2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

AIN Staff

News about bills, laws, regulations and other governmental decisions affecting aviation and aerospace. Topics include FAA re-authorizations, taxes on fuel and aviation activities, environmental legislation, ICAO decisions, governmental mediation of labor conflicts and World Trade Organization disputes and decisions.

News and issues relating to business, corporate and private aviation, primarily regarding turbine-engine-powered airplanes and helicopters. Subjects include aircraft, engines, maintenance, operations, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security, and training.

Babbitt Resigns after DWI Arrest

New developments at FBOs including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

FBO Profile: Line Shack

Mark Huber

News about significant aircraft accidents and information from accident reports.

News and issues regarding all manner of civil and military rotorcraft and their powerplants, including helicopters, tilt rotors and unmanned air vehicles.

Crashed Tour Helicopter Had Fresh MX

Charles Alcock

News and issues concerning the aviation charter and fractional-ownership industries and markets, including company announcements, regulations, new developments and labor issues.

News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.

Issues regarding financing of aircraft; aviation insurance; tax issues for aircraft operators; new companies and people in the aviation financing and insurance industries.

ExecuJet Streamlines Aircraft Financing with SimplyFly Service

Matt Thurber

New developments and products in avionics, specifically about aircraft electronics in the cockpit.

Cockpit Avionics 2012: Future flight decks promise more with less

Happy Y2K12: Get Set for Another Year of Economic Anxiety

Happy Y2K12: Avionics Making Flying More Fun

Happy Y2K12: Congress Dithers on FAA Reauthorization, while TSA Moves Slowly on New Lasp

Bill Carey

News, issues, personnel, equipment and developments about air traffic management.

News and issues relating to international air transport and cargo carriers, national airlines and regional airlines, including aircraft, engines, personnel, acquisitions, accidents, safety, security and training.

Happy Y2K12: FAA’s NextGen Faces Unsettled 2012 and Beyond

David A. Lombardo

News and issues about aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), covering all segments of the aviation industry; and modifications for aircraft and engines. Subjects include product support of aircraft, engines and avionics, MRO company mergers, acquisitions, announcements and personnel, Airworthiness Directives, Supplemental Type Certificate approvals and other topics.

Happy Y2K12: Outlook Grim for Maintenance Sector

Curt Epstein

News and developments about aircraft engines, including turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft and piston.

GE myEngines Coming Soon for Business Aviation

News and developments about everything that goes into the cabin of an aircraft, from floor coverings to headliners, with a special emphasis on in-flight entertainment, communications and other electronics for passengers. If it is in the cabin of an aircraft, it’s covered here.

MSB Reduces Cost of Galley Inserts

Accidents: January 2012

Canada’s Private ATC System Offers Alternative for Cost-cutting Nations

Gregory Polek

Singapore Leasing Company Places Order for 15 E190s

Thierry Dubois

Avic’s MA600 Makes International Debut, MA700 in the Works

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

Investigators Recommend Main Gearbox Changes in Wake of 2009 Super Puma Fatal Accident

PlaneClear Sets Higher Bar for Charter Brokerage Services

Essential news and analysis on the defense aerospace business. Your trusted source for new and ongoing programs and requirements in military aircraft (manned and unmanned), engines, avionics, weapons and associated systems, including ground-based air defense.

Hawker Beechcraft Takes AT-6 Bid Decision To Court

Bunker Bombs Requested, Stockpiled for Potential Iran Strike

U.S. Congress Passes 2012 Defense Authorization; Cuts Likely for 2013

Chris Pocock

Fifth A400M Flies; South African Settlement Reached

Latest Engine Mod Keeps JSTARS Viable, Says Northrop Grumman

Japan has selected the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II to meet its F-X requirement.

Japan Selects F-35 with Local Assembly

John Sheridan

In a formal submission to the FCC on Wednesday, LightSquared asserted that the GPS community has no legal standing to complain about interference. 

LightSquared: GPS Community Has No Legal Gripe

AgustaWestland’s AW189 Makes Maiden Flight

News about environmental issues relating to aircraft operations, including noise issues, emissisions, and regulations. See Fuel for biofuel.

Fuelerlinx Goes Mobile 

Air Charter Service Launches New Website

TSA Aircraft Repair Station Security Rule on Hold 

A Philadelphia jury awarded $11.35 million in compensatory damages in a lawsuit that claimed that Winner Aviation's negligence contributed  to a 2007 accident. 

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