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Gulfstream G150 OK’d for Steep Approaches

Last month the FAA and the European Aviation Safety Agency approved the Gulfstream G150 for a steep-approach angle of up to six degrees versus the normal a
Charter & Fractional

Cessna Takes Full Ownership of CitationAir

Cessna Aircraft yesterday completed its acquisition of business aviation flight services provider CitationAir.
FBOs

Dulles Jet Center Vows To Rebuild

Dulles Jet Center–which is now closed after three of its four 40,000-sq-ft hangars collapsed on February 6, succumbing to the weight of more than 32 inches
Regulations and Government

FY11 budget contains no user fees

Aviation–and in particular general aviation–dodged a financial bullet early last month when the Obama Administration released a Fiscal Year 2011 budget req
Aircraft

Boeing 747-8 Makes Maiden Flight; seven on order in executive configuration

Boeing’s new 747-8F Freighter made its first flight on February 8 before more than 5,000 employees, customers, suppliers and community leaders at the compa
Training and Workforce

FSF intros standards for safety of mining ops

The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has developed a common safety approach for global companies operating aircraft in the mining and resources sector, and t
Aircraft

Linear Air adds Eclipse 500 FIKI/Avio NG 1.5 training

Before Eclipse Aviation declared bankruptcy and end
Aircraft

Boeing 787 Loses Thrust during Test Flight

The first Boeing 787 prototype had to make an emergency landing at Grant County International Airport at Moses Lake, Wash., after test pilots lost thrust o
Aircraft

Evektor – EV-55 Outback

In mid-December Evektor ran the EV-55 Outback’s Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-21 engines for the first time.
Aircraft

Gippsland Aeronautics – Airvan GA10

Australia’s Gippsland, which is in the process of bringing the twin turboprop Nomad back into production as the Airvan GA24, has cut metal on the Airvan GA
Aircraft

Hawker Beechcraft – Premier II

The updated version of the Premier was expected to fly in December but that has been moved to this month, according to Hawker Beechcraft.
Aircraft

Honda Aircraft – HondaJet

The first production conforming HondaJet is now scheduled to fly in the middle of this year, at a date yet to be determined, according to a Honda Aircraft
Safety

Revised LASP will include industry input, says TSA

Following up on testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it is bac
Aircraft

Cessna CJ4 Certifcation Imminent at Press Time

Looking not unlike a T-tail compact version of its Sovereign stablemate, the Cessna Citation CJ4 should have earned its FAA credentials by the time these w
Airports

Airport Authority Seeks GA’s Return to DCA

Describing general aviation as “an important part of our aviation infrastructure at Reagan National, James Bennett, president of the Metropolitan Washingto
Charter & Fractional

Fractionals stumbled in brutal 2009

Data on the U.S.
Safety

Book Review: Flying Drunk

“Remember those airline pilots who got caught flying drunk?”
Regulations and Government

Operators still struggle with ETS

The European Commission’s latest list of operators subject to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) is still incomplete and inaccurate, according to companies
Regulations and Government

Southers rejects offer to lead TSA

Erroll Southers, the White House choice to head the leaderless Transportation Security Administration (TSA), withdrew his name from consideration on Januar
Avionics

TrueNorth puts focus on apps, not hardware

Following supplementary type certification of its Simphone OpenCabin airborne telecommunications system for Bombardier’s Global business jet line, TrueNort
Avionics

NZ-2000 users responding to FAA guidance

Business jet operators flying with Honeywell NZ-2000 flight management systems are responding to an FAA airworthiness bulletin describing a software glitch
Avionics

Aircell ATG-5000 Debuts in Gulfstream G200

Aircell announced the first installation of its ATG 5000 high-speed Internet system aboard a California-based Gulfstream G200 operated by charter provider
Avionics

Cobham HeliSAS Earns TSO

The FAA has issued a technical standard order to Cobham for its HeliSAS stability-and-augmentation/autopilot system.
Avionics

DeVos EC130 Flies with Max-Viz EVS-1500

One Sky Aviation, a maintenance and repair center based in Anchorage, Alaska, received an STC permitting installations of the Max-Viz EVS-1500 enhanced-vis
FBOs

Snow fells Dulles Jet Center hangars

While heavy snowfall early last month limited aircraft operations at airports up and down the U.S.
ATC

ADS-B making life easier for Gulf helicopter pilots

Think working at New York Tracon is a tough job? Try heading down to the Gulf of Mexico, where controllers handle between 5,000 and 9,000 helicopter flight
Aircraft

Nextant selects Rockwell Collins Venue cabin system for 400Next

Nextant Aerospace has selected the Rockwell Collins Venue cabin management system for the interior of the Beechjet 400Next as part of a retrofit package th
Rotorcraft

Europe continues quest for ‘Green Rotorcraft’

As part of its Green Rotorcraft initiative, the Clean Sky public-private partnership for aeronautical research in Europe has issued its second call for pro
Rotorcraft

Robinson Pegs Price of R66 at $770,000

Robinson Helicopter has set an initial price of $770,000 for its Rolls-Royce RR300-powered R66 turbine single.