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Maintenance and Modifications

Dubai MRO Marks Fifth Anniversary

Jet Aviation Dubai recently celebrated its fifth anniversary.

People: February 2011

Signature Flight Support announced several executive promotions.
FBOs

Dallas-area FBOs Gear Up for Super Bowl Bizjet Traffic

The Steelers and Packers aren’t the only teams who have spent months preparing for Super Bowl XLV in Dallas on February 6.

Broker: Buyer’s Market for Bizjets ‘Will Not Last’

Jupiter, Fla.-based business jet broker The Private Jet Company (TPJC) believes that the “confluence of factors creating the current buyer’s market” will n
Rotorcraft

Cessna, Bell Helicopter Earnings Up In 4Q/10

Cessna Aircraft and Bell Helicopter emerged from 2010 with healthy fourth-quarter revenues and aircraft delivery increases, according to the fourth-quarter

Gulfstream Gives Lift to General Dynamics’ Profits

General Dynamics, the parent company of Gulfstream and Jet Aviation, yesterday reported revenue of $32.47 billion and pre-tax earnings of $2.63 billion las

Laminar Flow Tested on Falcon 7X for ‘Clean Sky’ Effort

Dassault Aviation recently conducted a “successful” flight test to evaluate laminar wings for large business jets.
Maintenance and Modifications

Cessna Adds MSUs in U.S. and Europe

Cessna Aircraft has added three new maintenance trucks to its international ground-based mobile service unit (MSU) fleet serving Citations across North Ame
Maintenance and Modifications

India Gets New Maintenance Facility

Air Works India Engineering and Aircraft Paint and Refinishing UK have opened a line maintenance facility at Trichy International Airport in Tiruchirapalli
Regulations and Government

ARSA Balks at FAA Committee’s Repair Station Comments

The Aeronautical Repair Station Association is taking the FAA’s Future of Aviation Advisory Committee (FAAC) to task over comments made during committee di

MGS Cooks Up a New Microwave

Iacobucci subsidiary MGS (Modular Galley Systems) has introduced an executive version of the new microwave oven it originally designed for the Airbus A350.
FBOs

Pilotaway Offers FBO Reservations

Chase Larabee, creator of the AllFBO Web site, has added a new Web-based platform called Pilotaway.com that allows pilots and dispatchers to make reservati
FBOs

Aero Charter Jet Center Expands at Spirit of Saint Louis

Aero Charter Jet Center has broken ground on a $4 million expansion program at its FBO facility at Spirit of St.
Sustainability and Environment

World Fuel Acquires Hiller Group

Global fuel supplier and logistics company World Fuel Services last month completed its deal to purchase Tampa, Fla.-based general aviation fuel distributo

Airbus Corporate Jet Center Delivers Sixth Aircraft

Airbus in-house cabin completion provider Airbus Corporate Jet Center (ACJC) has just delivered its sixth aircraft, an A320 Prestige for an unidentified Mi
FBOs

Expansion begins at Sheltair Panama City

SheltAir began the expansion of its Panama City, Fla.
FBOs

TAG Aviation Opens New Hangar in Geneva

TAG Aviation recently opened its new hangar and office complex at Geneva Airport in Switzerland.

Goodrich Interiors Moves Into Middle East

Goodrich, having acquired aviat
FBOs

NATA Protests FAA Funding for Chattanooga FBO

NATA has objected to the use of FAA funds disbursed under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Authority (CMA
Aircraft

Chinese Leasing Company Inks Deal for Ten E190s

China’s CDB Leasing bought 10 Embraer E190s for lease to the country’s largest airline, China Southern, Embraer announced last month.

Data Conservation for 3-D Digital Design

In its certification of 3-D digital design data in the completion of Falcon business jets at Dassault’s Little Rock, Ark.
ATC

GPS/Cellphone Jammers Also Snarl Aviation Navigation Systems

Several years ago, when satellites were being touted as aviation’s sole means of navigation from takeoff to touchdown, former FAA Administrator Langhorne B
ATC

UAVs pose little threat to civilian pilot jobs

Do UAVs threaten civil pilot careers? That’s the question that AIN posed to several attendees at a recent conference in Montreal, sponsored by industry tra
Maintenance and Modifications

Dassault Provides Support at World Economic Forum

Falcon operators attending the World Economic Forum this week have a dedicated Dassault team on site to support them.
Maintenance and Modifications

Duncan Aviation Adds More Aircell Wi-Fi STCs

As demand to surf the Internet in flight grows, Duncan Aviation continues to develop supplemental type certificates (STC) to do just that.
Maintenance and Modifications

ARSA Establishes Maintenance Scholarship

In lieu of holiday cards and gifts to members, the Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) established a $500 aviation maintenance scholarship thr
Maintenance and Modifications

Conklin & de Decker Presents Helo Mx Management

Management–Essential Tools for Your New Role” seminar independently for the first time in the Dallas/Fort Worth area on March 28 and 29.
Aircraft

HondaJet F1 Flying Toward Certification

On December 20, Honda Aircraft achieved a milestone in the development of the HA-420 HondaJet when it flew the first conforming HondaJet, launching the for
Charter & Fractional

ABS Steps Up Expansion in the East

Czech-based aircraft management and charter operator ABS Jets is seeking to step up its ambitious expansion plans through negotiations with prospective Rus