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BAE scraps RJX, to cease all RJ production

The UK’s BAE Systems has scrapped the RJX regional jet program and will shut down all future RJ production after it finishes four airplanes currently in pr
Aircraft

Avolar to market, manage Airbus ACJs

Avolar, the newly formed business aviation subsidiary of UAL Corp., reached an agreement with Airbus to market and/or manage, but not buy, up to 15 Airbus
Accidents

Crossair Avro RJ100 crash kills 24

Switzerland’s Crossair suffered its second fatal accident in less than two years on November 24, when one of the regional airline’s Avro RJ100s crashed int
Cabin Interior and Electronics

DeCrane expands, takes on BBJ completions

DeCrane Aircraft Systems’ PATS unit recently completed a 42,000-sq-ft expansion of its facility at Sussex County Airport in Georgetown, Del.
Accidents

Structure scrutinized in Airbus crash

The NTSB is examing the structural integrity of the all-composite tail of the Airbus A300-600 that crashed November 12 after liftoff from New York JFK Airp
Aircraft

Learjet fatal crash investigation starts

Investigators have started their probe into the crash of a Universal Jet Aviation (Boca Raton, Fla.) Learjet 25B, N5UJ, as it was taking off from Pittsburg
ATC

FAA plans follow-on to Alaskan ADS-B project

Buoyed by the success of its three-year ADS-B (automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast) operational evaluation project, named Capstone and centered on B
Airports

Airport fee proposal flies into limbo

The comment period closing date has been suspended indefinitely on a DOT proposal to adopt “market based” solutions to relieve airport congestion and delay
Aircraft

STCs received for EVAS in Challenger series

EVAS Worldwide, an affiliate of Ramsey, N.J.-based Aircraft Services Group, said its $11,950 Emergency Vision Assurance System (EVAS) personal cockpit smok
Charter & Fractional

Air Canada latest airline to offer bizjet charter

Montreal-based Air Canada will convert up to four of its Boeing 737s into 48-seat business jets and place them into the airline’s new on-demand and contrac
Aircraft

Gulfstream to cut workforce and production

Gulfstream Aerospace plans to cut about 480 people from its workforce of 8,000, citing a drop in business jet orders in response to the slowing economy.
Aircraft

GIV-SP wins JAA approval, GV expected next year

Europe’s JAA has issued type certificate endorsement for the Gulfstream IV and IV-SP, effectively recommending the business jets for approval by the JAA’s
Charter & Fractional

Fractional pilot hiring down 30 percent

The 843 pilots hired by six major fractional aircraft ownership companies in the first nine months of this year were about 30 percent fewer than the 1,210
Airports

Fickle politics determine Meig's fate

Despite a new blizzard of support for Meigs Field (CGX) using every media, general aviation’s most famous single-runway airport is set to close permanently
Engines

Upgraded Citation X engine receives FAA nod

The uprated Rolls-Royce AE3007-C1 engine for the 2002 Citation X (starting with S/N 0173) has received FAA certification.
Engines

P&WC runs new engine targeted for light jets

With the completion of its first run on October 31, Pratt & Whitney Canada initiated testing of its 2,500-lb-thrust PW625F engine demonstrator.
Regulations and Government

Online high-altitude course is FAA approved

With the completion of its first run on October 31, Pratt & Whitney Canada initiated testing of its 2,500-lb-thrust PW625F engine demonstrator.
Aircraft

Boeing 737 rudder control fix to be mandated

Boeing completed a redesign of a 737 rudder control system and, as expected, the FAA formally proposed an AD that will require the installation of the syst
Airports

Airport executives mull security changes

“We have 700 million passengers each year and we can’t treat them all as terrorists,” American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) president Chip Barc
Regulations and Government

TBM 700s muat have new water strainer

An incident in which the elevator controls on a Socata TBM 700 literally froze up and jammed because water accumulated in the fuselage and froze led to a F
Regulations and Government

Many are relieved by STC rule delay

The National Air Transportation Association welcomed an 18-month delay in the compliance date for revised STC procedures.
Maintenance and Modifications

Legacy service center named in Florida

Jet Aviation in West Palm Beach, Fla., was recently named an authorized service center by Embraer for its new Legacy, a 10- to 19- passenger business jet/c
FBOs

Two Menzies aviation people killed in AA587 crash

Menzies Aviation Group employees Dennis Blair and Sylvie Greleau were two of the casualties on American Airlines Flight 587, the Airbus A300 that crashed i
Engines

New fan rotor disc must be installed on TFE731

Operators of about 1,100 Honeywell TFE731-2, -3 and -4 engines have until December 31 next year to replace fan rotor discs with improved ones under a new A
Regulations and Government

Site chosen for third Paris airport

The French government has selected an area to build what it calls a third airport to serve Paris, but the area is in Chaulnes, a distant 85 mi north of the
Rotorcraft

Latest software EGPWS certified for S-76

D&D Design of West Milford, N.J., received an STC for installation of the Honeywell Mk XXII Enhanced GPWS with the latest 008 software in the Sikorsky
Accidents

Probe starts into fatal Cheyenne crash

Investigation has started into the crash of Piper Cheyenne N6134A about 10 mi northeast of Graham, Texas, that killed the pilot and his three passengers, a
Security

How will security bill affect bizav?

General aviation will have to wait until later this month to learn how it might be affected by the aviation security bill signed November 19 by President B
Engines

Legacy on certification final

Brazilian certification of the Embraer Legacy is expected this month, following the prototype’s return from its European tour.
ATC

Cargo aircraft will be required to have TCAS

Virtually all cargo aircraft will be required to have TCAS installed by Oct.