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Irish business jet seized in drug bust

A Cessna Citation VI owned by a prominent Irish businessman was caught up in a major drug bust on September 26, when Belgian police impounded the aircraft
Aircraft

Raytheon extends its Hawker line

Raytheon has announced that it is broadening its Hawker product line by introducing the Hawker 900XP and the Hawker 750, both derivatives of the Hawker 850

Record ’07 to herald extended bizjet boom

Honeywell Aerospace expects the world’s business jet manufacturers to set a new delivery record next year and establish a strong precedent for a 10-year fo
Airports

DFW Asks FAA To Go Beaconless

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
Aircraft

Congressman introduces bill to ground MU-2 fleet

Despite the issuance by the FAA of a Special FAR (SFAR) mandating initial and recurrent training for MU-2 pilots, lawmakers still want the airplane grounde
Rotorcraft

Keystone selling off Flight Services

Keystone Helicopter in West Chester, Pa., reached an agreement with Seacor Holdings to sell its Flight Services Division, a 35-aircraft fleet dedicated to
Safety

MedAire expanding beyond medical expertise for travelers

Flight nurse Joan Sullivan Garrett never envisioned herself as an entrepreneur and certainly never as the head of a multi-million-dollar company with globa
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Regulations and Government

Age 60 rule comes under new scrutiny

With the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) poised to raise the age limit for commercial pilots to 65 effective November 23, the FAA has conv

Industry Perspective: Brazilian manufacture's ambitions center on full family of business jets

When Embraer decided to enter the business jet market after the successful launch of a family of regional airliners in the 1990s, the company’s chief execu
Aircraft

‘Euratlantic’ alliance here promoting U.S. investment

Representatives from Euratlantic, an alliance of 13 European regions, are at Booth No.
Airports

Teterboro users, neighbors reach voluntary agreement

The dark clouds that have hung over Teterboro Airport for many months about issues of noise, safety and security evaporated at a press conference last mont

News Clips: Boeing Completes Aviall Purchase

Aviall, one of the largest independent suppliers of new parts for business, government and commercial aircraft, now falls under the direction of managers a
Aircraft

Cessna’s Citation line just keeps on growing

Cessna formally launched two new business twinjets at last month’s NBAA Convention, making the Citation CJ4 and XLS+ the latest in a steady sequence of air
Aircraft

Challenger 605 awarded TC

Bombardier late last month received type certification from the FAA, Transport Canada and the European Aviation Safety Agency for its Challenger 605, the u

Newsmakers 2004: Final Flights

Harry Combs After a ride in a mailplane at age 13, Harry Combs was hooked on aviation and made it his life.
Safety

A Winter Wakeup Call for Business Aviation

Seeing Susan Saint James on the Today show early last month remembering the life of her 14-year-old son, Teddy Ebersol–one of three people who died in the
Maintenance and Modifications

Harrods supersizes at London Luton

Harrods Aviation at London Luton Airport is preparing to relocate to much larger premises by next summer.

Special Olympics Airlift wins Ueltschi award

NBAA this year is introducing the Albert Ueltschi Award, created to honor individuals and groups in business aviation who support humanitarian causes.
Maintenance and Modifications

Gulfstream again tops product support survey

For the fourth consecutive year readers gave Gulfstream the highest marks for both newer business jets (less than 10 years old) and older business jets (10

Northwest Sets Out with Compass

Northwest Airlines won approval from the DOT in late September to launch Compass Airlines, a new wholly owned regional subsidiary to which Northwest plans
Avionics

Honeywell gives the world a glimpse into the future

Charles Lindbergh knew it, and every pilot who has come after him has known it, too: if only there were some way of seeing through the clouds, of turning a

Pilots Picket SkyWest Airlines

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

Interview: NBAA's Bolen warns of renewed fight over user fees after midterm elections

After coming to the job in the midst of a recession and at a time when a number of high-profile crashes involving business airplanes dominated the
Regulations and Government

Comment period moved on LGA NPRM

The comment period on a proposal to continue the reservation and slot program under the high-density rule at New York La Guardia Airport (LGA) has been ext

Piper unwraps a jet at NBAA

Launching a new era for the 70-year-old lightplane manufacturer, Piper Aircraft president and CEO Jim Bass last month took the wraps off the design mockup
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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Will pilots flip for the Flipper?

It’s called the Flipper, and for good reason.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Lineage 1000 Interior Providers Chosen

Embraer selected UK-based Priestman Goode to design the interior of the Lineage 1000, the ultra-large executive jet the Brazilian OEM launched in May.
Engines

Rolls-Royce CorporateCare program grows

Rolls-Royce is reporting growth of its CorporateCare power-by-the-hour engine maintenance program, saying that it has signed more than 120 contracts this y
Maintenance and Modifications

King Air, Citation Get Winglet Mods

BLR Aerospace of Everett, Wash., received an STC for winglets on the King Air 300.