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Hubbard Hopes Tougher Line on Noise Will Boost Case for Hush Kits
Hubbard Aviation Technologies offers its QS3 hush kits for Gulfstream IIs and IIIs and other older aircraft that will have to meet  ICAO Stage 3 noise standards after Dec. 31, 2015.
Hubbard Aviation Technologies offers its QS3 hush kits for Gulfstream IIs and IIIs and other older aircraft that will have to meet ICAO Stage 3 noise standards after Dec. 31, 2015.

Tightening regulation of airport noise is set to boost interest in hush-kitting older business jets, according to Hubbard Aviation Technologies, which will demonstrate its QS3 system for Gulfstream IIs and IIIs at EBACE 2012 in Geneva next week. Earlier this year the U.S. Congress passed legislation that will ban any civil aircraft that does not meet ICAO Stage 3 noise standards after Dec. 31, 2015, and, according to the Minnesota-based company’s president, Bernie Weiss, operators of older aircraft are set to face increased pressure globally.