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Shortly after its purchase by finance house Allied Capital earlier this year, Mercury Air Centers dedicated a new hangar and tenant office facility at Char

With the Van Nuys Airport (VNY), Calif., master plan in political limbo, officials at the nation’s busiest general aviation airport have come up with a tem

Air BP Aviation Services has gone on record supporting the mission of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) with financial support for CAP’s cadet and youth-developme

The Dallas Executive Airport (RBD) has been selected as the 2004 Reliever Airport of the Year by the Texas Department of Transportation.

Since reopening its FBO at Sydney International Airport, Australia, early last year, Hawker Pacific Flight Centre’s business has expanded significantly.

In a letter to the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority dated May 18 (but released only last month), the FAA concluded that the authority’s proposed

There are many ways to gain access to information about airports and the services available there.

Ralph Vasami is the new president of Universal Weather & Aviation.

RAYTHEON BEECH 400A, BALTIMORE, MD., MAY 1, 2002–Beechjet N498CW, a fractionally owned and operated airplane managed by Flight Options, wa

BEECHCRAFT KING AIR B200, LEOMINSTER, MASS., APRIL 4, 2003–The NTSB determined that the pilot’s low-altitude maneuver with an excessive ba

RAYTHEON BEECH 1900D, ALBANY, N.Y., OCT.

MITSUBISHI MU-2B-35, CAROLINA, PUERTO RICO, APRIL 15, 2002–Experiencing a loss of control while orbiting, Mitsubishi N45BS crashed into an

LOCKHEED 1329-23E JETSTAR, HOUSTON, TEXAS, MAY 15, 2004–JetStar N57NR sustained minor damage when the left flap assembly detached while th

GATES LEARJET 25B, COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO., SEPT.

EADS and Airbus have chosen three European companies as the preferred bidders for their controlling stake in the six factories marked for divestiture as pa

What began as a straightforward interim final rule on alien flight training has caused heartburn at some general aviation groups.

• With many eyes focused on the Presidential election date, both houses of Congress worked diligently on such agenda items as tax cuts, disaster relief, co

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association accused the FAA of dragging its feet on deploying ASDE-X, which provides controllers with an all-weather,

The FAA is establishing a new “Center of Excellence” headed by Auburn University to examine cabin air quality and study chemical and biological threats in

Echoing a refrain that has been sung around Washington for years, Air Transport Association president and CEO James May reiterated recently that the airlin

Aerospace OEMs are increasingly turning to the Nadcap safety auditing program to verify the standards of manufacturing processes down the supply chain.

At the ICAO Assembly in Montreal–where all the world’s aviation representatives gathered last month to review outstanding issues–there was general agreemen

According to its founder, start-up completion and refurbishment center DunnAir Business Jet Completion Center will open its doors in February.

Bombardier’s repair facilities at Indianapolis International Airport are now the Indianapolis Jet Center.

Aerospace Concepts, a Toronto-based completions management specialist with a long record of performing Bombardier Global Express and Challenger interior wo

While completion and refurbishment centers in Florida were cleaning up in the wake of a succession of late-summer and fall hurricanes, cabin thermal/acoust

With certification of the first of the very light jets (VLJs) somewhere on the horizon, manufacturers and interior designers are giving considerable attent

Don Burr and Bob Crandall exude confidence for their intended new venture, Pogo, but the air-taxi concept is not a matter of belief, nor is the outlook for

A few months ago AIN published an article that highlighted not only my NTSB career but also some of what I have done with a good portion of my worki

Many operators consider maintenance to be a necessary evil, but a Kennesaw, Ga., company turns that notion on its ear.Flightworks is an aircraf