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Dassault Nearing Launch of New Bird

Dassault Falcon’s upcoming super-midsize (SMS) business jet, already known to have fly-by-wire flight controls and Rolls-Royce engines, remains an otherwis
Airports

Google gains access to NASA field

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have drawn flak for a deal they struck with NASA to base an executive Boeing 767-200 and two Gulfstream Vs at th
Aircraft

Where Will Piper Land?

“No, I haven’t,” said Piper Aircraft president and CEO Jim Bass, when asked if he has placed his house on the market as Piper grapples with the decision on
Training and Workforce

Adam Taps SaferJett for A500/700 Training

With new management and the goal of transforming itself from a development company to a lean production aircraft company, Adam Aircraft put a key foundatio
Charter & Fractional

Pogo Jet charter service would use Eclipse 500s

Pogo Jet clarified plans to launch a charter service using Eclipse 500 very light jets in a registration statement for an initial public offering (IPO) sub
Engines

P&WC hastens support for new engines

Pratt & Whitney Canada is seeing its engines enter service on three new business airplanes this year–the Dassault Falcon 7X, Cessna Mustang and Eclipse
FBOs

HPN’s Westair throws its lot in with Million Air

Roger Woolsey, president and CEO of Houston-based Million Air (Booth No.
Engines

Phenom 300 Engine at Full Power

Pratt & Whitney Canada’s new PW535E turbofan engine for the Embraer Phenom 300 has reached its full takeoff thrust of 3,360 pounds at the company’s Lon
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Gore Delivers Boeing Business Jet

Gore Design Completions (Booth No.
Accidents

Racing driver killed in helo crash

British racing driver Colin McRae was killed when the Eurocopter AS 355 Twin Squirrel he was flying crashed near his home in Scotland on September 15.
Charter & Fractional

Local Charter Operator Plans To Raise $18.2M

Cirrus SR-22 and soon-to-be Eclipse 500 charter operator ImagineAir, based at Gwinnett County Airport/ Briscoe Field in Georgia, announced the signing of a
Aircraft

Australia grounds some Cessna 441s

Australia’s Civil Aviation Authority (CASA) has grounded several Cessna 441 Conquest IIs, citing the potential for in-flight structural failures on aircraf
Regulations and Government

Gov’t outlines volcanic ash ops plan

The Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Service and Supporting Research, in conjunction with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administ
Maintenance and Modifications

Winglets improve local Hawkers

Local pilot Brian Ross is a big fan of Aviation Partners winglets after adding the efficiency-improving devices to all four of his employer’s Hawker Beechc
FBOs

Million Air breaks ground out West

Next year a new Million Air FBO is slated to open at San Bernardino International Airport in California.
Avionics

Pro Line Fusion coming to Global line

Bombardier is bringing Rockwell Collins’ new Pro Line Fusion cockpit to the Global Express XRS and 5000 as long-overdue replacements for the airplanes’ Hon
ATC

ITT wins ADS-B contract

The FAA awarded to ITT in August an 18-year, $1.8 billion contract to provide nationwide automatic dependent surveillance- broadcast (ADS-B) service throug
ATC

New roadmap into Northeast airspace

The FAA has issued a final decision for redesigning the New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia metropolitan airspace, but it is likely that airport neighbor
Charter & Fractional

The Fractional Market Special Report

It’s been 21 years since Richard Santulli opened the doors of NetJets, having figured out a way to lower the barriers to entry to business aviation by sell
Avionics

L-3 applies iPod ideas to SmartDeck

After years of quiet development, L-3 Avionics Systems formally dropped the veil on its SmartDeck integrated avionics system at the NBAA Convention last mo
Avionics

Collins opens IDS STC floodgates

Rockwell Collins’ Pro Line 21 Integrated Display System (IDS) STC for the Dassault Falcon 50 is now available to its dealer network, and the avionics maker
Avionics

Gulfstream makes Axxess standard

Gulfstream has selected AirCell’s Axxess cabin communications system as standard equipment aboard its line of large-cabin business jets spanning the G300 t
Avionics

Bombardier brings HUD, EVS to 605

Bombardier plans to offer a Rockwell Collins LCD-based head-up guidance system along with its BEVS (Bombardier enhanced-vision system) as an option for the
Avionics

Satcom Direct enters in-flight datalink market

The company that has given satcom service providers the most competition in the phone and Internet arena will now compete in the market for airborne flight
ATC

Sensis concept targets runway incursions

Honeywell and Sensis demonstrated in August a concept of providing automated, individual voice warnings to pilots about to fall prey to a runway incursion
Maintenance and Modifications

AIN Product Support Survey: Engines

While it is the cold, hard numbers that decide our readers’ verdict on how well companies support the products they sell, it is the readers’ written commen
Rotorcraft

French Riviera residents keep pressure on helo noise issue

Despite an agreement signed in 2006 to mitigate noise around the famous French Riviera city of Saint-Tropez, helicopter operators and local authorities are
Rotorcraft

French helo EMS pilots demand new contract

Pilots flying helicopters for the French hospitals’ emergency medical services went on strike twice recently to protest low wages and long hours.
Rotorcraft

Mechanical problem blamed for crash of Copterline S-76

A malfunction of the flight-control system played a role in the 2005 fatal crash of a Sikorsky S-76 in Estonia, according to an interim report issued by Es
Rotorcraft

FAA awards production certificate for EC 145, UH-72A

American Eurocopter has received an FAA aircraft production certificate to manufacture its U.S.