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Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: PremiAir also looking for techs

PremiAir is searching for qualified fixed-wing maintenance personnel for its new base at Oxford Airport, UK.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Banyan celebrates national maintenance technician day

Banyan celebrated its third annual AMT Day (May 24) by honoring its maintenance and avionics technicians.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: CAMO Plus certification awarded to Jet Aviation

Jet Aviation’s aircraft management and charter division for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia was awarded the EASA Continuing Airworthiness Manageme
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Eurocopter acquires Motorflug Baden-Baden

Motorflug Baden-Baden signed an agreement to be acquired by Eurocopter Deutschland.
Maintenance and Modifications

Torqued: Fatigue issues get closer to scrutiny

There were many times during my years as a mechanic when I was working totally exhausted, but for a number of reasons I continued past the point that I was
FBOs

Touching Bases: Key Air adds third FBO

Key Air continues expanding, with its newest FBO, Key Air Treasure Coast, at St.
FBOs

Touching Bases: Atlantic makes more room on Teterboro tarmac

Atlantic Aviation has added 550,000 sq ft to its Teterboro, N.J.
Airports

Touching Bases: Schönefeld reaps benefits of impending Tempelhof closure

ExecuJet Europe is expanding its presence at Berlin Schönefeld Airport in Berlin, following an April 27 public referendum that will lead to the closure of
FBOs

Touching Bases: Upgrades done at Threshold

Avfuel dealer Threshold Aviation finished renovations of its Chino, Calif.
FBOs

Touching Bases: Aero Toy Store expands Montreal

Aero Toy Store finished a 45,000-sq-ft expansion at its FBO in Dorval, Quebec, in late May.
FBOs

Touching Bases: Jet Aviation adds Ogden FBO

Jet Aviation Ogden (Utah) is scheduled to open before year-end, under an agreement that the Swiss company signed with Kemp Development.
FBOs

Touching Bases: Sunborne set to build FBO?

SunBorne broke ground on a 36,000-sq-ft office and hangar facility on the company’s 125-acre Centennial InterPort property at Centennial Airport near Denve
FBOs

Touching Bases: Spectra Jet joins FBO set

Learjet and Challenger maintenance company Spectra Jet has opened an FBO at Springfield Airport in Ohio.
Airports

Airport Profile: Aeroport de Sion

Although it seems that there are not many alternatives to big-city airports in Europe, small underutilized airports such as Sion, east of Geneva offer a wa
Regulations and Government

Congress Investigating Eclipse Aviation, Won’t Say Why

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has asked the Department of Transportation’s inspector general (IG) to investigate Eclipse Aviation.
ATC

New Alliance Plans To Help Usher In NextGen ATC

The Alliance for Sustainable Air Transportation (ASAT) was publicly launched late last week at a Florida summit on global climate change in Miami.
Charter & Fractional

NetJets Pilots Break from IBT, Choose In-house Union

NetJets pilots this week overwhelmingly voted to switch union representation from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to the NetJets Association of
FBOs

Fire at Berry Aviation Destroys Dornier 328-100

A flash fire in the hangar at Berry Aviation in Austin, Texas, last Friday morning destroyed an executive-configured 30-passenger Dornier 328-100 turboprop
Aircraft

Comp Air’s CA-9 Turboprop To Fly Soon

Merritt Island, Fla.-based Comp Air is preparing its CA-9 prototype for first flight, three months after unveiling the all-composite turboprop single at th
Charter & Fractional

Charter Industry Changes May Have Significant Effects

Charter volume is dropping significantly in some markets, according to information provided to AIN by charter industry insiders.
Aircraft

Cirrus SJX Jet Single Enters Flight-test Phase

Engineers at Duluth, Minn.-based Cirrus Design are still poring over telemetry data from the first flight of the company’s single-engine jet late last week
Accidents

Midair Collision Civil Suit Moves to Brazilian Courts

Wrongful-death suits brought on behalf of family members of passengers and crew killed in the 2006 midair involving a Legacy business jet and a Brazi
Aircraft

HondaJet Sees Same Special Conditions as Phenom 100

When the FAA wrote FAR Part 23, it apparently never envisioned that jets would be certified under those rules.
Safety

Concorde Manslaughter Trial To Take Place in France

A French judge last week ordered Continental Airlines and five people–including aircraft designers, maintenance technicians and one civil aviation authorit
FBOs

FBOs explain sky-high fuel prices

In just one year, the price paid at the refinery for jet-A in the U.S.
Aircraft

Airbus claims its place in a new world order

If Airbus COO customers and chief commercial officer John Leahy ever met a paying customer he didn’t like, it certainly wasn’t one of the world’s big aircr
Engines

Rolls considers keeping 747 for future engine trials

The success of Rolls-Royce’s flight test program for the Boeing 787’s Trent 1000 engine has led it to consider retaining the Boeing 747 it acquired for the
Safety

Safety Board calls on FAA to address pilot fatigue concerns

The NTSB cited three accidents and an incident involving regional airlines as the basis for a pair of recommendations to the FAA related to pilot fatigue l
Aircraft

Emergency AD targets Eclipse thrust levers

The pilot of an Eclipse 500 pushed the throttles forward during a wind-shear encounter at Chicago Midway Airport last month with enough force to result in