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Eurocopter Sells in Asia

Eurocopter has inked a contract with the Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment in Thailand for one EC135 light twin.
Rotorcraft

Eurocopter Sells in Spain...

Eurocopter has received an order from the Spanish Ministry of the Interior for 12 EC135P2i light twins.
Rotorcraft

Robinson Pegs Price of R66 at $770,000

Robinson Helicopter has set an initial price of $770,000 for its Rolls-Royce RR300-powered R66 turbine single.
Rotorcraft

Europe continues quest for ‘Green Rotorcraft’

As part of its Green Rotorcraft initiative, the Clean Sky public-private partnership for aeronautical research in Europe has issued its second call for pro
Aircraft

Nextant selects Rockwell Collins Venue cabin system for 400Next

Nextant Aerospace has selected the Rockwell Collins Venue cabin management system for the interior of the Beechjet 400Next as part of a retrofit package th
ATC

ADS-B making life easier for Gulf helicopter pilots

Think working at New York Tracon is a tough job? Try heading down to the Gulf of Mexico, where controllers handle between 5,000 and 9,000 helicopter flight
FBOs

Snow fells Dulles Jet Center hangars

While heavy snowfall early last month limited aircraft operations at airports up and down the U.S.
Avionics

DeVos EC130 Flies with Max-Viz EVS-1500

One Sky Aviation, a maintenance and repair center based in Anchorage, Alaska, received an STC permitting installations of the Max-Viz EVS-1500 enhanced-vis
Avionics

Cobham HeliSAS Earns TSO

The FAA has issued a technical standard order to Cobham for its HeliSAS stability-and-augmentation/autopilot system.
Avionics

Aircell ATG-5000 Debuts in Gulfstream G200

Aircell announced the first installation of its ATG 5000 high-speed Internet system aboard a California-based Gulfstream G200 operated by charter provider
Avionics

NZ-2000 users responding to FAA guidance

Business jet operators flying with Honeywell NZ-2000 flight management systems are responding to an FAA airworthiness bulletin describing a software glitch
Avionics

TrueNorth puts focus on apps, not hardware

Following supplementary type certification of its Simphone OpenCabin airborne telecommunications system for Bombardier’s Global business jet line, TrueNort
Regulations and Government

Southers rejects offer to lead TSA

Erroll Southers, the White House choice to head the leaderless Transportation Security Administration (TSA), withdrew his name from consideration on Januar
Regulations and Government

Operators still struggle with ETS

The European Commission’s latest list of operators subject to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) is still incomplete and inaccurate, according to companies
Safety

Book Review: Flying Drunk

“Remember those airline pilots who got caught flying drunk?”
Charter & Fractional

Fractionals stumbled in brutal 2009

Data on the U.S.
Airports

Airport Authority Seeks GA’s Return to DCA

Describing general aviation as “an important part of our aviation infrastructure at Reagan National, James Bennett, president of the Metropolitan Washingto
Aircraft

Cessna CJ4 Certifcation Imminent at Press Time

Looking not unlike a T-tail compact version of its Sovereign stablemate, the Cessna Citation CJ4 should have earned its FAA credentials by the time these w
Safety

Revised LASP will include industry input, says TSA

Following up on testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it is bac

Columbia stays in the family

The threatened pink workstations are a nonstarter, but Nancy Lematta has her hands firmly on the controls of Aurora, Ore.-based Columbia Helicopters.

EMS safety slow-going at FAA

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued its 2010 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements last week, upgrading its assessment

HAI 2010 News Clips

SkyTrac Briefing Daily on SkyWeb 3.0SkyTrac Systems of Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, is displaying the latest version of its sa

Conklin marks 25th here

Aviation consultancy Conklin & de Decker Aviation Information is marking its 25th anniversary at Heli-Expo by donating $2,500 to the Helicopter Foundat

Rotorcraft Programs: Tiltrotors and Compounds

Cutting-edge research takes an enormous amount of time and while the BA609 tiltrotor still shows signs of life, it may end up a solely AgustaWestland proje

StandardAero brings optimistic view

StandardAero believes the industry is emerging from “one of the most challenging markets in the history of general aviation” and is bringing that optimism

Night Flight Concepts turns police green

Several law enforcement agencies recently completed Night Flight Concepts’s (Booth No.
Aircraft

Honda Aircraft – HondaJet

The first production conforming HondaJet is now scheduled to fly in the middle of this year, at a date yet to be determined, according to a Honda Aircraft
Aircraft

Hawker Beechcraft – Premier II

The updated version of the Premier was expected to fly in December but that has been moved to this month, according to Hawker Beechcraft.