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Maintenance and Modifications

Cutter Aviation consolidates Dallas operation

The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex has been host to an expanding Cutter Aviation since 2002.
Maintenance and Modifications

Cessna to open Spanish Citation Service Center

Spain’s Valencia Airport will be the site of Cessna’s new European Citation service center.
Maintenance and Modifications

ACC Columbia Jet Service expands mx capabilities

ACC Columbia Jet Service, formerly known as Aviation Center Cologne, has a new facility at Hannover Airport as a result of its recent merger with Columbia
Maintenance and Modifications

Ruag trims back in response to net loss

The Ruag Group has streamlined its business aircraft maintenance facilities in response to a net loss in that sector of approximately $103 million for 2009
Maintenance and Modifications

Boca Aircraft mx named Eclipse Gold Service Center

Eclipse Aerospace has named Boca Aircraft Maintenance located in Boca Raton, Fla., the exclusive U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier AOG Line mx OK for Jet Aviation Paris

Jet Aviation’s new Paris Le Bourget facility, which recently received EASA Part 145 line station approval, was appointed a Bombardier AOG line maintenance
Maintenance and Modifications

Turbine Fatigue Cited in Fatal California Helo Crash

Yesterday the NTSB released the finding of the cause of the May 24, 2008, Is
Maintenance and Modifications

Dallas center brings operating experience to mx ops

Business Jet Access focuses on the operational aspects of maintenance, according to general manager Brian Hoffman, who credits his stint as a mechanic and
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier Revamps Worldwide Bizjet Service

Bombardier Aerospace has embarked on an aircraft service program in which it will invest some $35 million over the next five years to structure a worldwide
Safety

Gulfstream Forms Service Is Enhancing Safety

Gulfstream says its flight-data monitoring/flight operational quality assurance program “is already making a difference in safety to operators.” Introduced
Accidents

NTSB Expands Accident Reporting Rules

The FAA is notifying operators that the NTSB amended Part 830 to include five new conditions that require immediate notification upon occurrence.
Maintenance and Modifications

Smyrna Air Center Approved for M601 and H80 Service

Smyrna Air Center has signed an agreement with GE Aviation to become an authorized service center for the M601 and H80 turboprop engines.
Maintenance and Modifications

Metrojet Hong Kong Named HBC Service Center

Hawker Beechcraft (HBC) has appointed Metrojet Hong Kong to its network of authorized service centers to support its Hawker 900/800/700 series.
Maintenance and Modifications

Piaggio Aero Service Centers Continue Expansion

Airflite and Piaggio Aero have signed an agreement to qualify and approve Singapore-based AirFlite Asia as an OEM-appointed maintenance provider for the Pi
Maintenance and Modifications

Elliott Aviation Offers EASA-approved Beechjet DFDR

Moline, Ill.-base Elliott Aviation has received supplemental type certificate (STC) approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for the instal
Safety

Survey: AOPA’s Airport Watch works

Airports that adopted the voluntary security measures of AOPA’s Airport Watch program saw a steep decline in crime the year after the program’s launch, acc
Maintenance and Modifications

Hawker Beechcraft opens service facility at Phoenix

Hawker Beechcraft Services (HBS) opened the doors of its southwest U.S.
ATC

Navigating NextGen

Ask any politician or media person what NextGen is and what it will do, and the chances are that the answers will include three common themes.
Safety

Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar: Speakers shine spotlight on importance of SMS, FOQA

sMS (safety management systems) and FOQA (flight operations quality assurance) are no longer just buzzwords, said Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) president
Safety

Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar: SMS Implementation Tools

Several of the most influential corporate aviation organizations offer specific tools to assist in implementation of SMS programs, according to John Sheeha
Safety

Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar: Agency SMS

SMS is not just for airlines and corporate aviation, as John David, Nav Canada v-p for safety and quality, explained.
Avionics

CMC Electronics adds WSI wx to PilotView EFB

Esterline CMC Electronics has added real-time graphical weather linked through the Iridium satellite network to its 8.4-inch PilotView CMA-1100 Mk II and 1
Avionics

Arinc named Inmarsat airtime reseller

Arinc has become a distribution partner (DP) for Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband satellite communication services, allowing it to buy and resell airtime directly
Avionics

Thrane & Thrane unveils aviator 200

Thrane & Thrane has taken the wraps off what it claims is the smallest, lightest satcom equipment available for linking through Inmarsat broadband serv
Avionics

Thales studies one-display flight deck

Thales is leading a research project toward what might be the ultimate in avionics displays–a single-display flight deck.
Avionics

Jepp takes new approach with SolidFX reader

Pilots now have many choices for viewing approach plates, arrival and departure charts and airport diagrams in the cockpit, from traditional paper to elect
Avionics

Pro Line Fusion enters certification home stretch

About 50 hours of test flying remains before Rockwell Collins will submit the certification paperwork to the FAA for its
Avionics

News Update: Avionics

Avanti Gets Pro Line 21 RetrofitRockwell Collins has teamed with Ruag Business Aviation of Switzerland on a Pro Line 21 cockpit upgrade for th
Aircraft

In the Works: June 2010

Gulfstream – G650Test pilot John O’Meara and senior experimental test pilot Tom Horne flew Gulfstream’s G650 proto- type to its top operating