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FBOs
Business Jet Center Dallas Starts DCA Flights
Business Jet Center, a Dallas Love Field-based FBO, has been authorized as the first Dallas/Fort Worth-area gateway station for general aviation flights to
ATC
Collins’s Latest Satcom Makes Debut Aboard Global 5000
Rockwell Collins’s new SAT-6100 satellite communication system made its world debut aboard the Bombardier Global 5000 at the Paris Air Show last month.
Cabin Interior and Electronics
Ericsson Decides To Join Airborne Cellphone Fray
Mobile phone maker Ericsson jumped into the race to supply hardware that will enable passengers to use their cellphones aboard aircraft after takeoff.
Safety
SAMM warns of runway incursion potential
Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a joint L-3 Communications and Thales company, used last month’s Paris Air Show to introduce technolo
Safety
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Aphis, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, will eliminate the exemption from inspection requirements and fees for commercial aircraft flying fr
Avionics
Arinc and Jeppesen Team To Develop EFBs
Arinc and Jeppesen last month announced an alliance that will integrate “best of class” EFB components from each company’s portfolios to produce what offic
Airports
Clearing Customs at Dallas
Contrary to earlier reports that aircraft flying into the Dallas area from international departure points could clear U.S.
Avionics
CMC Introduces SatLite Antenna
For the business aviation market, CMC Electronics has introduced a compact satcom antenna the company calls SatLite.
Avionics
Duncan Certifies Collins Retrofit Cockpit in Astra
Duncan Aviation has certified and installed a Rockwell Collins IDS-3000 retrofit cockpit and IFIS (integrated flight information system) file server in a c
FBOs
SheltAir buys Sowell facility at Panama City
SheltAir Aviation Services expanded its Florida FBO stable to seven and total count to eight with the acquisition of Sowell Aviation Services at Panama Cit
FBOs
Fayetteville Million Air unveils renovation
After eight months of renovations of its FBO facility, Million Air Fayetteville, Ark., held a grand reopening on August 11.
Avionics
Grob’s Paris Surprise Will Fly with Honeywell Apex Avionics
Grob’s SPn, a carbon-fiber light business twinjet introduced at last month’s Paris Air Show, will enter production with the Honeywell Apex avionics system,
FBOs
Love Field sees regal sale
JetDirect Aviation purchased Regal Aviation, an FBO, maintenance, sales and charter/management company based at Dallas Love Field.
FBOs
KCAC opens full-service operation in St. Louis
Kansas City Aviation Center (KCAC) opened the first of what will be several new FBO and service facilities in its nine-state Pilatus PC-12 sales territory,
ATC
Inter-agency financing debate could delay progress on loran
They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows.
Avionics
EFB devices a supplement for glass cockpits
Are portable electronic flight bag (EFB) computing devices merely a stepping stone until business aircraft operators get around to installing cockpit equip
Cabin Interior and Electronics
Live tv coming to the oceanic bizjet cabin
Live tv over the ocean? It’s not possible today, and traditional direct broadcast satellite television providers are unlikely to have a business model for
ATC
Inmarsat conference addresses future of in-flight communication
The six-ton I-4 communications satellite Inmarsat launched in late March has taken over satcom transmission routing responsibility from the previous I-3 sa
...and inaugurates new hangar in Roanoke
Landmark Aviation celebrated the opening of a new hangar addition to its Roanoke, Va.
Aircraft
In The Works: Gulfstream G150
Flight testing of the Gulfstream G150 S/N 201 is “proceeding as planned” at Israel Aircraft Industries’ (IAI) flight-test center at Ben Gurion Airport in T
Aircraft
In The Works: Dassault Falcon 7X
Since the maiden flight of the Falcon 7X on May 5, the 5,700-nm-range trijet has been flying almost daily from Dassault’s flight- test center in Istres, Fr
Aircraft
In The Works: IBIS Aerospace
Ibis Aerospace said FAA and EASA certification of its Ae270 turboprop single was pending at press time.
FBOs
Landmark builds on Raleigh...
Landmark Aviation added a new $2 million hangar and office complex at its Raleigh-Durham International Airport FBO.
Airports
African business aviation on the rise
Business aviation is growing in Africa, according to Ettore Poggi, managing director of ExecuJet South Africa.
Airports
Rocket Man touching down at Ellington
Houston Ellington Field, home to NASA’s C-9 “Vomit Comet” microgravity research airplane, is expanding to attract more general aviation activity by making
FBOs
Dallas facility is an accidental FBO
The newest FBO building at Dallas Love Field Airport is six years old but looks younger.
Safety
S-92 operator addressing a vibration issue
North Sea operator Helikopter Service has imposed torque and speed limits on its two new Sikorsky S-92s, but Keith Mullett, managing director of Canadian p
Safety
Software scheduling tool fights crewmember fatigue
Flight operations are fertile grounds for fatigue, sleep deficit and circadian disruption, and these physiological factors can result in decreased flight-d
FBOs
Air Group Fuel Program tackles trip costs
Aircraft management firm The Air Group launched a discount fuel program and a co-branded Visa card available free to its management clients and for a fee t
Europe closer to ruling on for-hire single-turbine IMC ops
Well behind many other regions, and more than 10 years after initial proposals, Europe is about to rule on proposed commercial single-turbine-engine flight
