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Maintenance and Modifications

Hot section: India joint venture to provide heavy iron maintenance

Heavy-iron operators traveling to India and the neighboring region will soon have a maintenance option.
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot section: Dallas Airmotive expands PW305 capability

BBA Aviation’s engine repair and overhaul company, Dallas Airmotive, has expanded PW305 capability at its Dallas Love Field (DAL) facility.
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot section: Sabreliner, AIRMARK to install GKN windshields in LearJETS

Airmark International, an independent Learjet parts distributor, has teamed with aviation services provider Sabreliner to install Airmark-provided GKN Aero
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot section: ARSA executive ambivalent about end of repair station nprm

Sarah MacLeod, executive director of the Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA), is cautiously optimistic about the FAA’s recent withdrawal of a no
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot section: Embraer marks Le Bourget Service Center anniversary

This past March marked the first anniversary of Embraer’s Executive Jets Service Center at Le Bourget Airport (LBG), Paris, France.
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot section: Gulfstream launches parts warranty program

Gulfstream Aerospace has instituted a two-year parts warranty program.
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot section: Duncan Aviation to offer Phenom 100 service

With the recent completion of its first paint work for an Embraer Phenom 100 and the addition of line maintenance for the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW617F-E,
Maintenance and Modifications

Hot section: california MRO offers international on-call service

Corona, Calif.-based Single Point of Contact has introduced a new service: single-point assist maintenance service exclusively for overseas destinat
Maintenance and Modifications

MRO Profile: Capital City Jet Center

Brian Short, director of operations at Bolton Field’s Capital City Jet Center (CCJC), is a man with a vision.
Maintenance and Modifications

Offshore manufacturing raises industry questions

Like it or not, we live in a global economy.
Regulations and Government

Compliance Countdown: June 2009

Within 6 Months June 1, 2009: GA Security Badging at Commercial Service AirportsAs of June 1, the TSA will require background checks
Aircraft

French President Sarkozy to get A330

French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be flying in a style more becoming the nation’s leader with a recent government decision to acquire an Airbus A330-20
Environment

Aviation cracking environmental challenges

With oil prices and financial markets so unstable, one could easily assume that global warming and alternative fuels are far from the minds of most aircraf
Environment

California charter firm runs new hangar on solar power

Avjet’s new solar-powered hangar at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif., represents not only the most current environmentally friendly building design but
Environment

Clean Sky initiative still facing some major delays

Europe’s aerospace industry is blaming the European Commission for major delays in the Clean Sky joint technology initiative (JTI), a significant aerospace
Environment

Industry makes progress toward ‘greener’ aviation

Aviation will become greener in small steps rather than the giant leaps hoped for in the recent past, but the aviation community is committed to redu
Engines

ACARS Signals from Doomed Air France Jet Point to Catastrophic Break-Up

Brazilian search teams found more wreckage from Air Fra
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Passenger Pilot Lands King Air

Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200, Fort Myers, Fla.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Engine fire damages Caravan

Cessna 208, Frederick, Md., April 21, 2009–While taxiing after landing, the pilot of the Caravan owned by Greystoke Engineering reported t
Accidents

Factual Report: Fatal Citation III Crash in Italy

Cessna 650, Trigoria, Italy, Feb.
Accidents

Factual Report: Error on Landing Causes Wing Damage

Bombardier Learjet 35A, Kansas City, Mo., Feb.
Accidents

Factual Report: Venezuelan crash kills six

Hawker Beechcraft King Air A100, San Miguel, Venezuela, March 1, 2009–The turboprop twin operated by Command Air crashed into a mountain,
Accidents

Final Report: Improper flight planning led to C90 crash

Hawker Beechcraft King Air C90, Bloomingdale, Ga., Sept.
Accidents

Final Report: Pilot distracted and disoriented at night

Hawker Beechcraft King Air A100, Chino, Calif., Nov.
Accidents

Final Report: Cabin pressure mishap proved fatal

Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200, Taylor, Texas, April 10, 2008–The NTSB ruled that the probable cause of the accidental death of a mechani
Safety

PC-12, CRJ200 in Near Ground Collision at CLT

The NTSB is investigating a runway incursion that occurred last Friday morning at Charlotte (N.C.) Douglas International Airport involving a PC-12 turbopro
Aircraft

Brazilian Startup Company To Enter VLJ Crowd

GP Aerospace, a startup company formed in São José dos Campos, Brazil, by former Embraer technical director Guido Pessotti, has unveiled to AIN
Safety

Birdstrike Warning Systems Not Quite Ready Yet

Despite claims by one company that its system is ready for prime time, industry experts tell AIN that accurate radar birdstrike warning fo
ATC

Final ruling on ADS-B equipage expected in 2010

On March 10 next year the FAA is expected to issue its final rule covering mandatory equipage of ADS-B avionics, and agency officials are tight lipped abou
ATC

Laas and Jpals:new landing systems on the horizon

GPS-based Laas and Jpals landing system developments are moving ahead for civil and military operations.