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Maintenance and Modifications

Concorde Battery STC’d for challenger

Bombardier Challenger 300 operators now have a choice of replacing the jet’s original nickel-cadmium main ship battery with a new Concorde RG-441 lead-acid
Sustainability and Environment

Jet-A alternatives pose big technical challenges

How many coconuts does a Boeing 747 need to fly from London to Amsterdam? Last year amid much fanfare, a Virgin Atlantic 747-400 with one of its four
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Flying Colours boosts capacity with JetCorp buy

Two competitors with separate programs that convert Bombardier CRJs into executive jets combined forces in March, when Peterborough, Ontario-based Flying C

Cessna looks to existing market as it awaits economic rebound

Cessna chairman, president and CEO Jack Pelton has been holding on tight over the past year as the business aviation industry has taken manufacturers o
Charter & Fractional

Stats show frax suffering but still a key genav factor

The fractional share marketplace is changing rapidly in response to the lengthy global recession.
Airports

Biggin Hill to build a four-star hotel

London Biggin Hill Airport (Booth No.
Safety

Audit firm lauds NBAA’s guide on best practices

CharterX Wyvern has endorsed the NBAA’s recently published NBAA Best Practices for Air Charter Brokering.
Safety

Prices and usage are down as charter market feels the pinch

Like the rest of the aviation industry, the charter segment has suffered serious setbacks during the past year and is hunkering down and adapting to a new

Aero Specialties highlights new ground-support offerings

Aero Specialties of Boise, Idaho, which manufactures its own line of ground-support equipment (GSE) and distributes equipment from other manufacturers, is

Charter ops, icing, fatigue concern new NTSB chair

Deborah Hersman was sworn in as the 12th chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board at the end of July, taking over from acting chairman Mark
Training and Workforce

SimuFlite’s online courses target pilots and techs

At NBAA’09, CAE SimuFlite (Booth No.
Engines

Williams leads turbofans, Honeywell tops in t-props

In 2009 the annual Product Support Survey produced by NBAA Convention News’ sister publication Aviation International News Williams Internati

One on One: An interview with Randy Babbitt

In the wake of the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 in February, how are safety programs and pilot hiring, training and testing practices being improved?

Industry Perspective: Dassault Falcon

John Rosanvallon, Dassault Falcon’s president and CEO, has worked at the company for 34 years.
Aircraft

New Business Jets

Despite the recession, a significant number of new aircraft programs remain largely on track.
Aircraft

New engine, avionics drive PC-12 NG

Pilatus Business Aircraft (Booth No.
Safety

IS-BAO recognized as European safety standard

The International Standard for Business Aircraft Operations (IS-BAO), launched in 2002 by the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC), has been gran
FBOs

Harrods buffers immigration woes for pax, crew at Luton

Harrods Aviation has made special arrangements with the UK Border Agency (UKBA) for business aircraft passengers and crew to be able to complete immigratio
Aircraft

Emivest and Jet Works hand over their first SJ30

Jet Works Air Center has begun delivering completed SJ30 light jets for Dubai-based Emivest, an 80-percent share holder in the former manufacturer, Sino Sw
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Versatile Emteq appears to be bucking downturn

While many in the industry are slashing payrolls, chopping programs and scuttling acquisition plans, business aircraft electronics supplier Emteq (Booth No
Accidents

Session targets single-pilot safety

Among programs new to NBAA this year is the Cessna-sponsored Single Pilot Safety Standdown.
Avionics

Passur promotes flight data line

Flight-tracking and data provider Passur Aerospace is here at NBAA promoting its full line of flight information products, anchored by a database of decisi
Charter & Fractional

Avinode: charter market remains soft

Despite some modest improvement last month, demand in the North American executive charter market is still relatively soft, according to the latest data fr
Training and Workforce

Web-based service teaches fatigue-management skills

Aviation insurance giant USAIG, in collaboration with Alertness Solutions, is launching Z-Coach, a science-based fatigue management program. USAIG&n
Aircraft

Program Update: Gulfstream G650 on schedule to make first flight by year-end

Under bright blue skies on September 29, Gulfstream Aerospace rolled out the first wide-cabin G650 powered by its two Rolls-Royce BR725 engines before a cr
Safety

No Single Solution

In recent years the FAA has focused a majority of its birdstrike research efforts on the use of avian radar systems.
Engines

Microturbo continues e-APU tests

Toulouse, France-based Microturbo is here exhibiting a mockup of its e-APU, a new-generation auxiliary power unit that is currently undergoing ground trial
Regulations and Government

Kitbuilt policy due out soon to guide builders and feds

The Experimental Aircraft Association (Booth No.
Maintenance and Modifications

Learjet 60 aft locker flies into final design stage

Raisbeck Engineering of Seattle, Wash.