2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

AIN Staff

News about significant aircraft accidents and information from accident reports.

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.

Accidents: June 2012

Curt Epstein

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

FBO Profile: Boundary Bay Air Services

John Sheridan

News and information on safety procedures and concerns.

Bird Strikes Pose Growing Threat

Thierry Dubois

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

Chinese Certification of Avicopter AC311 Imminent

French power network takes delivery of EC225, to offer third-party services

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

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.

Lessor Liability Ruling Stands as Top Court Declines Case

Benet J. Wilson

News and information about crew, passenger, aircraft and airport security issues.

Former TSA Chief: Agency, BizAv Should Have Worked Together on LASP

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.

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.

EC225 Ditches Safely in North Sea, Probe Centers on Gearbox

Matt Thurber

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.

First Flight of 400XPR Adds to HBC Retrofit Programs

Harry Weisberger

2012 Aviation Insurance Association (AIA) annual conference

Aviation Insurance Course: Steady As She Goes 

Gregory Polek

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

Pratt Canada To Run First PW800 Demonstrator This Year

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

Epic, Air BP Forge New Paths after Licensing Agreement Ends

News about simulators and training procedures, as well as workforce.

HUD Training: AIN Logs Some Head-up Time in Rockwell Collins’s Sim

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

ADS-B Weather, Traffic Services Available Now Via SkyRadar Receivers

Universal Avionics UniLink Certified on King Air

Key West Runway Overruns Prove Value of Emas

Seminar Examines the Causes of Runway Excursions

Challenges aplenty to tackle

Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar 2012 

Neelam Mathews

Essential news and analysis from the defense aerospace sector. Your trusted source for new and ongoing programs in military aircraft, engines, and avionics.

India and Russia Move Ahead with New Airlifter

Chris Pocock

One ISR Airship Ready To Fly, but Others Deflate

Bill Carey

F-22 Modernization Plans Progress Despite Hypoxia Issue

News and issues relating to civil and military unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) of all kinds and sizes, including those used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), combat (unmanned combat air vehicles, or UCAVs), law enforcement, research and other applications. Of particular focus is the FAA's planned integration of UAS into the U.S. national airspace system.

UAV Crash in Korea Linked To GPS Jamming

Senate Inquiry Finds Widespread Counterfeit Components

Indonesian crews have found the FDR from the SSJ100 that crashed on May 9.

FDR from Destroyed Superjet Found 

Andrew Wood

Europe’s Galileo Could Come at a Cost to Users

Mark Huber

Airspace Over U.S. Parks Under Attack in House Bill

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

Tampa Airports Brace for GOP Convention-bound Traffic

NTSB, FAA Ask Canada TSB To Investigate Virginia Midair

Sikorsky S-92 Gets Its Sea Legs

Chad Trautvetter

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

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