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News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.
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LoPresti Boom Beams for Hawker 700s
Avmats has joined forces with LoPresti Aviation to deliver LoPresti Boom Beams to legacy Hawker 700s.
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Renovation Hardware: Pioneers will always meet obstacles
The owner of the 1991 Falcon 900 shown here undergoing an extensive cockpit and cabin renovation by Duncan Aviation in Lincoln, Neb., has learned a lesson
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Goodrich finds fix for Q400 nose-gear failures
Goodrich Aerospace has devised a solution to the wiring harness problems that led to a number of nose-gear retraction failures in Bombardier Q400 turboprop
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Pinnacle Airlines in fight for Love
If Northwest Airlines gets its way, regional affiliate Pinnacle Airlines will become one of the first competitors to Southwest and American Airlines at Dal
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E190 Gets EASA Nod
A full 10 months after winning certification by Brazilian authorities and eight months after starting service with JetBlue in the U.S., the Embraer E190 on
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Hawaiian Moves To Halt Go!
A bankruptcy court judge has set a date of August 4 to hear arguments related to Hawaiian Airlines’ request to bar Mesa Air Group subsidiary Go! from selli
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Twenty CRJ900s for PSA?
August 1 marks the deadline for PSA Airlines pilots to agree to US Airways’ conditions for placing 20 Bombardier CRJ900LRs with the wholly owned subsidiary
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Max-Viz Launches EVS Program for King Airs
Max-Viz has announced an STC program that will bring the company’s EVS-1000 enhanced-vision system to the King Air 90 through 300 series.
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GDAS marks five years of servicing business jets
Las Vegas; Minneapolis; and West Palm Beach, Fla., were purchased from BBA Aviation to form General Dynamics Aviation Services (GDAS).
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Watch for CJ4 at NBAA show
Expect Cessna at the NBAA Convention next month to announce the Citation CJ4, a stretched version of the CJ3 with a slightly swept wing based on the Sovere
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Falcon 7X splish-splashes closer to certification
Calculation and theory go only so far in an aircraft development program, and last month it was time for Dassault’s Falcon 7X S/N 003 to jump in and get it
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Republic buys more Embraer E-Jets
Republic Airways late last month exercised purchase options on 30 Embraer E175s, bringing the total number of E-Jets ordered by the Indianapolis-based regi
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D-Jet price rises
Diamond has increased the price of the single-engine D-Jet from less than $1 million to $1.36 million, nudging the $1.5 million tag for the Eclipse 500 ver
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Farnborough F1 Kestrel flies at last
Some seven years of development finally led to the first flight of the Farnborough Aircraft F1 Kestrel on July 29.
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HondaJet gets green light to enter VLJ fray
Honda announced on July 25 at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis., that it will “enter the HondaJet into the growing very light jet market.” According to proje
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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
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New Turboprops
Turboprop-powered aircraft will continue to be effective business tools, though their role is likely to be eclipsed to an as yet unknown degree wi
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Embraer’s bizav no longer a one-trick pony
Two years ago Embraer had one product for the business aviation market, with the Legacy, an executive/VIP or corporate shuttle version of its ERJ 135 regio
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Challenger APU Retrofit Available
Bombardier has published a Service Bulletin for a Honeywell GTCP36-150 APU retrofit for Challenger 601s and 604s.
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LABACE 2006 cancelled, but ‘07’s in the works
LABACE 2006 would have been the fourth Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition.
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OceanAir gains turboprop market share
OceanAir Táxi Aéreo has grown, is still growing and expects better things to come.
OceanAir was launched by Grupo Maritime oil’s controlling
OceanAir was launched by Grupo Maritime oil’s controlling
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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.
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Upstarts favor electric while establishment sits on fence
Business jet manufacturers do not agree on the virtues of electric power for onboard systems.
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SJ30 Light Jet Shows Long Legs
Sino Swearingen’s SJ30 (née SJ30-2) production-conforming test aircraft with two pilots aboard recently established several speed and range records for a l
