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Airports

UK’s Oxford Airport Sold to Investors

Signature Flight Support’s parent BBA Aviation has sold Oxford Airport in the UK to private investment group OA Acquisitions for £40 million ($80 million).

Gulfstream Has ’Best Quarter Ever Experienced’

Nicholas Chabraja, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics, the parent company of Gulfstream and its General Dynamics Aviation Services cousin, said yesterday
Aircraft

Phenom 100 Takes to the Sky

The Phenom 100, Embraer’s four-place, $2.98 million entry into the very light jet market, flew for the first time this morning from São Jose dos Campos, Br
Rotorcraft

Bulletin: bane for operators, boon for repair stations?

A recent FAA airworthiness handbook bulletin that aims to clarify the maintenance requirements for Part 135 aircraft might not be a good thing for some ope

People in Aviation: August 2004

Ronald Zilberbrand resigned from Chicago-based JSSI International, the company that he co-founded.

Rhode Island repeals Av taxes

A coalition of general aviation interests was successful in getting aircraft sales and use taxes repealed in Rhode Island when Gov.

Rx for tax headaches: LAS

The tax committee of the NBAA will host two events in conjunction with its 57th annual meeting and convention in Las Vegas in October.

FAA HQ now has 'wright' stuff

The two buildings that house the offices of the FAA in Washington have been named after the Wright brothers.

Vision 100 speeds airport projects

When President Bush signed the FAA reauthorization act (generally known as Vision 100) late last year, the bill called on the agency to work with airports,
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Hughes 369 crashes in Alabama

Hughes 369A, Moulton, Ala., May 13, 2007 – The commercial pilot was killed and the helicopter was destroyed when it crashed in the Bankhea

Taking names is the name of the game

As of June 23, air carriers have begun using unique carrier codes when electronically transmitting advance passenger information system data to Customs & B

What's your number?

That’s what the Trenton-Mercer County Airport (TTN) is asking, and Mercer County plans to make public the tail numbers of aircraft that operate at the airp

New York legislators continue to push mandate of general airport security

New York state legislators are moving forward on a bill that would impose burdensome restrictions for aircraft owners and operators at general aviation air
Training and Workforce

Dispatcher or scheduler? What's the difference:

According to those who know, anywhere from about $5,000 to $10,000 a year more for the dispatcher.
Falcon dispatchers
Safety

NBAA Reveals Possible Details of New Security Program

NBAA today unveiled some long-anticipated potential changes to GA security.
Accidents

Brazilian Tragedy Sparks Int’l Ops Considerations

A week after the tragedy in Brazil that killed nearly 200 people when a TAM Linhas Aereas A320 went off the end of the runway at Congonhas airport in São P
Avionics

Bendix/King Unveils WAAS Navigator and Retrofit PFD

On Sunday at EAA AirVenture Honeywell’s Bendix/King division unveiled two new products that are designed to win back market share from rival Garmin.
Regulations and Government

Airline Maneuvering: It’s Déjà vu All Over Again

At a Senate hearing on FAA financing last week, Delta Air Lines COO Jim Whitehurst, speaking for the Air Transport Association (ATA), reiterated one of ATA
Aircraft

Eclipse Courts the Single Crowd

Eclipse Aviation surprised the hordes assembled for the opening of this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh show with a new four-place single-engine Eclipse Conc
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Maintenance providers and customers now meet via the internet

AvQuotes.com uses the Internet to match people seeking maintenance with more than 50 maintenance facilities.
Aircraft

'Green people' aid 7X progress

Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 7X business jet, with a fly-by-wire, side-stick control system, promises to redefine the word “new.” At the Dassault Falcon Jet

Falcon owners seminar focuses on support

A record attendance of more than 1,100 Falcon business jet owners, operators and maintenance technicians at the 25th Worldwide Maintenance & Operations Sem
Charter & Fractional

Eurofly acquires its first ACJ, plans a second

EUROFLY ACQUIRES ITS FIRST ACJ, PLANS A SECONDEurofly, Italy’s largest business aviation operator, has signed a contract for its first Airbus Corpora

'Red marks' confound accident investigators

Twenty-two months after the crash of a Cessna 208B Caravan Cargomaster following its night takeoff from Mobile, Ala., NTSB investigators still appear no cl

NBAA mini-show lands at DuPage

Billing the event as a mini version of its annual show, NBAA brought 73 vendors to DuPage Airport on June 24 to present to Chicagoland a range of business
Regulations and Government

GAMA Executive Retires after 25 Years

Ron Swanda, who was the first representative of the U.S.

Corporate flight attendants pressure NBAA to back more stringent training requirements

While the 2004 Flight Attendants Conference went smoothly, below the surface was a building dissatisfaction on the part of some flight attendants with what
Regulations and Government

Spotlight Shining on NextGen

Several recent developments have begun to allay concerns that the FAA’s NextGen ATC modernization effort was stagnating because of lack of direction and se

Flight attendants focus on health and safety

The ninth Annual NBAA Flight Attendant Conference in Anaheim, Calif., in mid-June broke no records for attendance.