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Regulations and Government

Montana Senators Appeal to DHS Secretary

Montana senators Max Baucus (D) and Jon Tester (D) have written to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano expressing the concerns of pi
Charter & Fractional

Rutan Is First Customer on JetSuite Phenom

JetSuite brokered its first Phenom 100 charter flight in late May for customer Burt Rutan, who flew to his home base in Mojave, Calif.

Request for BARR Data Ends Up in Court

Investigative journalism organization ProPublica filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in December, asking the FAA to release the list of reque
FBOs

New Orleans FBO Starts Work on New Facility

Odyssey Aviation broke ground in May for its new FBO at New Orleans Lakefront Airport.

Paris Air Show Report

If you can imagine the Paris Air Show as a stock market then what happened at this year’s event (held from June 15 to 21) was nothing less than a rally, sp
Accidents

NATA Summit covers criminalization in aviation

In September 2006, days after an ExcelAire Services Embraer Legacy 600 and a Gol Airlines Boeing 737 collided over the Amazon jungle in Brazil, an internat
Safety

Industry agrees on airline safety regs

Following congressional hearings last month on the February crash of a twin-engine turboprop near Buffalo, N.Y., senior officials from U.S.
Aircraft

Aerion Formal Launch in Late 2010?

Aerion last month at the Paris Air Show said it is nearing a decision on an aerospace manufacturing partner to lead the development and production of its s
Aircraft

Spectrum Completes First S.40 Fuselage

Spectrum Aeronautical sister company Rocky Mountain Composites completed a test article version of the all-composite S.40 Freedom midsize jet fuselage at i
Sustainability and Environment

Honeywell Biofuel Tests Under Way

Honeywell last month said it completed initial testing of renewable jet fuel on its 131-9 APU and TFE731-5 turbofan engine.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Pre-owned Bizjet Inventories Hold Steady

“Available business jet inventories look finally to be stabilizing,” UBS Investment Research noted in its latest business jet update, although pre-owned in
Aircraft

First Gulfstream G250 Is Taking Shape

The first Gulfstream G250 super-midsize business jet had its Honeywell HTF7250G engines mounted on June 1 at Israel Aerospace Industries’ factory in Tel Av

Where have all the (JetDirect) people gone?

Now that JetDirect Aviation has closed and gone bankrupt and Wayfarer Aviation has arisen from the JetDirect assets, former employees of the once high-flyi
Security

TSA may change LASP

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) appears to be taking seriously the 7,000-plus submitted comments opposing the proposed large aircraft secu

Bizav industry hopeful in the face of OEM cutbacks

“Up slightly.” That’s the hopeful phrase often on the lips of those in business aviation these days when describing the health of the industry.

Latin American Event Opens Next month

The annual Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (Labace) is scheduled to open August 13 and run for three days at Congonhas Airport
Aircraft

Cirrus Jet vision Resumes Flying

As Cirrus Aircraft’s prototype Vision jet single resumes flight testing with a new Garmin G1000 avionics suite, some buyers seeking refunds of deposits for

Platinum Jet Cofounder Pleads

Andre Budhan, cofounder of defunct charter operator Platinum Jet, pleaded guilty to defrauding charter customers and brokers, as well as impeding and obstr
Engines

Rolls-Royce BR725 Engine Gets EASA OK

Rolls-Royce on June 24 received EASA certification for its 16,000-pound-thrust BR725 engine.
Aircraft

Bombardier’s Toronto Plant Averts Strike

Workers at Bombardier’s de Havilland plant in north Toronto ratified a new three-year labor contract yesterday, averting a strike that stood to affect 2,75
Training and Workforce

FSI Trains Laid-off Pilots at no cost

FlightSafety International launched the Proficiency Protection Program, which is intended to help maintain the currency of business aircraft pilots and mai

Bombardier Upbeat in Bizjet Forecast

In its latest forecast, Bombardier expects total deliveries of 11,500 business jets worth $256 billion between this year and 2018.

AIN is World’s Top Airshow Daily Again

Aviation International News has once again been named the world’s top airshow daily publication in the annual Aerospace Journalist of the Year award
Sustainability and Environment

Bizav’s carbon conundrum

With Europe set to begin cap-and-trade of aviation emissions in 2012, and Congress working on legislation that would cap the greenhouse gases that have bee
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Safety

DHS IG raps TSA for its anti-GA campaign

General aviation operations present such a limited and hypothetical threat to security that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) does not need

Boeing Joins 747-8 Wing Box to Center Section

Boeing announced today that it has joined the first 747-8’s wing box to the airplane’s 40-foot-long center fuselage section in the final assembly bay at it

Paris Air Show Stages Industry Sales Rally

For one week at least, the gloom of the global recession seemed to lift along with the storm clouds gathered over the grounds of the Paris Air Show in Le B
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Boeing in Studies to Re-Wing 777

Boeing Commercial Airplanes has begun to study the possibility of fitting the
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