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Times are tough, but you won’t hear a lot of complaints from Universal Jet Services.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few years, you’ll know that barely a day passes without news that some nifty new method of accessing the In

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta has asked governors, local officials–such as airport directors and metropolitan planning organizations–and other tra

A $504 million increase in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grant funds for new security projects in fiscal year 2002 has affected the amount of funds ava

While promising to be “balanced and reasonable,” FAA Administrator Marion Blakey told those attending the recent AOPA Expo that the nation and her agency a

Polly Vacher is preparing for a May bid to become the first pilot to fly solo around the world via both the North and South Poles.

The UK’s London Executive Aviation (LEA) has placed a $12 million order for five Citation Mustang very light business jets.

The unions representing nearly 20,000 employees of the FAA have joined in a coalition “to hold the FAA accountable” for meeting its modernization goals and

The FAA has awarded an initial $20.5 million contract to ITT Industries aerospace/communications division to provide the agency with multimode VHF digital

In a letter to FAA Administrator Jane Garvey, 31 members of Congress have urged the agency to take immediate action to update pilot flight- and duty-time r

With the arrival of its new CEO, American Eurocopter also revealed that it is expanding its “footprint” in the U.S.

When you think about the U.S.

In aviation, like most other industries, success breeds regulation.

Pilots are taught from the first day of flight training that flying an airplane is all about situational awareness–visualizing where they are in relation t

Even though regional airline traffic is up 13 percent from the second quarter of last year, and regional airliners account for 34 percent of the overall do

Cabin-management and entertainment system specialist IEC International has been acquired in a management buyout led by sales and marketing v-p Chris Nichol

This year and last were not kind to the startup airplane manufacturers, those OEM wannabes that are–or in some cases were–attempting to grab the brass ring

Armed with the largest single contract in its 52-year history–converting 19 U.S.

Turbomeca has boosted its customer-support operation, increasing its team of field-service representatives to 40 and its service centers to 23.

Eurocontrol’s upper-area control center at Maastricht in the Netherlands on November 3 activated its new operations facility, which includes an advanced op

Gloucestershire Airport in the southwest of England wants to attract a new FBO to handle its increasing volume of corporate aircraft traffic.

John Bruton, the European Union’s Ambassador to the U.S., received a decidedly undiplomatic reception while testifying on aviation emissions before the Hou

The Senate bill to reauthorize and fund the FAA is once again stalled on the tarmac because of procedural infighting between Republicans and Democrats.

The Brazilian city of São Paulo lies south of the equator, straddling the Tropic of Capricorn, and is about as far east as the southern tip of Greenland.

With the U.S.

While people dealing in pre-owned turboprops are not exactly doing cartwheels over the state of their industry these days, most are optimistic that the dow

The 73-year-old New York-based insurance company had interests and offices in nearly 130 countries and Canada’s Bombardier at the time had just introduced

While the FAA moves forward with its operational evolution plan (OEP) to increase National Airspace System capacity by the end of this decade, a major cons

With ever larger numbers of ultra-long-range business jets taking to the skies, individual complaints about dry air in the cabin have grown to a chorus of

The Commission on the Future of the U.S.