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In a letter to the Office of Management and Budget this week, the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) requested the agency's intervention to ens

Lockheed Martin is expected soon to make a surprise announcement about its bid for the FAA's forthcoming ADS-B contract, said to be valued at around $2 bil

General aviation operators at New York La Guardia Airport who are waiting eagerly for the expiration next January 1 of the reservation and slot program und

Raytheon Aircraft has provided operators of the Beechjet/Hawker 400XP with revised airplane flight manual (AFM) pages on the use of engine anti-icing proce

A recent notice sent to Honeywell GNS-XLS owners confirmed what many had suspected all along: due to hardware limitations, the flight management system wil

Cleveland-based fractional provider Flight Options this morning launched Fractional First, which it describes as a “purchase and use program designed to de

Embraer today said Houston-based Magnum Jet has placed an order for 50 Phenom 100s, with options for another 50 Phenom 100s and/or 300s.

The NTSB reports that in the two most recent Mitsubishi MU-2 fatal accidents, the wings separated in flight.

For the time being, air-taxi and fractional jet operators will not be required to add a 15-percent safety margin to actual landing distance as described in

Controversial FAA regulations that would impose numerous new requirements on air-tour operators are one step closer to publication.

The FAA extended to September 22 the public comment period for a draft reevaluation of a proposed centerfield taxiway at Boston Logan International Airport

Aviall, one of the largest independent distributors of new parts for business aircraft, said the European Commission “has not raised any antitrust issues”

The FAA is requesting public comments on the usefulness of airport advisory services now available part- or full-time at 20 airports in the continental U.S

After 15 years of auditing charter operators only at the behest of the companies or individuals who hire them, Wyvern Consulting, on Tuesday, announced tha

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First it was NetJets’ pilots who picketed and finally got a new labor contract; now it’s the fractional’s mechanics and other support personnel who on Frid

Transport Canada has proposed a regulatory amendment requiring installation of TCAS-I and TCAS-II, in line with current FAA rules.

The Schleicher sailplane that collided with a NetJets Hawker 800XP near Smith, Nev., on August 28 was equipped with a transponder, but it was not turned on

The Cessna Citation Mustang on Friday became the first of a new segment of aircraft known as very light jets (VLJ) to be fully FAA type certified.

The FAA today issued a "