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Rotorcraft

VFR Route Chart Updated

HAI affiliate the Eastern Region Helicopter Council worked with the FAA to update the New York City VFR helicopter route chart.
Rotorcraft

Sikorsky To Open New Facility

Sikorsky Aircraft plans to open a new engineering center in Fort Worth, Texas, next year to support the company’s growing U.S.
Rotorcraft

Pilots Plan Round-the-World Trip

Helicopter pilots Jennifer Murray, 66, and Colin Bodill, 55, intend to take off on December 5 for a second attempt to fly round the world via the South and
Rotorcraft

Indian Hospitals Want EMS Helos

Several major hospitals in India have sought permission to launch helicopter emergency medical services (EMS), Indian news Web site The Hindu reported last
Rotorcraft

Chile Orders Four A109s

The Carabineros de Chile has ordered four AgustaWestland A109 Powers for law enforcement, search-and-rescue and transport operations.
Rotorcraft

ExxonMobil Stops Chartering AS 332s

A Eurocopter Super Puma crashed in the South China Sea, 103 miles off the Malaysian coast, on November 5, Malaysian national news agency Bernama reported l
Aircraft

Kingfisher Airlines brews up ‘value-added’ recipe for flying

Aviation International News traveled from Delhi to Mumbai for the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) conference on Kingfisher Airlines, because
Aircraft

India’s airlines confident but wary

Remember the days not too long ago, when any aspiring young computer whiz with a domain name and a smile could convince a venture capitalist to invest six

Emerging Markets: Are Russia and China really ready to join the party?

The sales and marketing gurus at the world’s major business jet manufacturers have long counted Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America as “potential” growt

How much do pilots make?

According to recent salary surveys by NBAA and the National Air Transportation Association (NATA), the pilots who fly the biggest jets for the biggest comp
FBOs

FlightAware offers enhanced information for FBO staffers

FlightAware.com, the Web site that allows anyone to track domestic IFR flights from takeoff to touchdown, is releasing two new online products aimed primar
Maintenance and Modifications

Canada approves 605 avionics

Bombardier Aerospace has announced that on October 5 Transport Canada granted approval for the new Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics suite and aircraft
Aircraft

The PiperJet begins a new era for 70-year-old maker

Piper Aircraft president and CEO Jim Bass yesterday unveiled the company’s next generation aircraft–the single-engine, six-seat PiperJet, an airplane price
Aircraft

Piper’s plans to reveal VLJ today; Cirrus backs off talk of a jet ‘soon’

While Piper Aircraft is poised to unveil a new compact jet at its booth (No.
Aircraft

Piaggio’s got jet fever, too, promises it’s ‘very serious’

Piaggio Aero Industries chief executive Josè DiMase yesterday confirmed industry speculation that the Italian manufacturer is indeed developing a business

Piper unwraps a jet at NBAA

Launching a new era for the 70-year-old lightplane manufacturer, Piper Aircraft president and CEO Jim Bass last month took the wraps off the design mockup
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India begins to establish a business aviation network

As demand for commercial air travel increases in India, business aviation entrepreneurs are clamoring for position in a classic chicken-and-egg scenario.

Enstrom seeks growth capital

Enstrom Helicopter Corp.

Chelton EFIS: TAWS and more

A very sore-throated EMS pilot named Mark Graveline, who flies a Bell 206 equipped with the Chelton Flight Systems FlightLogic EFIS for Air Methods of San

Bristow expands brand, fleet

Bristow Group celebrated its new brand identity with the unveiling of a redecorated S-76 at the Sikorsky Aircraft booth (No.

Robinson plans test of R44 autopilot

Robinson Helicopter president and CEO Frank Robinson said yesterday that he is planning within the next few weeks to flight test an R44 Raven equipped with

Enstrom goes global

When HAI Convention News reported on Enstrom Helicopter at last year’s Heli-Expo, the Menominee, Mich.

NTSB report urges TAWS for all EMS, Part 135 helicopters

Terrain awareness and warning systems (TAWS) designed specifically for helicopters may soon be in hot demand, following the January 25 release of a report
Charter & Fractional

ARG/US versus CharterX/Wyvern

Two leading providers of charter industry information are embroiled in a heated legal dispute focused on the alleged acquisition and misuse of proprietary