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A meeting late last month between the FAA’s top regulatory officials and business aviation interests will likely result in renewed emphasis on new and exis

Next month, a Connecticut jury will hear a $3.5 million claim against Executive Jet Management (EJM) in a case that is already sending a chill through the

Members of the National Association of Air Traffic Specialists (NAATS), the labor union that represents more than 2,700 FAA employees who staff the agency’

Last year’s slump in commercial aircraft sales and employment was not as sharp as predicted and not nearly as deep as the industry experienced 10 years ago

Wire strikes–long the bane of low-altitude rotorcraft and agplane operations–could be reduced if a system now undergoing testing on both sides of the Atlan

Busy isn’t an adequate description of life at Teterboro and Van Nuys Airports on a Friday evening the week before Thanksgiving or Christmas.

While the NTSB determined that “unnecessary and too aggressive” rudder inputs by the first officer broke the vertical stabilizer off American Airlines Flig

Air Routing International recently made several enhancements to its Flight Manager online program.

Performing intentional stalls at too low an altitude and the flight instructor’s “inadequate supervision” were blamed by the NTSB for the crash on Septembe

Barry Eccleston wants to take Honeywell back into the commercial helicopter business in a big way, while at the same time finding another airframe on which

Interested parties will have more time to comment on the FAA’s proposal to require all air-tour operators to be certified under air carrier regulations.

Raisbeck Engineering has started Phase 3 FAA certification flight tests of enhanced performance modifications for the Learjet 35.

Alpharetta, Ga.-based Flight Display Systems named Tom Austin Jr.

When the national threat level was raised to code orange (high) on December 21, most people in general aviation took it in stride.

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association has launched a campaign to extend the accelerated-depreciation schedule on new capital equipment–including b

The 2004 Omnibus Appropriations Bill passed by the Senate last month failed to include funding for general aviation relief authorized by Vision 100–The Cen

Chinese investment company D’Long confirmed that the development program for a 70- to 95-seat family of regional airliners acquired from the defunct Fairch

Flight delays resulting from ATC problems fell to their lowest level in a decade last year, said Eurocontrol.

In the fourth quarter of last year, Gulfstream Aerospace reported receiving orders for 34 aircraft, the largest number it has ever received in a three-mont

With the exception of Bombardier Flexjet, 13 major and minor players in the fractional industry continued their growth cycle last year, according to Wichit

Bombardier’s fractional aircraft ownership division, Flexjet, is now operating the first Challenger 300s to enter service.

A May 11 trial date has been set for the start of a lawsuit in which four former Flight Options pilots allege they were fired because of their union-organi

The FAA proposes replacing the current designee program with a new one that expands the functions that designees may perform, permits non-FAA-certified ind

Gulfstream is reportedly preparing a new model to succeed the G300, reliable industry sources have informed AIN.

Lockheed 1329-23E JetStar, Houston, May 15, 2004–On final approach to William P.

NBAA has redrawn the five geographic areas served by its five regional representatives to create a new central region that will be assigned to former assoc

Smaller aircraft–specifically regional jets–are often blamed for delays in the National Airspace System, said Mesa Air Group chairman and CEO Jonathan Orns

Fred Barth, former manager of flight control for AT&T, retired last spring after 27 years with the Morristown, N.J.-based flight department.

The survey, with a base of more than 675 flight departments, presents a set of baseline data broken down by characteristics of the flight department and th

At an oversight meeting on the President’s proposed FY2006 budget for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), subcommittee chairman Hal Rogers (R