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General Dynamics Soars on Gulfstream

Gulfstream parent General Dynamics’ second-quarter revenues totaled $5.2 billion, a 12-percent year-over-year gain propelled mostly by a 33-percent increas

NASA Funds Studies To Reduce Sonic Boom

NASA last month awarded grants to fund a five-month study on how to design and build an airplane that could demonstrate technology to reduce the sonic boom
Engines

Small engines may spawn a new class of turboprops

The so-called “father of very light jets,” Eclipse CEO and president Vern Raburn, knows this new class of small jets wouldn’t even be possible without suit
Avionics

News Note: Diamond Aircraft in late June selected the Garmin G1000 integrated avionics system for its D-Jet

Diamond Aircraft in late June selected the Garmin G1000 integrated avionics system for its D-Jet, a very light jet powered by a single Williams FJ33-4 engi
Regulations and Government

UK may revise rules about foreign aircraft registration

The UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) is considering whether to prevent foreign-registered aircraft that are not operated commercially from being based p
Regulations and Government

UK Civil Aviation bill could mean emissions charges

Users of corporate, business and executive aircraft in the UK are working to understand the implications of proposed new civil aviation rules, especially t
Aircraft

Second 7X Joins Flight-test Fleet

Dassault Aviation’s second conforming Falcon 7X made a 2 hour 15 minute maiden flight on July 5.
Aircraft

Beech Duke’s ‘Air’ Apparent

Rocket Engineering of Spokane, Wash., said it will soon have an STC to re-engine Beechcraft Duke BE60 twin pistons with two P&WC PT6A-35 or -21 turboprops.
Regulations and Government

Forty Pilots Indicted in Fraud Sting

Operation Safe Pilot, an 18-month federal probe into “the misuse of Social Security numbers by pilots,” ended last month with the indictment of 40 pilots–s
Aircraft

Is There a Jet in Piaggio’s Future?

A “world-ranked aircraft manufacturer” has engaged Forecast International to evaluate the market for a new business jet.
Aircraft

Flexjet Waives More Ferry Fees

Fractional provider Bombardier Flexjet is offering ferry-fee waivers to and from Europe and Hawaii for share owners of Challenger 300s and 604s.
Charter & Fractional

CitationShares Launches New Programs

Fractional provider CitationShares recently announced three new programs for its customers.
Security

Senate bill calls for review of GA security

A Senate amendment that called for severe fines, loss of license and aircraft confiscation for violating the flight restricted zone (FRZ) in the Washington
Aircraft

Faster King Air to take on VLJs

Deliveries of the Beech King Air C90-GT, a more powerful version of the series intended to compete with very light jets, are scheduled to start in December

Two former Dallas Airmotive execs die

James Donlan, former president and CEO of Dallas Airmotive, died July 23 from an apparent heart attack.

NBAA promotes seven staff members

NBAA has promoted two veteran staff members, Douglas Carr and Linda Peters, to vice president positions and five others to director-level posts.
Security

FAA announces ADIZ training proposal

As the pressure mounts in Congress to do something about pilots who bust the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) around Washington, D.C., the FAA has ap
Security

GA causes most restricted airspace violations

In a recently released Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on securing and defending U.S.
Aircraft

HondaJet makes world debut at EAA Airventure

The HondaJet prototype was expected to make its world debut, and first public demonstration flight, on July 28 at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis.

FAA could fine Atlantic Coast $1.5M

The FAA has proposed levying a $1.5 million fine against Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA), now doing business as Independence Air, for flying several of its a
Aircraft

Certification flight tests of PC-12 EVS to start next month

Pilatus has flown a PC-12 with a CMC Electronics infrared enhanced-vision system (EVS) sensor mounted in the nose and looking through the propeller.
Engines

2005 AIN Product Support Report

For the third consecutive year in AIN’s Product Support Survey, readers gave Gulfstream top marks for both its newer business jets (less than 10 yea
Aircraft

Grob SPn Makes First Flight

The Grob SPn 10-passenger light business jet made its maiden flight July 20 from Allgau Airport in southern Germany.
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Regulations and Government

Platinum Jet faces FAA penalties of nearly $2 million

The FAA has hit Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based charter operator Platinum Jet with civil penalties totaling more than $1.86 million for violations involving 49
Regulations and Government

FAA readies for budget crunch

If there’s one thing that FAA COO Russell Chew has going for him as he faces $8.3 billion in budget losses by 2009, it’s that he has lots of people on the
Aircraft

TSA publishes interim rule for DCA

The long-awaited reopening of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to some general aviation aircraft now appears imminent with the Trans- portation Se

Final Flights: September 2005

Philip Klass, a former avionics/technical writer for Aviation Week & Space Technology, died August 9.

People: September 2005

Thomas Seeber was promoted to president and CEO of Pentastar Aviation.