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Maintenance and Modifications

Start-up AMAC opens hangar, begins completions servicen

AMAC Aerospace inaugurated the main hangar of its new business aviation completions and maintenance operation at Switzerland’s EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-F
Cabin Interior and Electronics

BaySys Plans Completion Hangar Large Enough for A380

BaySys International won’t say if it’s lobbying to be the first with an interiors contract for an executive version of the Airbus A380, but the Wallops Isl
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Flying Colours Wins Flight Options Paint Contract

Flying Colours, an Ontario-based independent completion and refurbishment center, has been awarded a contract to manage the aircraft paint scheme refurbish
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Foster+Partners Wins NetJets Europe Interiors Contract

Aircraft fractional shares operator NetJets Europe has recruited Foster+Partners, the firm of Pulitzer prize-winning architect Lord Norman Foster, to desig
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Yankee Pacific Merges Interiors Holdings

Yankee Pacific Aerospace, an aerospace investment company, has merged two of its private aircraft interiors holdings, Executive Aircraft Completions of Tul
Cabin Interior and Electronics

International Water-Guard Gets Treatment System OK for Falcons

Supplemental type certificates (STCs) have been issued for installation of International Water-Guard’s IWG-A4 water treatment unit on the Dassault Falcon 2
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Pats’ Refocused Strategy Does Not Include BBJs

According to John Martin, v-p and general manager of the DeCrane Aerospace Pats Aircraft Completion division, the Georgetown, Del.-based center has chosen
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Down the Aisle…

Lufthansa Technik has ordered a Cair cabin humidification control system from CTT Systems of Nykoping, Sweden, for installation this fall as part of an exe
Regulations and Government

NASA To Look To More Earthbound Endeavors

Two former officials of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration along with former President Clinton’s national science advisor have issued a report
Safety

Global Bizav Groups Launch Safety Tool Kit

Building on business aviation’s International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO) introduced in 2002, business aviation groups from around t
Regulations and Government

FAA reauthorization plan could be decided this month

The House aviation subcommittee held a hearing last month on an FAA reauthorization bill that is essentially a reintroduction of the “FAA Reauthorization A
Accidents

Preliminary Reports: Fedex ATR lands short

Aerospatiale Alenia ATR 42-320, Lubbock, Texas, Jan.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Commander destroyed in Colorado

Twin Commander 690, Wray, Colo., Jan.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Twin Commander 690 hits mountains

Twin Commander 690B, Rio Grande, P.R., Dec.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Helo and pilot lost in ocean

Hughes 369, Honiara, Solomon Islands, Dec.
Accidents

MU-2 lands on one engine

Mitsubishi MU-2B-60, Millington, Tenn., Dec.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: EC 135 hits hills in IMC

Eurocopter EC 135-T2, Molesmes, France, Jan.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: King Air crashes in Mexico

Hawker Beechcraft King Air 200, Punta Chivato, Mexico, Nov.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Meridian crashes at Marshfield

Piper PA-46-500TP Meridian, Marshfield, Wis., Nov.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Amphibian runs into hillside

Grumman G-21A Goose, Thormanby Island, British Columbia, Nov.
Accidents

Factual Report: Skydiving flight fatal for six

de Havilland Canada DHC-6-100, Sullivan, Mo., July 29, 2006–Shortly after takeoff from Sullivan Regional Airport, with flames coming from the right engine,
Safety

Hearings ‘just the beginning’ on helicopter EMS safety issue

At the conclusion of three-and-a-half days of NTSB public hearings on the safety of helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) operations early last mont
Accidents

Final Report: Longranger lost power

Bell 206L-1 LongRanger, Heber Springs, Ark., Aug.
Accidents

‘Loud Noise’ Preceded crash of PHI S-76

The NTSB is continuing its investigation into the fatal January 4 crash of a PHI-operated 2006 Sikorsky S-76C++ near Morgan City, La.
Accidents

Final Report: Bandeirante pilot overflew Vermont airport

Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante, Pownal, Vt., Aug.
Accidents

Final Report: Rotor blade separated

Hughes 369A, Moulton, Ala., May 13, 2007–The NTSB blamed the crash of the 369 on the separation of its main rotor blade from its tension torsion bar, but <
Accidents

Final Report: Pilot pushed spoileron circuit breaker

Bombardier Learjet 35A, Goodland, Kan., Oct.
Aircraft

ATR 72-600 to fly early this summer

Avions de Transport Regional has scheduled the first flight of a prototype ATR 72-600 regional turboprop for early this summer, following completion of the
Aircraft

ATR confident it can weather the storm

ATR took in record revenues of $1.3 billion in 2008 and says that despite the financial crisis it will top that figure this year.