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Maintenance and Modifications

Sentinent selects software for MX documents

AviIT’s eMan technical publication management solution has been chosen for the Sentient Flight Group’s maintenance operation.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

What is insurance?

To better understand insurance it helps to understand what it really is.
Maintenance and Modifications

Free repair quote service offered by Jet Repair Anywhere

Jet Repair Anywhere has announced the availability of a free competitive repair quote service.
Maintenance and Modifications

Raisbeck adds Learjet mod facility in Brazil

Líder Aviação, headquartered in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, recently became a Raisbeck-authorized installation center to support Raisbeck Learjet performance s
Maintenance and Modifications

Biggest MRO hangar in Asia goes into service

Early last month a Boeing 737-300 requiring an 8A check was the first aircraft to be towed into Ameco Beijing’s A380 hangar.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Making plain sense out of aviation insurance

There was no such thing as aviation insurance when Shakespeare penned, in Henry VI, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” If there had been,
Engines

After two decades of study, Pratt’s PW1000G takes flight

Pratt & Whitney passed one of the most important milestones in its long history as the much-heralded PurePower PW1000G took to the skies last month.
Aircraft

ExpressJet To End At-risk Flying

Houston-based ExpressJet and Delta Air Lines will end their code-share relationship effective September 1, and ExpressJet will cease all scheduled flying u
Aircraft

Gulfstream Migrates North

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Gulfstream International Airlines will begin flying Beech 1900Ds to five EAS destinations from Cleveland Hopkins International
Avionics

China Rolls Out MA600

China’s Xi’an Aircraft (XAC) staged a rollout ceremony on June 29 for an improved version of its 50- to 60-seat MA60 turboprop called the MA600.
Aircraft

Horizon To Speed Retirements

Horizon Air will ground all 12 of its remaining Bombardier Q200 turboprops by October 28 and begin retiring its CRJ700 regional jets next month under a pla
Aircraft

Eagle Details Capacity Cuts

American Eagle will cut its daily schedule by 37 flights at New York La Guardia Airport, 34 flights in Chicago and seven in Boston, close its stations in A
Aircraft

CRJ1000 avoids hiccups in run-up to first flight

As analysts and pundits debated the merits and launch prospects of Bombardier’s C Series airliner, the Canadian manufacturer quietly went about its busines
Rotorcraft

French helo operator caught smuggling drugs

Police arrested Jean-Pierre Bernardini, managing director of France-based Corseus Hélicoptères, in connection with a drug-smuggling operation in late June.
Rotorcraft

Keystone readies for S-76D production

Sikorsky’s Keystone Helicopter division is gearing up to produce both the S-76D and the S-92 at its Coatesville, Pa.
Engines

GE Honda Gearing Up for HF120 Certification

GE Honda Aero Engines has built and tested eight HF120 engine cores and eight turbofan engine configurations to prepare for formal certification testing la
Aircraft

Phenom 100 Program Has The Field In Sight

Last year at EAA AirVenture Embraer announced the first flight of its Phenom 100 very light jet.
Training and Workforce

Auction highlights mismanagement at Silver State

The state of the assets of bankrupt Silver State Helicopters is providing clues about how the troubled company was run before its shutdown and Chapter 7 (l
Maintenance and Modifications

Hawker Beech Completes Sale of FBOs to BBA Aviation

Hawker Beechcraft late last week completed the sale of the majority of its wholly owned fuel and line operations to Signature Flight Support parent company
Aircraft

Revamped Adam Aircraft Plans A700 Approval by 2010

AAI Acquisition, which bought the assets of Adam Aircraft Industries for $10 million after Adam filed for bankruptcy in February, is ramping up the certifi
Rotorcraft

With an eye to the environment, Eurocopter mulls system changes

Eurocopter is stepping up its efforts to make helicopters more environmentally friendly by eliminating hydraulic and engine bleed-air systems, introducing
Charter & Fractional

Sentient Restructuring Amid Financial Turbulence

Organizationally troubled Sentient Flight Group will be undergoing a restructuring, only a few weeks after the Weymouth, Mass.-based charter operator and m
Rotorcraft

SkyTrac Approved for Robinsons

SkyTrac’s automated flight following and satellite communication system has received FAA STC and Transport Canada Type Certificate Data Sheet (TCDS) approv
Rotorcraft

Poland Picks EC 135 for EMS

The Polish Ministry of Health has ordered 23 Eurocopter EC 135s for its nationwide EMS network.
Maintenance and Modifications

Eurocopter Takes Over Mx Firm

Eurocopter has announced it will take over Motorflug Baden-Baden, a German helicopter MRO specialist.
Rotorcraft

Silver State Students Sue Lender

Students of the now-defunct training school Silver State Helicopters are suing KeyBank, one of the banks that financed their tuition, charging that it enga

Raburn Out at Eclipse as Etirc's Pieper Takes Reins

Amid scuttlebutt about persistent financial problems, Eclipse Aviation founder and CEO Vern Raburn (left, in photo) stepped down today and company chairman
Rotorcraft

Offshore Contract for Norsk

Norsk Helikopter has signed a six-year contract with StatoilHydro and ENI Norge for offshore oil platform helicopter transportation from Hammerfest, Norway
Rotorcraft

Robinson’s switch to steel blades gets mixed reviews

For Robinson Helicopter, switching from aluminum to stainless-steel skin for main rotor blades has been “a mixed bag,” said company vice president Kurt Rob
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

UAV technology could bring FBW to light airplanes

A company that supplies high-tech, fault-resistant databus components for the Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 has launched a research project aimed at bringing