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Maintenance and Modifications

FAA Study Critiques OEM Views on Aftermarket

An FAA team explored whether there is a safety and compliance issue with aftermarket repairs and replacement parts made under applicable FAA regulations bu
Maintenance and Modifications

FAA SAIB: PMA Parts Need COS, Too

Possibly as a result of its Repair, Alteration and Fabrication Team study, the FAA issued Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin SAIB NE-08-40, which r
Maintenance and Modifications

FAA Insists on SWA Paying Fine and Penalizes AA

In a move that makes it look as though the FAA is combing through old logbooks to find ways to conduct enforcement actions on commercial operators, the age
Aircraft

CRJ1000 first flight expected early next month

An integration fault in the Bombardier CRJ1000’s fly-by-wire rudder control system has forced the company to install a software revision in the flying prot
FBOs

General Dynamics To Buy Jet Aviation

General Dynamics, parent company of Gulfstream Aerospace, today agreed to pay approximately $2.25 billion to buy Jet Aviation from the Permira Funds privat
Engines

P&WC and Eclipse Probing PW610F Carbon Concern

Pratt & Whitney Canada, manufacturer of the PW610F engine that powers the Eclipse 500 very light jet, and Eclipse Aviation are jointly investigating th
Rotorcraft

Duo Smashes Around-the-world Helo Speed Record

The “Grand Adventure” concluded yesterday morning at New York La Guardia Airport.
Charter & Fractional

FAA Subpoena Seeks Info from Sentient Leaders

The FAA on August 12 issued subpoenas seeking documents from Sentient Jet Holdings and executives at the charter/management, jet card and business aviation
Charter & Fractional

Sentient To Split into Two Separate Companies

Sentient Jet Holdings announced yesterday that it will be splitting into two separate companies.
Regulations and Government

GA Bracing for New Security Rules

A story in Monday’s USA Today that reported the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is working on “a massive expansion” of aviation security rules
Aircraft

Cessna’s Columbus Sails through Wind-tunnel Tests

Cessna yesterday said it completed a series of wind-tunnel tests for its large-cabin Citation Columbus.
Safety

Redesigned European Approach Charts Get Mixed Reviews

European Aeronautical Group has launched a redesigned format for its Navtech Aerocharts.
Engines

Standard Aero Breaks Ground on new CF34 Facility

Turbine engine overhauler Standard Aero on Thursday celebrated the ground-breaking of a new 80,000-sq-ft facility at its Winnipeg, Canada headquarters.
Aircraft

FAA Issues Revised AD on Eclipse Thrust Levers

In response to a thrust-lever quadrant failure in an Eclipse 500 on June 5, the FAA issued an emergency Airworthiness Directive (AD 2008-13-51) on June 12,
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier Adds Global Aviation as Service Provider

Global Aviation of Hillsboro, Ore., is now a Bombardier Business Aircraft-authorized AOG/line maintenance facility, strengthening service center coverage o
Maintenance and Modifications

Online Logbook System Adds Mx Enhancement

AircraftLogs.com has added new maintenance features to its online logbook system.
Maintenance and Modifications

EMTEQ Offers First Chip-On-Board Anti-collision LED

Emteq has received FAA supplemental type certification (STC0359AT) for the industry’s first chip-on-board technology 400-candela anti-collision exterior li
Avionics

Garmin's G1000 for the Honda Jet

Garmin would not confirm its participation in the HondaJet program, but these photos and illustrations of the G1000 system and its architecture appeared in
Regulations and Government

FAA reveals five-year plan

A five-year plan–four-fifths of which FAA Administrator Marion Blakey could actually see through to fruition–was laid out in draft form in late July for th
FBOs

Touching Bases: Marathon streamlines billing process

A marathon may be a grueling 26-mile race, but Marathon Flight Services in Kissimmee, Fla., has a new tool to help aircraft operators sprint through the bi
FBOs

Interim CEO addresses Jet Aviation customers

Heinz Köhli, appointed by Jet Aviation’s parent company to replace Thomas Hirschmann as CEO of the business aviation conglomerate, delivered a message to “
FBOs

Banyan Air offers fingerprint services

A few years ago, who would have thought fingerprinting would be one of the services offered at an FBO? But in today’s security climate, Banyan Air Service
FBOs

Premier Spirit Award winner joins Apex

Mobile (Ala.) Air Center, three-time winner of ExxonMobil’s Premier Spirit Gold Award, has joined the Aviation Points Exchange (Apex) dealer network for pi
Airports

New airport planned for Japan

In late 2005, Japan should have a new airport with facilities available for business aviation.
FBOs

Signature opens its St. Louis Lambert FBO

Signature Flight Support’s new St.
FBOs

T-Bird moves into new digs at Dupage

T-Bird Aviation moved into its new facility earlier this summer, following less than one year of construction at DuPage County Airport outside Chicago.
FBOs

A first-class FBO upgrade on Sardinia's Costa Smeralda

The Italian island of Sardinia and its elite Costa Smeralda (Emerald Coast) resort area are not well known in North America, except perhaps to yachting and
Accidents

Blackout 2003: bizav had an edge over the airlines

Fortunately, it was a clear, sunny day (rather than the proverbial dark, stormy night) over the Northeast when the electrical power gridwork gave up the gh
Regulations and Government

Washington Report: GA runway incursions drop in FY 2002

Runway incursions at the 35 busiest general aviation airports decreased slightly in fiscal year 2002, according to a new report by the FAA Office of Runway
Regulations and Government

Washington Report: NBAA takes issue with USA Today

In a letter to USA Today, NBAA president Shelley Longmuir said the newspaper’s August 5 article on corporate aviation ignored the “demonstrated an