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FAA Fires Two Controllers, Institutes New Procedures for First Lady and Vice President

DOT Secretary Ray LaHood announced last night that the FAA has fired two air traffic controllers after

AIN Blog: The Idea Is Not To Try To Fool People into Thinking They Aren’t Flying

I’ve been covering the Aircraft Interiors Expo for AIN since the first show opened in Cannes, France, a decade ago, and earlier this month, I covere

Air Strikes Cannot Prevent Stalemate in Libya; Typhoon Makes Combat Debut

NATO-led air operations over Libya have failed to prevent a s
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Maintenance and Modifications

Shanghai To Host Bombardier Safety Standdown

Bombardier Aerospace will be offering the Safety Standdown program in Asia.
Maintenance and Modifications

PAMA Calls for Symposium Presentations

The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association is soliciting
Maintenance and Modifications

Columbia Helicopters To Build T55-714 Engine Test Cell

Columbia Helicopters has broken ground at its Aurora, Ore.
Maintenance and Modifications

Corporate Spares Support Offered by A J Walter Aviation

A J Walter Aviation is partnering with Washington, D.C.-based Loudoun Aviation to provide spares support to the corporate sector.
Maintenance and Modifications

Vector Aerospace OK’d for Arriel 2 Tests

Vector Aerospace Helicopter Services-North America has received approval from Turbomeca to add Arriel 2 full test capability to its engine repair and overh
Avionics

HUD Benefits Moving To Turboprops, Light Jets

Rockwell Collins announced the new smaller and lighter compact HGS-3500 head-up guidance system today at the FSF/NBAA Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar in
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Regulations and Government

UK Hits Aircraft Operators with Extra ETS Admin Fees

Aircraft operators assigned to the UK for compliance with the European Union emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS) are already facing additional “subsistence”
Avionics

Controller Scheduling Changed To Curb Fatigue

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt on Sunday announced changes to air traffic controller scheduling practices that wil
Regulations and Government

Newly Formed GA Airport Coalition Heads To Washington

The General Aviation Airport Coalition (GAAC) was officially formed late last week to “preserve and promote,” on a national level, GA airports in the U.S.
Regulations and Government

House Transportation Chairman Threatens To Subpoena TSA Boss

Republican congressman John Mica (Fla.) continued his quixotic war with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week when he slammed the agen

First Superjet Delivered to Armavia

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft delivered the first Superjet 100–S/N 95007–to Armenian airline Armavia today during a ceremony held at Yerevan Zvartnots Internationa
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Aircraft

Sukhoi To Deliver First Superjet Tomorrow

Sukhoi confirmed that it plans to deliver the first production Superjet SSJ100-95–S/N 95007–to launch customer Armavia tomorrow.

AIN Blog: FAA Should Leave BARR Alone

Early last month, the FAA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
Engines

Pratt and Whitney Flying High On PurePower Momentum

Thanks in large part to the emergence of the PW1000G PurePower Geared TurboFan, Pratt & Whitney has staged what some might consider a stunning reversal in
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Regulations and Government

WTO Subsidy Ruling Provokes Further Feuding

Neither the U.S.
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Aircraft

Southwest Scare Prompts Tighter Inspection Intervals For Some 737 Classics

Operators of certain Boeing 737 Classics will need to perform eddy current inspections on parts of their fuselages every 500 flight cycles, forcing interru
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Accidents

AF447 Investigators Prep for A330 Wreck Recovery, Question Previous Searches

Investigators from the French BEA (Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses) are preparing to recover the wreckage of Air France Flight 447, the
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Aircraft

Boeing Will Show New Narrowbody before Re-engining 737, Says Airbus

Airbus has moved forward by six months its target to introduce the
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Torqued: Disaster prompts new look at risk assessment

The Japanese trifecta of tragedy has some people rethinking risk-assessment models and catastrophic risk in general.
ATC

ATO Chief Krakowski Resigns from FAA

Hank Krakowski, head of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO), resigned today amid the fallout of not one but two incidents in as many weeks where the s

NARA Meeting Sounds Upbeat Note for Bizjet Sales

Reports from last week’s National Aircraft Resale Association’s spring meeting in Naples, Fla., inspire continued optimism about the business aviation indu
Aircraft

GKN To Build HondaJet Fuselage

GKN Aerospace has been selected to build the entire fuselage for the HondaJet, the UK-based aerostructures specialist said today at a press conference in L
Charter & Fractional

Fractional Share Sales Take Off at Flight Options

Cleveland-based Flight Options said it saw renewed interest in fractional share and jet card (JetPass) sales during the first quarter, noting that net shar
Rotorcraft

Offshore-oil Eurocopter EC175 Pegged for 2012 Approval

Eurocopter confirmed that it plans to gain type certification for the EC175 medium twin this year while clarifying that it expects complementary certificat

Torqued: Work continues for a future free of fatalities

Certainly the news that there were no U.S.