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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Marshall Aerospace shifts focus

Marshall Aerospace, in response to what it described as “the changing nature of the corporate market,” has restructured its corporate aviation activity by
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Leather care and restoration service launched

Townsend Leather and The Leather Institute of Johnstown, N.Y., have entered into a licensing agreement with aircraft detailing specialist Appearance Group
Cabin Interior and Electronics

GM Nameplate introduces new metal art process

GM Nameplate of Seattle is offering a new “ElectraGraphics Business Jet Art” line that employs 14-karat gold or chrome on a stainless-steel background to r
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Bombardier's Learjet 40 off to the races

Earlier this year Bombardier introduced an Indy 500 interior package for its new Learjet 40, at a cost of about $150,000.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Yingling Aviation shop launches Caravan cabin

Cessna’s workhorse turboprop single Caravan has appeared in just about as many guises as the X-Men, and with some of the same versatility.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Savannah Air growing in the face of recession

During the current economic climate, when many completion and refurbishment centers are struggling–some merely to survive–Savannah Air Center appears to be
Cabin Interior and Electronics

CIS completion and refurbishment shops

AKKO has been in business more than a decade and is based at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

CIS interior shops seek Western market

A little more than a decade after perestroika, interior completion and refurbishment companies in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are flexing
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Kit cabins offered as way to reduce cost

Completion and refurbishment centers are in a constant search for more efficient ways to work.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Business jets: It's what's in the cabin that counts

“I want what I want, when I want it.” It sounds like the petulant voice of a pampered diva, or a corporate executive with delusions of grandeur.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Completions & Refurbishment: Is this the 'ugly bottom'... or is there an uglier one still to come?

Last year, things were bad for the completion and refurbishment industry as companies were feeling the effects of the economic recession.

General aviation just wants to be treated fairly by TSA, FAA

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) said its efforts to reopen Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) to on-demand air charter flig

Paris Air Show 2003: Meeting on some precarious common ground

The 2003 Paris Air Show, held June 15 to 22, opened against a backdrop of bitter transatlantic political disputes over France’s opposition to the U.S.-led

A Century in Review: The 1960s

It will probably not have escaped the attention of American readers of this column over the past six months that much of the history of aviation during the

NBAA's regional forum series proving successful

In the mid-1980s, NBAA’s annual conventions were drawing about 70 aircraft on the static display line.
Regulations and Government

Each Presidential TFR to continue to be unique

Pilots are urged to check notams carefully when operating in airspace affected by Presidential temporary flight restrictions, including the temporary closu
Regulations and Government

Liability-limit law upheld as constitutional

A Superior Court of Arizona judge has dismissed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Cessna stemming from the crash of a 1980 Model 210 in October 2000 th
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

New bonus depreciation option clarified

A new federal tax-cut law contains an increase in the bonus depreciation percentage from 30 percent to 50 percent in the first-year allowance for the purch
Regulations and Government

Lawsuits from GIII Aspen crash go to trial

A wrongful-death trial in connection with the fatal crash of a Gulfstream III in Aspen, Colo., on March 29, 2001, started last month in Los Angeles Superio
Safety

Kidde Aerospace: No threat from faulty extinguishers

The manufacturer of portable halon fire extinguishers targeted for mandatory replacement said the units involved “do not represent a safety problem,” even
Maintenance and Modifications

TPE-powered Caravan conversion delayed

A more powerful, better performing Caravan 208 with improved fuel burn is the goal of Anchorage-based Aero Twin, which is working on a mod to convert the t

United Airlines asks judge's permission to end code-sharing

United Airlines last month asked a judge overseeing its bankruptcy case for permission to end the code-sharing and marketing agreement with regional carrie
Charter & Fractional

Raytheon takes majority control of Flight Options

Four months after John Nahill, former v-p of corporate strategy and development at Raytheon Co., took charge of Flight Options from its founder and then ch
Aircraft

Chinese firm to design 'cheaper' regional jet

China Aviation Industry, the country’s largest state-owned air-plane manufacturer, said at the Paris Air Show last month it plans to design and build a 70-

Colombian airline to return eight ATR 42s

Colombian carrier Aces will return eight ATR 42 turboprops to leasing companies as part of a reorganization plan by parent group Alianza Summa.
Accidents

NTSB: Pilot stalled Meridian returning to airport

According to the NTSB, the pilot’s failure to maintain airspeed during a bank angle of 60 to 80 degrees while trying to return to the Vero Beach Municipal
Regulations and Government

EU resolves bickering over satnav initiative

European nations apparently have resolved their objections over budgeting of Galileo, Europe’s $4.2 billion rival to GPS.

'Know Before You Go' airspace primer set up

A new online training program designed to help pilots navigate safely and legally through the ever-shifting airspace regulatory maze has been introduced by
Regulations and Government

DOT IG to review FAA's regional jet oversight

The DOT’s office of inspector general on June 16 opened a review of the FAA’s oversight of the growing use of regional jets and the resulting effects on op

Explosion-suppressant foam behind schedule

Plans to adapt explosion-suppressant foam (ESF) to business jets has been indefinitely delayed.