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Maintenance and Modifications

Dunlop wheels and carbon brakes for Gulfstream 500 and 550

Dunlop Aerospace braking systems has developed high-performance, next-generation wheels and carbon brakes for the G500 and G550.
Airports

Airports must improve image, N.J. group warns

Bob Checchio, president of the MidAtlantic Aviation Coalition (MAAC)–sponsor of the New Jersey Aviation Conference held last month in cooperation with the
Avionics

Weather data provider hones its service menuMeteorlogix targets bizav with mix of ground-based, airborne services

Weather data specialist Meteorlogix is stepping up efforts to get its line of aviation-related products out in front of corporate pilots.
Regulations and Government

RAA attempts to decode mixed signals from feds

RAA director of technical affairs Dave Lotterer knows perhaps as well as anyone that good intentions at the FAA don’t necessarily translate into sound acti
Charter & Fractional

Frax Ops Have Propensity for Runway Overruns

Of the few accidents that have occurred to fractional aircraft (none of them fatal), runway overruns are the most common.
Rotorcraft

Borgman To Retire

Sikorsky announced that company chairman Dean Borgman will retire in July.
FBOs

Keystone prospers in the nutmeg state

When it first opened at Waterbury-Oxford Airport, Conn., 20 years ago, Keystone Aviation consisted of one 15,000-sq-ft hangar and a passenger terminal.
ATC

Arinc and Aeromech Team on RVSM Equipment Upgrades

Arinc and Aeromech have announced plans to offer RVSM upgrade packages to owners and operators of Cessna Citations, Beechjets and Hawkers.
Aircraft

New Czech mate plans to revive former Let

Arising out of Moravan Aeroplanes’ purchase of the assets of bankrupt Let Kunovice in August is a new corporate entity called “Letecke Zavody,” or “LZ Airc
Aircraft

James Schuster: Raytheon Aircraft's turnaround man

James Schuster has been the chairman and CEO of Raytheon Aircraft since 2001, and is also an executive vice president of Raytheon Co.
Aircraft

In The Works: Gulfstream 450

Gulfstream Aerospace reports that the G450, an upgraded G400 with G550 avionics, is on track for FAA certification in the third quarter of this year.
Maintenance and Modifications

FedEx To Assist in Really Quiet GII/GIII Hush kit

FedEx has signed on to assist Really Quiet of Mojave, Calif., in the production, parts management and customer service of the latter company’s Stage 3 tran
FBOs

Signature breaks ground at Toulon

Signature Flight Support last month broke ground on a new facility at Toulon-Hyeres Airport in the south of France.
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier Opens Tucson Maintenance Base

Bombardier Aerospace expanded its U.S.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

GECAS’ RJ ultimatum backs pilots into corner

GE Capital Aviation Services has amplified threats to withdraw its regional jet financing deals with US Airways if pilots do not accept a revised letter of
Avionics

Software update packs more into FlightLogic

Recent improvements and upgrades to the software that drives Chelton’s FlightLogic synthetic-vision EFIS have been keeping the company’s R&D engineerin
Avionics

Amazing OLEDs could challenge LCDs

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), a revolutionary new technology being applied to the production of commercial flat-panel displays, took center stage a
Charter & Fractional

ExecuJet acquires charter business for new subsidiary

ExecuJet Aviation has acquired German charter operator Jet Connection Businessflight for an undisclosed sum.
FBOs

Cleveland FBO joins Apex network

Air Services at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport (CLE), has joined the nationwide Aviation Points Exchange (Apex) program.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Audio International Introduces Wireless Cabin

Audio International, a division of DeCrane Aircraft, announced the incorporation of an 802.11b wireless cabin access port into its full line of cabin-manag
ATC

Australia Opts for Nationwide ADS-B

At the end of March, Airservices Australia (the country’s privatized ATC provider) announced that it had contracted with Thales of France to provide ADS-B
Aircraft

Western aircraft finding new market in Russia

Rising oil prices and Europe’s ban on Soviet-era airliners have created a new market for western business jets in Russia.
Aircraft

AvCraft scraps plans to outsource 328Jet wings

AvCraft Aviation, the Leesburg, Va.-based parent company of Germany’s Fairchild Dornier, has decided to build the wings for the Dornier 328Jet at its plant
Maintenance and Modifications

FAA Diamond Award Of Excellence Goes To Byerly Aviation And Keystone Helicopter

Byerly Aviation of Springfield, Ill., and Keystone Helicopter of West Chester, Pa., have both received the FAA’s prestigious Diamond Award of Excellence fo
Airports

Airport mixes military, airline and GA

Linemen at Pride Flight Services in Alexandria, La., need to know their stuff.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

FAA, IRS don’t regulate in the same language

“The FAA, and the IRS…they really don’t think alike,” began tax attorney Gary Garofalo, first speaker at the NBAA Federal Aviation Tax Forum in Arlington,
Avionics

EMS Technologies Installs High-speed-data Satcom in a Helicopter

In what is claimed to be a first, EMS Technologies last month said that an AMT-50 multi-channel satcom antenna and HSD-128 high-speed data terminal have be
Regulations and Government

Senator calls for more R&D funding

The chairman of the Senate aviation subcommittee has called on his colleagues in Congress and the entire aerospace industry to make the restoration of fede
Charter & Fractional

Avantair expands its all-Avanti fractional

When Steven Santo announced the creation of a fractional ownership program with an aircraft fleet consisting solely of Italian-built Avanti turboprop twins
Safety

Medical Assistancefor Small Jet Cabins

An airborne telemedical emergency-assistance kit is an item often overlooked in the interior completion and refurbishment process, particularly on smaller