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Maintenance and Modifications

Sabreliner receives FAA gold certificate of excellence

The FAA has awarded Sabreliner’s Perryville operation its Gold Certificate of Excellence.
Maintenance and Modifications

Michelin offers rebate

Authorized service centers for Michelin Aircraft Tire are running an incentive program called “Upgrade to Michelin,” which offers an instant 20-percent reb
Maintenance and Modifications

Gulfstream makes wiring manuals user-friendly

Gulfstream Aerospace has developed software enhancement called “Circuit Flash” for electronic manuals that makes it easier for aircraft technicians to inte
Maintenance and Modifications

Singapore technologies to offer maintenance

Singapore Technologies Aerospace Engineering has opened a $10 million, single-bay facility on Singapore Seletar Airport.
Maintenance and Modifications

PAG expands with purchase of Pegasus Aircraft

Atlanta-based Precision Aviation Group (PAG) has agreed in principal to acquire Pegasus Aircraft Components of Richmond, British Columbia.
Maintenance and Modifications

GAMA and ICASF establish scholarship

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and the International Council of Air Shows Foundation (ICASF) have established the ICAS Foundation GA
Maintenance and Modifications

Avmats enters Beechjet maintenance market

Avmats, located in Chesterfield, Mo., on Spirit of St.
Maintenance and Modifications

Lansing community college adds corridor course

“Among today’s aviation service providers, software is playing an ever-increasing role in day-to-day operations, so it is becoming more critical for A&
Maintenance and Modifications

Coca-Cola orders blended winglets for Hawker fleet

Coca-Cola Enterprises’ Atlanta-based corporate flight department ordered four blended winglet shipsets from Aviation Partners to equip its Raytheon Hawker
Maintenance and Modifications

CD Aviation services positions rep in Europe

Neosho, Mo.-based CD Aviation Services (CDAS) has opened an office in Sweden.
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier moves to support team concept

Recognizing the complexity customers face when they have to work with multiple people during maintenance, Bombardier has created customer support teams tha
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

AIA Conference

This year’s Aviation Insurance Association (AIA) conference, held from April 28 to May 1 in Palm Springs, Calif., convened in the atmosphere of an aircraft
Safety

Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar

As its name implies, the Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar, hosted by the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) and NBAA, focused on the common theme of improving
Safety

FAA turns up the heat on icing issue

Summer is almost upon us in the northern hemisphere, but the FAA is embroiled in two significant icing-related issues: a proposed new rule for when de-ice
Airports

Changes urged for flights to DCA

District of Columbia congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) used a House aviation subcommittee hearing on the Essential Air Service program (EAS)
Regulations and Government

Alphabets question value of screening for airport workers

House and Senate bills to require all airport employees with access to secure and sterile areas of an airport to undergo metal detection screening in the s
Aircraft

2007 Paris Air Show Preview

This year poses a stiff test for the debate about whether business aircraft manufacturers need to be at both the annual European Business Aviation Conventi
Aircraft

Embraer’s Phenom program accelerating

Embraer’s May 2005 announcement that the company was launching two new business aircraft–the Phenom 100 very light jet and the Phenom 300 light jet–certain
Aircraft

In The Works: Eclipse Aviation Model 500

It’s been more than seven years since Vern Raburn launched the Eclipse 500, a small, low-cost very light jet that he predicted would bring “disruptive tech
Aircraft

In The Works: Bell/Agusta Aerospace BA609

Early in the second quarter, Bell/Agusta Aerospace reported that the BA609 civil tiltrotor program had logged 137 flights and 159 flight hours on ship 001,
Aircraft

In The Works: Evektor EV-55

Evektor has begun prototype assembly of the EV-55 Outback, a nine- to 14-passenger unpressurized turboprop.
Avionics

‘NextGen’ avionics could cost users up to $20 billion

While preparing for traffic to double and perhaps even triple in the coming decades, the FAA has made clear that putting up the ground-based infrastructure
Avionics

Special Report: Major Cockpit Retrofits

The scene was straight out of a science fiction movie.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

As expectations rise, IFE in RJs now far from far-fetched

Availability of in-flight entertainment (IFE) ranks among the top factors that influence the loyalty of passengers, who have become increasingly aware of t
Avionics

Gulfstream Chooses Collins HUD

Rockwell Collins’s new HGS-5860 is the first head-up display (HUD) with an LCD projector to be certified on a business jet–Dassault’s Falcon 7X.
Aircraft

Grob Optimistic on SPn, Opens U.S. Facility

Grob Aerospace, which last month at EBACE in Geneva showcased its six-passenger fuselage mockup of the Grob SPn light business jet with a new cabin interio
Training and Workforce

CAE’s Falcon 7X simulator replicates the real world

Flight training provider CAE SimuFlite won’t hold the grand opening ceremony commemorating the start of operations at its Northeast Training Center in Morr
Regulations and Government

Aviation Emissions Likely Kill Hundreds a Year

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey said last month in a speech to an emissions colloquium at ICAO in Quebec that “aircraft greenhouse-gas emissions might beco
Aircraft

Dassault Falcon 7X gets FAA and EASA approval

On April 27 Dassault hosted a formal ceremony at its Bordeaux facility to celebrate FAA and EASA certification of the Falcon 7X.