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A Gulfstream IISP (for Special Performance–GIIs equipped with Aviation Partners’ winglets) set a world speed record December 15 on its way from Los Angeles

When is a Gulfstream II or III not a Stage 2 aircraft? When it gets a Stage 3 hush kit.

Four Embraer Legacy Executive twinjets have joined Cleveland-based fractional operator Flight Options to provide owners with a large-cabin aircraft to supp

In the first 11 months of last year, the four largest fractional aircraft operators hired just 186 pilots, compared with 997 in the same time frame in 2002

There are typically fewer business jet accidents each year than turboprop mishaps and that distinction didn’t change last year.

The FAA has scheduled several “fact finding” informal meetings to solicit information from operators and others concerning proposed revisions to Los Angele

In about a year Central Japan International Airport is scheduled to open, after which Nagoya Airport will focus on general aviation.

A new term might soon join the lexicon of the FAA–“Complex STC.” According to the FAA, there have been STC-approved installations that have been “inappropr

The FAA last month issued three separate airworthiness alerts on the TBM 700 turboprop single.

The average price of a gallon of jet-A at U.S.

Archie Trammell, former magazine editor turned radar and convective weather expert, has added a bimonthly online magazine to supplement his long-running ra

CHC Helicopter of St.

This month NBAA continues a series of seminars on Part 91 Subpart K, the new rule that regulates fractional operations.

The German government gave the green light to sell to the public 74.9 percent of DFS, the agency operating the country’s ATC system.

The Transportation Security Administration is allowing operators to increase progressively the time for which international waivers are valid.

A jury ordered Universal Avionics to pay Honeywell $5.5 million in damages for violating a patent related to Honeywell’s original (pre-“enhanced”) GPWS.

The Gulfstream 500 received FAA type certification last month, and customer deliveries of the business jet are scheduled to start early this year.

As reported last month in AIN, under FAA requirements civil jets must be equipped with ELTs starting this month.

All subsonic jet and transport-category airplanes (those with an mtow of 12,500 pounds or more) for which application of a new type design is submitted on

Raytheon Aircraft teamed with AeroMech to develop an RVSM solution for most of the Beechcraft King Air fleet and has STCs for the King Air 200, 300 and 350

A Pilatus PC-12 that lost power at an altitude of about 6,000 feet made a deadstick landing December 14 on four-lane Highway 933 North in the midst of a co

Landing overruns substantially damaged two Gulfstream IVs and a Falcon 20 in the period between November 29 and December 5.

David Stone, formerly deputy chief of staff at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and security director for Los Angeles International Airport

The DOT in its advance NPRM asks the public to comment on the following questions:(1) How might customers and passengers benefit from the infor

In an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published today, the DOT is seeking input from interested parties on a 2006 NTSB recommendation calling

In response to a four-year old NTSB safety recommendation stemming from the Jan.

Commenting on this week’s resignation of Mike Redenbaugh as president of Bell Helicopter and his departure from the company, Lewis Campbell, chairman, pres

Gulfstream delivered 113 green jets last year, 27 percent more than the 89 shipped in 2005 and exceeding by 12 the previous record of 101 deliveries set in

With record deliveries, orders and backlogs, last year was an “incredible year” for Cessna, said Lewis Campbell, chairman, president and CEO of parent comp

U.S.-registered turbine business aircraft accident numbers were mixed last year, according to aviation safety analyst Robert E.