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Engines

Dallas Airmotive revs up Florida engine shop

On September 4 Dallas Airmotive officially opens its regional turbine engine shop in Boynton Beach, Fla., just south of West Palm Beach.
Avionics

Avidyne FlightMax Entegra selected for Javelin

Aviation Technology Group selected Avidyne to supply its FlightMax Entegra integrated avionics system for the company’s Javelin, a tandem two-place very li
Maintenance and Modifications

RVSM package approved for BAC 111

Avionics Mobile Services in England has received UK CAA certification of its RVSM package for the BAC 111-475 and -500 series.
Maintenance and Modifications

Another source 'rising' for Falcon 20 RVSM

Phoenix Rising Aviation, an 18-month-old maintenance firm at Drake Field in Fayetteville, Ark., expects this month to receive its first RVSM STC for a Falc
Regulations and Government

Revised SIFL rates are in effect

The current standard industry fare level (SIFL) rates in effect from July through December 31 are: 0 to 500 sm–$0.1896; 501 to 1,500 sm–$0.1445; and more t
Accidents

Low-altitude steep bank preceded Learjet crash

The NTSB is about a month into its investigation of the fatal crash of a Learjet 35 that was attempting to land at Groton New London Airport in Connecticut
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Bombardier sells corporate jet finance business

General Electric has purchased the bulk of Bombardier Capital’s corporate aircraft leasing and financing business.
Accidents

NTSB: Hawker Crashed on Go-around

The East Coast Jets-operated Hawker 800A that crashed Thursday morning at Owatonna (Minn.) Degner Regional Airport, killing all eight on board, briefly tou
FBOs

Jet Aviation Beijing FBO Ready for Olympics

Jet Aviation and joint-venture partners Deer Air and Reach Investment’s new FBO facilities at Beijing Capital International Airport opened earlier this wee
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update:Enstrom scores biggest sale ever

Mere months after a corporate shakeup rocked Enstrom Helicopter to the roots of its mahogany row, the Menominee, Mich.-based rotorcraft manufacturer celebr
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: New Bell president maps the future

While praising the efforts of his predecessor, Bell Helicopter’s freshly appointed CEO has been offering his own vision of the future for the beleaguered r
Safety

Rotorcraft Update: JetRanger gets stickshaker

Safe Flight Instrument Corp.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: South African shootout

It’s a story right out of the Wild West.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Keystone honored by Rolls-Royce

Keystone Helicopter’s engine services division announced that it won Rolls-Royce’s program investment award.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Extex reveals extension plan

PMA parts maker Extex is finding current business so good it has embarked on an ambitious new expansion program.
Rotorcraft

EC 225 clearing hurdles; certification slips to 2004

Eurocopter now hopes to obtain certification for its EC 225 by early next year instead of in the third quarter of this year, as previously stated.
Rotorcraft

Russian helo designs struggle to enter market

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia.
Aircraft

Finmeccanica’s Alenia Aermacchi division is launching a competition to find a nickname for its M346

Finmeccanica’s Alenia Aermacchi division is launching a competition to find a nickname for its M346.
Rotorcraft

MD Helicopters back in the black after a turbulent year

The light at the end of the tunnel is not a train bearing down on MD Helicopters Inc., said chairman and CEO Henk Schaeken.
Rotorcraft

Eurocopter quietly working on 'neighborly helicopter'

Just a few years ago Eurocopter scored a major coup at an HAI Heli-Expo show, amazing the crowds by introducing a new helicopter as a completely certified
Security

Mounting a solid defense

Thanks to the many miracles of modern optics, modern aerial surveillance crews can zoom in their lenses from improbable distances and get razor-sharp image
Accidents

News Note: Hughes 500 crash claims 3

A family of three were killed July 19 when the Hughes 500 helicopter they had chartered for a sightseeing flight over the Kentish countryside crashed short
FBOs

Touching Bases: FAA's E-STMP program under fire, again

A special traffic management program (STMP) for the Sun Valley, Idaho area last month has evoked the ire of some pilots who could not get slots.
FBOs

Touching Bases: FAA lawyer supports Naples decision

An internal FAA review last month upheld the agency’s decision to withhold airport grants from Naples Municipal Airport, Fla., though the Naples Airport Au
FBOs

Touching Bases: Jackson Hole keeps an eye on Naples

Airport officials at Jackson Hole, Wyo., are watching events in Naples to help determine how they will proceed with their own proposed Stage 2 ban.
Aircraft

Bureaucracy ends DC-3’s career

The need to protect passengers from terrorism was not uppermost in the mind of the Douglas Aircraft designers when they developed the DC-3, and they could
FBOs

Touching Bases: New bizav center planned for Amsterdam

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will get a new business aviation terminal next year.
Charter & Fractional

Touching Bases: L.A. sues charter operator over VNY noise

The Los Angeles board of airport commissioners, the agency that oversees several airports in the metropolitan area, announced last month it was suing chart
FBOs

Morristown, N.J. facility tries reversing the paradigm

Win Perkins doesn’t have much patience for the traditional FBO business plan.
ATC

"Tailored" arrivals reduce fuel and cut emissions

Boeing and its partners in industry and government accomplished significant reductions in fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions during recent tests