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USAIG (Booth No.

Alitalia director Giorgio Giorgi has been appointed as the new general manager of Piaggio Aero Industries.

Cessna has chosen Smiths Aerospace to provide the hydraulic actuation and display systems for the new Citation CJ3 jet announced here at NBAA on Monday.

Jet Aviation at Dallas Love Field has received an STC on installation of a Bendix/King IHAS 8000 integrated hazard awareness system on Cessna Citation S550

Raytheon Aircraft Parts Inventory and Distribution Co.

The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) expects to sign an agreement with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) as early as this week

Peter Edwards, president of Bombardier Business Aircraft, joined the company in 1995 as vice president of marketing and international sales.

Agusta Aerospace Corp.

Bombardier is developing an enhanced vision system with partners Thales Avioincs of France and CMC Electronics for its Global Express business jet, the Can

The Bombardier Learjet 40 conforming prototype made its first flight on August 31 and five days later the first Learjet 40 production airplane made its fir

Seattle, Wash.-based Pentar Avionics introduced its new Jet LAN AS200 Advanced Airborne Computer at an NBAA press conference yesterday.

In spring 2003, Million Air at Van Nuys Airport will break ground on a new $20 million, 250,000-sq-ft facility.

Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney Canada have agreed to start doing component repairs on some models of each other’s engines.

Orders for the Safe Flight AutoPower automatic throttle for the Challenger 604 have reached 120, the White Plains, N.Y.

Jet Aviation at Palm Beach International Airport (PBI), West Palm Beach, Fla., has done that facility’s first installation and STC approval for Universal A

Sikorsky S-92 test pilots John Dixon, company flight operations director, and Bob Spaulding, S-92 chief pilot, performed two full power-off landings last m

Following its acquisition this summer of cabin entertainment provider Airshow, Rockwell Collins has integrated the Tustin, Calif.

Baseops International (Booth No.

Jeppesen has launched its Flight Operations Service to support operators who are constrained by limited resources.

The first Max-Viz EVS-1000 installation on an operator-customer’s aircraft is being completed by Total Aircraft Services (TAS) at Van Nuys (Calif.) Airport

Parker Aerospace’s Nichols Airborne Division is here at NBAA to provide information about its bleed air valve new spare and factory-overhaul exchange progr

Med-Pac is presenting its latest air ambulance system here at the NBAA show (Booth No.

Rolls-Royce North America has strengthened and reorganized the management of its Corporate Aircraft division.

Business aircraft owners who want to move up have the option to engage in a “like-kind exchange”  that could save thousands of dollars in capital gain

The Drake Group’s FAA certification training programs for managers and engineers involving TC/STC/PMA and TSO categories, previously presented at companies

According to Cessna chairman and CEO Russ Meyer, the company’s 75th year in business could be its best ever in terms of deliveries and billings.

Clay Lacy Aviation (Booth No.

Jet Aviation’s facility at Hannover, Germany, has been made an FAA repair station for the Gulfstream 100 and 200 jets, as well as the Westwind series.

Avion Graphics (Booth No.

High Tech Finishing, a Houston-based provider of decorative metal plating for customer aircraft interiors, has developed a new maintenance kit designed to