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Intrusion-warning Systems from Securaplane
May 01, 2006
One of few companies that make aircraft intrusion-monitoring equipment, Securaplane claims to be the security system recommended most by OEMs and FBOs worldwide. The company has installed systems in 600 aircraft, ranging from small turboprops to large business jets.
Securaplane’s systems use all-metal reed relay switches to monitor door/panel status, and...
moreChicago DuPage Airport
May 01, 2006
Midwest general aviation reliever airport credits funding structure changes for financial turnaround
moreTackling the Winy City's Winter Weather
May 01, 2006
DuPage has 10.8 million sq ft of pavement, including runways, taxiways, ramp area, roads and parking lots. When it snows, field crews clear an area equivalent to 102 miles of two-lane road. According to Michael Masciola, director of business development and marketing for the DuPage Airport Authority, the airport has won numerous awards for its snow removal...
more‘Time Served’ for Joyride in Stolen Cessna
April 01, 2006
The sentence from a Westchester County, N.Y. judge is “time served” (about nine months) for the drunk young man who took a Cessna 172 for a joyride last June from Danbury Airport, in Connecticut, landing at Westchester County Airport at 4:30 a.m. Philippe Patricio, 21, still faces airport security charges in Danbury.
moreFarnborough F1 gets its wings
April 01, 2006
The saga between Farnborough Aircraft and Epic Aircraft parent Aircraft Investor Resources (AIR) continues. In February a Superior Court judge presiding over the lawsuit between the two companies granted an injunction allowing Farnborough access to the F1/Jestrel JP100 prototype that AIR was building under an agreement. He also gave AIR until March 1 to...
moreProposed rule changes target icing accidents
April 01, 2006
Eleven years after the October 1994 crash of American Eagle Flight 4184 in Roselawn, Ind., the FAA proposed a revision to Part 25 certification regulations that aims to prevent such icing accidents. The comment period for the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) closed on February 2. Now the new rules will begin to wend their way through the FAA rulemaking...
moreLawmaker Calls for FAA Boosterism
April 01, 2006
Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), whose district includes Wichita, used the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) annual industry review and market outlook briefing to tout his “Promotion Responsibility for Our U.S. Aviation Act of 2005” bill.
“It wasn’t long ago when it was in the charter of the FAA to be an advocate for the building of airplanes...
moreNTSB Recommits to GA Safety
April 01, 2006
When the GAMA executive board was in Washington, D.C., for the industry briefing earlier this year, acting NTSB chairman Mark Rosenker assured GAMA members that the Safety Board “has its eye on the GA ball.”
Days earlier, The Washington Post had published an article that alleged that the NTSB was sending investigators to fewer and fewer fatal airplane...
moreAirplane manufacturers report a record year in ’05
March 01, 2006
General aviation manufacturers last year posted an all-time record for billings and a four-year high in new turbine airplane deliveries. According to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), billings of $15.1 billion on the shipment of 3,580 piston and turbine airplanes last year were a 27.2-percent increase from the $11.9 billion and 2,963...
moreCanada postpones new user fees
March 01, 2006
Changes to service fees proposed by Nav Canada will not go into effect as planned on March 1. Nav Canada, the private corporation that provides the country’s air navigation and ATC services, said, “More time is needed to consider the comments and suggestions made by stakeholders.” The comment period closed February 10. According to Nav Canada, the new...
moreFAA mulls user input on permanent ADIZ
March 01, 2006
The comment period on the proposal to transform the Washington, D.C., air defense identification zone (ADIZ)–which covers 3,700 sq mi that closely follow the Washington-Baltimore Class B airspace–into the Washington area special flight rules area (SFRA) closed early last month, with the FAA receiving a record 21,380 responses.The question now becomes what...
moreFAA to examine aging GA aircraft fleet
March 01, 2006
An FAA meeting on March 22 and 23 in Kansas City, Mo., will address continued airworthiness of the U.S. general aviation fleet. The meeting, focusing on small airplanes, comes nearly six years after a similar gathering in 2000. Since then “there have been GA fatal accidents caused by the effects of airplane aging,” the agency said. According to the FAA, the...
moreIn solo global odyssey, Fossett's 26,389 miles is longest nonstop flight
March 01, 2006
Steve Fossett saddled up the single-Williams-turbofan Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer once more and, after takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center’s 15,000-foot runway in Florida on February 8, flew for 76 hours 45 minutes before landing at Bournemouth Airport on the south coast of England–after a second crossing of the Atlantic, and after burning all but about...
moreAustralian Flies Socata TBM 700C2 Home
February 22, 2006
EADS Socata has delivered a new TBM 700C2 to Donald “Zanda” McDonald, director of Australian beef producer MDH Holdings. McDonald, a pilot rated both on planes and helicopters, flew the aircraft himself from Socata’s facility in Tarbes, France, to Mount Isa, Australia–an 8,800-nm trip.
The company plans to use the TBM 700C2 to travel to and from farms,...
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