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Regulations and Government

Part 139 extends to small airports

A new final rule issued by the FAA last month will subject airports hosting scheduled flights in aircraft designed to hold between 10 and 30 passenger seat
Aircraft

Eclipse Woes Drive VLJ Forecast Downward

Germany-based aerospace consultant PMI-Media lowered its estimated very light jet (VLJ) delivery schedule for this year, based largely on production diffic
Engines

Harbin-Embraer sells first ERJ-145s

Harbin-Embraer–the manufacturing joint venture established in January last year by Brazil’s Embraer and AVIC II subsidiaries Harbin Aircraft and Hafei Avia
Regulations and Government

FAA Wants To Hear From You

The FAA has mailed out invitations to participate in its 2006 General Aviation and Part 135 Activity Survey.
Engines

Fairchild Dornier 328 and 728 get new leases on life

AvCraft CEO Ben Bartel in late January announced the restart of Dornier 328JET production at the company’s plant in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, just outside
Rotorcraft

Eurocopter dominates civil helo market

Eurocopter’s new boss believes that last year’s good sales figures should not hide the need for some changes in the company culture.
Rotorcraft

AB139: first flight impressions

fter flying the Bell/Agusta AB139, it is easy to see why Amedeo Caporaletti, president of Agusta and CEO of AgustaWestland, believes that this helicopter s
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier opens new service center in Dallas

In an effort to improve its customer support, Bombardier has opened a new service center at Dallas Love Field and allocated shares equaling one Learjet 45
ATC

Natca president searches for consensus with FAA

Unilaterally imposed work rules and the FAA reauthorization process are among the issues Pat Forrey, new president of the National Air Traffic Controllers
Rotorcraft

Progress being made in rotorcraft infrastructure

Progress is being made toward the goal of rotorcraft taking their place in the national transportation infrastructure, according to presenters at January’s
Rotorcraft

Rolls-Royce overhauls Model 250 service network

Rolls-Royce has introduced a new network of service centers that it claims offers “unprecedented” full-capability repair and overhaul (R&O) support to oper
Rotorcraft

UK leads improved Helideck Lighting Initiative

A research program commissioned by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has produced findings that could lead to safer night landings on offshore helideck
Rotorcraft

Bristow leads on EC 225

Bristow Helicopters has ordered two Eurocopter EC 225s, with a scheduled service entry of spring next year.
Rotorcraft

Jean Phelan remembered

Jean Ross Howard Phelan, a pioneering airplane and helicopter pilot, died early last month at the age of 87.
Rotorcraft

Civil tiltrotor designs fly in face of several challenges

Last June Bell/Agusta completed initial testing of its BA609 civil tiltrotor at Bell’s Fort Worth, Texas flight-test center.
Aircraft

Zonal Comfort System being installed in Boeing 767

The CTT Systems Zonal Comfort System has been ordered by Jet Aviation for a Boeing 767-300ER and is being installed as part of a major executive interior c
Aircraft

B/E Aerospace LED lighting approved for Citation 500

B/E Aerospace has received an STC for after-market installation of direct and indirect LED lighting in the Cessna Citation 500 series.
Aircraft

Midcoast offers mid-cabin door for Falcon 900

Midcoast Aviation of Cahokia, Ill., has received a special regulatory exemption for installation of a mid-cabin door on the Falcon 900B and 900EX.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Aircraft Interiors Expo 2004 anticipates record turnout

With more than 340 exhibitors signed up by late February, organizers of the fifth Aircraft Interiors Expo 2004 (scheduled to be held from March 30 to April
Aircraft

Jet Aviation delivers Middle Eastern customer’s second BBJ

Jet Aviation in Basel, Switzerland, has delivered a second Boeing Business Jet to an undisclosed Middle Eastern customer.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Heads up provides Citation X and Excel LED lighting

Heads Up Technologies of Carrollton, Texas, is providing upwash, downwash, aisle and toe-kick LED lighting as standard equipment in Cessna’s Citation X, XL
FBOs

FBO Survey 2007

When business aviation is booming, as it is now, nowhere is it more evident than at FBOs, the place at airports where everybody ends up hanging out, workin
Cabin Interior and Electronics

MacCarthy Interiors moves to New Gatwick facility

Business aircraft cabin specialist MacCarthy Interiors has moved its headquarters to a new and larger facility near Gatwick Airport, about 35 miles south o
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Ultra and QinetiQ developing new quiet cabin technology

Two UK-based specialists in the noise-reduction field are developing new technology that promises a substantial decrease in cabin noise.
Training and Workforce

SimPro USA looks to change ‘Sin City’ into a ‘Sim City’

A recent indicator of the business climate malaise that California’s new governor has vowed to reverse is the move of flight simulator facility operator Si
Airports

PHX runway project is under way

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) completed the first segment of a three-phase runway maintenance and improvement project last month.
Airports

Comments due on noise plans for LIT and TOL

The FAA is reviewing proposed noise-compatibility programs submitted for Little Rock National Airport/Adams Field (LIT), Ark., and Toledo Express Airport (
Charter & Fractional

Charter operator counts on local FBO

Lowe Aviation, a Phillips 66 Aviation Performance Center at Middle Georgia Regional Airport (MCN), Macon, Ga., is the hometown fueler for medium-size inter
Regulations and Government

Mayor opposes lengthening runway

According to NBAA, Warwick, R.I.