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FBOs
Touching Bases: Avfuel scholarship winners
Fuel distributor Avfuel awarded its annual Avtrip scholarships to George Hoyt and Sage Santangelo.
Aircraft
Daher-Socata considers resurrecting Grob’s light jet
Daher-Socata is studying plans for a new aircraft development program under an exclusive agreement with Allied Aviation Technologies, which owns the assets
FBOs
Touching Bases: JetEx donating revenues to Unicef
JetEx Flight Support, a handling and services company with more than 260 locations worldwide, will donate to Unicef one percent of the revenues it genera
Touching Bases: World Fuel, Exxonmobil launch premier card
World Fuel Services and ExxonMobil Aviation partnered to launch the Avitat Premier Card program, which provides discounted fuel and aviation-related serv
FBOs
Tac Air Sells Greenville Fbo
TAC Air sold its FBO location in Greenville, S.C., to Greenville Jet Center.
Cabin Interior and Electronics
Kalogridis Introduces Fresh Carpet and Wall Covering Styles
“We have 72 new carpet styles and 16 new Deconel wall covering styles,” said Kalogridis International founder George Kalogridis.
A year ago,
Cabin Interior and Electronics
Citation Ten Hopes for a ‘10’ for Cabin Design
If Cessna were looking for a score on the new interior design for its
Cabin Interior and Electronics
JetTech Acquires Cascade, Preps First BBJ
JetTech Aerospace has completed its acquisition of Cascade Aerospace’s Spokane, Wash.
Cabin Interior and Electronics
Hawker 200 Gets Cabin Makeover
Hawker Beechcraft’s new Hawker 200, unveiled at the NBAA Convention
Charter & Fractional
Comlux’s Bahrain firm offers Middle East charter
Comlux The Aviation Group has opened Comlux Middle East, based in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and is adding greater substance to a portfolio of aircraft manage
Charter & Fractional
Platinum Jet executives found guilty of fraud
Michael Brassington, president, CEO and cofounder of now-defunct Platinum Jet Management, and his brother Paul Brassington, a v-p and cofounder, were convi
Safety
Hot Section Opinion: No excuse for ‘hip-pocketing’ maintenance
Whether an aircraft is operated under Part 91, 135 or 121, the Federal Aviation Regulations require that maintenance discrepancies be repaired before the
Maintenance and Modifications
Hot Section: ATI providing mobile response to JT15D operators
O’Fallon, Mo.-based Aviation Turbines International is offering its JT15D customers a mobile response team deployed on a vehicle equipped with the toolin
Compliance Countdown: December 2010
AIN_ComplianceCountdown_Dec10.pdf.
Maintenance and Modifications
Hot Section: Millennium Concepts will supply Piperjet crew and pax seats
Piper Aircraft has selected Millennium Concepts to provide the passenger and crew seats for its new PiperJet Altaire.
Maintenance and Modifications
Hot Section: Bombardier Adds 60th Service Center
Bombardier Aerospace has added three AOG line maintenance facilities (LMF)–in Monterrey, Mexico; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Riga, Latvia.
Maintenance and Modifications
Hot Section: CRS solves billback problems with flat-rate pricing plan
CRS Jet Spares reports a 25-percent decrease in customer additional billings (billbacks) over the past 18 months as a result of its Option 2 pricing prog
Maintenance and Modifications
Hot Section: Heritage Aviation is named authorized blr winglet dealer
BLR Aerospace has named Heritage Aviation of Burlington, Vt., an authorized dealer for its King Air winglets.
Maintenance and Modifications
Hot Section: Jet Aviation launches AOG East Coast Mobile Maintenance
Jet Aviation has launched the Jet Response mobile maintenance service program with mobile maintenance vehicles based at Boston/Bedford, Mass., and Teterb
Maintenance and Modifications
Hot Section: F1rst Support Center Goes Live for AOG Aircraft
Using integrated satellite-based tracking to keep tabs on its worldwide AOG personnel and assets, BBA Aviation Engine Repair and Overhaul is now offering
Maintenance and Modifications
Hot Section: hartzell propeller gets stc for turbine engine composite prop
Hartzell Propeller has received an FAA type certificate for its new advanced-composite ASC-II four-blade propeller.
Charter & Fractional
Fractional Market: AIN Special Report
AIN_Dec10_Fractional Market.pdf
Not long ago, the idea of sel
Calio To Replace May as Head of ATA
The Air Transport Association of America (ATA) has chosen prominent Washington lobbyist Nicholas Calio to replace
Engines
India’s SpiceJet To FlyQ400s Starting In June
Indian low-fare carrier SpiceJet plans to buy as many as 30 Q400 turboprops from Bombardier in a deal worth up to $900 million.
“The [SpiceJet] boar
Engines
Embraer sees resurgent market for E-Jets
Embraer expects to achieve a commercial aircraft book-to-bill ratio of a little more than one this year, reflecting solid demand from an airline market t
Regulations and Government
NTSB symposium endeavors to clear the air on code sharing
Not everyone agrees with the regional airlines’ assertion that they fly just as safely as their mainline counterparts.
Engines
Superjet support network ready for its first test
It certainly won’t send an aviation enthusiast’s heart racing like the promise of nimble flying characteristics or technical wizardry in the cockpit, but
Regulations and Government
Republic Signs for Six E190s
Republic Airways signed a firm order last month for six Embraer E190s, all of which it plans to deploy with its Denver-based Frontier Airlines subsidia
Regulations and Government
ATR crashes in Cuba, Killing 68
An ATR 72-212 turboprop operated by Cuba’s Aero Caribbean crashed on November 4 in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus, killing all 61 passen
Comair Mechanics Reinstate Asap
Comair and the International Association of Machinists (IAM) last month agreed to reinstate the Aviation Safety Action Program (Asap) for the company’s
