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Regulations and Government

Online high-altitude course is FAA approved

With the completion of its first run on October 31, Pratt & Whitney Canada initiated testing of its 2,500-lb-thrust PW625F engine demonstrator.
Engines

P&WC runs new engine targeted for light jets

With the completion of its first run on October 31, Pratt & Whitney Canada initiated testing of its 2,500-lb-thrust PW625F engine demonstrator.
Engines

Upgraded Citation X engine receives FAA nod

The uprated Rolls-Royce AE3007-C1 engine for the 2002 Citation X (starting with S/N 0173) has received FAA certification.
Airports

Fickle politics determine Meig's fate

Despite a new blizzard of support for Meigs Field (CGX) using every media, general aviation’s most famous single-runway airport is set to close permanently

Air Culinaire opens Love Field bizav catering

Air Culinaire, the Arlington, Va.-based business aviation caterer, announced the January 1 opening of a facility at Dallas Love Field.
Charter & Fractional

Fractional pilot hiring down 30 percent

The 843 pilots hired by six major fractional aircraft ownership companies in the first nine months of this year were about 30 percent fewer than the 1,210
Aircraft

GIV-SP wins JAA approval, GV expected next year

Europe’s JAA has issued type certificate endorsement for the Gulfstream IV and IV-SP, effectively recommending the business jets for approval by the JAA’s
Aircraft

Gulfstream to cut workforce and production

Gulfstream Aerospace plans to cut about 480 people from its workforce of 8,000, citing a drop in business jet orders in response to the slowing economy.
Charter & Fractional

Air Canada latest airline to offer bizjet charter

Montreal-based Air Canada will convert up to four of its Boeing 737s into 48-seat business jets and place them into the airline’s new on-demand and contrac
Aircraft

STCs received for EVAS in Challenger series

EVAS Worldwide, an affiliate of Ramsey, N.J.-based Aircraft Services Group, said its $11,950 Emergency Vision Assurance System (EVAS) personal cockpit smok
Airports

Airport fee proposal flies into limbo

The comment period closing date has been suspended indefinitely on a DOT proposal to adopt “market based” solutions to relieve airport congestion and delay
ATC

FAA plans follow-on to Alaskan ADS-B project

Buoyed by the success of its three-year ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) operational evaluation project, named Capstone and centered on B

BBJ service mulled for Geneva-to-New York run

PrivatAir has begun feasibility studies into launching scheduled flights from Geneva to New York using a 48-seat Boeing Business Jet.
Aircraft

Learjet fatal crash investigation starts

Investigators have started their probe into the crash of a Universal Jet Aviation (Boca Raton, Fla.) Learjet 25B, N5UJ, as it was taking off from Pittsburg
Accidents

Structure scrutinized in Airbus crash

The NTSB is examing the structural integrity of the all-composite tail of the Airbus A300-600 that crashed November 12 after liftoff from New York JFK Airp
Cabin Interior and Electronics

DeCrane expands, takes on BBJ completions

DeCrane Aircraft Systems’ PATS unit recently completed a 42,000-sq-ft expansion of its facility at Sussex County Airport in Georgetown, Del.
Accidents

Crossair Avro RJ100 crash kills 24

Switzerland’s Crossair suffered its second fatal accident in less than two years on November 24, when one of the regional airline’s Avro RJ100s crashed int
Aircraft

Avolar to market, manage Airbus ACJs

Avolar, the newly formed business aviation subsidiary of UAL Corp., reached an agreement with Airbus to market and/or manage, but not buy, up to 15 Airbus
Aircraft

BAE scraps RJX, to cease all RJ production

The UK’s BAE Systems has scrapped the RJX regional jet program and will shut down all future RJ production after it finishes four airplanes currently in pr
Avionics

Thales HUD certified in Global Express

The FAA and Transport Canada have certified the $450,000 Head-up Flight Display System (HFDS) developed by Thales Avionics of France as an option on Bombar
Cabin Interior and Electronics

GE to sell off Garett Santa Barbara

A General Electric spokesman confirmed the sale of its Garrett Santa Barbara completion center to Yankee Pacific and WestCap Partners Private Equity Fund.
Charter & Fractional

Travel Air pilots move closer to unionizing

Last month the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) filed with the National Mediation Board (NMB) for an election to allow the pilots at fractional
Security

Bizav security card prepared for tests

A “smart” security identification card that can be used by aircraft passengers and another that would be used by flight crews, aviation employees and stude
Aircraft

Playing the percentages, Dassault reveals Falcon 7X

Dassault Falcon Jet describes its new 5,700-nm, $35+ million Falcon 7X three-engine business jet as providing 30 percent more range and 20 percent more cab
Security

Getting back to normal, whatever that may be

Almost three months after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, people still talk–perhaps now more wistfully than hopefully–about “when things
Accidents

Dual Flameout

MITSUBISHI MU-2, LEWISTON, IDAHO, FEB.
Accidents

King Air crashes on foggy approach

KING AIR B-200, PIQUA, OHIO, AUG.
Accidents

Learjet crashes on foggy takeoff

LEARJET 25, ITHACA, N.Y., AUG.
Avionics

Gedera Shows Environmental Control Systems

Gedera, Israel-based TAT Technologies (Booth No.
Maintenance and Modifications

GroWing Gets CAMO Plus Certification

The Swiss aircraft service provider groWing is Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO) certified since last year.