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Charter & Fractional

Aviation Industry Expo 2006: Charter Operational Control

Judging from the size of the audience–about 200 people–many charter operators sent personnel to the NATA show to attend the first FAA operational control b
Maintenance and Modifications

Aviation Industry Expo 2006: User Fees: What May or May Not Be

If Air Transport Association (ATA) CEO James May has his way, business aviation will start paying more of what he believes is a fair share of the costs of
Regulations and Government

Aviation Industry Expo 2006: Taxation and regulation issues weigh heavily at NATA event

During a year when non-airline aviation is expected to continue growing to record levels, a number of challenges face those whose service businesses propel
Safety

The Everglades ValuJet crash… 10 years later

It has been 10 years since the ValuJet DC-9 accident in the Everglades that cost the lives of 110 people and a considerable amount of money.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

MRO Profile: Lufthansa Technik

Lufthansa Technik makes its home at the south end of Hamburg International Airport in a neat sprawl of voluminous blue and gray hangars, workshops, researc
Safety

FSI to provide Gulfstream techs with maintenance training

Under the terms of an agreement signed by Gulfstream Aerospace and FlightSafety International (FSI), FSI will provide systems training to Gulfstream techs
Maintenance and Modifications

Lanmar adds avionics service

Lanmar Aviation at Groton-New London Airport in Groton, Conn., has expanded its Part 145 repair station maintenance capability to include an in-house avion
Maintenance and Modifications

Swiss operator chooses JSSI

JSSI has been selected by Fly Wings, a Swiss operator, to provide its Tip-to-Tail hourly maintenance cost guarantee program for the company’s new Piaggio A
Maintenance and Modifications

New Pratt & Whitney Canada capability at Dallas Airmotive

Dallas Airmotive is adding component repair capability for the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A/T, JT15D and PW300/ PW500 engine series to its Lafayette, La
Charter & Fractional

Flight Options to use API for rotable management

Aerospace Products International (API), a provider of distribution and supply chain services, has been chosen by Flight Options for rotables management.
Safety

FSI expands maintenance courses through global jet services

FlightSafety will now provide its customers direct access to the full array of Global Jet Services professional development maintenance courses, including
Maintenance and Modifications

National Flight Services selects Trend Group for the TPE331

Trend Group has signed a teaming agreement with National Flight Services of Toledo, Ohio, to provide trend monitoring and analysis service for each overhau
Maintenance and Modifications

ATP offers desktop regulatory and maintenance information

Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP) has released NavigatorV Release 6, a desktop viewer offering regulatory and maintenance information in one place.
Safety

Another Gulfstream facility gets environmental, safety ok

Gulfstream’s Long Beach, Calif., business-jet completions and product support site is now ISO 14001- and OHSAS 18001-compliant.
FBOs

Landmark consolidates avionics installation work

Landmark Aviation informed employees in late March of a consolidation of the company’s avionics installation work.
Maintenance and Modifications

Duncan Aviation offers program enhancements

A new program that offers value-added solutions to the business jet aircraft sales marketplace is being offered by Duncan Aviation.
Maintenance and Modifications

Gulfstream reinforces product support in Asia-Pacific

Gulfstream Aerospace has added a second field service representative (FSR) in Hong Kong and a second FSR in Singapore to support its growing Asia-Pacific f
FBOs

Landmark Aviation LAX named LearJet and Challenger facility

Bombardier Aerospace has appointed Landmark Aviation’s Los Angeles facility an authorized service center for Bombardier Learjets and Challengers.
Rotorcraft

FAA delays drug-testing rule; ARSA continues lawsuit

The FAA has put its proposed expansion of the drug and alcohol testing program on the back burner for six months, canceling the April 10 compliance date.
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier strengthens worldwide technical support

In response to its growing worldwide fleet, Bombardier continues to expand its product-support capacity.
Aircraft

Hawker 4000 Certification ‘Just About There’

Raytheon Aircraft last expected to receive full FAA certification of the super-midsize Hawker 4000 Horizon in February, nearly five years later than the or
Rotorcraft

Ka-32 Fills Load-lifter Role

Summer in the Swiss Alps is short, and construction companies have to work fast in the mountains and valleys.
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Rotorcraft

New Life for an Old Dog

Carson Helicopters and Sagem Avionics’ U.S.
Rotorcraft

New Database for Disaster Response

The Helicopter Association International expects to have its international online database of disaster-relief rotorcraft ready for rollout next month.

Eclipse’s Raburn Reacts to Swipe from Teal Analyst Aboulafia

A day after Teal Group lead analyst Richard Aboulafia was quoted in the International Herald Tribune as saying the nascent very light jet (VLJ) market has
Rotorcraft

AW139 Joins Spanish Schedule

Spanish operator Helisureste has taken delivery of an Agusta- Westland 139.
Rotorcraft

Kamov Ka-32 gets high marks from Canadian logging firm

Having flown more than 32,000 hours to date on the Kamov Ka-32, British Columbia, Canada-based Vancouver Island Helicopters (VIH) Logging can claim the tit
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Safety

Europe reviews regulations for helicopter EMS operations

EMS operators in Europe are providing some input in the ongoing debate in the U.S.
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Rotorcraft

In Praise of the S-61N

With North Sea competition investing in the EC 225, Super Puma Mk 2 and S-92, is there still a role for the Sikorsky S-61N? The workhorse has been providin
Rotorcraft

Returning to the Oil Game

In 1999, in a wide-ranging re-alignment of North Sea helicopter assets, Canadian Helicopter (CHC) bought Norway’s Helikopter Service, together with Brintel