May 22, 2008

Spectrums boast low emissions

By Matt Thurber

Spectrum Aeronautical (Booth No. 1947) has quantified the CO2 that will be generated by its Freedom S-40 and Independence S-33 business jets and compared those to competing jets to see how the Spectrum jets stack up emissions-wise. On a 600-nm flight, the midsize S-40 generates slightly less than 1,500 kilograms of CO2, according to Spectrum, while comparable jets should generate more than 2,000 k more

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Feras handling plans to open its first FBO in Zadar, Croatia

International handling company Feras (Booth No. 1187), which has more than 100 of its own locations and operations in 23 countries, is seeing rapid growth in areas that a few years ago rarely ever saw business aircraft traffic. The growth is a combination of U.S. travelers seeking new business opportunities and aircraft operators now based in those countries, said Otto Wright, director of sales an more

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Moving Terrain Eases European Flight Planning

Moving Terrain (Booth No. 887) is showing off a new “enhancement” for its electronic flight bag (EFB) here at EBACE. Dubbed Blitzplan, the software upgrade allows pilots to use their Moving Terrain EFB to file a flight plan directly from their aircraft. The new software module allows a pilot to quickly generate a Eurocontrol-approved route, and that flight plan can then be activated from the EFB t more

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Zodiac To Create Global Service and Support

Zodiac has announced the implementation by September of a global customer service and support network for all its products sold under 12 different brand names–Intertechnique, ECE, Avox, IDD, Aerazur, Air Cruisers, IN-LHC, Precilec, Sicma, In-Flex, Monogram and Icore. The existing offices will be regrouped into Zodiac Services Europe, Zodiac Services Americas and Zodiac Services Asia. Existing IN-S more

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NAT Unveils Live In-flight IPTV

Cabin electronics specialist NAT Seattle (Booth No. 1846) announced the availability of software that it claims can allow the company’s JetLAN airborne computer server to host live TV sent through an airplane’s satellite Internet connection. No information was available on what the service costs, but the IPTV offering is available through service provider Satcom1 using existing satcom hardware and more

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Boutsen Takes Delivery of Airbus Corporate Jets

Monaco-based Boutsen Aviation, whose president is former Formula 1 racing driver Thierry Boutsen, will take delivery today (if all goes to plan) of an Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ), which will be outfitted with a Prestige VIP interior by Jet Aviation in Basel, Switzerland. Boutsen Aviation ordered two ACJs on behalf of undisclosed customers last year, and added another order in April this year f more

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GroWing Gets CAMO Plus Certification

The Swiss aircraft service provider groWing is Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO) certified since last year. Just before this year’s EBACE, the young company achieved CAMO Plus certification. This status allows it to perform annual airworthiness reviews for commercially used aircraft with takeoff weights exceeding 5.7 tons and to provide a controlled environment supervising th more

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Gedera Shows Environmental Control Systems

Gedera, Israel-based TAT Technologies (Booth No. 1942), manufacturer of heat exchangers and air conditioning systems, has come to EBACE for the first time to present its new approach to supplying “complete environmental control systems (ECS) for aircraft.” The turnkey offering incorporates system integration into engine environments with bleed-air pre-coolers, combustion engine coolant cycle or ex more

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Isle of Man registry M-eets demand

By Ian Sheppard

In the year since it was created on May 1, 2007, the Isle of Man aircraft registry has established itself as a popular offshore registry for business jet owners. Just over 50 aircraft have taken the Isle of Man’s M-tail numbers, more than four times the number targeted by the British Crown Dependency’s government.
The registry is now seeking to attract owners of U.S. N-registered aircraft t more

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Avitat FBO touts HPN as attractive alternative to TEB

By Mark Phelps

Sometimes your best business asset is your location. And sometimes the advantages of that location might not be so obvious to customers looking at a map. That’s why Mike Dolphin, co-owner of New York-area FBO Avitat White Plains (Booth No. 635), has been exhibiting here at EBACE since the show first opened in 2001.
Dolphin has a message for European business jet operators who have been usin more

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