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NATA Convention puts hot issues on the table
January 30, 2007, 9:57 AM
April 2005

Security concerns; new flight, duty and rest time recommendations; and growing attention from the private-equity financial camp topped the items of interest at

Insurer presents Jet Aviation with safety award
January 30, 2007, 8:58 AM
January 2004

Jet Aviation, the aviation services company founded in Switzerland in 1967, was recently singled out for a prestigious safety award by its insurer, AIG Aviation of Atlanta. The company’s European aircraft management and charter divisions received AIG’s Operational Excellence Award for 2003.

Boxed in at São Paulo, TAM to move mx shop
January 30, 2007, 8:49 AM
January 2004

Táxi Aéreo Marília (TAM) plans to transfer nearly all of its maintenance activity from São Paulo Congonhas Airport, Brazil, to the nearby Jundiaí Airport, where the company has already begun building a new hangar. The new facility is scheduled to open in midyear.

Lufthansa Technik expands bizav presence in U.S. market
January 30, 2007, 8:40 AM
January 2004
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Lufthansa Technik, the Hamburg, Germany-based maintenance, overhaul and interiors completion and refurbishment giant, continues to expand its U.S. presence. First it acquired BizJet International in Tulsa, Okla., then established a nearby interiors engineering design office.

FAA announces new plan for ATC staffing and training
January 30, 2007, 8:09 AM
February 2005

Hoping to stave off a shortage of air traffic controllers caused by an expected wave of retirements, the FAA intends to hire 12,500 new controllers during the next 10 years and improve training so that candidates can become fully certified professional controllers more quickly.

Hangar Flying: Gen. Tibbets’ 90th
January 30, 2007, 7:37 AM
April 2005

About 800 people gathered in Atlanta in late February to celebrate the 90th birthday of the man who, by following his military orders on Aug. 6, 1945, is widely remembered for bringing World War II to an end. Gen.

Adam Aircraft selects Ogden, Utah
January 30, 2007, 7:33 AM
April 2005

Englewood, Colo.-based Adam Aircraft plans to build its A500 piston twin and A700 very light twinjet in Ogden, Utah. The company reported that it leased 22,000 sq ft of Kemp Jet Services’ property at Kemp Ogden Airport.

Pilots killed in Venezuelan Citation crash
January 30, 2007, 7:32 AM
April 2005

The pilot and copilot of Citation 500 YV-21CP were killed March 8 when the jet crashed during a second attempt to land at Oscar Machado Zuloaga International Airport in Caracas, Venezuela. There were no passengers on board.

When higher is better over Chicago
January 30, 2007, 7:31 AM
April 2005

Higher altitude procedures are now in place to reduce low-altitude flying over Lake Michigan by aircraft operating to and from several satellite airports near Chicago.

Irony at Boeing not lost on business media
January 30, 2007, 7:31 AM
April 2005

Reporting on last month’s firing of Harry Stonecipher as president and CEO of Boeing after it was revealed that he was having an extramarital intracompany affair with a female executive, The Wall Street Journal noted, “Fifteen months ago, Chicago-based Boeing brought back its retired president t

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