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The new Versa-Pure QC is “an important breakthrough,” claims Versa-Pure founder and president Richard Williams.
Not only does it meet all EPA standards, sa

New Versa-Pure QC Filter Is ‘an Important Breakthrough’

Aeroloft, a private rest area above the main deck of the new executive Boeing 747-8, recently passed structural strength and durability testing, according 

Greenpoint’s Aeroloft Passes Critical Certification Test

In March, CTT Systems of Nykoping, Sweden, received an order for its CTT Cair cabin humidification system to be installed in a Boeing 777 executive aircraf

CTT Systems Wins Contracts for Cair System

After signing a contract to complete a Boeing 747-8, Basel, Switzerland-based MRO and completion and refurbishment center Amac Aerospace has also inked a d

747-8 Outfitting Contract Spurs Amac Growth

BAE Systems and design consultancy Design Q have unveiled their latest interior concept for the Avro Business Jet, the ABJ Elegante.
Designed with “space a

BAE Systems and Design Q Create Elegante

Lufthansa Technik’s VIP and Executive Jet Solutions Division is now offering what it claims is a new standard in sleep comfort in the form of its Flexidrea

Lufthansa Offers a Good Night’s Sleep

Independent completion and refurbishment specialist Lufthansa Technik will be providing cabin outfitting on a new Boeing Business Jet destined for corporat

Lufthansa Technik Gets Contract for China BBJ

Airbus Corporate Jet Centre (ACJC), a Toulouse-based specialist in ACJ business jet cabin completion, claims to be the first to offer its customers the hig

ACJC Offers HD Multimedia Interface

Vision Systems of Brignais, France, has introduced Noctis, what the aircraft cabin interior specialist describes as innovative shading that allows passenge

Vision Systems Means Solar Protection

Jet Aviation has signed another BBJ2 cabin completion contract with an unidentified customer, even as the Basel, Switzerland-based center gears up to meet 

Jet Aviation Ramping Up To Meet Demand

When the French BEA released a partial cockpit voice recorder (CVR) transcript of the Air France Flight 447 accident in late May, pundits wasted no time un

Pitch and Power: Lessons from Air France Flight 447

Mark Huber

AgustaWestland is purchasing full ownership of the BA609 civil tiltrotor program from Bell Helicopter.

AgustaWestland Buys Bell’s Stake in BA609 Tiltrotor

Chad Trautvetter

Sikorsky Aircraft president (and Eclipse 500 owner) Jeffrey Pino shed more light on the company’s investment in Albuquerque, N.M.-based Eclipse Aerospace, 

Sikorsky Talks Eclipse at Paris Air Show

Curt Epstein

Bryan Moss, the former president and vice chairman of Gulfstream, has joined private investment firm Guggenheim Partners as the chairman of its recently re

Former Gulfstream Exec Moss Joins Guggenheim Partners

When Robert Barnes, president of the <a href="http://iaftp.org/">International Association of Flight Training Providers</a>, read the initial BEA report on

Air France Flight 447: An Aft-Stick Stall Detailed

The optimism generated by the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (Ebace), coming as it did on the heels of six months of steady improvement

Bizav Industry Continues To See Increased Activity

The new owners of the SJ30 light jet program are renaming their company “SyberJet Aircraft,” shuttering the former owner’s Martinsburg, W.Va.

SJ30 Rebranded “SyberJet.”

Charles Alcock

The process through which business aircraft passengers and crew can clear U.S.

U.S. Eases Customs Pre-Clearance Process in Shannon

With fresh evidence that LightSquared’s proposed wireless broadband network will cause widespread interference to GPS signal reception, principals of the i

GPS Coalition Plays Offense Against LightSquared

Thierry Dubois

They both deny it, but helicopter manufacturers Sikorsky and Eurocopter have clearly reignited the speed race between their respective semi-compound X2 and

Sikorsky, Eurocopter in Race To Exceed 250 Knots

NBAA and the Shanghai Airport Authority (SAA) finalized a five-year agreement yesterday that guarantees the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition

NBAA, Shanghai Airport Seal Agreement for Abace Venue

In a resumption of his campaign against business aviation, President Obama yesterday called for an end to “tax breaks” for corporate jet owners.

President Obama Resumes Attack on Business Aircraft

Bombardier announced last month at the Paris Air Show that Swiss private aviation provider VistaJet has placed a firm order for 10 copies of the Global 800

VistaJet Makes a Splash in Paris

Bombardier reported $4.7 billion in revenue for its first fiscal quarter (which ended April 30), a 9-percent year-over-year increase, thanks in part to a s

Bizjet Sales Boost Bombardier

Business aircraft operators planning to fly to the UK for next summer’s Olympic Games are being encouraged to make early requests for mandatory landing and

Bizcraft Slots for Olympics Will Go Fast

The Bombardier Learjet 45 will be the first business jet model offered at CAE’s new training facility in Toluca, Mexico, near Mexico City.

CAE Toluca To Start Learjet 45 Flight Training

In response to the European Union’s emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS) regulations, Jet Aviation is offering an EU-ETS compliance service.

Jet Aviation Launches EU-ETS Compliance Service

JetNet’s results from its quarterly iQ Global Business Aviation Survey, which garnered responses from 506 business aircraft owners and operators in 57 coun

JetNet: Bizav Operators in Buying Mood

Gulfstream has resumed test flying its G650, and two of the aircraft are now flying as part of the flight-test program.

Gulfstream Resumes G650 Flight Tests

Andrew Wood

The ongoing controversy about whether LightSquared’s proposed network of 40,000 powerful ground-based stations transmitting high-speed Internet across the 

GPS users continue to fight proposed LightSquared network

Dassault’s new <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/ebace-2011-dassault-introduces-lower-cost-falcon-2000s-29649/">Falcon 2000S<

Falcon Teams with DesignworksUSA on Falcon 2000S Cabin

Canadian independent completion and refurbishment specialist Flying Colours of Peterborough, Ontario, is anticipating a growth in business from outside the

Flying Colours Foresees More International Business

Flight Options launched a new membership program for its Embraer Phenom 300s that combines the advantages of fractional ownership with the flexibility of a

Flight Options Launches Phenom 300 Jet Membership

Thrane & Thrane was demonstrating its new Aviator wireless handset at Ebace, offering at last a handset of a size to warrant the term “small.”
The 6.2-oun

Thran Demos True ‘Hand’ Set

Duncan Aviation has received Service Mark approval by the United States Patent and Trademark office for its iCabin, an integrated iPad application for wire

Duncan Earns Service Mark for iCabin

Goodrich, which completed its purchase of a majority of DeCrane Aerospace assets last year, has introduced its Platinum HD cabin management system.
The sy

Goodrich Ramps Up for Platinum HD CMS

Airbus Corporate Jet Centre (ACJC), a specialist in the ACJ series of business and private jet “nose-to-tail” cabin completion services, claims to be the f

ACJC Offering High-Def in ACJ Cabins

Cessna Aircraft has picked Aircell to provide air/ground connectivity for its three larger aircraft–the Citation XLS+, Citation Sovereign and Citation Ten.

Aircell Picked for Citation Line

Within days of the Department of Transportation’s announcement that it was all but <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-06-03/html/2011-13757.htm"

Barr Battle Moves into the Courts

The presidents of six general aviation associations have asked the head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to help soften the financial im

General Aviation Groups Seek Relief from Presidential TFRs

Associated Air Center of Dallas, a Boeing Business Jet-approved center since 1998, delivered its 21st BBJ completion earlier this year.

Associated Delivers 21st BBJ Completion

Brush and Clean, a Fort Lauderdale manufacturer of commercial carpet and upholstery dry cleaning systems, has announced Hybrid Pro, a carpet and hard-floor

Hybrid PRO Cleans Up Business Aviation

Les Ateliers Pinton of Felletin, France, is bringing more than 100 years of the Pinton art of weaving carpet and tapestries to business aviation.

Ateliers Pinton Brings the Art of Weaving to Business Aviation

StandardAero Business Aviation announced at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany, it has completed the first Rockwell Collins Pro Line 4-to-Pro 

StandardAero Installs First Pro Line 4 to Pro Line 21 Upgrade

PPG Industries’ aerospace business has introduced a chromate-free coating that, according to the Pittsburgh-based coatings specialist, “reduces environment

PPG ‘Green’ Paint Promises Savings

As growing numbers of business jets include refrigerator/freezers as part of galley equipment, new products are introduced to enhance the dining experience

Teroforma Features Something Stone Cold

A new Jet Falcon cabin interior refurbishment program for the Falcon 2000 is not only fashion forward, but also timely in terms of market demand.
In fact, 

Jet Falcon Cabin Refurb Is in Fashion

Just two years out of the box, Comlux America has delivered its first executive completion of an Airbus A320 Prestige.

Fly Comlux Adds A320 to Charter Fleet

OHS Aviation Services, a Berlin-based specialist in cabin interior refurbishment and detailing, has added a new showroom to its in-house upholstery and cab

OHS Aviation Adds Showroom and Cabin Configurator

EMS Aviation of Moorestown, N.J., brought its Aspire satellite-based, in-flight connectivity systems to Ebace, including its new AirMail portable e-mail pr

EMS Aviation Introduces Aspire Family

David A. Lombardo

CAE and AirAsia have expanded a prior partnership into a joint venture to provide training for maintenance engineers, technicians, pilots, cabin crew and g

CAE and AirAsia partner on training center

Santa Monica, Calif.

Santa Monica Drops Efforts To Ban Large Aircraft

Gregory Polek

As I flew home amid the screaming babies in the back of a packed 767 from Charles de Gaulle Airport to New York’s JFK, something struck me as different abo

AIN Blog: Boeing Embraces Spirit of Paris

Gulfstream Aerospace is reopening the 62,000-sq-ft Hangar F at Dallas Love Field.

Gulfstream Increases Capacity at Dallas Site

Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) has named Ruag Aviation’s Alpnach helicopter facility in Switzerland an authorized customer service center (CSC) to suppo

Sikorsky and Ruag To Open Swiss Service Center

Eurocopter and Kazakhstan Engineering have signed an agreement formalizing a joint venture to assemble and customize Eurocopter EC145s at a new facility in

Eurocopter Establishes Kazakhstan Engineering Facility

The Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) has submitted a <a href="http://www.arsa.org/files/ARSA-MaintDutyTimeComment-20110614.pdf">letter</a> to

ARSA Chides FAA’s Definition of Duty and Rest Rules

The FAA’s March 2011 NextGen implementation plan is certainly a finely drawn view of what we should expect to see by 2018.

The Dark Side of NextGen

Matt Thurber

In a large building in Belfast near where thousands of hard-working laborers hammered thick steel plates to massive ribs and fittings using thumb-size rive

Bombardier’s Belfast facility preparing for composite wing manufacturing

<b>This month will mark a turning point from the “pioneer” phase to the mandate phase of Europe’s implementation of automatic dependent surveillance-broadc

ADS-B Marks Turning Point in Europe

A new draft Advisory Circular from the FAA is prompting industry concerns with regard to the viability of some existing heliports and the ability to expand

FAA Draft Heliport Circular Prompts Access Concerns

FinServe Aviation Insurance introduced an insurance program designed specifically for business aircraft owners and operators in Europe.

New Euro Bizav Insurance Program Offered

After posting a slight 0.4-percent drop in April, business aircraft flight activity in the U.S.

Bizav Flying Activity Climbs

With sister company NetJets due to receive Bombardier Global 5000s and 6000s, FlightSafety International is adding flight training for the types at its Col

FlightSafety Adding Global 5000/6000 Sims

Flexjet added two new benefits for its fractional jet owners: a 90-day satisfaction guarantee and an unlimited carry-forward hours program.

Flexjet Adds More Benefits for Frax Customers

Honeywell’s corporate Gulfstream G450 made bizav history when it landed at Le Bourget in time for the Paris Air Show after the first transatlantic flight u

Honeywell Record Flight Brings Biofuel To Paris

Jet Aviation announced last month that Peter Edwards has resigned as president of the company.

Peter Edwards To Leave Jet Aviation

Despite all the fits and starts, NextGen in the U.S.

NextGen benefits are coming, slowly but surely

The NTSB’s final report on the fatal 2009 accident that killed a New Mexico State Police (NMSP) helicopter pilot and the hiker he had just rescued is sharp

NTSB Slams NM State Police Over 2009 Helo Crash

Jet Aviation will install Honeywell’s Ovation Select cabin management system in a BBJ currently undergoing completion at the center’s Basel facilities.
Th

Jet Aviation Basel Picks Honeywell CMS

The repercussions of <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/snow-fells-dulles-jet-center-hangars-23969/">last year’s collapse of t

Wrangling Continues over Dulles Hangar Casualties

Aug.

Gulfport Airport Eyes Expansion

While fatigue has attracted the most attention as a cause of the recent well publicized air traffic controller errors, the Transportation Department’s top 

ATC training, staffing may cause errors

A King Air 200, fitted with Aviator 200 powered by Thrane & Thrane, was on display at the Ebace convention in May.
The system delivers Internet and e-mail

Aviator 200 Finding Favor

Aircell’s Aviator 300, powered by Thrane & Thrane, has been selected for 12 factory airframe programs, including those at Bombardier, Cessna, Hawker Beechc

Aviator 300 Gains Traction

Rockwell Collins announced in May the successful aftermarket installation of its Venue CMS on two Dornier 328DBJ executive jets that will fly for charter o

328DBJ Gets Rockwell Collins Venue

Passengers travelling in Comlux The Aviation Group’s new executive Airbus A319s will be able to remain in touch during flights using their personal cellpho

OnAir Keeps Comlux Passengers Connected

JetCorp Technical Services of Chesterfield, Mo., has received an STC for the Aircell cabin telecommunications router (CTR) on a Challenger 300.

JetCorp Wins Challenger 300 Wi-Fi Approval

TrueNorth Avionics has introduced a more compact Wi-Fi cabin-networking device, dubbed TrueNorth Express+, that “easily, effectively, securely and affordab

TrueNorth Express Means Speed

Brazilian OEM Embraer has picked Honeywell’s <a href="news/single-news-page/article/honeywell-demos-new-ovation-select-system-18430/">Ovation Select cabin 

Embraer Picks Honeywell Ovation for New Jets

Ruag Geneva is performing the first European installation of Flight Display Systems’ Select CMS.
The system is going into a Falcon 50 as part of a cabin r

Ruag Does First Europe Installation of Flight Display CMS

Piper Aircraft named 30-year aerospace veteran Michael Dow as chief of production for the PiperJet Altaire, the company’s in-development single-engine busi

Piper Taps Dow as PiperJet Altair Production Chief

At Turbomeca’s factory in Bordes, southwest France, 2011 production is expected to be close to 1,000 turboshaft engines.

Turbomeca Ramps Up Production

Sikorsky Innovations has completed wind-tunnel testing of an active rotor system equipped with “high-authority” flaps, paving the way for what it says will

Sikorsky tests “active” rotor with flaps

Russia-based operator UTair has received a certificate of conformity to Eurocopter training standards, thus becoming the first Eurocopter training center w

UTair Becomes Eurocopter Training Center

The McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II’s radical, wedge-shaped design still looks exotic, even in the 20 years since the program was cancelled after an outl

AIN Blog: McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II Is Still Haunting the Courts

The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) released its updated safety review of the on-demand air charter industry yesterday.

ACSF Puts Part 135 Accidents Under Microscope

“Safety is general aviation’s first priority and, as a result, our industry has taken on a number of initiatives to further reduce general aviation acciden

GA Safety Lands on NTSB’s ‘Most Wanted List’

Following extensive reports of GPS interference, LightSquared <a href="http://www.lightsquared.com/press-room/press-releases/lightsquared-solution-to-gps-i

LightSquared Strikes Back

On the heels of EASA certification earlier this month, Dassault Falcon received approval from the FAA for EASy II, the French aircraft manufacturer’s next-

Dassault Falcon EASy II Cockpit Obtains FAA Blessing

China Aviation Industry General Aircraft (Caiga) of Zhuhai, China, completed its <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/china-firm

Cirrus Aircraft Sold to Chinese Interests

Boeing today celebrated the opening of a new 787 vertical-fin assembly line at its production facility in Salt Lake City.

Boeing Opens New 787 Vertical-fin Assembly Line in Salt Lake City

At least six aviation services providers have expressed interest in taking over management of the FBO at the UK’s Cambridge Airport, according to the airpo

UK’s Cambridge Airport Seeks FBO Suitor

Aviation fuels provider Avfuel has added North Philadelphia Jet Center and the Kearney Aviation Center as branded Avfuel dealers.

Avfuel Adds Two New Locations to Its Network

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