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Charter & Fractional

Sentient: TAG Purchase Includes AMI Jet Charter

When Sentient Flight Group announced last week that it plans to buy TAG Aviation USA, it didn’t clarify whether this included AMI Jet Charter, 49 percent o
Rotorcraft

Bell Locks Down Design for GlobalRanger

On Friday, Bell Helicopter’s 429 team froze the final exterior profile of its light twin-engine helicopter after months of development flight testing.
Charter & Fractional

AMI certificate revocation spooks charter industry

AMI Jet Charter’s trouble with the FAA didn’t start on October 12, when the agency revoked AMI’s charter certificate, nor the week before, when it suspende
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ATC

Serious questions about ADS-B NPRM arise

While the FAA in early October released its Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) covering future mandatory carriage of ADS-B avionics, serious questions h
Charter & Fractional

Sentient Flight Group acquires two more charter divisions

On October 23, Sentient Flight Group purchased Hawker Beechcraft’s charter/management business.
Charter & Fractional

Raytheon To Divest Flight Options

Waltham, Mass.-based Raytheon is selling Flight Options, its Cleveland-based business aircraft fractional share division.
Regulations and Government

Sturgell nominated to head FAA

Industry reaction has been mostly positive to President Bush’s nomination of acting FAA Administrator Bobby Sturgell to a five-year term to lead the agency
Aircraft

SAS Permanently Grounds Q400s

SAS has again grounded all 27 of its Bombardier Q400s after the right main landing gear on one of its airplanes failed to fully extend upon landing in Cope
Charter & Fractional

Raytheon To Divest Flight Options

Waltham, Mass.-based Raytheon, during its third-quarter earnings conference this morning, announced its decision to sell Flight Options, its Cleveland-base
Training and Workforce

‘War on Error’ a Fight We Can All Get Behind

The 11th annual Safety Standdown–sponsored by Bombardier Aerospace, NBAA, the FAA and the NTSB–concludes today in Wichita.
Aircraft

Boeing To Absorb $3.5 Billion Hit from 787 Delays

The delay of the first flight and early deliveries of the 787 will cost Boeing $3.5 billion in revenue next year, according to financial guidance released
Charter & Fractional

Sentient Buy Shows FAA Succeeds in Erasing AMI Jet Charter

Sentient Flight Group announced yesterday that it has agreed “in principle” to buy TAG Aviation USA’s aircraft management business from Switzerland-based T
Regulations and Government

Will FAA Bill Pass This Year? Flip a Coin…

“In Washington, D.C., no bad idea ever dies,” National Association of State Aviation Officials president and CEO Henry Ogrodzinski said of aviation user fe
Aircraft

Eclipse Pares Workforce, Denies Financial Woes

Eclipse Aviation maintains that financial problems aren’t behind its decision on Friday to trim about 100 of its 1,500 employees.
Regulations and Government

FAA, Natca Differ On Controller Staffing Stats

The ink was scarcely dry on an FAA press release about successfully hiring new controllers when the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) sa
Regulations and Government

FAA Orders Better Bird Ingestion Tolerance for Turbines

Beginning next month, engine manufacturers seeking FAA type certification for new turbine designs with inlet areas greater than 2.5 square meters (roughly
Accidents

NTSB: Many Safety Issues with Unmanned Aircraft Ops

As a result of its first investigation of an accident
Accidents

Excel-Jet Sues FAA over 2006 Sport-Jet VLJ Crash

Excel-Jet of Monument, Colo., is suing the FAA over the
ATC

ADS-B Success Depends on User Acceptance and Equipage

In testimony before the House aviation subcommittee yesterday, DOT Inspector General Calvin Scovel told lawmakers that user acceptance and voluntary equipa
Aircraft

F-35A JSF Remains Grounded, But Program Advances

The first Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter) has now been grounded for nearly six months.
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Aircraft

M-101T is first certified Russian business a/c

Zhukovsky, Russia-based Myasishchev has received Russian AP-23 type certification for its M-101T  business aircraft.
Aircraft

Osprey Tiltrotors Flying in Iraq; Mini-gun Testing Begins

The controversial Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey is now flying in a combat zone for the first time.
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Aircraft

Skunk Works Describes Hypersonic Missile, Reveals New Aircraft

News from the Lockheed Martin Advanced Developments Projects (ADP), aka The Skunk Works, is a rare commodity.
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Aircraft

Air Tractor S-22

Development of the 10-passenger, single-turboprop S-22 by agplane builder Air Tractor of Olney, Texas, slowed last year due to the company’s focus on provi
Aircraft

American Utilicraft FF-1080

The Lawrenceville, Ga.
Aircraft

Dassault Falcon 7X

Bill Kerherve, chief test pilot for Dassault Aviation, and test pilot Philippe Deleume took the Falcon 7X simulation bench on its first virtual flight in
Aircraft

Visionaire Vantage VA-10

An 11th-hour effort on January 31 failed to keep OEM startup VisionAire afloat after a federal district court judge placed the company back into Chapter 7
Aircraft

Grob-Werke G140

The turboprop derivative of the four-seat Grob 120 made its first flight on December 20 from Mindelheim-Mattsies (EDMN) Airport, Germany, where the compan
Regulations and Government

Simultaneous Runway Use Circular Released

The FAA has released Advisory Circular 90-98, “Simultaneous Closely Spaced Parallel (SCSP) Operations at Airports Using Precision Runway Monitoring (PRM) S