and TAG Aviation USA, claims to be the first fractional operator whose aircraft ar
Maintenance and Modifications

RVSM Solutions In Works for BAC 1-11s and Falcons

UK-based Avionics Mobile expects to complete by the end of the month an RVSM equipment and operational package for the BAC 1-11.
Maintenance and Modifications

Astra and Westwind RVSM STCs Issued

Duncan Aviation of Lincoln, Neb., has received RVSM group certification for the Westwind 1124 and RVSM equipment certification for the Astra series.

First U.S. Bizav Int’l Standard Certificate Issued

New Orleans-based Entergy Services, which operates three Citation 650s, has become the first U.S.

Regional airlines, bizav shine in FAA forecast

The FAA now doesn’t expect domestic commercial air travel to return to pre-9/11 levels until 2006, and its earlier forecasts that U.S.
Aircraft

Britten-Norman Evaluating Islander Diesel Retrofit

UK-based Britten-Norman, which is set to resume manufacturing its piston-powered Trislander regional/utility airplane, production of which was suspended in
ATC

Bill Introduced to Prevent ATC Privatization

A bipartisan team of representatives last month introduced H.R.1711, legislation that would prohibit the privatization or contracting out of the nation’s A
Maintenance and Modifications

Safety Board Wants an AD for Certain Repairs

An AD should be issued requiring all operators of transport-category airplanes with certain pressure-vessel structural repairs to determine if they were do
Aircraft

Diamond Now Taking Orders for its Light Jet

A $20,000 deposit will secure a delivery slot for the D-Jet, a proposed five-seat, all-composite single-engine jet that Diamond Aircraft hopes to fly next
Training and Workforce

Training Kit Available for EVAS

EVASWorldwide, the marketing arm for the emergency vision assurance system (EVAS), now has a training kit available for rental by its customers.
Accidents

Saab 340B Compressor Stalls Lead To Emergency AD

Emergency AD 2003-08-52 was issued last month for the GE CT7-9B turboprop in response to 12 compressor-stall events in Saab 340Bs over a six-month period.
Maintenance and Modifications

Electromagnetic De-ice Selected for Hawker Horizon

Raytheon Aircraft selected Cox & Company of Manhattan, N.Y., to supply its electromagnetic expulsion de-icing (EMED) system for the horizontal stabiliz

Bombardier Consolidates U.S. Sales Efforts

Bombardier Aerospace consolidated its U.S.
Regulations and Government

DOT top cop blasts FAA business practices

Reporting to Congress on the state of the FAA, DOT inspector general Kenneth Mead–the department’s program and fiscal watchdog– didn’t mince words in his a
Security

Sanity urged in genav post-9/11 security policy

With the forcible shutdown of Chicago Meigs Field fresh in their minds, several members of the House aviation subcommittee called to eliminate some of the
Accidents

Harrowing Ride Described by Lone B200 Survivor

According to the 13-year-old lone survivor of the April 4 crash of a King Air B200 that took the lives of six others, including her mother and father, “eve
Maintenance and Modifications

Aviation Partners Eyeing Citations for Winglets

Aviation Partners said it is in the “preliminary stages” of “looking at the entire Citation line” as the possible next candidate for the company’s performa
Accidents

Jets Do Triple Play Off Runways in One Day

There were no serious injuries or major damage initially reported following three separate incidents of business jets rolling off dry runways on April 21.
Maintenance and Modifications

Northeast Facility Installing Citation RVSM Packages

Garrett Aviation Services approved Northeast Air, a Portland, Ore.
Aircraft

Another Program Aims To Move Caravans

Buyers of certain Cessna Caravans can receive a $75,000 saving over the turbine single’s price of approximately $1.5 million.
Regulations and Government

Revised Advisory on Icing Open for Comments

Comments are due May 10 on a draft advisory circular on icing certification that is intended to update a 32-year-old document.

Tellier’s new vision for Bombardier no snow job

On the heels of posting a net loss of $418.6 million in the last fiscal year, due primarily to the stalled market for business jets and regional airliners,

Goldman Sachs invests in Adam Aircraft

Adam Aircraft Industries reported the closing of a “significant investment” by GS Capital Partners 2000, a private equity fund managed by the prestigious G
Avionics

Chelton Avionics selected for Ibis Turboprop

Ibis Aerospace selected the FlightLogic synthetic vision system from Chelton Avionics of Boise, Idaho, for its Ae270 a turboprop single, which is  sch
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier responsive to Learjet 45 AD

Within 10 days of the issuance of an emergency AD in late March requiring the replacement of horizontal stabilizer components in Learjet 45s, Bombardier sa

Cancer takes Duncan paint chief Dan Svoboda

Dan Svoboda, paint-shop manager and 22-year veteran of Duncan Aviation in Lincoln, Neb., died last month of complications from cancer.