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Rockwell Collins’s Airshow 4000 v2 moving map has gotten a major facelift, and the company brought in some of California’s top video game programmers to ma

Interior Development Group is staying busy, thanks in part to some substantial government contracts.

At the opening session of the Aircraft Interiors Expo 2009 in Hamburg last month, a panel of industry executives acknowledged the challenges facing the int

The two Republican senators from Kansas joined a growing chorus in support of business aviation when they took President Obama to task for “misguided and r

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Congress seems to be getting fed up with the slow pace of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) rollout.

In late March, Congress approved legislation to extend FAA funding from March 31 until September 30, the end of Fiscal Year 2009.

The governor of Montana is the latest to weigh in on a controversial Transportation Security Administration (TSA) directive that would impose new security

More than doubling its service space to 110,000 sq ft, Dassault Aircraft Services (DAS) Little Rock recently completed an expansion project at its Adams Fi

Flight management systems have never been considered simple pieces of equipment, but the technology is quickly evolving beyond basic navigation and perform

Stars & Stripes Air Tours, which launched sightseeing operations early last year out of Boulder City, Nev., filed for reorganization under Chapter 11

Two veteran American Airlines pilots, who in the words of the NTSB were “not having a good day,” nevertheless used “some exceptional stick-and-rudder skill

The number-two prototype Saras twin-turboprop crashed on March 6 in India during its 49th test flight, killing the three test pilots on board.

A UK-based broker is seeking to capitalize on surplus capacity among Cessna Citation Mustang operators by offering a variety of fractional ownership and pe

Although the downturn in the economy has dampened the near-term prospects for the general aviation industry, demand for business aviation will expand over

The FAA relented and on April 24 made its entire birdstrike database available to the public.

Farnborough Aircraft has been rescued from bankruptcy by an as yet undisclosed new investor, who bought the company’s assets and cleared its debts for an u

Bend, Ore.-based Epic Aircraft launched a pair of turbine twins at the Sun ’n’ Fun Fly-In in Lakeland, Fla., last month.

For the upcoming thunderstorm season, the FAA is changing the severe weather avoidance plan (Swap) to cut down on gate holds and takeoff delays associated

A House aviation subcommittee hearing held last month on helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) safety sought to address the high accident rate, which

Piper Aircraft president and CEO James Bass said the effect of the U.S.

Dassault on April 23 received EASA certification for its Falcon 2000LX, a winglet-equipped version of the 2000EX.

Former American Airlines chief Robert Crandall’s plans to blanket the Northeast U.S.

Operational threat identification and risk mitigation remain a primary concern for those who operate internationally.

The greatest strength of the International Operators Conference (IOC) since its inception has been that it combines a review of the basics of international

Among the major business aviation industry employers–aircraft manufacturers and primary vendors–total job losses due to furloughs, layoffs and attrition ar

The House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold hearings next week on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (Aces), which revamps energy pol

The FAA has adopted and/or proposed a series of Airworthiness Directives (ADs) that will affect operators of Honeywell ALF502/507 and TFE731 engines and Su

Nearly 50 customers have completed Phenom 100 pilot training at Embraer CAE Flight Training Services, a joint venture between CAE and Embraer, CAE told AIN

Rockwell Collins’s Venue cabin management system is only just finding its way into production business aircraft, but the 3-D moving-map display is already