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SMO foes find new tool in anti-airport battle

February 01, 2010

A study of pollution generated by aircraft at Santa Monica Airport (SMO) has galvanized residents around the airport who have been fighting for many years to curtail aircraft operations and possibly given them new ammunition in their battle. At a community forum held January 11, a standing-room-only crowd listened to a panel of experts discussing the...

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APP Buys Volo FBOs, Plans Rebranding

February 01, 2010

Thom Harrow, former president of Volo Aviation, last year formed a new company called Airport Property Partners (APP) and in December purchased four Volo FBOs from Merrill Lynch. The four FBOs–in Fort Pierce and Sarasota, Fla.; Manassas, Va.; and Hayward, Calif.–will be rebranded as APP Jet Centers. Harrow expects new signage for the facilities to be in...

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TEB Finally Seeing Increased Traffic

February 01, 2010

According to the Teterboro Users Group (Tug), aircraft movements at Teterboro (N.J.) Airport in November came in at 12,834, a 3.8-percent year-over-year increase and the first rise in traffic noted at the field in more than 12 months. Total jet movements were 10,033, up 3.4 percent, while dispensed fuel rose 6.7 percent, to 3.1 million gallons....

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ExecuJet In Charge of Schoenefeld GA Terminal

February 01, 2010

Berlin Airports has selected ExecuJet Europe to be the official operator of the new general aviation terminal at Berlin-Schoenefeld Airport. The facility was handed over to ExecuJet on January 15. ExecuJet, which won a Europe-wide tender to manage the terminal on behalf of the airport company, will be responsible for all business aviation movements at...

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King Air Resource Book Published

February 01, 2010

The King Air Book by Tom Clements has recently been released. Available online at www.lulu.com, the $49.95 book compiles 15 years of articles that Clements has published about King Airs based on his 37 years of flying the venerable twin turboprops. It is billed as “invaluable for current or future pilots of King Airs.”

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To address wake turbulence, Australian airport changes parallel runway procedures

February 01, 2010

Australia’s Sydney International Airport has modified its parallel runway operating procedures as a result of a November 2008 incident in which the crew of a Saab 340B lost control on approach while it was trailing an Airbus A380 landing on a parallel runway.

Controllers are now required to provide wake turbulence separation when a “super-wake-turbulence-...

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TSA begins airport vulnerability assessment

February 01, 2010

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced January 13 that it is launching its General Aviation Airports Vulnerability Assessment as mandated by a congressional law.The 9/11 Commission Recommendation Act of 2007 required the agency to develop and implement a standardized threat and vulnerability assessment program for approximately 3,000 GA...

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Gulf operators see benefits of recent ADS-B activation

February 01, 2010

Operators using the newly activated automatic dependence surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) ATC and information system in the Gulf of Mexico will likely see flight leg times cut by an average of 15 to 25 minutes and individual IFR routes shortened by at least 30 miles, compared with using the old grid ATC system in the Gulf, according to the FAA and individual...

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NBAA adds classes to PDP lineup

February 01, 2010

NBAA has added six courses to its professional development program (PDP). The new offerings in the program’s educational lineup satisfy specific module requirements in the association’s certified aircraft manager program and can be completed in three different ways, according to Jay Evans, NBAA’s director of operations. “We really try to emphasize...

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VNY tenants: rent rates need review

February 01, 2010

Tenants at Van Nuys Airport (VNY) in Southern California are upset that their rental rates keep increasing while the California economy continues to deteriorate, airport businesses close or move away and operations at the airport decline. In a letter to Gina Marie Lindsey, executive director of airport owner Los Angeles World Airports (Lawa) and board of...

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Westchester County honors quiet operators

February 01, 2010

At a ceremony held at Westchester County Airport (HPN) in New York, airport administrators and local operator groups announced the 2007 and 2008 winners of the airport’s Spirit of Noise Abatement Awards. Developed in 1994 to reduce the number of citizen noise complaints, the program recognizes based operators who comply with the airport’s noise-abatement...

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With new line service course, NATA brings training online

February 01, 2010

In just under two years of operation, the National Air Transportation Association’s (NATA) online professional line service training (PLST) course has already seen widespread industry enrollment, certifying more than 4,000 line service workers at approximately 350 FBO locations nationwide.Evolved from NATA’s Safety 1st PLST video series (first distributed...

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Silver State ex-CEO Airola sued for fraud

February 01, 2010

The court-appointed trustee in the 2008 Silver State Helicopters (SSH) collapse has filed suit against the company’s ex-CEO, Jerry Airola, and his top deputy, Steve Pickett, charging that the two used a complex shell game to fraudulently transfer $8.2 million out of the company in the months immediately before it declared bankruptcy.

The trustee also...

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Bizav in Asia: Traffic Surge Pushes ASA To Expand

February 01, 2010

Hong Kong-based handling and security provider ASA has reported a sharp increase in recent months in traffic at its Asia-Pacific locations, which has prompted the company to recruit additional staff to support flights coming from within Asia, as well as from North America, Europe and the Middle East.“We have been incredibly busy since the middle of...

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