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Jet Aviation Basel opens Falcon Completion Hangar

Jet Aviation Basel has completed its 35,520-sq-ft hangar 1A extension, an addition that will better accommodate its cabin completion work on green Falcons.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Project Phoenix CRJs to get MedAire Package

Project Phoenix, launched in 2007 to broker the acquisition and sale of CRJ200 regional jets in an executive configuration, recently announced an agreement
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Dean Aircraft Interiors Snapped Up By Ocean Sky

Ocean Sky, a UK-based executive charter operator rapidly expanding its services, has acquired Dean Aircraft Interiors.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Project Phoenix signs Egyptian CRJ200 Customer

Despite sagging economies worldwide, the demand for CRJ200 conversions to executive configuration appears to be gaining momentum.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

First Design Q Avro RJ70 rolls out

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has completed the first Avro RJ70 executive aircraft with the Design Q interior.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Goderich gets Royal Jet BBJ contracts

Genesis Custom Jetliners, an executive completion and refurbishment broker/agent, has been selected to redesign and upgrade “a number” of Boeing Business J
Regulations and Government

DHS nominee departs Arizona stage to mixed reviews

Janet Napolitano, the two-term Democrat governor of Arizona who has been nominated to become the third Secretary of Homeland Security, heads to Washington
ATC

FAA constructing new ‘nerve center’

Federal and local officials broke ground early last month for a new Air Traffic Control System Command Center colocated with the FAA’s Potomac Tracon south
Regulations and Government

Congressional Observer: January 2009

When the 111th Congress convenes this month, all the bills introduced in the 110th Congress that did not make it into law will find themselves in the Congr
Maintenance and Modifications

ARSA Gears Up To Fight Stimulus Bill

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is gearing up to ask lawmakers to include in an upcoming economic stimulus bill a moratorium on the use of forei
Charter & Fractional

Avantair Defies Industry Slowdown…

Piaggio Avanti fractional provider Avantair said it logged a record number of flights during the Thanksgiving holiday (November 25 to 30), “in sharp contra
Charter & Fractional

AvJet Opens ‘Green’ Bizjet Hangar

The first private aircraft hangar certified to the platinum level by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system
Charter & Fractional

ExecuJet Extends ‘Simply Fly’ Program

The roll-out of ExecuJet Aviation’s new Simply Fly lease-based alternative to fractional ownership, block charter and traditional aircraft management has b
Aircraft

SCAC Eyes First Potential Customer

Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) identified its first potential customer in Southeast Asia last month when it announced an agreement with Indonesia’s Kartika A
Avionics

New players follow Garmin into SVS market for GA

It didn’t take long for competitors to introduce synthetic-vision system (SVS) avionics enhancements after Garmin last spring removed the cloak of secrecy
Airports

Movements limit is years away for London Stansted

Swift lobbying work by the British Business and General Aviation Association (BBGA) and its members appears to have averted the threat of a new limit on th
Avionics

Jury: No infringement of TAWS patent

A federal jury last month rejected a claim by Honeywell that Sandel Avionics of Vista, Calif., violated its patents, ending more than six years of legal ba
Avionics

Barco CDMS-3000 gets EASA approval

The European Aviation Safety Agency has completed ETSO-C113 certification of Barco’s new CDMS-3000 control display unit.
Maintenance and Modifications

UK Group Forms Completions Consortium

Aircraft spares and logistics specialist AJ Walter Aviation has established a UK-based consortium to provide more capacity in the business aircraft complet
Maintenance and Modifications

Pilatus Expands Service to New England

Pilatus Aircraft has appointed Pro-Star Aviation of Londonderry, N.H., a new sales representative and service center for its PC-12NG turboprop single in th
Accidents

Brazil Cenipa report blames pilots, ATC in midair

Brazil’s Cenipa accident investigation bureau has issued its report on the September 2006 midair over the Amazon, along with an NTSB dissent.
Safety

Burst tire prompts Global mods

The UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has issued four safety recommendations in response to an incident in which a burst tire on a Bombardier Gl
Aircraft

Ruag books new orders for 228 NG

An undisclosed Australian regional airline has become the third customer to commit to Ruag Aerospace’s Dornier 228 New Generation program, placing an order
Aircraft

ARJ21 first flight marks China’s return to jet set

After eight years of design and development, the flight-test program for the ARJ21-700, China’s first homemade regional jet, got under way with its maiden
Regulations and Government

Weather services in the NextGen Era

The focus of the NextGen Air Transportation System has largely been on the development of satellite-based navigation systems, trajectory-based operations a
Aircraft

Hong kong firm takes first a318

BAA Jet Management last month took delivery of its first managed Airbus, an A318 Elite, making the Hong Kong-based company the first in Asia to operate the
Accidents

Jet blast damaged controls of Air Moorea Twin Otter

The Air Moorea DHC-6-300 Twin Otter turboprop that crashed near Moorea Island on Aug.
Aircraft

Backlogs shrinking at the major OEMs

Six months ago, business aircraft manufacturers were publicly confident that their backlog of new aircraft orders stretching well into the next decade woul
Aircraft

Embraer Phenom 100 earns its license to fly

Christmas came early for Embraer.
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Regulations and Government

TSA seeks comment on LASP

The February 27 deadline for comments about the Transportation Security Administration’s Large Aircraft Security Program (LASP) rules proposal is rapidly a