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Last month Congress passed and President Bush signed legislation that raises the mandatory retirement age for U.S.

the Department of Transportation in 2003 cited adverse weather as the leading cause of airline delays.

Aviation represents less than 3 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, but its contributions were a major focus at last month’s United Nations Framewor

Even with a new hangar dedicated to cabin outfitting of its Falcon 7X, French aircraft manufacturer Dassault is not meeting scheduled delivery dates for th

The relaunched Singapore Airshow will stage its first event at a brand-new venue from February 19 to 24.

As a new year begins, AIN’s editors reflect on the past year and the people and events that shaped the industry and filled these pages.

JetBird, Europe’s planned new low-cost charter service, has raised €21 million ($31 million) in fresh capital through an oversubscribed private placement o

European air-taxi service Blink will start operations in May with the first of 30 Citation Mustangs it ordered from Cessna.

“If I talk to ten people, I get ten different versions of what they believe an SMS [Safety Management System] is,” FAA associate administrator of aviation

General aviation groups got in under the wire last month in commenting on proposed new rules for general aviation aircraft traversing U.S.

Some 60 days after it began its per-seat, on-demand air service, Boca Raton, Fla.-based DayJet last month added to its very light jet air-taxi network 28 n

As the holidays approached, the likelihood of any action on the FAA budget dimmed considerably when lawmakers carved a provision to increase the mandatory

On November 27 Jet Aviation became the first international business aviation services group to establish a support operation in Moscow when it took possess

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Lufthansa is ordering its own business jets to replace those supplied thus far by NetJets Europe (NJE) for Lufthansa’s Private Jet service.

The Lindbergh Foundation announced last month the recent launch of the Aviation Green Investment Fund (AGI-Fund), an initiative that encourages corporation

France-based engine manufacturer Snecma has started ground-testing the core engine demonstrator of its Silvercrest turbofan design.

United Arab Emirates-based Prestige Jet has signed an agreement to provide EMS flights for Flight Ambulance International (FAI).

GECI International is offering its Skylander SK-100 light utility aircraft for sale and intends to fully launch the program in April.

The International Air Carrier Association (IACA) last month called on European Union member states to include an open carbon trading system for aviation wi

Is ILS, aviation’s trusted friend for the past half century, now seeing its last days? Probably not.

Honda Aero held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new engine plant in Burlington, N.C., on November 28.

Piper Aircraft is patenting a new metal-bonding technique that will be key to the manufacture of the all-aluminum, $2.2 million PiperJet.

There are many new jets and a few new turboprops on designers’ drawing boards, but the volume of new aircraft making it to the entry-into-service point rem

This year’s annual safety standdown– sponsored by Bombardier Aerospace, NBAA, the FAA and the NTSB, focused on more than procedure and technique.

Defenders of Berlin Tempelhof airport, which is scheduled to close in October, report some progress in their bid to keep it open.

Still concerned about landing overrun accidents, the FAA published a new Advisory Circular (91-79) on November 6 to advise pilots and operators about how t

A November airline takeoff incident in South Africa, reportedly involving foreign object damage (FOD), has attracted the attention of aviation safety offic

Atlanta-based Travelers Aviation announced last month that it will expand its corporate flight coverage to include hull and liability insurance for Part 13

Flight Options on November 30 simultaneously announced its finalized acquisition by Miami-based private equity firm HIG Capital and an order for nearly $1