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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Regional makeovers find a ready market

at a time when everyone seems to be looking for a bargain, regional jets reconfigured for an executive role–available at considerably less than half the pr
Avionics

Gulfstream addresses EVS overhaul concerns

Overhauling the cryogenically cooled enhanced-vision system (EVS) installed in many newer Gulfstreams will set an operator back around $30,000–a cost many
Avionics

Inmarsat Begins I-4 Satellite Repositioning Effort

Inmarsat last month began repositioning its I-4 satellite constellation in an effort aimed at providing full global SwiftBroadband coverage and improving n
Cabin Interior and Electronics

ICG Gains PMA Approval for NxtLink Systems

International Communications Group of Newport News, Va., has received parts manufacturer authority (PMA) for the NxtLink ICS-120A and ICS-220A communicatio
Avionics

TAWS, TCAS Coming to More Helicopters

As part of an effort to reduce the number of fatal helicopter crashes, safety experts are promoting widespread use of terrain and traffic alert systems tha
Aircraft

Horizon Settles On Q400 Deferrals

Horizon Air has negotiated a deferral of Q400 deliveries with Bombardier to re-time the shipments to coincide with the removal of the Seattle-based regiona
Aircraft

Second SSJ Takes Flight

The second of four planned Sukhoi SSJ100 prototypes–S/N 95003–took to the skies on December 24, joining the flight-test program started in May with the fir
Aircraft

Great Lakes Boosts EAS

Cheyenne, Wyo.-based Great Lakes Aviation announced it would launch EAS routes to four Montana destinations from Billings on February 1, marking an end to
Aircraft

ASA To Furlough 80 Pilots

Atlantic Southeast Airlines sent furlough notices to 80 pilots last month as partner Delta Air Lines pares back Bombardier CRJ flying.
Maintenance and Modifications

Lufthansa Technik opens Hamburg engine overhall shop

Lufthansa Technik has invested nearly $67 million in its new 161,500-sq-ft overhaul center for engines in Hamburg.
Maintenance and Modifications

Global Jet Services offers maintenance e-learning

Maintenance technicians have a new way to accumulate training toward their Inspection Authorization (IA) and the FAA Awards Program.
Maintenance and Modifications

Oklahoma repair facility specializes in Falcons

Like a lot of young Americans in the late 1960s, Pete Cranick was introduced to aviation through the U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

Transdigm acquires Aircraft Parts Corp

Aircraft Parts (APC) has been acquired from Unison Industries, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric’s GE Aviation, by TransDigm Group in a stock p
Maintenance and Modifications

New Hampshire company named Pilatus PC-12 service center

Pro-Star Aviation of Londonderry, N.H., has been designated a PC-12NG service center and sales rep.
Maintenance and Modifications

Aerospace Welding gets EASA OK

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has approved the Part 145 certification for Aerospace Welding Minneapolis.
Maintenance and Modifications

Business jet support coming to Shangai

Hawker Pacific and the Shanghai Airport Authority have broken ground on a planned business aviation facility at Shanghai’s Hongquiao Airport.
Maintenance and Modifications

Gulfstream London Luton authorized to service G150

The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved Gulfstream’s London Luton Service Center to perform maintenance on EASA-registered Gulfstream G150s.
Maintenance and Modifications

Standardaero gets contract for fire supression MX

The Direction de la Défense et de la Sécurité Civile (DDSC) of Marseilles, France, has selected StandardAero to provide PW100 and PT6 engine maintenance se
Maintenance and Modifications

Hawker Beechcraft moves into Arizona facility

Hawker Beechcraft has moved into a new facility at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz.
Maintenance and Modifications

Embraer receives approval for new U.S. distribution center

The Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil–ANAC) has certified a new Embraer U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

BFB Aero Services and APA Services merge

BFB Aero Services will acquire all assets, business and obligations of APA Services as a result of the recently announced merger of the two companies.
Maintenance and Modifications

TBM Tech pubs available exclusively from ATP

nounced an exclusive agreement with EADS Socata to distribute TBM technical publications.
Maintenance and Modifications

Now is the time to eliminate distractions

The economy is tanking, airlines are folding or merging, jobs are vanishing in droves, your 401(k) is a shadow of its former self, looking forward to retir
Airports

White Sands Regional Airport adds solar power system

The trend of airports adding solar power systems is growing in the southwest U.S., which sees more sunny days each year than other parts of the country.
Airports

French airport anticipates benefits of solar power

Le Castellet Airport in southeast France will have a 60,000-sq-ft photovoltaic roof operational this spring on a new hangar.
FBOs

Avfuel ads two dealers

Travelers flying to Midland International Airport in Texas can now earn Avtrip points at Avion Flight Centre, which has joined the Avfuel network.
FBOs

USAirports now sole FBO at ROC

Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC) in upstate New York used to have two FBOs, but USAirports has purchased the Landmark Aviation FBO at the airp
FBOs

US Aviation adding fule service

Based at Denton Municipal Airport north of Dallas, US Aviation Group has been approved by the Denton City Council to add fuel to its list of services.
FBOs

Handling fee lowers Key Air fule prices

Key Air’s Twin Cities (Minneapolis) and Treasure Coast (Fort Pierce, Fla.) FBOs are now offering jet-A at significantly lower prices, but accompanied by a