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Labace 2010 rides wave of Latin American growth

In the three years since the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (Labace) was relaunched, it has benefited from an increasingly he

Hawker’s 2Q earnings and its backlog shrink

The possibility of Hawker Beechcraft moving some of its Wichita-based manufacturing elsewhere came up again early last month with the release of the compan
Accidents

Stevens crash investigation under way

The investigation continues into the cause of last month’s crash of a de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Otter turboprop-conversion floatplane in Alaska that kille
Sustainability and Environment

OEMs embrace more-electric aircraft systems

Business jet manufacturers are quietly progressing toward more-electric architectures, where electricity replaces hydraulic and pneumatic power in systems
Sustainability and Environment

Committee studies eco-friendly production, dismantling

Operating an aircraft accounts for 80 percent of the machine’s lifetime environmental footprint, according to a newly released Dassault study.
Sustainability and Environment

Rockwell Collins Plays Key Role in Green Connection Evaluations

Rockwell Collins, as a member of a consortium of industry partners led by Swedish air navigation service provider Luftfartsverket (LFV), has been awarded a
Sustainability and Environment

Boeing Headquarters Earns EPA Energy Star

Boeing’s Chicago downtown headquarters has earned the U.S.
Sustainability and Environment

Honeywell Launches New Emissions and Monitoring

Honeywell is offering a new emissions monitoring service for business jets operating in European airspace to assist in compliance with European Union emi
Sustainability and Environment

FAA Awards $125M in Green Contracts

Five aerospace companies have been awarded a total of $125 million in contracts as part of an environmental initiative to spur development of new aircraft
Sustainability and Environment

EPA begins ruling process to phase out leaded avgas

With the deadline for the comment period on the Environmental Protection Agency’s advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) to phase out leaded avgas
Sustainability and Environment

Eurocopter joins biofuel quest

Eurocopter and parent company EADS have teamed with Argentina-based BioCombustibles del Chubut (BC) to study the feasibility of building an aviation biofue
Sustainability and Environment

Alternative fuels still face hurdles

The alternative aviation fuel industry continues to conduct flight tests to validate the use of new jet-fuel blends.
Sustainability and Environment

Turbofan manufacturers continue ‘green’ efforts

Turbofan manufacturers are developing cleaner, quieter and more environmentally friendly engines that will meet current and future regulatory requirements.
Sustainability and Environment

Next-gen ATC promises environmental rewards

The benefits of implementing NextGen and its European counterpart, the Single European Sky ATM Research (Sesar), are threefold: not only will the new proce
Sustainability and Environment

Business Aviation and the Environment

There is no silver bullet for reducing the effect of business aviation on the environment, most industry analysts agree, but the combination of new technol
Regulations and Government

FAA bill could end Stage II operations

If the FAA reauthorization bill currently under debate in Congress is finally passed in its present form, one provision that it contains could seal the fat
Regulations and Government

FAA Adopts ICAO’s ‘Line Up and Wait’ Terminology


Current FAA terminology for an air traffic controller’s instruction for a pilot to taxi onto the runway and await takeoff clearance is “position and hold.”

Nigerian jet buy lifts veil on discounts

The Nigerian government’s announcement last month that it is buying two Falcon 7Xs and one Gulfstream G550 has yielded a rare public viewing of business ai

Former Jet Aviation scion dies

Carl Hirschmann, Jet Aviation’s former CEO and the eldest son of company founder Carl W.
Safety

EFB-Pro software gets hot module

Cavu Companies has added a new hold-over time (Hot) module to its EFB-Pro performance software to help pilots ensure compliance with regulatory re quiremen
Rotorcraft

Santulli returns to bizav with leasing company

Richard Santulli, founder of fractional-share company NetJets, is back in the aviation business with a new business jet and helicopter leasing company call
FBOs

Executive Flight Services Opens

Executive Flight Services, a subsidiary of Kansas City, Mo.-based Executive AirShare, established a maintenance base at Midwest National Air Center in Ke
Regulations and Government

FAA’s Circuit Breaker policy could change

The FAA issued a draft policy memorandum that would change circuit-breaker layouts in aircraft electrical systems, as well as how pilots deal with trippe
Maintenance and Modifications

FAA levies Fine on Hillsboro Aviation

The FAA is seeking a civil penalty of $580,000 from Hillsboro Aviation of Hillsboro, Ore., “for allegedly performing improper repairs, deliberately falsi

Bizav flight activity recovery slows

After months of posting positive trends, the recovery in business aircraft flight activity sputtered in July, falling 0.9 percent from a year ago, accordin
Accidents

Details of Roush Crash Released

The NTSB has released the ­preliminary report on the crash of a Hawker Beechcraft Premier IA during the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh, Wis.

Cessna, IAM Start Negotiations

Cessna Aircraft and the union that represents 2,300 of the company’s factory workers–the International Association of Machinists Lodge 774–began contract
Engines

FJ44s Ground Tested on Nextant 400XT

Nextant Aerospace has begun full-power ground runs of its Beechjet-based 400XT with the Williams International FJ44-3AP engines.

Manufacturers see evidence of recovery

From his perspective as v-p of market intelligence for Embraer Executive Jets, Claudio Camelier says “The economy is getting better this year.”
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Crystal ball: $208B in sales by 2019

Business jet charter, sales and acquisition firm Zenith Jet released a “bottom-up segment dynamics” forecast that predicts 10,940 business jets worth some