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Charter & Fractional

Million Air Charter OK’d for RNP-AR Approaches

Million Air Dallas completed the validation flight requirements to obtain authority to conduct RNP-AR (formally SAAAR) approaches in its Gulfstream G450.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

EMS Aviation’s Aspire Gaining in Popularity

EMS Aviation, now a Honeywell company, is continuing to find customers for its Aspire 200 LG data connectivity system.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Otonomy Offers Answers To Ground Security

As more and more business and private jets travel farther abroad, often to airports where ground security is minimal at best and nonexistent at worst, Oton
Cabin Interior and Electronics

BaySys Moves To Ku-Band Broadband

Independent completion and refurbishment center BaySys Technologies of Melfa, Va., has concluded that service over a Ku-band satellite system “provides a s
Cabin Interior and Electronics

This Chameleon Stands Out

Chameleon Products has added a new dimension–a third dimension, to be more accurate. The new product–Visionairy–was created to introduce 3-D images into th
Cabin Interior and Electronics

ViaSat Adds South America To High-speed Internet Coverage

ViaSat has completed the addition of its Yonder high-speed Internet coverage to Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and surrounding areas. V
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Field Aviation Delivers Executive Q400s

Toronto-based Field Aviation has delivered two Bombardier Q400s in a corporate shuttle reconfiguration to Avitrade Belgium, which will operate them on beha
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Aviation Fabricators Goes Hawker with Cabin Upgrades

Aviation Fabricators has received an STC approval for its arm-ledge/table design for the Hawker Beechcraft King Air C90, E90, F90 and 200. The package is d
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Cordner’s BAe 146/Avro RJ Conversion Mining for Business

Cordner Aviation Group made its first
Cabin Interior and Electronics

RDT Introduces Tempus IC Telemedicine Breakthrough

London-based RDT, a telemedicine products specialist, has introduced its new Tempus IC, a small, lightweight remote medical “assistant” that RDT claims wil
Training and Workforce

ATR Opens Training Center in Paris

ATR opened a new pilot training center in Paris last month.
Aircraft

Bombardier Breaks Into Indian Market with Q400s

Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet took delivery of its fourth Q400 NextGen on September 7 and planned to deploy it late last month along with three others i
Aircraft

Third Trans States Landing Accident in Ottawa Raises Questions About Runway Design

Authorities in Canada are investigating a September 4 runway excursion at Ottawa International Airport involving a Trans States Airlines Embraer ERJ 145–th
Aircraft

ATR Racks Up Orders for 72-600s

ATR collected orders for a total of 19 new ATR 72-600s from two customers last month, one of which also announced plans to lease another nine of the Pratt
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Embraer To Sell Lineage 1000 Green

In a departure from its earlier policy of doing all Lineage 1000 cabin completion work in-house, Brazilian OEM Embraer is now offering a green variant of t

Signature Adds Affiliate Program for FBOs

Signature Flight Support launched a new program, dubbed Signature Select, that allows independent FBOs to use its same systems, service and safety
Rotorcraft

Sikorsky X2 Test Pilot Recognized

Kevin Bredenbeck, the pilot who flew Sikorsky’s X2 technology demonstrator last year to an unofficial speed record for conventional helicopters

Goodrich Acquires Winslow Life Raft

Goodrich yesterday completed its acquisition of Lake Suzy, Fla.-based Winslow Marine Products, a provider of life rafts to the business aviation
Sustainability and Environment

TAG Aviation Expands at Farnborough Airport

TAG Aviation expects to complete construction of a new three-bay hangar complex at the London-area Farnborough Airport next month.

Helicopter Crashes in East River with Five On Board

The NTSB has launched a Go-Team to investigate the crash of a Bell 206 tour helicopter into the East River in New York City.
Rotorcraft

Eurocopter Plans Higher Speeds with X3 Compound

Eurocopter has entirely opened the flight envelope of its X3 compound helicopter (F-ZXXX), Jean-Michel Billig, Eurocopter executive vice president
Avionics

Javad GPS May Save LightSquared's Bacon

Can GPS and LightSquared coexist? Within the civil and military GPS community, the answer has been emphatically and unequivocally
Regulations and Government

California Avgas Lawsuit on Temporary Hold

After hearing arguments for more than two hours yesterday, a California Federal Judge has postponed until next week any preliminary rulings on
Charter & Fractional

October Air Charter Demand Looking Flat

Demand for charter flights during October looks set to remain somewhat flat, according to the latest projections from online charter portal Avinode
Regulations and Government

European Aviation Emissions Scheme Draws More Flak

Opposition to the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) continued to gain airspeed and altitude last week
Rotorcraft

First Hybrid Helicopter Achieves Maiden Flight

Eurocopter announced today that it has flown a “hybrid” AS350 Ecureuil/AStar, a production helicopter that combines a turboshaft internal combustion engine
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Aircraft

Boeing Forecasts 20-year Market for 7,530 New Airplanes in North America

Boeing forecasts demand for 7,530 airplanes in North America
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Rotorcraft

New ‘Quiet’ Periods enforced at Paris Toussus Business Airport

Paris Toussus-le-Noble airport has been subject to new noise-abatement rules since August 15, thus limiting traffic in response to complaints from local re
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