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Touching Bases: FOD alert issued for all airports

The FAA published CertAlert No.
FBOs

Touching Bases: NATA sets conference agenda

On the agenda for this year’s National Air Transportation Association FBO Leadership Conference are a variety of events covering marketing, airports
FBOs

Touching Bases: Air BP QC Seminar dayes

Fuel provider Air BP has released dates for its nationwide two-day safety and quality-control seminar series.
FBOs

Touching Bases: New FBO offers choice at lakefront

Flightline First opened a new FBO facility at Lakefront Airport in New Orleans late last month.
FBOs

FBO Profile: Banyan Air Service

Thirty years ago, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was the sleepy undeveloped South Florida of novelist John D.
Regulations and Government

New badge rule too onerous, says governor

The governor of Montana is the latest to weigh in on a controversial Transportation Security Administration (TSA) directive that would impose new security
Charter & Fractional

Flight Options Gets New Investment

Directional Capital, an investment firm led by Flight Options chairman and founder Kenn Ricci, private-equity firm Resilience Capital Partners and “key mem
Airports

Santa Monica Airport Part 16 Hearings Held

The city of Santa Monica, Calif., in late March was at an FAA Part 16 hearing in Long Beach defending its stance on trying to keep larger jets from using S
Maintenance and Modifications

EASA OKs Superjet Int’l To Perform Mx

The Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) has issued EASA/ENAC Part 145 certification to Venice, Italy-based Superjet International, allowing the regiona
Training and Workforce

Phenom Pilot Training Soaring at CAE

Nearly 50 customers have completed Phenom 100 pilot training at Embraer CAE Training Services, a joint venture between CAE and Embraer, CAE told AI
Accidents

Did Pilot Error Lead To 2007 Citation Crash?

An NTSB interim factual report and findings from a flight simulation issued last month suggest that pilot error, not a runaway trim condition, caused the J
Aircraft

Delayed VLJ deliveries allow time for transition

The economic downturn is giving manufacturers and operators of very light jets (VLJs) more time to prepare for the airplanes’ widespread entry into service
ATC

EASA purview expands to cover ATC and airports

With the introduction of the second phase of the Single European Sky (SES II), the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will greatly increase its scope b
Avionics

Jeppesen Airport Map Data Gets Stamp of Approval

The FAA has awarded Jeppesen the industry’s first letter of acceptance for airport moving-map data under  standards outlined in Advisory Circular AC 2
Avionics

Piper Brings Garmin G1000 to Meridian

Piper Aircraft has achieved FAA certification for the Garmin G1000 avionics system aboard the Meridian six-place single-engine turboprop, an airplane origi
Avionics

Avidyne Entegra Release 9 Wins FAA Approval

Avidyne used last month’s Sun ’n’ Fun show in Lakeland, Fla., to announce FAA certification of the Entegra
Avionics

Satcom Direct Named Inmarsat Distribution Partner

Satcom Direct last month became a distribution partner for Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband service, giving the Melbourne, Fla.
Avionics

More than 30 products debut this year at AEA

Despite some stiff economic headwinds, avionics manufacturers attending last month’s Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) Convention in Grapevine, Texas,
Rotorcraft

Main gearbox failure eyed in North Sea Super Puma crash

All 16 people aboard a Eurocopter AS 332L2 Super Puma operated by Bond Offshore Helicopters died when the medium twin hit the surface of the North Sea on A
Safety

Cyclic AD Limited to New Bells

What was initially feared to be a widespread problem that temporarily grounded 2,800 Bell 206s, 407s and 427s on March 12 now appears to be confined to abo
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: American Eurocopter Signs Sim Deal

American Eurocopter has signed the first long-term commercial customer for the full-motion EC 135/EC 145 training device at its Grand Prairie, Texas campus
Rotorcraft

Eurocopter Acquires Japanese Firm

Eurocopter last month announced the acquisition of 80 percent of the shares in Japan-based distributor Euroheli, bringing the helicopter manufacturer’s sta
Rotorcraft

AW Makes Deliveries in Japan, Wales

Mitsui Bussan Aerospace, AgustaWestland’s distributor for the AW139 medium twin in Japan, plans to deliver the first of two AW139s to All Nippon Helicopter
Rotorcraft

MGB component failure eyed in fatal Cougar crash

As Sikorsky prepares to deliver its 100th medium-lift, twin-engine S-92A, the role main rotor vibration and other past problems with the helicopter’s main
Aircraft

New Marine One Axed

he Obama Administration’s proposed Fiscal Year 2010 defense budget ends funding for the controversial Presidential helicopter replacement program, the cost
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Freighter lands short in bad visibility

Construcciones Aeronauticas SA (CASA) C-212-CC, Kotzebue, Alaska, Feb.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Eurocopter loses power

Eurocopter AS 350BA, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Bandeirante crash fatal for 24

Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante, Santo António, Brazil, Feb.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Super Puma crash in North Sea claims 16

Eurocopter AS 332-L2 Super Puma, off Crimond, Scotland, April 1, 2009–A Bond Offshore Super Puma crashed in the North Sea while transporting offshor