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Preliminary Report: Dash 8 lands gear up

Bombardier DHC-8-311 Dash 8, Philadelphia, Nov.

Preliminary Report: CASA makes forced landing

Construcciones Aeronauticas SA CASA 212-200, Toksook Bay, Alaska, Nov.
Regulations and Government

Congressional Observer: January 2009

When the 111th Congress convenes this month, all the bills introduced in the 110th Congress that did not make it into law will find themselves in the Congr

Aerospace Industries toot their horn

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) is launching an outreach campaign aimed at the incoming Obama Administration and the new 111th Congress to under
ATC

FAA constructing new ‘nerve center’

Federal and local officials broke ground early last month for a new Air Traffic Control System Command Center colocated with the FAA’s Potomac Tracon south
Regulations and Government

DHS nominee departs Arizona stage to mixed reviews

Janet Napolitano, the two-term Democrat governor of Arizona who has been nominated to become the third Secretary of Homeland Security, heads to Washington
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Goderich gets Royal Jet BBJ contracts

Genesis Custom Jetliners, an executive completion and refurbishment broker/agent, has been selected to redesign and upgrade “a number” of Boeing Business J
Cabin Interior and Electronics

First Design Q Avro RJ70 rolls out

BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has completed the first Avro RJ70 executive aircraft with the Design Q interior.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Project Phoenix signs Egyptian CRJ200 Customer

Despite sagging economies worldwide, the demand for CRJ200 conversions to executive configuration appears to be gaining momentum.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Dean Aircraft Interiors Snapped Up By Ocean Sky

Ocean Sky, a UK-based executive charter operator rapidly expanding its services, has acquired Dean Aircraft Interiors.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Project Phoenix CRJs to get MedAire Package

Project Phoenix, launched in 2007 to broker the acquisition and sale of CRJ200 regional jets in an executive configuration, recently announced an agreement
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Jet Aviation Basel opens Falcon Completion Hangar

Jet Aviation Basel has completed its 35,520-sq-ft hangar 1A extension, an addition that will better accommodate its cabin completion work on green Falcons.

Global Express to Bolivia a trip to remember

The crew of a Bombardier Global Express operated by Germany’s Triple Alpha successfully negotiated multiple operational and security challenges during a re
FBOs

TAG Global claims record for polar circumnavigation

TAG Group vice president Aziz Ojjeh and a team of four other pilots broke a 31-year-old speed record for a pole-to-pole circumnavigation of the globe
FBOs

Conglomerate’s FBOs retain their individuality

Jeffrey Ross is at the helm of an unusual conglomeration of FBOs, a quasi-chain of 12 facilities that retain their original brand names instead of adopting
FBOs

Avcard now accepted at Signature

Signature Flight Support and Avcard have implemented a contract fuel discount program at Signature FBOs in the U.S.
FBOs

Universal unveils updated online flight planner

Universal Weather & Aviation has released a new version of the online UVflightplanner.com service with improved functionality.
FBOs

Moses Lake gets new Million Air

Freeman Holdings, owner of five Million Air FBO franchises, has purchased the former Air America Fuel & Services FBO at Grant County International Airp
FBOs

Renovated landmark HPN opens

On December 10, Landmark Aviation celebrated the grand opening of the FBO chain’s newly renovated FBO at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y.
FBOs

NATA launches new FBO seminars

The National Air Transportation Association’s new seminar series, “How to Build a More Successful FBO,” got off to a strong start with the first of the two
FBOs

Samaritan 206 drops in at Business Jet Center

The Business Jet Center FBO at Love Field in Dallas had an unusual visitor on November 12, a Cessna 206 on a nationwide tour before traveling to Papua New
FBOs

New runway ready at Cobb County

The widening and repaving project at Cobb County-McCollum Airport in Kennesaw, Ga., was completed early last month, and the runway is now 6,305 feet long a
FBOs

Three FBOs join Avfuel Network

The Million Air FBO at Griffiss International Airport in Rome, N.Y., is now an Avfuel dealer.
FBOs

Rectrix opens second FBO

Rectrix Aerodrome Centers has opened a second FBO, at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport in Florida, which joins the company’s first FBO in Hyannis,
FBOs

Davis flight completes remodel

Avfuel dealer Davis Flight Support has remodeled its Yolo County, Calif.
FBOs

Odyssey new name for seven FBOs

Seven former Million Air FBOs have joined in a marketing partnership with Odyssey Aviation Bahamas to form a new Odyssey Aviation FBO network.
Maintenance and Modifications

Efficiency improvement aimed at enhancing customer service

StandardAero’s Los Angeles engine shop has been serving the business aviation community for 62 years.
Maintenance and Modifications

Arcadia Aviation opens IAD maintenance facility

Dulles Jet Center, an Arcadia Aviation company, is providing aircraft maintenance services on Dulles International Airport (IAD).
Maintenance and Modifications

West Star to provide mx services at Aspen-Pitkin county airport

West Star Aviation has taken over maintenance operations at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport (ASE).