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Looking Back: Gulfstream

This timeline explores Gulfstream's milestones since last year's NBAA Convention.
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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Airtext Takes Off With New Capabilities, Customers

The Airtext+ system is now offering "big data," while new FBO and charter customers are coming on board.
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Airports

Maria Leaves Her Mark on St. Croix

With widespread damage from the latest storm, St. Croix and its airport look to restore normal operations.
Safety

AirCare To Demonstrate Full-Cabin Emergency Simulator

This is as close to real aviation emergencies as most should hope to be.
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Aircraft

Boeing Turns Focus to Turkey’s Vision 2023 with Dreamliner Deal

Turkish Airlines signs MOU for forty 787-9s as Boeing agrees to participate in national aerospace initiative
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Aircraft

Boeing Boosts Market Outlook for Southeast Asia

Latest forecast reflects expected requirement for $650 billion worth of airliners over the next two decades
Aircraft

Saab Goes American To Boost Boeing T-X Contender

The Swedish company will build its share of the jet trainer in the US, if the partnership wins the competition.
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Aircraft

Confusion Arises Over the JSTARS Recap Plan

Senior U.S. Air Force leaders said that source selection would proceed on schedule, even as the requirement is re-assessed.
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PlaneSense Pilots Include 10 Percent Female Staff

At 10 percent, the number of PlaneSense female pilots is almost double the national average of female pilots currently operating in the world.
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Airlines

Ryanair’s O’Leary Apologizes For Mass Cancellations

Pilot scheduling snafu forces airline to scrap 2,100 flights over six weeks
Aircraft

Extent of Russian UAV Use Over Syria Revealed

Although no medium-to-large drones have been deployed, smaller ones have helped the Syrian regime overcome its opponents.
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Rotorcraft

Armed VTOL Machine at Helicopter Show In China

The event in Tianjing also produced news on the Sino-Russian Advanced Heavy Lift helicopter.
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Finance, Taxes, Insurance

PNC Bullish on Aircraft Finance

The company finances a broad spectrum of business aircraft types from single-engine turboprops to large cabin, long-range business jets.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Australian Military Revises Small Drone Operating Procedures

The revised procedures are a response to the U.S. Army's instructions in August to discontinue using Chinese-manufactured DJI drones.
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Airports

San Juan Assesses Maria's Wrath

Hit by the strongest storm in nearly a century, aviation businesses in Puerto Rico begin to shake off the impact.
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Looking Back: Bombardier

This timeline explores Bombardier's milestones since last year's NBAA Convention.
Aircraft

Spike Plans To Fly Unmanned Demonstrator This Month

The SX-1.2 is an unmanned scaled proof-of-concept aircraft that will help validate the control and stability of the S-512 at low speeds.

Looking Back: Embraer

This timeline explores Embraer's milestones since last year's NBAA Convention.
Maintenance and Modifications

Associated Air Center To Shut Its Doors at Year-end

The Dallas facility will close its business just shy of its 70th anniversary.
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Looking Back: Textron Aviation

This timeline explores Textron Aviation's milestones since last year's NBAA Convention.

CAN Fundraiser at NBAA 2017 Gaining Traction

Funds from the event will help CAN continue its work to arrange flights for cancer patients to and from treatment.
Fuel

New Jet Biofuel Derived from Oil-producing Sugarcane

If grown on 23 million acres of now-marginal land in the U.S. Southeast, the sugarcane-plant feedstock could supply 65 percent of U.S. jet-A consumption.
Charter & Fractional

AirOps Europe Rounds Off Successful Second Year

New EBAA event concluded this week with double the delegates and a much-boosted program.
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GE Trims Flight Department in Favor of Charter

General Electric has shuttered its Bombardier Challenger 605 operations in favor of flying charter.

Looking Back: Dassault Aviation

This timeline explores Dassault Aviation's milestones since last year's NBAA Convention.
Airports

Hurricane Maria Hammers Puerto Rico

The Category 4 storm, the worst to hit the island in nearly nine decades, has left it largely without power.
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Aircraft

Mitsubishi Embraces Updated Training Rule

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries gets new U.S. general manager, MU-2 SFAR now 14 CFR Part 91, subpart N.
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Engines

Northrop Grumman Announces Intention To Acquire Orbital ATK

Assuming approvals, Northrop Grumman's planned $7.8 billion acquisition of Orbital ATK is expected to close in the first half of 2018.
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Engines

Russia and China to Partner on Engine for New Widebody

MOU signed during Aviation Expo China outlines collaboration on new engine to generate 75,000 pounds of thrust
Avionics

Universal Avionics Earns EASA STC on Datalink Upgrade

The solution, for the Bombardier CL-600-2B16, uses the company's UL-801 CMU and allows compliance with the 2020 European datalink services mandate.