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FAA Publishes EMSRisk-assessment Program
October 2, 2006, 12:01 PM
September 2005

The FAA has conducted a review of accidents involving commercial emergency medical services (EMS) helicopters between January 1998 and December last year.

Florida School Expands
October 2, 2006, 11:59 AM
September 2005

Helicopter Adventures has opened a new flight-training facility. The new building, located at Space Coast Regional Airport, near Titusville, Fla., adds four large classrooms and 7,000 sq ft of office and administrative space to the existing school.

Chinese S-76 Fleet Grows
October 2, 2006, 11:58 AM
September 2005

China Eastern General Aviation Corporation (EGAC) is to buy two Sikorsky S-76C+s to support oil support missions off northern China. They join nine S-76s offshore oil operators currently flying in China.

LongRanger Still in Demand
October 2, 2006, 11:57 AM
September 2005

Bell has delivered the first of a six-aircraft LongRanger order to Gulf of Mexico operator Rotorcraft Leasing Company (RLC).

RRJ Passes Critical Design Reviews
October 2, 2006, 11:53 AM
September 2005

The Sukhoi-led consortium building the Russian Regional Jet got some good news when the RRJ-95B/LR and RRJ-75B/LR passed their critical design reviews (CDR) after some 120 technical specialists from Western program partners joined Sukhoi engineers for a July 11 to 16 “dream team” session in Mosc

AvCraft’s Bartel released from jail
October 2, 2006, 11:51 AM
September 2005

German authorities released AvCraft Aviation chairman Ben Bartel from a Munich jail last month, some two weeks after sending him there on suspicion of tax evasion.

Boston-Maine Airways under fire in DOT probe
October 2, 2006, 11:45 AM
September 2005

The Department of Transportation’s Inspector General’s Office has launched an investigation into charges of fraudulent financial reporting by Boston-Maine Airways, the Portsmouth, N.H.-based airline that flies regional routes with 13 Jetstream 31s as Pan Am Clipper Connection.

Mesa takes on Dornier 328s, seeks lessees
October 2, 2006, 11:37 AM
September 2005

Mesa Air Group has taken responsibility for part of the lease payments on some 30 idle Fairchild Dornier 328Jets as a condition of its new code-share contract with Delta Air Lines.

Colgan Air To Fly as United Express
October 2, 2006, 11:23 AM
AINonline

Colgan Air will take Shuttle America’s place at Washington Dulles Airport as the Saab 340 turboprop provider for United Airlines (UAL) under an agreement-in-principle reached between Colgan and UAL last month.

Winds Collapse Chautauqua Hangar
October 2, 2006, 11:21 AM
September 2005

Strong wind gusts from August 5 thunderstorms collapsed part of the roof of a new maintenance hangar under construction for Chautauqua Airlines at Louisville International Airport. None of the construction workers on the scene at the time sustained injuries.

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