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The Internal Revenue Service recently published Revenue Procedure 2003-85, which provides inflation-adjusted items for 2004.

For the first time since 1975, the number of safety recommendations classified as “open” has dipped below 1,000, the NTSB said last month.

The FAA is reviewing a proposed noise-compatibility program for Louisville International Airport, Kentucky.

Vail Valley Jet Center at Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE), Colo., now has customs, immigration and agricultural inspection services available on site a

Guardian Jet Center, a one-year-old FBO at Ontario International Airport, Calif., has apparently outgrown its 24,000-sq-ft hangar and current terminal.

The Rhode Island division of taxation issued a revised regulation regarding the application of a user tax to noncommercial aircraft in the state.

Bombardier began shakedown flights January 16 of the first Global Express XRS, a longer-range successor to the Global Express.

Researchers from the U.S., Canada, Britain and France are participating in a major aircraft icing study taking place this winter primarily in the Montreal

Starting with the Citation X, Cessna is slowly rolling out new software versions of flight and maintenance manuals for its currently-manufactured business

Hamilton Aerospace Technology, a maintenance, engineering and modification firm that started 57 years ago as Hamilton Aviation, is expanding its narrowbody

The IRS has issued temporary guidelines on the bonus depreciation option.

A Gulfstream IISP (for Special Performance–GIIs equipped with Aviation Partners’ winglets) set a world speed record December 15 on its way from Los Angeles

When is a Gulfstream II or III not a Stage 2 aircraft? When it gets a Stage 3 hush kit.

Four Embraer Legacy Executive twinjets have joined Cleveland-based fractional operator Flight Options to provide owners with a large-cabin aircraft to supp

In the first 11 months of last year, the four largest fractional aircraft operators hired just 186 pilots, compared with 997 in the same time frame in 2002

There are typically fewer business jet accidents each year than turboprop mishaps and that distinction didn’t change last year.

The FAA has scheduled several “fact finding” informal meetings to solicit information from operators and others concerning proposed revisions to Los Angele

In about a year Central Japan International Airport is scheduled to open, after which Nagoya Airport will focus on general aviation.

A new term might soon join the lexicon of the FAA–“Complex STC.” According to the FAA, there have been STC-approved installations that have been “inappropr

The FAA last month issued three separate airworthiness alerts on the TBM 700 turboprop single.

The average price of a gallon of jet-A at U.S.

Archie Trammell, former magazine editor turned radar and convective weather expert, has added a bimonthly online magazine to supplement his long-running ra

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This month NBAA continues a series of seminars on Part 91 Subpart K, the new rule that regulates fractional operations.

The German government gave the green light to sell to the public 74.9 percent of DFS, the agency operating the country’s ATC system.

The Transportation Security Administration is allowing operators to increase progressively the time for which international waivers are valid.

A jury ordered Universal Avionics to pay Honeywell $5.5 million in damages for violating a patent related to Honeywell’s original (pre-“enhanced”) GPWS.

The Gulfstream 500 received FAA type certification last month, and customer deliveries of the business jet are scheduled to start early this year.

As reported last month in AIN, under FAA requirements civil jets must be equipped with ELTs starting this month.

All subsonic jet and transport-category airplanes (those with an mtow of 12,500 pounds or more) for which application of a new type design is submitted on