Content Archive: September 2006

Regulations and Government

More time to meet SIC type rating

Pilots will have several more months to comply with the new second-in-command (SIC) type rating rule.

Helinet is eye in the sky

Helinet is a company well known in Hollywood circles.

Sales tally here so far tops $620 million

If sales are the standard by which the success of an aviation trade show is measured, Heli-Expo 2006 will go down as an unqualified triumph, with announced
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Texas Aeromed Op Gets IFR Approach OK

Air medical service operator CareFlite, based in Grand Prairie, Texas, received final approval for its network of 17 IFR approach procedures to hospitals w

Texas Aviation Services Seals the Deal

Texas Aviation Services president Timothy Woodard (left) and Ricardo Librija (center), director of EMS operations for Grupo Mexicano Aeronautica, signed an
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Airports

FAA floats idea of permanent Washington ADIZ

While many in general aviation were seeking to modify or eliminate the much-loathed Washington air defense identification zone (ADIZ), the FAA executed a 1

US Helicopter Boosts s-76 Fleet

US Helicopter, the operator due to launch a scheduled service linking Manhattan heliports with New York City airports (see yesterday’s edition of HAI C

HAI honors Katrina responders

In an unusual tribute for an unprecedented rescue mission, HAI has chosen to bestow the 2005 Igor I.

Firm opts for livewire detector

Safe Flight Instrument Corp.

Cowling tops off conversion

As unveilings go, it wasn’t in the quite same category as Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction.” But on the other hand, displaying a new engine cowling is