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Maintenance and Modifications

Jet Aviation to Triple Singapore hangar space

Dallas Airmotive has unveiled a dedicated Web site for its First Support command center.
Maintenance and Modifications

Jets opens new UK facility with paint capability

Mid-Continent Instruments’ Van Nuys, Calif.
Maintenance and Modifications

ARSA celebrates U.S. EU safety agreeement

Trimec Aviation has partnered with Texas Jet at Fort Worth Meacham (FTW) to build a new maintenance facility that will double the size of Trimec’s current
Rotorcraft

Bin Laden Raid Copters Effective, But Not New

The pair of “low-observable” Sikorsky Black Hawks used in the raid by U.S.

AW Cries Foul Over Turkey Black Hawk Pick

For the better part of five years AgustaWestland (AW) had been counting on Turkey to be a major customer for the military variant of its AW139 medium twin,
FBOs

FBO Profile: Airflite at Long Beach

When it comes to customer service, Airflite at Long
Safety

WSI Reboots Pilotbrief with zippy features

On May 3, Weather Services International announced the launch of a new version of its online Pilotbrief weather information service, Pilotbrief Optima.
Rotorcraft

Army Takes First Step In Defining Future Helicopter

By the end of this month the U.S.
Regulations and Government

Revolving door continues at TSA

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) general aviation manager Brian Delauter, a former airline pilot with impeccable general aviation credentials,

Rotorcraft Update: Bristow Books Solid Year

Offshore helicopter services company Bristow announced increased earnings and revenues for its fiscal year ended March 31 of $121.3 million and $1.233 bill
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Geisinger Medical Takes Delivery of Fourth EC145

Geisinger Medical’s recent delivery of its fourth EC145 is part of an overall fleet replenishment program for the Pennsylvania-based helicopter EMS provide
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: SkyBooks Supports Russian Mi helicopters

SkyBook’s electronic maintenance and flight records system is now available for both the Russian Mi-8 and Mi-17 helicopters. .
Training and Workforce

Rotorcraft Update: FlightSafety Unveils Enchanced Vital X

FlightSafety’s new Vital X simulation’s enhanced visual scenes include moving models, 3-D sea states, environmental conditions, time of day, weather effect
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Columbia Helicopters Assists with Texas Wildfires

A pair of Columbia Vertol II tandem-rotor helicopters have been fighting record Texas wildfires at Alpine, Sonora and Brownwood.

Pro Barr support grows

Groups as diverse as the three largest general aviation organizations and the U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

Talco, DRB Form Strategic Partnership

Talco Aviation and DRB Aviation have formed a “strategic partnership” that will provide a broad range of completions and refurbishment project supervisory
Maintenance and Modifications

Innotech, Esoteric Unveil Next-Gen IFE

Innotech Aviation has awarded California-based wireless technology specialist Esoteric of Irvine, Calif.
Maintenance and Modifications

Starling Aerospace Providing Stateroom Kit

Business aviation cabin components specialist Starling Aerospace (SAI) has undertaken a project to design, build and certify a stateroom/lavatory in kit fo
Maintenance and Modifications

SR Technics Opens Completion Center in Zurich

SR Technics, best known for its maintenance, repair and overhaul business of 80 years, is expanding into the private aviation cabin completion and refurbis
Maintenance and Modifications

Duncan Ramps Up to Meet Growing Demand

Like many others in the completion and refurbishment business, Duncan Aviation is ramping up as the sense of an industry recovery grows. In the past two mo
Aircraft

Pre-owned Update: Inventory continues to decrease slightly

The current pre-owned aircraft market can be defined as consistent as inventory continues to inch down, month-after-month.
Regulations and Government

Lawmakers wrestle over FAA reauthorization

                          
Accidents

June 2011 Accidents

Preliminary Report: Indian Helicopter Crash Claims Five Eurocopter AS350B3, Luguthang, India, April 30, 2011–The Ecureuil (Squirrel) was dest
Safety

AIN Blog: Torqued: Willful blindness poses serious safety threat

At the same time as the Southwest 737 Flight 812 debacle was unfolding–almost as rapidly as the fuselage skin tore off the aircraft shortly after departure

AIN Blog: Beware Complacency

One of my assignments here at AIN is compiling and editing the Accidents page for our flagship monthly magazine, Aviation International News.
Avionics

FAA makes progress on metroplex airspace effort

A joint effort by the FAA and industry aimed at integrating airspace and deconflicting traffic flows over major metropolitan areas is making progress, acco

New Details Released On Crash of Air France 447

A statement released today by the French BEA (Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses) on the
Aircraft

Merpati MA60 Crashes, Killing 25

A Xi’an Aircraft MA60 operated by Indonesia’s Merpati Nusantara Airlines crashed on May 7 into Kaimana Bay, some 1,500 feet short of the Utarung Airport ru
Aircraft

More Republic E170s to fly for Delta

An amendment to Republic Airways’ capacity purchase agreement with Delta Air Lines will allow it to add six dual-class Embraer E170s to the Delta Connectio
Rotorcraft

Eurocopter details oil-and-gas EC175 development schedule

Eurocopter released details late in April about the development of the seven-metric-ton-class EC175 twin, confirming plans for type certification this year