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Baldwin Aviation expands SMS
October 07, 2008
South Carolina-based Baldwin Aviation (Booth No. 3372) has expanded its Safety Management System (SMS) services with the introduction of its online SMSplus program. SMSplus offers a suite of Web-based tools that can be used to manage and monitor a safer, more efficient flight organization, the company said. These tools include an SMS manual, safety risk...
moreSafety records of NBAA Part 91pilots are anything but accidents of fate
October 07, 2008
The National Business Aviation Association presents Pilot Flying Safety Awards each year to the member company pilots with exemplary safety records. To be eligible for an award, a pilot must have flown corporate aircraft 1,500 hours without an accident, but the actual number of safe hours flown by many of the 2007 top pilots, who have already received their...
moreTop performers credit safety culture for flight departments’ accident-free hours
October 07, 2008
The NBAA Corporate Business Flying Safety Awards have been awarded to 235 companies, which have flown a total of 9,817,195 safe hours. The top 25 recipients for the year 2007 are listed in the box at right, with the number of years of safe flying and the number of safe hours flown. NBAA Convention News talked with representative from the top companies about...
moreNBAA honors maintenance techs who maintain highest standards for decades
October 07, 2008
Donald Hunt has been aircraft maintenance manager for OSI Restaurant Partners, which owns the Outback Steakhouse chain and seven others, since 1993.
OSI operates three Dassault Falcon 50s, which Hunt said is his favorite corporate airplane to work on, as it’s “a great product, with great support.” OSI, which used to operate Westwinds, got its first Falcon...
moreTop five commercial flight ops rack up 175 years, 282K hours of safe flying
October 07, 2008
Each year the National Business Aviation Association recognizes member companies with superb safety records. This year, the commercial (Part 135) flight operations of Crow Executive Air, Skybird Aviation, Aero Charter, Jet Air and Executive Flight are the top five honored in the category for last year. The total number of years of safe operations for the...
moreWCA awards biannual student pilot scholarship
October 07, 2008
Women in Corporate Aviation will be presenting a $2,000 career scholarship today to student pilot Stacy Booker at a ceremony hosted by WCA and Southeast Regional Schedulers and Dispatchers.
Booker serves as secretary of WCA and leads the Mississippi chapter of the Ninety-Nines, an organization of female pilots that was founded in 1929 by 99 female...
moreCompanies’ longer safety records prompt NBAA to raise its bar
October 07, 2008
50-year award honorees
Fifty years ago, Ardenbrook, a private real estate investment company with operations mainly in five Western states, operated an Aero Grand Commander and today it flies a Cessna Citation SP 501. CEO William Matthew Brooks and chief pilot Alan Cirino are both aviation enthusiasts and aviation record holders. Last November, the two set...
moreFlightSafety International expands bizav training options
October 07, 2008
For a 57-year-old company, FlightSafety International may be more mature than some others, but it hasn’t stopped growing. While the simulation training provider is active in other markets, the vast majority of its 40 learning centers and fleet of more than 230 simulators are dedicated to serving the business aviation community.
The company recently added...
moreNBAA’s PDP celebrates 10th year
October 07, 2008
USAIG and NBAA are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their professional development scholarship partnership. The scholarship awards $1,000 to an applicant enrolled full-time in a university offering the NBAA Professional Development Program (PDP).
“When PDP began back in 1998, USAIG stepped up to help get the word out and promote professionalism within...
moreFAA Approves Frasca Mustang FTD
October 06, 2008
Frasca International (Booth No. 4636) has been awarded a contract by the FAA to build a Cessna Citation Mustang level-5 flight training device (FTD). The FTD, to be located at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City, will accurately replicate the very light jet’s Garmin G1000-equipped flight deck. It will also include Frasca’s TruVision...
moreAviation Integration Will Train on Millennia
October 06, 2008
Users of the Millennia scheduling software program designed by Aviation Information Services (AIS) will now turn to Aviation Integration (AI) for training and support. Millennia is a software suite that combines flight scheduling, maintenance and inventory tracking in a common platform. It has been in development for five years since the original AIS title,...
moreSafety System Available from ARG/US
October 06, 2008
Aviation Research Group/US (Booth No. 2110) announced the launch of its Web-based safety management system toolkit, which includes a hazard-report tracking system, an internal evaluation program manager and a flight-risk analysis tool. The toolkit “collects data from all parts of a safety program, electronically integrates it and organizes the material so...
moreATP Inks Deal with Honeywell Aerospace
October 06, 2008
Brisbane, Calif.-based Aircraft Technical Publishers (Booth No. 3090) has expanded its agreement with Honeywell Aerospace to republish and distribute technical publications for the manufacturer’s aviation components, including engines, APUs, landing gear and avionics. Under terms of the 10-year deal, the documents will be distributed and accessed through...
moreFirst half stats show rise in turboprop accidents
October 06, 2008
The first six months of the year saw fatal accidents among turboprops double from four to eight as the number of deaths increased from 10 to 14, according to statistics released by Boca Raton, Fla.-based industry safety tracker Robert E. Breiling Associates.
Accident rates, fatal accident rates and fatalities at Part 135 turboprop operators more than...
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