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Maintenance and Modifications

Dallas Airmotive adds Rolls-Royce TAY 611-8C capability

Gulfstream G350 and G450 operators now have another option for repair of their Rolls-Royce Tay 611-8Cs.
Maintenance and Modifications

West Star Aviation annointed GE CF34 Service Center

“This GE CF34 service center authorization is another step in the development of our Challenger program and a statement of commitment to our Challenger cus
Maintenance and Modifications

Gulfstream introduces enhancements to CMP.net

Gulfstream Aerospace has released three new enhancements to CMP.net, its computerized aircraft maintenance tracking program.

Ebace Report: Show’s sixth edition doesn’t disappoint

It is testament to both the rising stature of the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) and the audacious ambition of Embraer that the
Maintenance and Modifications

Raytheon sells Atlantic City facility, adds four others

Under terms of an agreement signed by Raytheon Aircraft Services and Midlantic Jet Aviation, Raytheon Aircraft will sell its Atlantic City, N.J.
Maintenance and Modifications

JSSI announces exclusive A500/A700 tip-to-tail coverage

Jet Support Services and Adam Aircraft have entered into an agreement for JSSI to provide Tip-to-Tail hourly maintenance cost guarantee programs deve
Maintenance and Modifications

Avcon Offers Learjet 35/36 RVSM Package STC

Learjet 35/36 operators have an RVSM option thanks to Butler National subsidiary Avcon Industries, which has received FAA approval to install its next-gene
Maintenance and Modifications

Industry favors overhauling mechanic training

The maintenance industry must do something to address the growing demand for maintenance that will result from increased levels of flying.

ATA and ‘Commercial Airspace’

As the user-fee battle rages, rhetoric from Air Transport Association (ATA) member airlines is reaching vast audiences.
Aircraft

A look at the MU-2's Reputation

In his review of the MU-2 accident data, Greg Feith, a former NTSB investigator and aircraft safety consultant, tried to validate or dispel the following p
Aircraft

Pilot training essential to improve MU-2 safety

MU-2 operators can expect to have to complete a more stringent flight-training program, similar to a type rating, as a result of the FAA’s inquiry into the
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Rotorcraft

Oil industry drives N. Sea helo fleet expansion

The upsurge in oil and gas activity is putting increasing strain on helicopter operators’ ability to serve their offshore customers, and highlighting a pot
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Rotorcraft

News Note:Lockheed Martin formally opened its presidential helicopter integration facility near Binghamton, Mass., last month.

The $25 million facility at Lockheed’s Owego plant will house administrative offices, laboratories and an aircraft integration hangar. Lockh
Rotorcraft

Rotorart for Mozart

This example of public art is currently on display in the Residentsplatz in Salzburg, Austria, as part of the city’s 200th anniversary celebrations of its
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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Brisk helo sales boost completions business

If the helicopter industry has been going nowhere fast in recent years, the direction now appears to be up, and shops doing special-mission and corporate h
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Rotorcraft

R&D Center Loses Funding

American Helicopter Society (AHS) president Rhett Flater warns that the rotorcraft industry risks losing one of three university-based Rotorcraft Centers o
Rotorcraft

NVG Specialists Reach STC Milestone

Aero Dynamix has received an 11th STC approval for a night vision goggle (NVG)-compatible cockpit modification, this time for the Eurocopter AS 350B3.
Rotorcraft

PZL Swidnik Delivers 500th Airframe

PZL Swidnik in Poland has handed over its 500th airframe–an AW139–to AgustaWestland, marking 10 years of cooperation between the two companies.
Rotorcraft

Latvia To Get A109 Powers

The Latvian Border Guard has ordered two Agusta A109 Powers to increase its border-patrol capabilities before joining the European Union’s Schengen (open b
Rotorcraft

Extra Comfort for S-92 Crew

Sikorsky has taken delivery of a new, ergonomically improved crew seat for the S-92.
FBOs

Third bizav option likely in New Jersey

A new business aviation airport appears set to emerge in New Jersey, where the two major facilities serving business jets, Teterboro and Morristown, are at

Mesaba, Comair head back to court

Mesaba Airlines last month filed a new bankruptcy court petition to void its contracts with its pilots, mechanics and flight attendants, only three weeks a

Q400s Fly into Iraq

Royal Jordanian Airlines began flying direct flights to the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniah in northern Iraq last month with one of its recently acquired 70-se

Arik Takes Delivery of Two CRJ900s

Arik Air, Nigeria’s new airline, took a solid step forward last month when it accepted delivery of the first two Bombardier CRJ900 regional jets in Africa
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RAA 06 Convention Report: Ornstein bullish on Go! following June 9 launch

Mesa Air Group CEO Jonathan Ornstein reported that load factors at his new inter-island Hawaiian market entrant dubbed Go! “significantly exceeded…expectat

RAA 06 Convention Report: T-props grab top billing at annual meet

The resurgent turboprop market showed no signs of retreat during late May’s Regional Airline Association convention in Dallas, where word leaked that Conti

RAA 06 Convention Report: Interests clash as group takes pass on ATC funding

The relatively heavy traffic in the exhibit halls during this year’s RAA Convention in Dallas might have obscured an underlying atmosphere of anxiety if no
Avionics

Cockpit Avionics

The earliest versions of the Internet and e-mail trace their existence back to the 1950s, when Rand researchers first started thinking about ways to connec
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News Update: Pinnacle Ready for a ‘Beating’

Pinnacle Airlines CEO Phil Trenary told a gathering of journalists at the RAA convention in Dallas in late May that he fully expects his airline to, in his

News Update: ASA To Lose ATRs

Delta Air Lines has decided to allow the leases to lapse on Atlantic Southeast Airlines’ ATR 72s, spelling the end of the fleet by June 30 of next year, ac