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Regional and major airlines will be required to report incidents involving the loss, injury or death of an animal (hot or cold blooded) during air transpor

The NTSB has expanded its online database to include synopses of accidents occurring from 1962 to the present.

With the recent receipt of an FAR Part 145 repair station certificate, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Hop-A-Jet is now offering maintenance to outside custome

Turboprop East, a 25-year-old North Adams, Mass.

Delta Aero-Taxi plans to start a fractional aircraft ownership operation in Europe with the new Citation Mustang.

If a Beechcraft or Hawker customer identifies the “exact same part at a much lower price elsewhere,” Raytheon Aircraft will “make every effort to lower the

Naples, Fla., is the site for Air Chef’s 14th business aircraft catering facility in 11 metropolitan areas.

Wichita-based Executive Aircraft, which filed for bankruptcy protection in August, expects court confirmation of its plan for reorganization next month.

LoneStar Propjets of Waco, Texas, has received an STC to replace the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprops on the King Air 90 through C90 series with P

In her first official visit outside Washington since she took office, FAA Administrator Marion Blakey traveled to Wichita last month, where she toured Rayt

Aviation Partners now expects to receive certification of its winglets for the Hawker 800 next May, nearly a year later than originally planned.

A laser-guided, computer-controlled robot that promises to significantly decrease the time it takes to find corrosion and other airframe structural anomali

A more powerful, better-performing Cessna Caravan 208, including improved fuel burn, is the object of a program by Anchorage, Alaska-based Caravan dealer,

Top Raytheon Aircraft officials declined to comment directly on a recent Wall Street Journal article claiming the company has “suffered more setba

Published news reports and “numerous rumors” of the Ford flight department’s drastic downsizing are not only premature but false.

A Cessna 182 recently flew from Daytona Beach, Fla., to Carlsbad, Calif, running on jet-A.

Sovereign Air recently opened at Henson Field in Hagerstown, Md., occupying the facilities of the former Aero-Smith FBO.

One of the pilots keyed the microphone and shouted, “Brakes, brakes!” shortly before the Careflight Learjet 25 he was in went off the end of the runway and

It will probably be another six months before the FAA issues its final rule to regulate fractional aircraft ownership operations under new Part 91 Subpart

A scheduled meeting on October 24 between Eclipse Aviation and the JAA will mark the first step of the European certification process for the Eclipse 500 s

The FAA has granted dozens of Part 135 (and a few Part 121) petitioners permission to operate without being equipped with required mode-S transponders.

Not long ago, Raytheon Co.

Group RVSM approval for Falcon 10/100s equipped with the original Collins autopilot is expected to be completed early next year.

AirCell’s AGT.02 airborne cellular telecommunications system has been certified for use on the Beech Premier I.

FBO Ireland started business jet handling at Dublin Airport last month, operating out of the main terminal.

Bombardier is trying to sell Belfast City Airport in Northern Ireland.

It’s nearly as certain as death and taxes.

Dr.

D&D Design of West Milford, N.J., is marketing an FAA-approved kit for alerting Gulfstream IV operators of an insufficient air supply required to infla

Oracle software chief Larry Ellison can fly his Gulfstream V into and out of San Jose (Calif.) International Airport (SJC) at any time, according to a ruli