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In a surprise announcement, Leland Snow, president of agplane manufacturer Air Tractor, said his company is developing a new passenger/utility turboprop ai

Sino Swearingen president and CEO Jack Braly made his first flight in the conforming prototype SJ30-2 in early September from San Antonio International Air

ExxonMobil Aviation has unveiled its new PremierCare certification system, an instruction and qualification program for line service personnel at Avitat an

Before Big Eight basketball teams began competing in the newly formed Big 12 Conference in 1994, their longest league road trip was about 600 mi.

Flush with the success of the forum and static display held at Chicago DuPage Airport (DPA) in June, NBAA held another such event last month at Fort Worth

Over the last few decades cities have been witnessing corporate migrations from traditional business and residential cores to the suburbs.

Competition in the fractional-ownership market is intense, and the players are constantly changing.

Most pilots flying into Dallas Love Field (DAL) are probably not accustomed to seeing “General Dynamics” emblazoned on a civil hangar, but the defense cont

Making jet aircraft acceptably quiet can be a dirty job.

At the recent World Airline Entertainment Association trade show in Seattle, TEAC Aerospace Technologies introduced its new Air Tracks high-resolution in-f

After an absence of nearly 20 years, Shell Aviation announced its return to the U.S.

When Pilatus unveiled the PC-12 turboprop single at the 1989 NBAA Convention in Atlanta, the Swiss company envisioned it as a utility airplane geared for s

Gore Design Completions received its first Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ) for completion early last month.

When Paul Fulchino became Aviall’s chairman, president and CEO in December 1999, annual sales for the 70-year-old Dallas parts distributor were growing at

In recent years the city of Waco–population 150,000–has quietly built a reputation as home to a number of prominent aviation and aerospace operations, and

With two major players in the field of simulator training for business aviation, competition for a larger share of the market is a constant, and innovation

SimuFlite celebrated its 20th anniversary last year, but the company’s roots go farther back than that, all the way to the Link Trainer.

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When Hurricane Charley slammed into the heavily populated west coast of Florida last month, it came with unpredicted fury.

Helicopter operators flying air medical operations have always had a keen interest in safety, but a spike in accident and fatality statistics in the last f

Helinet is a company well known in Hollywood circles.

In the midst of the overwhelming technology that drives much of the business at HAI’s Heli-Expo, it’s sometimes refreshing to find equipment that performs

Last year, representatives for Aero Products Component Services (Booth No.

A fleet totaling 600 helicopters equipped with dual tailboom strakes from BLR Aerospace has reached the one-million flight-hour milestone, all the while ea

In an unusual tribute for an unprecedented rescue mission, HAI has chosen to bestow the 2005 Igor I.

Air Comm Corp.

Twenty Japanese offices and homes were raided late last month by more than 200 investigators on suspicion that Yamaha was attempting to unlawfully export i

Wingspeed Corp.