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Congressional Observer: April 2008

• As Washington pundits predicted, the $3.1 trillion budget President Bush proposed for the federal fiscal year beginning Oct.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Missed GPS approach fatal for six

Hawker Beechcraft King Air C90A, Mount Airy, N.C., Feb.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: EMS helicopter crashes in bay

Eurocopter AS 350B2, South Padre Island, Texas, Feb.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Citation III accident fatal for three

Cessna 650 Citation III, Caico Seco, Venezuela, Feb.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: German partol JetRanger destroyed

Bell 206B JetRanger, Zuzenhausen, Germany, Jan.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: In-flight fire extinguished

Hawker Beechcraft Beech 99, Moline, Ill.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: LongRanger Gulf crash fatal

Bell 206L-1 LongRanger, Venice, La., Dec.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Angolan King Air hit mountain

Hawker Beechcraft King Air 200, Huambo, Angola, Jan.
Accidents

Final Report: Inadequate training blamed in fatal crash

Eurocopter EC 135P1, Washington, D.C., May 30, 2006–The NTSB determined the probable cause of the EMS helicopter crash to be the operator’
Accidents

Final Report: Nosegear actuator failed

Hawker Beechcraft Beech 99, Billings, Mont., May 19, 2007–The NTSB determined the probable cause of this landing accident to be the failur
Accidents

Final Report: Pilot ignored landing procedues

Piaggio Avanti, Battle Mountain, Nev., Dec.
Accidents

Final Report: Merlin lost control, collided with airport sign

Swearingen SA-226T, Wheeling, Ill., April 11, 2007-A partial failure of the left engine propeller governor made directional control impossible, and
Accidents

Final Report: Downsloped wet runway factor in overrun

Dassault Falcon 900C, Rifle, Colo., March 23, 2007–The NTSB attributed the runway overrun to the ATP-rated pilot’s decision to land with e
Accidents

Final Report: Ground resonance destroyed helicopter

Enstrom 480, Goshen, Ind., Aug.
Accidents

Final Report: Engine failed on Citation

Cessna 650 Citation III, Madison, Wis., Oct.
Accidents

Final Report: Blown tire finding disputed

Piaggio Avanti, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., March 20, 2007–The NTSB determined the probable cause of the accident involving the Avantair Piaggi
Accidents

Final Report: EMS helicopter into Potomac River

Eurocopter EC 135P2, Oxon Hill, Md., Jan.
Avionics

Iridium Names Three ‘Next’ Partners

Iridium last month said it has reached agreements with three companies to develop the company’s next-generation satellite constellation, called Iridium Nex
Avionics

Dassault Picks Honeywell Com Link

Dassault has selected Honeywell to supply a communications gateway (CG-710) and multi-channel satcom systems (MCS-7120) for all Falcon 900 and 2000 series
Aircraft

Viking Air chooses Apex for Twin Otter 400

After a nine-month selection process, the company that plans to bring the Twin Otter back into production has chosen Honeywell’s Primus Apex integrated fli
Avionics

Aspen Avionics secures TSO for novel EFD1000 PFD line

What began as a clever idea by two former Eclipse Aviation engineers culminated last month with TSO approval for Aspen Avionics’ Evolution Pilot and Pro pr
Avionics

Jeppesen Touts Online RAIM Tool

Through its JetPlan flight planning service, Jeppesen for the last couple of years has been offering RAIM (receiver autonomous integrity monitoring) predic
Avionics

FAA Certifies Eclipse Weather Radar

The FAA has certified a new airborne weather radar system for the Eclipse 500 developed by the Albuquerque, N.M.
ATC

FAA may rethink ADS-B plan after negative industry reaction

March 3 was not an auspicious day for officials in the FAA’s ADS-B Program Office.
Avionics

Gulfstream testing fly-by-light controls

Just days after taking the wraps off the fly-by-wire G650 last month, Gulfstream revealed that it has successfully flown a GV testbed fitted with a fiber-o
ATC

Air-taxi proponents want NextGen benefits sooner

A group of personal air transport providers has asked the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) to accelerate the pace of implementation of the Next
Rotorcraft

Heli-Expo ’08

It wasn’t just the great Texas barbeque that put smiles on the faces of Heli-Expo visitors.
Charter & Fractional

Operator gives helo fractional a ‘Whirl’

With the successes of the fractional model for business jet ownership, it was perhaps only a matter of time before a national fractional helicopter operati
Rotorcraft

Challenges ahead for expanding air ambulance service provider

With its 2007 acquisition of Pittsburgh-based CJ Systems, Air Methods has become the largest civil air ambulance provider in the country.
Rotorcraft

Certification effort in full swing for BA609

Bell/Agusta Aerospace engineers working on the BA609 Tiltrotor have stepped up their certification efforts, now working with the FAA and the EASA (via Ital