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Yankee Pacific Aerospace has merged two of its holdings– Executive Aircraft Completions (EAC) and Cabin Innovations– into a single division called Cabin In

The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association’s Aviation Maintenance & Management Symposium, to be held in Dallas/Fort Worth on March 6 and 7 at th

NATA is warning members that new air quality regulations issued by the California Environmental Protection Agency may lead to similar restrictions in other

The eighth production Quest Kodiak turboprop single was handed over to JAARS last month, marking the first delivery to a missionary or humanitarian organiz

Regional fractional share operator Executive AirShare (EAS) announced that it will be selling Phenom 100 shares for $299,500 for a one-sixteenth share with

Cessna has delivered the first Citation XLS+ to an undisclosed U.S.-based customer.

Rising demand for business aviation in the Middle East and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is flying in the face of a decline in the West, acc

The crash of a Régional Fokker 100 shortly after takeoff from Pau, southwest France, in January 2007 was caused by undetected ground ice and excessive rota

Long-time veteran FAA executive Lynn Osmus has been named acting FAA Administrator, replacing acting FAA Administrator Robert Sturgell, who resigned Januar

Microturbo’s new auxiliary power unit, dubbed the e-APU, made its first run on a test bench in Toulouse, France, late in December.

Aviation jobs listing service JSFirm reported record postings for aviation professionals last year, with more than 4,000 company members, 60,000 individual

Women in Corporate Aviation (WCA) will be awarding a $2,000 career scholarship at the Women in Aviation International (WAI) conference in Atlanta, February

JetDirect Aviation will sell its wholly owned aircraft charter subsidiaries Sunset Aviation and Presidential Jets to their original ownership groups and ha

To adapt to current economic conditions, Dallas-based fractional provider Bombardier Flexjet last month unveiled two new jet-card products.

A nearly four-month-old strike at Vought Aircraft’s plant in Nashville ended last month with the ratification of a new contract by members of the Internati

Executive charter firm Empire Aviation has started operating a pair of Cessna 208 Grand Caravans on scheduled flights connecting Abu Dhabi International Ai

Dassault early last month confirmed to AIN that the Falcon 2000LX, a winglet-equipped 2000EX, is slated for certification next month, foll

Despite reports indicating that operators were flying less in 2008, the number of business aircraft accidents increased from the previous year, according t

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Dassault Falcon Service has expanded its maintenance facility at Paris Le Bourget Airport.

Duncan Aviation has added a new satellite avionics facility at Hill Aircraft and Leasing at Atlanta Fulton County Airport.

A DOT Office of Inspector General audit found that while the FAA is investing billions of dollars in new technology, it hasn’t kept up with facilities need

European low-cost air-taxi pioneer Blink has taken delivery of three more Cessna Citation Mustangs.

France-based Daher Group last month confirmed that French and German antitrust authorities have approved its taking over 70 percent of Socata, with EADS re

Dassault in late December downgraded its 2008 delivery planning for Falcons, citing new FAA “constraints” and stricter enforcement of regulations.

UBS Investment Research’s January 6 business jet update indicates that flight activity, measured by takeoffs and landings, was 10 percent lower in November

A wide-ranging coalition of aviation interests that includes both general aviation and the nation’s airlines has proposed a $4 billion stimulus package tha

French civil aviation authority DGAC, Eurocopter and the French association of EMS doctors (AFHSH) late last year tested a satnav IFR route between two hos

Just as business aviation was girding for a fight over a Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) amendment that would have forced companies receiving TARP fu