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Regulations and Government

NTSB symposium endeavors to clear the air on code sharing

Not everyone agrees with the regional airlines’ assertion that they fly just as safely as their mainline counterparts.
Engines

Embraer sees resurgent market for E-Jets

Embraer expects to achieve a commercial aircraft book-to-bill ratio of a little more than one this year, reflecting solid demand from an airline market t
Engines

India’s SpiceJet To FlyQ400s Starting In June

Indian low-fare carrier SpiceJet plans to buy as many as 30 Q400 turboprops from Bombardier in a deal worth up to $900 million. “The [SpiceJet] boar
Charter & Fractional

Fractional Market: AIN Special Report

AIN_Dec10_Fractional Market.pdf Not long ago, the idea of sel
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot Section: hartzell propeller gets stc for turbine engine composite prop

Hartzell Propeller has received an FAA type certificate for its new advanced-composite ASC-II four-blade propeller.
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot Section: F1rst Support Center Goes Live for AOG Aircraft

Using integrated satellite-based tracking to keep tabs on its worldwide AOG personnel and assets, BBA Aviation Engine Repair and Overhaul is now offering
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot Section: Jet Aviation launches AOG East Coast Mobile Maintenance

Jet Aviation has launched the Jet Response mobile maintenance service program with mobile maintenance vehicles based at Boston/Bedford, Mass., and Teterb
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot Section: Heritage Aviation is named authorized blr winglet dealer

BLR Aerospace has named Heritage Aviation of Burlington, Vt., an authorized dealer for its King Air winglets.
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot Section: CRS solves billback problems with flat-rate pricing plan

CRS Jet Spares reports a 25-percent decrease in customer additional billings (billbacks) over the past 18 months as a result of its Option 2 pricing prog
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot Section: Bombardier Adds 60th Service Center

Bombardier Aerospace has added three AOG line maintenance facilities (LMF)–in Monterrey, Mexico; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Riga, Latvia.
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot Section: Millennium Concepts will supply Piperjet crew and pax seats

Piper Aircraft has selected ­Millennium Concepts to provide the passenger and crew seats for its new PiperJet Altaire.
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot Section: ATI providing mobile response to JT15D operators

O’Fallon, Mo.-based Aviation Turbines International is offering its JT15D customers a mobile response team deployed on a vehicle equipped with the toolin
Safety

Hot Section Opinion: No excuse for ‘hip-pocketing’ maintenance

Whether an aircraft is operated under Part 91, 135 or 121, the Federal ­Aviation Regulations require that maintenance discrepancies be repaired before the
Charter & Fractional

Platinum Jet executives found guilty of fraud

Michael Brassington, president, CEO and cofounder of now-defunct Platinum Jet Management, and his brother Paul Brassington, a v-p and cofounder, were convi
Charter & Fractional

Comlux’s Bahrain firm offers Middle East charter

Comlux The Aviation Group has opened Comlux Middle East, based in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and is adding greater substance to a portfolio of aircraft manage
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Hawker 200 Gets Cabin Makeover

Hawker Beechcraft’s new Hawker 200, unveiled at the NBAA Convention
Cabin Interior and Electronics

JetTech Acquires Cascade, Preps First BBJ

JetTech Aerospace has completed its acquisition of Cascade Aerospace’s Spokane, Wash.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Citation Ten Hopes for a ‘10’ for Cabin Design

If Cessna were looking for a score on the new interior design for its
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Kalogridis Introduces Fresh Carpet and Wall Covering Styles

“We have 72 new carpet styles and 16 new Deconel wall covering styles,” said Kalogridis International founder George Kalogridis. A year ago,
FBOs

Tac Air Sells Greenville Fbo

TAC Air sold its FBO location in Greenville, S.C., to Greenville Jet Center.
FBOs

Touching Bases: JetEx donating revenues to Unicef

JetEx Flight Support, a handling and services company with more than 260 locations worldwide, will donate to Unicef one percent of the revenues it genera
Aircraft

Daher-Socata considers resurrecting Grob’s light jet

Daher-Socata is studying plans for a new aircraft development program under an exclusive agreement with Allied Aviation Technologies, which owns the assets
FBOs

Touching Bases: Avfuel scholarship winners

Fuel distributor Avfuel awarded its annual Avtrip scholarships to George Hoyt and Sage Santangelo.
FBOs

Touching Bases: AC-U-Kwik database adds improvements

AC-U-Kwik’s online airports database has seen a 33-percent increase in traffic over the past year.
FBOs

Touching Bases: Argus improves Cheq system

Argus International has revamped its Charter Evaluation and Qualification (Cheq) system with a new user interface to ease searching, and unlimited TripCheq
FBOs

Touching BAses: Skyvector mapping added by arinc

Arinc has added new map technology and automated risk factor assessment for meeting safety management system (SMS) requirements to Arinc Direct, its flig
FBOs

Touching Bases: TWG finalizes Vitesse purchase

TWG Aviation, which provides charter/management, maintenance and FBO services under the names Business Jet Access and Business Jet Center, has completed t
FBOs

Touching Bases: Fuel setup available from Flightaware

FlightAware announced at the NBAA Convention that users of its online flight-tracking, flight-data and flight-planning services can now make fuel arran
Rotorcraft

JetNet: Used Business Aircraft Transactions Climbing

Sales transactions of pre-owned business jets and turboprops, as well as turbine helicopters, posted healthy increases from a year ago, according to data r
FBOs

Touching Bases: Ross adds Ronson to FBO network

FBO chain Ross Aviation has acquired the assets of an FBO formerly operated by Ronson Aviation at Trenton Mercer Airport in West Trenton, N.J.