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UK maintenance provider Jet Engineering and Technical Support (Jets) has received European Aviation Safety Agency approval to support Raytheon Aircraft’s P

Comair reached concessionary labor agreements with its mechanics and flight attendants late last month, but at press time a deal with its pilots continued

Quiet Technology Aerospace reports it recently installed its 45th Gulfstream Stage 3 hush kit.

Three twin-turboprop accidents within four days of each other last month claimed the lives of all 13 aboard.

The union representing the pilots of SkyWest Airlines regional airline subsidiary Atlantic Southeast Airlines on October 13 began picketing the long-time u

In an unusual request, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) last month filed a petition with the FAA asking permission to operate without a rotati

UK aircraft maker Britten-Norman has reached a pay settlement with members of the Amicus trade union.

Thunder Aviation in Chesterfield, Mo., recently won a group RVSM STC for Falcon 10s equipped with the Collins AP-105 autopilot.

Wichita-based LJSC has received group certification for RVSM on the Learjet 24 and 25.

An infrared de-icing system is scheduled to be operational late this winter at New York John F.

The Defense Department will remove its flight information publications, digital aeronautical flight information file and related aeronautical charts and pu

Everyone in the industry knows that new and used business aircraft sales, prices and inventories generally follow the overall economy.

Most of more than 35 respondents supported the FAA’s notice of proposed rulemaking–as is or with a few changes–to permit pilots serving as second-in-comman

Gulfstream Aerospace’s European service center at London Luton Airport has received Part 145 approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

The job of instituting security procedures will fall primarily on GA itself, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said, because of limited Transporta

Virgin Atlantic selected Salina, Kan., as its base and control center for a solo, nonstop, unrefueled around-the-world record attempt in a single-engine je

The pilot and the pilot-rated passenger were killed when their Mitsubishi MU-2B crashed while trying to return to Centennial Airport in Denver.

The FAA is investigating a November 29 incident in which an Embraer Legacy operated by fractional provider Flight Options hit a parked company Legacy while

Effective January 5, when filing an FAA flight plan (with the exception of filing through DUATS and flight service stations), RVSM-compliant operators are

The NTSB is recommending that pilots of Cessna 208 Caravans approved for flight into known icing conditions be required to undergo annual training for grou

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has designated Jet Aviation facilities in Dallas, Boston and Teterboro, N.J., as authorized maintenance centers for

The pilot suffered minor injuries and his aircraft was destroyed when he deadsticked a King Air B200 onto a street in Tulsa, Okla., on December 8 about fou

Revised Flight Standards Information Bulletin for Air Transportation (FSAT) 04-05 updates de-icing holdover times for this winter’s flying season.

The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) is recommending that the FAA change its regulations to make it illegal for aircraft to take off with so-

The 30 days between late October and late November last year was the worst period ever for serious turbine corporate airplane accidents in the U.S.

In its determination of probable cause, the NTSB implicated a history of stability issues at high Mach speeds in the April 26, 2003, crash of Sino Swearing

Premier Aircraft of East Alton, Ill., said it passed the first engineering milestone for its program to upgrade the original Falcon 50 engine (the Honeywel

The Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last month issued its final rule on the electronic filing of commercial aircraft passenger and crew manif

Early last month Piper delivered the 200th Malibu Meridian since the turboprop single entered service in November 2000.

CSC Africa, a maintenance, repair and overhaul facility based at Lanseria Airport in Johannesburg, will introduce P&WC PT6 overhaul services by the end of