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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Savannah Air growing in the face of recession

During the current economic climate, when many completion and refurbishment centers are struggling–some merely to survive–Savannah Air Center appears to be
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Kit cabins offered as way to reduce cost

Completion and refurbishment centers are in a constant search for more efficient ways to work.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Business jets: It's what's in the cabin that counts

“I want what I want, when I want it.” It sounds like the petulant voice of a pampered diva, or a corporate executive with delusions of grandeur.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Completions & Refurbishment: Is this the 'ugly bottom'... or is there an uglier one still to come?

Last year, things were bad for the completion and refurbishment industry as companies were feeling the effects of the economic recession.

General aviation just wants to be treated fairly by TSA, FAA

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) said its efforts to reopen Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) to on-demand air charter flig

United Airlines asks judge's permission to end code-sharing

United Airlines last month asked a judge overseeing its bankruptcy case for permission to end the code-sharing and marketing agreement with regional carrie
Charter & Fractional

Short on cash, Indigo ceases regular service

Indigo, the provider of “regular and frequent” business jet service between Chicago Midway Airport and Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, suspended flights e
ATC

Pilot is first to fill new ATC position

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Aircraft

SJ30-2 flight testing to resume this month

Sino Swearingen plans to resume flight testing the SJ30-2 early this month with the second conforming prototype (S/N 3), followed within the next 90 days b
Regulations and Government

Amendment would open DCA to some Part 91

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Accidents

Pilot killed in crash of CRJ100

A Brit Air CRJ100 carrying 21 passengers and three crewmembers crashed onto a small road and caught fire some 2,500 feet short of the runway at Brest-Guipa

Additional layoffs hit Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce, which has laid off nearly 4,000 aircraft engine workers in the UK over the last two years, revealed that another 540 positions are being cut t

WAAS being introduced this month

The FAA plans to start introducing instrument approaches using its Wide Area Augmentation System on July 10, bringing much higher levels of accuracy, signa
Airports

Funds sought to appeal Meigs closing

The Friends of Meigs Field is seeking money for a legal defense fund to prevent further damage to Meigs Field, the Chicago airport whose runway was gouged
Regulations and Government

Emergency AD grounds U.S. MD 900s

All U.S.-operated MD 900-series helicopters were ordered grounded pending inspection of their main rotor retention bolts (P/N 900R3100001-103).
Charter & Fractional

Final fractional rule imminent

Watch for the FAA this month, at long last, to publish revisions to Part 91, including the new Subpart K for regulating fractional operations.
Regulations and Government

Congress set to align FAA reauthorization bills

Both the House and the Senate passed their own versions of an FAA reauthorization bill last month, so differences between the two measures–and the threat o

New NBAA chief brings heavy political clout

Shelley Longmuir, United Airlines’ senior vice president of international, regulatory and governmental affairs, has been named president of NBAA and will t

Textron Continues Strong in Second Quarter

Buoyed by its Bell and Cessna properties, Textron recorded second-quarter profits up 23 percent from the same period last year, the company announced at a

Mexicans Thank GKN for Coming

GKN Aerospace was the proud recipient yesterday of an appreciation award from Mexico, which recognizes the success of GKN’s Mexicali operation, located nex

AgustaWestland, Boeing Team for Italian CH-47F

Yesterday AgustaWestland and Boeing signed an agreement to jointly manufacture the Boeing CH-47F Chinook helicopter for the Italian army.

Emirates sells, leases back Boeing freighters

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Capital plans to acquire ten Boeing 747-8Fs and eight 777Fs from Emirates Airline in a split purchase and leaseback agreem

Breakthrough takes pilots for a loop

BAE Systems, in conjunction with Cranfield Aerospace and Cranfield University, executed an entire flight without human intervention in a BAE Systems Jetstr

Marotta joins ITT for bomb rack competition

Executives from Cobham, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Rockwell Collins, Saab and Thales are establishing an ethics strategy on the basis of existing European

EDS, Siemens Team on Defense Logistics

EDS (Hall 1A Exhibitor’s Club Restaurant and Bar) and product lifecycle management specialist Siemens PLM Software (Hall 4 Stand E17) are combining their r

Aéro Montréal Strengthens Links to Europe

Aéro Montréal, greater Montreal’s aerospace cluster, has signed two “framework agreements” with similar industrial clusters in Germany and Poland aimed at

Ruag Buys Saab’s Space Business

Switzerland’s Ruag has acquired Saab’s space business (Saab Space, based in Gothenburg), including its subsidiary, Austrian Aerospace, for 335 million Swed

MoD Recognizes General Atomics for Reaper

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) won an award this week from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the deployment of the MQ-9 Reaper surv

F’boro organizers to help launch Bahrain airshow

Farnborough International Limited (FIL), organizers of the Farnborough International airshow, will collaborate with Bahrain on a new airshow in January 201