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Grob’s Paris Surprise Will Fly with Honeywell Apex Avionics
October 9, 2006, 2:01 PM
July 2005

Grob’s SPn, a carbon-fiber light business twinjet introduced at last month’s Paris Air Show, will enter production with the Honeywell Apex avionics system, according to officials from the German company.

Love Field sees regal sale
October 9, 2006, 2:01 PM
October 2006

JetDirect Aviation purchased Regal Aviation, an FBO, maintenance, sales and charter/management company based at Dallas Love Field. JetDirect now owns three FBOs in the U.S. and three FAA repair stations and operates 64 charter aircraft.

KCAC opens full-service operation in St. Louis
October 9, 2006, 1:59 PM
October 2006

Kansas City Aviation Center (KCAC) opened the first of what will be several new FBO and service facilities in its nine-state Pilatus PC-12 sales territory, this one a full-service FBO at Spirit of St. Louis Airport in St. Louis.

Inter-agency financing debate could delay progress on loran
October 9, 2006, 1:59 PM
July 2005

They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows. So, it seems, does loran, which has recently been recognized by four quite disparate groups: the U.S. Congress, the government of France, the telecommunications industry and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA).

EFB devices a supplement for glass cockpits
October 9, 2006, 1:57 PM
July 2005

Are portable electronic flight bag (EFB) computing devices merely a stepping stone until business aircraft operators get around to installing cockpit equipment that integrates electronic charts with glass displays?

Live tv coming to the oceanic bizjet cabin
October 9, 2006, 1:53 PM
July 2005

Live tv over the ocean? It’s not possible today, and traditional direct broadcast satellite television providers are unlikely to have a business model for such services anytime soon. But Boeing and Rockwell Collins do.

Inmarsat conference addresses future of in-flight communication
October 9, 2006, 1:48 PM
July 2005

The six-ton I-4 communications satellite Inmarsat launched in late March has taken over satcom transmission routing responsibility from the previous I-3 satellite covering the Indian Ocean Region, according to Inmarsat officials.

...and inaugurates new hangar in Roanoke
October 9, 2006, 1:48 PM
AINonline

Landmark Aviation celebrated the opening of a new hangar addition to its Roanoke, Va. FBO on September 20. The $1.5 million hangar encloses 18,000 sq ft and will be used for aircraft storage.

In The Works: Gulfstream G150
October 9, 2006, 1:44 PM
July 2005

Flight testing of the Gulfstream G150 S/N 201 is “proceeding as planned” at Israel Aircraft Industries’ (IAI) flight-test center at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

In The Works: Dassault Falcon 7X
October 9, 2006, 1:43 PM
July 2005

Since the maiden flight of the Falcon 7X on May 5, the 5,700-nm-range trijet has been flying almost daily from Dassault’s flight- test center in Istres, France. By the middle of last month, the 7X had logged 45 hours during 15 flights and had reached Mach 0.82 and 41,000 feet.

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