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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Economy Crush Prompts Layoffs at Nordam

Nordam recently laid off 63 employees, primarily from its interiors and structures division, which is responsible–for the most part–for business aviation c
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Gore Design Picks CTT’s Cair Cabin Environment System

Cabin environment continues to become more important as a point of customer focus, particularly on long-haul private jets.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

EMS Technologies To Acquire Avionics Manufacturer Formation

EMS Technologies has signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire Moorestown, N.J.-based Formation, a provider of airborne wireless network products that ena
ATC

NextGen could integrate Sensis fuel-burn research

Researchers at Sensis’s Seagull Technology Center in Campbell, Calif., have calculated what they call excess fuel burned during taxiing at 13 of the nation
Cabin Interior and Electronics

MAC Wins Polish Presidential Helo Bid

MAC Aircraft Interior Specialists (formerly McCarthy Interiors) has won a $1.75 million contract to design and build quick-change executive interior kits f
Aircraft

MA700 work gets under way in Xi’an

China’s Xi’an Aircraft Industry Company (XAC) has started preliminary work on the Modern Ark 700 (MA700), a 70-seat turboprop regional aircraft that it exp
Aircraft

Colgan Doubles Q400 Order

Pinnacle Airlines subsidiary Colgan Air signed a firm order last month to acquire 15 more Q400 NextGen turboprops worth some $432 million.
ATC

Weather Forecasters Buck FAA Consolidation Plan

An FAA plan to consolidate all of the 84 National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters working in the nation’s 21 ATC en route centers into two central foreca
Regulations and Government

FAA Seeks More Time On Safety Management Plan

Because it has not completed guidelines for a Safety Management System (SMS) for U.S.
Regulations and Government

Congressional Observer

u Even before President Barack Obama took the oath of office on January 20 political analysts, media gurus (press, radio, TV talking heads) and a horde of
Accidents

Offshore helo crashes in swamp

Sikorsky S-76C++, Morgan City, La., Jan.
Accidents

Citation overruns runway

Cessna Citation II, Wilmington, N.C., Jan.
Accidents

Second Mexican Learjet crashes

Bombardier Learjet 23, Tlaxcala, Mexico, Dec.
Accidents

Five fatalities in Gulf crush

Bell 206 JetRanger, Sabine Pass, Texas, Dec.
Accidents

ThreeCRJs suffer gear problems

Bombardier CL600-2B19 CRJ, Philadelphia, Dec.
Accidents

Bell 407 loses power

Bell 407, Bow, N.H., Dec.
Accidents

Kind Air loses avionic power

Hawker Beechcraft Super King Air B200, Liberal, Kan., Nov.
Accidents

Napping pilots overfly airport

Bombardier CL600-2B19 CRJ, Hilo, Hawaii, Feb.
Accidents

CRJ lost cowling in flight

Bombardier CL600-2B19 CRJ, Lake Michigan, Mich., April 7, 2007–The NTSB determined the probable cause of the in-flight separation of the left engine transl
Accidents

Cargo door opened in flight

Hawker Beechcraft 1900D, Page, Ariz., March 26, 2008–The NTSB concluded that the flight crew’s unprofessional behavior and deviation from standard operatin
Accidents

Excel veered off gravel runway

Cessna Citation Excel 560XL, Port Heiden, Alaska, April 30, 2008–The Excel ran off the gravel-topped Runway 23 at Port Heiden Airport (PTH) as a res
Accidents

Medevac King Air flew into mountain

Hawker Beechcraft King Air E90B, Ruidoso, N.M., Aug.
Aircraft

Airbus Breaks Ground on A350 Line, Pledges mid-2013 First Delivery

Having badly burned its fingers with production delays on the A380 program, Airbus is determined not to fall into the fire again with its next large airlin
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Safety

NTSB: ‘ice bridging’ is a myth

Pilots should “activate boots as soon as the airplane enters icing conditions,” according to a safety alert released in December by the NTSB.
Regulations and Government

White House names new acting FAA Administrator

Long-time veteran FAA executive Lynn Osmus has been named acting FAA Administrator, replacing acting FAA Administrator Robert Sturgell, who resigned Januar
Training and Workforce

De-icing: Online options for icing training

Two new online icing education courses were released this winter, one from King Schools and the other by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s Air S
Accidents

Undetected Ground Ice and Bird Avoidance felled Fokker 100

The crash of a Régional Fokker 100 shortly after takeoff from Pau, southwest France, in January 2007 was caused by undetected ground ice and excessive rota
Aircraft

Cessna Delivers First XLS+

Cessna has delivered the first Citation XLS+ to an undisclosed U.S.-based customer.
Charter & Fractional

EAS Lists Phenom Share Costs

Regional fractional share operator Executive AirShare (EAS) announced that it will be selling Phenom 100 shares for $299,500 for a one-sixteenth share with