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Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier moves to support team concept

Recognizing the complexity customers face when they have to work with multiple people during maintenance, Bombardier has created customer support teams tha
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

AIA Conference

This year’s Aviation Insurance Association (AIA) conference, held from April 28 to May 1 in Palm Springs, Calif., convened in the atmosphere of an aircraft
Safety

Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar

As its name implies, the Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar, hosted by the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) and NBAA, focused on the common theme of improving
Safety

FAA turns up the heat on icing issue

Summer is almost upon us in the northern hemisphere, but the FAA is embroiled in two significant icing-related issues: a proposed new rule for when de-ice
Airports

Changes urged for flights to DCA

District of Columbia congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) used a House aviation subcommittee hearing on the Essential Air Service program (EAS)
Regulations and Government

Alphabets question value of screening for airport workers

House and Senate bills to require all airport employees with access to secure and sterile areas of an airport to undergo metal detection screening in the s
Aircraft

2007 Paris Air Show Preview

This year poses a stiff test for the debate about whether business aircraft manufacturers need to be at both the annual European Business Aviation Conventi
Aircraft

Embraer’s Phenom program accelerating

Embraer’s May 2005 announcement that the company was launching two new business aircraft–the Phenom 100 very light jet and the Phenom 300 light jet–certain
Aircraft

In The Works: Eclipse Aviation Model 500

It’s been more than seven years since Vern Raburn launched the Eclipse 500, a small, low-cost very light jet that he predicted would bring “disruptive tech
Aircraft

In The Works: Bell/Agusta Aerospace BA609

Early in the second quarter, Bell/Agusta Aerospace reported that the BA609 civil tiltrotor program had logged 137 flights and 159 flight hours on ship 001,
Aircraft

In The Works: Evektor EV-55

Evektor has begun prototype assembly of the EV-55 Outback, a nine- to 14-passenger unpressurized turboprop.
Avionics

‘NextGen’ avionics could cost users up to $20 billion

While preparing for traffic to double and perhaps even triple in the coming decades, the FAA has made clear that putting up the ground-based infrastructure
Avionics

Special Report: Major Cockpit Retrofits

The scene was straight out of a science fiction movie.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

As expectations rise, IFE in RJs now far from far-fetched

Availability of in-flight entertainment (IFE) ranks among the top factors that influence the loyalty of passengers, who have become increasingly aware of t
Avionics

Gulfstream Chooses Collins HUD

Rockwell Collins’s new HGS-5860 is the first head-up display (HUD) with an LCD projector to be certified on a business jet–Dassault’s Falcon 7X.
Aircraft

Grob Optimistic on SPn, Opens U.S. Facility

Grob Aerospace, which last month at EBACE in Geneva showcased its six-passenger fuselage mockup of the Grob SPn light business jet with a new cabin interio
Training and Workforce

CAE’s Falcon 7X simulator replicates the real world

Flight training provider CAE SimuFlite won’t hold the grand opening ceremony commemorating the start of operations at its Northeast Training Center in Morr
Regulations and Government

Aviation Emissions Likely Kill Hundreds a Year

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey said last month in a speech to an emissions colloquium at ICAO in Quebec that “aircraft greenhouse-gas emissions might beco
Aircraft

Dassault Falcon 7X gets FAA and EASA approval

On April 27 Dassault hosted a formal ceremony at its Bordeaux facility to celebrate FAA and EASA certification of the Falcon 7X.
Safety

CharterX, Wyvern Develop New Safety System

Charter safety auditors CharterX and Wyvern announced a new product last month aimed at ensuring customers receive the most up-to-date safety information a
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Rockwell Collins To Provide CJ4 Cabin System

Cessna expanded its relationship with Rockwell Collins last month when it announced the avionics maker will provide the digital cabin management system for
Training and Workforce

European Phenom Training Center Selected

Embraer has selected the CAE Burgess Hill, UK training center as the European training location for the Phenom 100 VLJ and Phenom 300 light jet.
Aircraft

Hawker Beechcraft lands major order

The newly formed Hawker Beechcraft announced its first fleet sale at EBACE in Geneva last month.
Aircraft

Dassault updates 2000EX, adds winglets

Dassault revealed a new Falcon 2000 with winglets at EBACE.
Aircraft

Two new king airs added to fleet q

Hawker Beechcraft hopes to continue to stave off competition from VLJs with two new upgrades–announced last month at EBACE–to the stalwart King Air turbopr
FBOs

Encore FBO adds Frederick Aviation

The growing Encore FBO chain on May 18 added a seventh FBO, the former Frederick Aviation at Frederick Airport in Maryland.
ATC

FAA expands airspace flow program

The FAA said last month that this summer it will greatly expand the airspace flow program (AFP), an initiative it implemented last summer to better manage
Aircraft

Eclipse maintains VLJ lead with new order

Eclipse Aviation’s announcement of a 180-airplane order at EBACE signaled the launch of a very light jet (VLJ) air-taxi operation that will be based in Tur
Accidents

Legacy CVR helps pilot's defense

Cockpit voice recordings leaked late last month from the Embraer Legacy that collided with the Gol Airlines 737 over the Amazon last September indicate tha