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Maintenance and Modifications

Duncan Aviation Pushes Ahead with Provo Plans

By August next year, Duncan Aviation will have a new maintenance facility in Provo, Utah, in a 15,000-sq-ft hangar leased from Million Air Provo.
Maintenance and Modifications

Boekenkamp Moves to BBA Legacy Products Group

BBA Aviation is moving Gary Boekenkamp to its Legacy Products Group.
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier Adds Finland Line Maintenance Facility

For the 12th time in as many months Bombardier Aerospace has added a new line maintenance facility (LMF), most recently in Finland.
Accidents

NTSB Raises Maintenance Issues in Nascar Crash

The NTSB determined that a July 2007 accident in Sanford, Fla., which killed the two aboard the airplane and three people on the ground, was caused by a se
Airports

Update: New NFPA Standard Doesn’t Require Foam

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) says its new revised NFPA 409 standard does not require Group II hangars to be fitted with foam fire-suppre
Engines

Rolls-Royce Working On More Thrust for Falcon SMS

Rolls-Royce hinted at a size increase for the still-under-wraps Falcon SMS super-midsize business jet, revealing it received a higher thrust requirement fr
Aircraft

Grob SPn Light Jet Program Draws Bidders

A new proposal for restarting the former Grob Aerospace SPn light business jet program appears to be taking shape less than a week after H3 Aerospace and F
Aircraft

Grob Aerospace Deal Paves Way for SPn Resurrection

An agreement for German investors to take over the trainer aircraft activities of the insolvent
ATC

Houston Low-altitude Route Delayed

The FAA has delayed until March 12 implementation of a new low-altitude area navigation route (Rnav), T-254, in the vicinity of the Houston terminal area.
Rotorcraft

AW139 Performs Offshore Medevac

Shortly after its entry into service in December with Mumbai, India-based Heligo Charters, an AgustaWestland AW139 performed a medical evacuation 217 nm of
Rotorcraft

First Marine One Enters Completion

The first of five “block one” new production presidential helicopters arrived at Lockheed Martin’s Owego, N.Y.
Rotorcraft

Cyprus Orders Five AW139s

Cyprus’s Ministry of Justice has ordered two AW139 medium twins for law enforcement and search-and-rescue (SAR) operations.
Rotorcraft

AW Names R&D Partner

AgustaWestland has signed a six-year contract with the Porto-based Center of Excellence for Innovation in the Automotive Industry (CEIIA), which will thus
Rotorcraft

EC 135 To Service Wind Farm

UK-based Bond Air Services has ordered a Eurocopter EC 135 that will be used for maintenance missions at the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm.
Rotorcraft

AVIC Shifts Helicopter Base to Tianjin

China Aviation Industry Corp (AVIC) will build a $1.2 billion commercial helicopter plant in the northern port city of Tianjin with the local government to
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Audio/video Power Management System Launched

Richard Gray’s Power Company (RGPC) of New Orleans has introduced RGPC ClearSky, “the first power management system designed specifically for audio/video e
Cabin Interior and Electronics

ExecuJet Opens Zurich Interiors Showroom

ExecuJet Aviation Group has opened a new aircraft interiors showroom at its Zurich Airport headquarters.
Rotorcraft

French HEMS pilots go on strike

Pilots flying helicopters for the French hospitals’ emergency medical services–Samu, under the French acronym–were scheduled to go on strike on January 30
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Economy Crush Prompts Layoffs at Nordam

Nordam recently laid off 63 employees, primarily from its interiors and structures division, which is responsible–for the most part–for business aviation c
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Gore Design Picks CTT’s Cair Cabin Environment System

Cabin environment continues to become more important as a point of customer focus, particularly on long-haul private jets.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

EMS Technologies To Acquire Avionics Manufacturer Formation

EMS Technologies has signed a “definitive agreement” to acquire Moorestown, N.J.-based Formation, a provider of airborne wireless network products that ena
ATC

NextGen could integrate Sensis fuel-burn research

Researchers at Sensis’s Seagull Technology Center in Campbell, Calif., have calculated what they call excess fuel burned during taxiing at 13 of the nation
Cabin Interior and Electronics

MAC Wins Polish Presidential Helo Bid

MAC Aircraft Interior Specialists (formerly McCarthy Interiors) has won a $1.75 million contract to design and build quick-change executive interior kits f
Aircraft

MA700 work gets under way in Xi’an

China’s Xi’an Aircraft Industry Company (XAC) has started preliminary work on the Modern Ark 700 (MA700), a 70-seat turboprop regional aircraft that it exp
Aircraft

Colgan Doubles Q400 Order

Pinnacle Airlines subsidiary Colgan Air signed a firm order last month to acquire 15 more Q400 NextGen turboprops worth some $432 million.
ATC

Weather Forecasters Buck FAA Consolidation Plan

An FAA plan to consolidate all of the 84 National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters working in the nation’s 21 ATC en route centers into two central foreca
Regulations and Government

FAA Seeks More Time On Safety Management Plan

Because it has not completed guidelines for a Safety Management System (SMS) for U.S.
Regulations and Government

Congressional Observer

u Even before President Barack Obama took the oath of office on January 20 political analysts, media gurus (press, radio, TV talking heads) and a horde of
Accidents

Offshore helo crashes in swamp

Sikorsky S-76C++, Morgan City, La., Jan.
Accidents

Citation overruns runway

Cessna Citation II, Wilmington, N.C., Jan.