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An accident caused by the loss of a tail-rotor blade prompted the FAA to issue an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) for the MD 369 series.

The FAA is proposing to amend one engine inoperative (OEI) rating definitions.

Workers at the IAR Ghimbav helicopter manufacturing plant in Brasov, Romania, have suspended their strike after three days.

Eurocopter is still talking to the Romanian privatization agency, AVAS, about taking over 65 percent of helicopter and light aircraft manufacturer IAR Ghim

French-based engine maker Turbomeca has chosen Monroe, N.C.

Turbomeca is endeavoring to improve product support after customers voiced dissatisfaction, notably about parts availability.

Eurocopter is to issue a Service Bulletin that should solve a fleet-wide problem with the EC 145’s tail-rotor controls.

MD Helicopters (MDH) last month dismissed as ill-founded “rumors” circulating that the company is for sale.In a statement, chairman and CEO Lyn

To ensure their continued survival in the face of reduced income per passenger, regional operators sometimes seek solace in the arms of major carriers, whi

Availability of in-flight entertainment (IFE) ranks among the top factors that influence the loyalty of passengers, who have become increasingly aware of t

Current and future airplane use, fleet complexity and increased competition all will influence decisions about new aircraft by short-haul airlines, accordi

In the wake of a first quarter that saw his airline’s operating margins cut by more than half from a year earlier, ExpressJet CEO Jim Ream didn’t see much

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The scene was straight out of a science fiction movie.

While preparing for traffic to double and perhaps even triple in the coming decades, the FAA has made clear that putting up the ground-based infrastructure

Evektor has begun prototype assembly of the EV-55 Outback, a nine- to 14-passenger unpressurized turboprop.

Early in the second quarter, Bell/Agusta Aerospace reported that the BA609 civil tiltrotor program had logged 137 flights and 159 flight hours on ship 001,

It’s been more than seven years since Vern Raburn launched the Eclipse 500, a small, low-cost very light jet that he predicted would bring “disruptive tech

Embraer’s May 2005 announcement that the company was launching two new business aircraft–the Phenom 100 very light jet and the Phenom 300 light jet–certain

This year poses a stiff test for the debate about whether business aircraft manufacturers need to be at both the annual European Business Aviation Conventi

House and Senate bills to require all airport employees with access to secure and sterile areas of an airport to undergo metal detection screening in the s

District of Columbia congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) used a House aviation subcommittee hearing on the Essential Air Service program (EAS)

Summer is almost upon us in the northern hemisphere, but the FAA is embroiled in two significant icing-related issues: a proposed new rule for when de-ice

As its name implies, the Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar, hosted by the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) and NBAA, focused on the common theme of improving

This year’s Aviation Insurance Association (AIA) conference, held from April 28 to May 1 in Palm Springs, Calif., convened in the atmosphere of an aircraft

As baseball player Yogi Berra supposedly said, “It’s déjà vu all over again.”The three US Airways pilots who filed a lawsuit in the U.S.

The Teal Group put it best in this year’s forecast when, echoing all other major predictors, it asked rhetorically, “Is it wrong to use these unusually goo

Boeing Business Jets gathered momentum last year with sales of 23 aircraft valued at about $3 billion.

As of mid-May, Eclipse Aviation had begun construction of Eclipse 500 number 62, and numbers 15 and 16 had received their certificates of airworthiness, ac

Phoenix-based engine and avionics manufacturer Honeywell says its 10,000-pound-thrust engine contender is well under way.