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FBOs
SheltAir buys Sowell facility at Panama City
SheltAir Aviation Services expanded its Florida FBO stable to seven and total count to eight with the acquisition of Sowell Aviation Services at Panama Cit
Avionics
Duncan Certifies Collins Retrofit Cockpit in Astra
Duncan Aviation has certified and installed a Rockwell Collins IDS-3000 retrofit cockpit and IFIS (integrated flight information system) file server in a c
Avionics
CMC Introduces SatLite Antenna
For the business aviation market, CMC Electronics has introduced a compact satcom antenna the company calls SatLite.
Airports
Clearing Customs at Dallas
Contrary to earlier reports that aircraft flying into the Dallas area from international departure points could clear U.S.
Avionics
Arinc and Jeppesen Team To Develop EFBs
Arinc and Jeppesen last month announced an alliance that will integrate “best of class” EFB components from each company’s portfolios to produce what offic
Safety
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Aphis, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, will eliminate the exemption from inspection requirements and fees for commercial aircraft flying fr
Safety
SAMM warns of runway incursion potential
Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a joint L-3 Communications and Thales company, used last month’s Paris Air Show to introduce technolo
Cabin Interior and Electronics
Ericsson Decides To Join Airborne Cellphone Fray
Mobile phone maker Ericsson jumped into the race to supply hardware that will enable passengers to use their cellphones aboard aircraft after takeoff.
ATC
Collins’s Latest Satcom Makes Debut Aboard Global 5000
Rockwell Collins’s new SAT-6100 satellite communication system made its world debut aboard the Bombardier Global 5000 at the Paris Air Show last month.
FBOs
Business Jet Center Dallas Starts DCA Flights
Business Jet Center, a Dallas Love Field-based FBO, has been authorized as the first Dallas/Fort Worth-area gateway station for general aviation flights to
Airports
Port Columbus International Named DCA Gateway
Looking for a new Midwest gateway airport into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)? Look no further than Port Columbus International Airport in
Airports
Court of appeals upholds Stage 2 jet ban at Naples
Both sides claimed a measure of victory in the June 3 U.S.
FBOs
Mercury shakeup might rebrand some FBOs
“We’re still Mercury…for now,” is the way a customer service representative at one of the chain’s 16 FBOs responded to a question about the ongoing melding
Safety
Flight attendants seen as safety and political activists
Beau Altman’s retrospective put the profession of business aviation flight attendant into perspective at the 10th Annual Flight Attendants Conference in At
Aircraft
In The Works: Grob G160 Ranger
Certification of the seven-seat Grob G160 Ranger turboprop single has been delayed from this quarter to the middle of next year to incorporate a new interi
Aircraft
In The Works: Eclipse 500
Eclipse Aviation’s fourth conforming Eclipse 500–and the first of its two beta-test jets–joined the flight-test fleet last month.
Aircraft
In The Works: Evektor EV-55
Czech aircraft designer and manufacturer Evektor-Aerotechnik, best known for a line of light piston singles, used last month’s EAA AirVenture show to begin
Avionics
Dassault flight tests EVS on 2000EX
Late last month Dassault flew a Falcon 2000EX EASy with an enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) for the first time.
Regulations and Government
EU Approves Joint Bid fromFormer Galileo Competitors
The European Union (EU) has approved a joint bid from two groups that previously had competed against each other for the contract to run the $4 billion Gal
ATC
FAA DecommissionsMore than 200 NDB Approaches
In a cost-cutting move, the FAA last month decommissioned 216 NDB approaches across the U.S.
Avionics
Jeppesen Tackling ApparentFlightDeck 3.0 Software Bug
Jeppesen has assembled a team of engineers to look into complaints by users that the company’s latest electronic charting software, JeppView FlightDeck 3.0
Avionics
Advanced-vision concept inches closer to reality
The possibility of business jets and airliners making autonomous low-visibility approaches and landings to airports without an ILS has moved closer to real
Avionics
Researchers Begin Crunching SE-Vision Data
Officials from Rockwell Collins, Max-Viz, NASA’s Langley Research Center, the FAA and other organizations in late June conducted the culminating test fligh
Avionics
Retrofit Cockpit from UniversalInstalled in King Air 300
Duncan Aviation has installed and certified the Universal Avionics EFI-890R retrofit avionics system in a King Air 300, the Battle Creek, Mich.
ATC
FAA Tests New Type of TrafficCollision Alerting System
The FAA has completed the first round of flight testing of a unique traffic collision avoidance system that combines automatic dependent surveillance-broad
Avionics
Satcom Direct Service Squeezes More Capacity from Swift64
Satcom Direct, a satcom service provider based in Florida, has introduced a new service called Aero X that the company claims will provide significant incr
Avionics
Texas Firm Announces GII/IIB TAWS and RVSM Upgrade Programs
Business Jet Technologies, the co-developer of the Quiet Technologies Stage 3 hush kit for the Gulfstream II/IIB, has launched avionics upgrade programs fo
Avionics
Marinvent plans high-flying projects
Marinvent, a small but highly regarded aerospace engineering firm located just outside Montreal, has big aspirations to step out of relative anonymity and
Aircraft
Republic Stockpiling Embraer 170s
Republic Airways last month offered another 7.75 million shares of common stock to help fund a fleet expansion that will see it field 28 Embraer 170s for U
Aircraft
First Q300 for Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand took delivery of its first 50-seat Bombardier Q300 turboprop during a ceremony held last month in Toronto.
