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An amendment to Massachusetts’ recently approved 2002 budget (H.B.3207) will eliminate the 5-percent sales and use tax when aircraft and aircraft parts are

Look for a new helicopter variant of a tried-and-true veteran design to bow in at next month’s HAI HeliExpo ’02.

Eurocontrol has again confirmed that reduced vertical separation minimum (RVSM) airspace will be implemented in Europe starting January 24.

A Cessna Citation V crashed immediately after takeoff from Switzerland’s Zurich Airport at 10:06 p.m.

Due to the New York City metro area airspace redesign, the FAA has introduced three new Stars, effective December 27, for Teterboro, La Guardia and Newark

“The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics security plan is going to be the model of how not to do it.

Airbus announced at last month’s NBAA show the World Ranger, a corporate version of the four-engine A340-200.

Five trade organizations jointly submitted recommended security regulations for general aviation operations to the DOT and FAA for implementation “expediti

A proposed stadium for the Arizona Cardinals NFL football team in Tempe, Ariz., would be a hazard to airplanes using Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airpo

Among the key people associated with the buyers of Garrett Aviation’s Santa Barbara, Calif.

The NTSB has recommended that Center Weather Service Units be staffed at all times when significant weather is broadcast and that the lockout feature of AS

 With the coming introduction of the Global Express into the Bombardier Flexjet fractional-ownership fleet, allocated usage will be based on days or h

Farnborough Airport has boosted its claim to being London’s leading business aviation gateway with the introduction of a Cat I ILS on Runway 24.

After nearly a year of studying air routes in Anchorage airspace, the FAA will soon finalize several proposed changes affecting general aviation operations

British Airways (BA) ditched its business jet charter service just six months after launching it with charter broker Air Partner, the result of cost-cuttin

The new Marsa Alam International Airport has opened in southern Egypt.

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Following the 1998 crash of a Swissair MD-11 off Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has issued an aviation safety adviso

The NTSB is investigating whether a rudder problem caused a United Boeing 737 to swing suddenly left and right and bank sharply while descending for landin

Revised lower life cycles of certain rotating parts of the CFE738 engines on the Falcon 2000 prompted a proposed AD to require replacement of these parts b

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A total rewrite of Federal Communications Commission Part 87 has been proposed.

Westair Aviation, an FBO at Westchester County (N.Y.) Airport since 1950, moved into new facilities and expanded its services.

Marc Fruchter, 55, who started Fruchter Aviation in 1982 and built it into one of the largest FBOs at Reading Regional (Pa.) Airport, is selling the busine

Airport and aircraft operators that are required to have security programs under Parts 107 and 108, respectively, must now include fingerprint-based crimin

Fairchild Dornier at last month’s NBAA Convention in New Orleans chalked orders for three more Envoy 3s, bringing the order book for the executive-configur

The European Commission (EC) has issued revised noise proposals that abandon its earlier demands for a blanket ban on hush-kitted aircraft with mtow of mor

Cessna has completed RVSM Service Bulletins for the Citation V, S/II and II, and an SB was pending at press time for the Citation I.

A third super-midsize Continental last month entered flight testing with a 1 hr 53 min flight from Bombardier’s Wichita Flight Test Center.

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