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Hainan Group Cuts ERJ 145 Order in Half

Harbin Embraer Aircraft Industry Company (HEAI) has reached an agreement with HNA Group, owner of Hainan Airlines, to reduce the original firm order for 50
Maintenance and Modifications

Banyan signs caravan support senter agreement

StandardAero and Banyan Air Service have signed a support center agreement authorizing Banyan as a StandardAero-approved installation facility for the Cess
Maintenance and Modifications

West Star GJT adds Challenger landing gear services

West Star Aviation’s Grand Junction, Colo.
Maintenance and Modifications

PAG relocates and becomes Ahler

Precision Aviation Group’s Canadian companies, Precision Heliparts Canada (PHP-C) and Precision Accessories & Instruments Canada (PAI-C), are combining and
Maintenance and Modifications

Eurocopter opens Hong Kong constumer service center

Following the creation of the European Customer Service Center (CSC) in October 2007, Eurocopter has opened a center in Hong Kong (CSC Asia-Pacific).
Maintenance and Modifications

Embraer signs first Phenom 100 EEC contract

Phenom 100 owners Elizabeth and Jim Frost have signed the first individual owner Embraer Executive Care (EEC) contract in the U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

Freedom Aero Service receives FAA Part 145 designation

Lincoln, Calif.-based Freedom Aero Service has been awarded FAR Part 145 status.
Maintenance and Modifications

Standard Aero launcheS System-wide SMS

“StandardAero will never compromise flight safety, going above and beyond the regulatory, legal or acceptable minimum requirements,” said StandardAero pres
Maintenance and Modifications

CFM signs agreement for CFM56 training in India

Under the terms of a Memorandum of Agreement signed by GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd.
Maintenance and Modifications

AMETEK aquires MIami-based MRO operation

Miami-based High Standard Aviation has been acquired by Ametek as it expands its MRO capability in the Southeastern U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

EASA OKs Blackhawk’s Conquest engine upgrade

Blackhawk Modifications has received EASA approval for its Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-135A upgrade program for the Conquest I.
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier renews Innotech's ASF standing

Innotech Aviation, which supports Bombardier Challengers and Globals and is a preferred completion center specializing in Globals, has renewed its authoriz
Maintenance and Modifications

Pheonix heliports named Schwelter dealer

Sikorsky Aircraft subsidiary Schweizer Aircraft has signed a deal with Phoenix Heliparts appointing the company a factory-authorized aircraft sales distrib
Maintenance and Modifications

Cessna expands network of service centers

Cessna Aircraft has added three companies to its stable of Citation authorized service facilities.
Maintenance and Modifications

Avatas Aerospace acuires Prime Turbines

Hyannis, Mass.-based Prime Turbines has been acquired by Avatas Aerospace.
Maintenance and Modifications

DAS extends its U.S. reach

More than doubling its service space to 110,000 sq ft, Dassault Aircraft Services (DAS) Little Rock recently completed an expansion project at its Adams Fi
Maintenance and Modifications

MRO Profile: DAS Wilmington

When Kevin Malutinok took the position of vice president and general manager of Dassault Aircraft Services (DAS) Wilmington last year, he was the company’s
Airports

Redevelopment project planned for Brown Field

The Southern California developer who built the Premier Jet FBO at Carlsbad’s McClellan-Palomar Airport is proposing a $1 billion redevelopment of San Dieg
Accidents

Torqued: Are recent accidents fallout from the down economy?

I can’t help noticing that our accident rate seems to have taken a nosedive recently (for first-quarter statistics from safety analyst Bob Breiling, see pa
Regulations and Government

Babbitt: Excellent Choice for FAA Administrator

I hope that by the time you read this Randy Babbitt will have been confirmed by the Senate and be hard at work on the 10th floor of 800 Independence Ave.
FBOs

Sheltair opens Savannah FBO

SheltAir Aviation Services opened its 12th FBO, at Georgia’s Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport, in late March, offering new competition for the fo
FBOs

Avitat HPN files restraining order

Although Westchester County Airport in New York agreed to grant a new lease on Hangar E-1 to JPMorgan Chase, existing leaseholder Avitat Westcheste
FBOs

AirQuest joins Avfuel network

AirQuest Aviation, based at Butler County Airport north of Pittsburgh, is now an Avfuel dealer and offers customers Avtrip points for fuel purchases
Charter & Fractional

Furlough Mitigation Program Started at NetJets

Fractional provider NetJets and its pilots union–NJASAP, the NetJets Association of Shared Aircraft Pilots–have collaborated on a voluntary furlough-mitiga
Airports

Touching Bases: Silverwing building LUX fly-in cmmunity

The former Sandpoint Aviation FBO at Sandpoint Municipal Airport next to Northern Idaho’s Lake Pend Oreille is now SilverWing Aviation.
Avionics

Cessna Mustang Gets Synthetic Vision OK

Cessna Aircraft on April 21 received FAA certification for Garmin’s Synthetic Vision Technology for the Citation Mustang.
FBOs

Touching Bases: ASA opens in Dubai

The ASA Group has opened an office in Dubai to expand its VIP handling services.
Maintenance and Modifications

Chromalloy Plans $16.5 Million Tampa Expansion

Chromalloy, a supplier of components, PMA parts and specialized component repairs for turbine engines, is investing $16.5 million in an expansion of its Ta
Maintenance and Modifications

Gulfstream’s ‘Meet the Quote’ Program Is Back

Gulfstream Aerospace has reinstituted its “Meet the Quote” spare parts price-matching program, initially launched in March 2004, and operators have until J
Airports

Touching Bases: New hangar taking shape at Florida’s Cecil Field

The Jacksonville (Fla.) Aviation Authority is building a 21,000-sq-ft hangar and hoping a maintenance company will lease the facility.