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Rotorcraft

Bell Cutting Four Helos from Product Line

Bell Helicopter is “optimizing” its product line to accelerate deliveries of its high-demand aircraft, namely the Bell 407, 412 and 429.
FBOs

A dome home for the corporate jet

Would you feel more comfortable about your hangar knowing that buildings from which it was derived are used as community disaster shelters? Monolithic Cons
FBOs

Service People proves its name isn’t just a gimmick

This is an FBO? In the office Mozart plays softly on the radio, and the warm smell of fresh coffee drifts across the room from the corner kitchen.
Regulations and Government

R&D Funding, Coordination Urged

General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) president Ed Bolen added his voice to a growing chorus that is pushing for more government coordination a
Regulations and Government

Blakey Boosts FSDO Consistency

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey chose a speech before the Washington Aero Club to announce a new project designed to bring more consistency among the vario
Regulations and Government

Congressional Observer: April 2003

There was good news and bad news concerning appropriations for those 11 of 13 government agencies that have been impatiently waiting and enduring the agony
Charter & Fractional

How to develop a startup jet: Just do it, then crow about it

The “affordable jet” has become synonymous with the flying car.
Aircraft

AvCraft’s 328 buy closes under cloud of skepticism, uncertainty

When reports began circulating last month that Leesburg, Va.-based AvCraft Aviation had reached an agreement to buy Fairchild Dornier’s 328 production and
Accidents

Preliminary Report: T-prop single crashes on approach

SOCATA TBM 700, LEESBURG, VA., MARCH 1, 2003–TBM 700 N700PP was destroyed, and its three occupants killed, when it crashed into trees duri
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Cheyanne and 172 in Midair

PIPER PA-31T AND CESSNA 172P, DENVER, COLO., JAN.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Main rotors strike passenger

BELL 407, HIGH ISLAND 443, GULF OF MEXICO, FEB.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Icy reception for Caravan

CESSNA 208, KOTZEBUE, ALASKA, MARCH 2, 2003–Cessna N205BA sustained substantial damage at about 3:04 p.m.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Meridian clips power lines

PIPER MERIDIAN, ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., MARCH 7, 2003–The pilot and his two passengers were killed when their Meridian, N522RF, turbine single
Accidents

Factual Report: Cheyanne crashes on IMC

PIPER PA-31T1, GRAHAM, TEXAS, Nov.
Accidents

Final Report: Failure to see-and-avoid cost 11 lives

PA-31-350 AND PA-44-180, BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J., AUG.
Accidents

Final Report: Wing ice cited in Caravan crash

CESSNA 208, DILLINGHAM, ALASKA, OCT.
Safety

NATA’s Coyne demands DCA access for Part 135

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) filed a petition with the FAA last month asking that the agency reopen Ronald Reagan Washington National
Regulations and Government

GAC Challenges Pilot Certificate Revocation Rule

The General Aviation Coalition (GAC) and its 17 member organizations have challenged the TSA’s recent direct final rule that would allow the revocation of
Accidents

Court confirms $22.6M award in Illinois GIV crash

The fatal crash of the Alberto-Culver Gulfstream IV at Palwaukee Municipal Airport on Oct.
Accidents

The Crash That Won’t Go Away

All fatal accidents are tragic, but the crash of Alberto-Culver’s GIV on takeoff from Palwaukee Municipal Airport on that windy late October morning nearly
Safety

NATA helping operators meet 12-5 security rules

The National Air Transportation Association developed a Transportation Security Administration-approved program in time to meet the April 1 deadline for co
FBOs

New hangar at AGS ready for Masters traffic

Aircraft flying in to this month’s Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Ga., will have a new hangar/office complex at which to park.
FBOs

Easter Bunny, watch your back in Miami

Black-tail jackrabbits used to have a cushy home on the expansive grounds of Miami International Airport (MIA).
FBOs

Deer Horn acquires Avion Flight Centre

Deer Horn Aviation has acquired Avion Flight Centre at Midland International Airport (MAF), Texas.
FBOs

Kit developed to test for bio-contaminants

ECHA Microbiology, based in Cardiff, Wales, has developed a test kit that can provide a numerical indication of microbial contamination in aircraft fuel ta
FBOs

Silverhawk targets transient jet market

Don Allen, owner of Silverhawk Aviation, would like pilots to be thinking of Lincoln Municipal Airport (LNK), Neb., as a mid-continent refueling stop.
Aircraft

Cessna Launches Large-cabin Citation

Cessna Aircraft today announced it has received the green light from parent company Textron for development of a large-cabin, intercontinental aircraft tha
Charter & Fractional

VLJs ‘Not Revolutionary,’ but Do Enable Air Taxis

Despite one aircraft manufacturer’s claims, “very light jets are only evolutionary, not revolutionary,” noted Arie-Willem Van Doome, COO of Netherlands-bas
Safety

UK Safety Board Concerned about Avionics Corrosion

The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) recently issued a sweeping recommendation that the EASA, FAA, Transport Canada and other aviation agencies
Aircraft

Sukhoi/Boeing RRJ wins Russian state tender

The Russian Regional Jet (RRJ) bid submitted by Sukhoi, Ilyushin, Yakovlev and Boeing has won the Russian state tender for development of a new 70- to 80-s