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Overrun Arresting System Saves Falcon 900

A Falcon 900 overran Runway 1 during landing at Greenville Downtown Airport, S.C., on July 17, but was stopped by the Engineered Materials Arresting System
Safety

Look closely at FMS-provided runway data

About six months ago, someone–either a customer or an aircraft manufacturer–queried Rockwell Collins about a runway with a displaced threshold in a Pro Lin
Aircraft

Business Aviation in Latin America

Brazil’s largest business aviation services company, Líder Aviação, continues to spread its wings into new areas and anticipates a revenue increase of 40 p
Regulations and Government

FAA no nearer to new plan for agency financing

Despite assurances from FAA Administrator Marion Blakey that the agency was near a new financing plan, user-fee storm clouds continue to roil on the horizo
Aircraft

Business Aviation in Latin America

For years the business aviation market in Latin America was distinguished by little more than wishful thinking as manufacturers watched signs of interest t
Charter & Fractional

Charter broker aims for cleaner skies

Executive charter broker Flightplan has started making voluntary payments to offset the environmental impact of flights it books on behalf of clients.

TAG considers fight to increase movements at Farnborough

TAG Aviation has yet to confirm whether it will appeal the Rushmoor Borough Council’s rejection of its application to increase weekend movements at the Lon

UK authorizes new offshore register

The Isle of Man–a British Crown Dependency located in the Irish Sea between the UK and Ireland–expects to have its new aircraft register up and running nex

North AmericaN Avcraft facility

Corporate Jet Services, parent company of UK executive charter operator Club 328, is close to acquiring the Myrtle Beach, S.C.

Start-up launches N.Y.-London service

Silverjet, a new UK-based all-first-class, long-haul airline, is recruiting captains and copilots for its initial London-New York route, due to begin servi
Aircraft

Honda’s new aircraft division shifts into gear

Two weeks after Honda revealed its long-anticipated commercial plans for the HondaJet, the Japanese company on August 8 established a wholly owned subsidia

FAA: some NextGen ATC benefits are here

Seeking to dispel common misconceptions that the next-generation air transportation system (NGATS) will not provide benefits to users until 2025, FAA Admin

Icing training for Caravan pilots

Cessna has submitted documents to the FAA that could serve as a new AFM supplement requiring flight-into-known-icing training for Caravan pilots.
Aircraft

Need to Find or Unload a Hangar?

A new Web site called HangarTrader.com seeks to bring together hangar owners and potential buyers or renters.
Charter & Fractional

NetJets Financial Winds Shift Favorably

The nine-month-old NetJets pilot contract, which raised wages substantially, isn’t having the speculated adverse effect on profits at the fractional provid

Drunken Joy-ride Pilot Sentenced

Philippe Patricio, 21, who in June last year stole a Cessna 172 at Danbury Municipal Airport, Conn., and flew it on a drunken joyride to Westchester County

Upgraded Helicopter Standards Planned

Revised performance and handling requirements for normal- (Part 27) and transport-category (Part 29) rotorcraft have been proposed.

Comments Due on Limitations NPRM

September 18 is the comment deadline on a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to establish operational life limitations designed to prevent widespread fat
Aircraft

Eclipse, Cessna race to VLJ certification

Not to rain on Eclipse’s parade, but…the July 27 waving of the checkered flag in the very light jet (VLJ) race might have been premature.
Aircraft

Hawker 4000 exemptions OK’d with conditions

The FAA has granted, with conditions, Raytheon Aircraft’s request that the Hawker 4000 be temporarily exempted from certain Part 25 amendments to enable th

LGA small airliner phase-out proposed

Under an FAA proposal issued late last month, an airline’s annual “average seat size” would have to be equal to or greater than the airport-wide target of

O'Hare slots made final rule

A long-awaited interim final rule extends until at least mid-2008 the FAA’s mandated flight-reduction program to ease congestion at Chicago O’Hare Internat

Adam raises $93M in new funding

Adam Aircraft of Englewood, Colo., last month completed a $93 million funding round led by venture-capital firm DCM, a new investor in the start-up manufac

Robust growth continues for business aviation in EU

Eurocontrol, the European international body that coordinates upper-airspace IFR traffic, recently published a study about business aviation in its 31-nati

Civil aircraft slot allocation at Northolt questioned

UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) Police are making inquiries into the terms under which slots at London’s Northolt Airport are allocated to civil aircraft oper

FAA takes new tack on runway incursions

Two takeoff near-collisions in July at Chicago O’Hare and Los Angeles International Airports underscored the fact that runway incursion accidents–one of th

NBAA Convention: Industry revs up for the big show

Unlike last year’s NBAA Convention, which was hastily transplanted from New Orleans to Orlando in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, next month’s 59th annual N

EAA AirVenture 2006: Business aviation news takes center stage at this year's event

At this year’s EAA AirVenture show, plans and promises from the past finally yielded fruit.
Aircraft

Gulfstream Begins Fly-by-wire Flights

Flight testing is scheduled to begin this month of a Gulfstream V modified with a fly-by-wire system for controlling the spoilers.

Gulfstreams On Course For Record Year

Gulfstream delivered 54 business jets in the first half of this year compared with 41 in the first half of last year.