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Maintenance and Modifications

Torqued: Fatigue issues get closer to scrutiny

There were many times during my years as a mechanic when I was working totally exhausted, but for a number of reasons I continued past the point that I was
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Eurocopter acquires Motorflug Baden-Baden

Motorflug Baden-Baden signed an agreement to be acquired by Eurocopter Deutschland.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: CAMO Plus certification awarded to Jet Aviation

Jet Aviation’s aircraft management and charter division for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia was awarded the EASA Continuing Airworthiness Manageme
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Banyan celebrates national maintenance technician day

Banyan celebrated its third annual AMT Day (May 24) by honoring its maintenance and avionics technicians.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: PremiAir also looking for techs

PremiAir is searching for qualified fixed-wing maintenance personnel for its new base at Oxford Airport, UK.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services recruiting

Business is up and Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) is looking for qualified people to join its technical support teams for executive jets at
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Hawker Beechcraft to open new facility in Mesa, Arizona

Mesa, Ariz., will be the site of a new Hawker Beechcraft Services aircraft maintenance and service facility.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Dallas Airmotive adds 16 engines, beefs up

BBA Aviation’s engine repair and overhaul division has added 16 new engine models to its existing authorizations on Pratt & Whitney Canada engines.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Avmats celebrates 30 years in aviation

Avmats marked its 30th anniversary on April 29 with a gathering for customers in Kansas City, Mo.
Maintenance and Modifications

MRO Profile: Abilene Aero

Texas FBO Abilene Aero is doing better than it ever has in its 40-year history, according to president Joe Crawford.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: General Dynamics Aviation Services expands Dallas center

In a project that adds more than 45,000 sq ft to its Love Field facility, General Dynamics Aviation Services is expanding its Dallas Service Center by leas
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Online mechanic forum launched

Jet Repair Anywhere has announced the availability of its free online mechanics interactive Web-based forum.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Midcoast to perform 50DASH4 performance upgrades

Falcon 50 operators will now be able to take their aircraft to Midcoast Aviation, on St.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: GAT acquires Curtiss Wright Accessories Services

GA Telesis (GAT) has acquired the assets of Curtiss Wright Accessories Services, including its 56,000-sq-ft facility in Miami.
Maintenance and Modifications

Maintenance News: Aerocentro honored at twin commander symposium

Aerocentro de Servicios, of Caracas, Venezuela, has been named Twin Commander Service Center of the year for 2007.
Regulations and Government

State airport closings offer lessons on the national level

New Jersey has lost half the airports it had at the end of World War II, with the number dwindling from about 100 to 45, according to aviation attorney Wil
Aircraft

Customers adjust to Superjet slip

While the first prototype of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 continued its initial round of flight testing over Komsomolsk-upon-Amur in Russia’s Far East early las

Regionals feeling the pain of systemwide service cuts

For the first time in recent memory the U.S.

Regional News Update: SkyWest withdraws bid for ExpressJet

SkyWest last month withdrew its offer to buy Houston’s ExpressJet after concluding that a new seven-year capacity purchase agreement entered by ExpressJet

Regional News Update: IslandAir returns EAS award

Hawaiian de Havilland Dash 8 operator IslandAir withdrew from a newly awarded Essential Air Service (EAS) contract to serve four mainland communities from

Regional News Update: Delta seeks break from Pinnacle

Delta Air Lines notified Pinnacle Airlines last month that it intends to dissolve their Delta Connection contract effective July 31.
Accidents

Regional News Update: Bombardier 'regrets' Q400 accident

Bombardier expressed “regrets” about a March 13, 2007, accident involving a Q400 turboprop at Japan’s Kochi Airport after the Japanese Aircraft and Railway
Rotorcraft

AgustaWestland, Oboronprom team up

Russian aerospace conglomerate Oboronprom has started “large-scale, long-term” cooperation with European manufacturer Agusta- Westland for helicopter distr
Rotorcraft

AgustaWestland continues work on AW139 upgrade

AgustaWestland is making several improvements to its AW139 medium twin, including flight-testing a de-icing system.

'Helicopter hub' planned for Rome

Manufacturer AgustaWestland and Italian operator Alitalica recently signed an agreement to install a “helicopter hub” at Rome’s Urbe airport.
Rotorcraft

Columbia Helicopters revs up for firefighting missions

Summer means fire season, and Columbia Helicopters’ tandem-rotor Chinooks and Vertols have already been dispatched to their bases, primarily throughout the
Charter & Fractional

Helo lobby association outlines Paris connection

The UFH, the French helicopter association, is studying how to relaunch scheduled flights among Paris heliport, a helipad in La Défense business district a
Charter & Fractional

French operator to offer another downtown link

France-based operator Azur Hélicoptère is considering offering helicopter connections between Lyon Saint Exupéry airport and the city’s convention center,
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft News Update: Eurocopter still fighting noise

Eurocopter is flight-testing low-noise approach, takeoff and cruise flight procedures with an EC 135 light twin.