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FBOs

Touching Bases: New bizav center planned for Amsterdam

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will get a new business aviation terminal next year.
Aircraft

Bureaucracy ends DC-3’s career

The need to protect passengers from terrorism was not uppermost in the mind of the Douglas Aircraft designers when they developed the DC-3, and they could
FBOs

Touching Bases: Jackson Hole keeps an eye on Naples

Airport officials at Jackson Hole, Wyo., are watching events in Naples to help determine how they will proceed with their own proposed Stage 2 ban.
FBOs

Touching Bases: FAA lawyer supports Naples decision

An internal FAA review last month upheld the agency’s decision to withhold airport grants from Naples Municipal Airport, Fla., though the Naples Airport Au
FBOs

Touching Bases: FAA's E-STMP program under fire, again

A special traffic management program (STMP) for the Sun Valley, Idaho area last month has evoked the ire of some pilots who could not get slots.

Updated GE FMS equips future 737s

Beginning this October, new-build Boeing 737 jetliners will use GE Aviation Systems flight-management system (FMS) update 10.8 software.

TacitView helps sift the wheat from the chaff

With the proliferation of UAVs greatly increasing the number of “eyes in the sky,” the flow of video imagery streaming into intelligence centers is turning
Accidents

News Note: Hughes 500 crash claims 3

A family of three were killed July 19 when the Hughes 500 helicopter they had chartered for a sightseeing flight over the Kentish countryside crashed short

Finger tapped as new Sikorsky chief

Dean Borgman, president of Sikorsky Aircraft since 1998, has been appointed chairman of the company.
Security

Mounting a solid defense

Thanks to the many miracles of modern optics, modern aerial surveillance crews can zoom in their lenses from improbable distances and get razor-sharp image
Rotorcraft

Eurocopter quietly working on 'neighborly helicopter'

Just a few years ago Eurocopter scored a major coup at an HAI Heli-Expo show, amazing the crowds by introducing a new helicopter as a completely certified
Rotorcraft

MD Helicopters back in the black after a turbulent year

The light at the end of the tunnel is not a train bearing down on MD Helicopters Inc., said chairman and CEO Henk Schaeken.
Aircraft

Finmeccanica’s Alenia Aermacchi division is launching a competition to find a nickname for its M346

Finmeccanica’s Alenia Aermacchi division is launching a competition to find a nickname for its M346.
Rotorcraft

Russian helo designs struggle to enter market

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia.
Rotorcraft

EC 225 clearing hurdles; certification slips to 2004

Eurocopter now hopes to obtain certification for its EC 225 by early next year instead of in the third quarter of this year, as previously stated.

IR AASM completes qualification

Last week Sagem successfully conducted the third and final qualification test firing of its “one-meter” class armament air-sol modulaire (AASM) modular air
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Extex reveals extension plan

PMA parts maker Extex is finding current business so good it has embarked on an ambitious new expansion program.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Keystone honored by Rolls-Royce

Keystone Helicopter’s engine services division announced that it won Rolls-Royce’s program investment award.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: South African shootout

It’s a story right out of the Wild West.
Safety

Rotorcraft Update: JetRanger gets stickshaker

Safe Flight Instrument Corp.

Targeting Pods Finish First Tour of Duty

Litening III targeting pods supplied by Ultra Electronics to the RAF have successfully completed their first year of service in Iraq.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: New Bell president maps the future

While praising the efforts of his predecessor, Bell Helicopter’s freshly appointed CEO has been offering his own vision of the future for the beleaguered r
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update:Enstrom scores biggest sale ever

Mere months after a corporate shakeup rocked Enstrom Helicopter to the roots of its mahogany row, the Menominee, Mich.-based rotorcraft manufacturer celebr

New airliner support team holds $200m inventory

A new aftermarket support organization has been formed as a recommended solutions supplier for Airbus Spares Support and Services.

Boeing, Alenia join forces in composite recycling

Boeing and Alenia Aeronautica have signed a letter of intent to build a composite recycling facility in southern Italy.
Aircraft

D'Long looks to place 728 back in fray

Shanghai-based investment group D’Long in late June confirmed it has signed a contract for the rights to the suspended Fairchild Dornier 728 program, but a
Aircraft

M7 won't wait for 328 deal to pursue RJ work in San Antonio

M7 Aerospace, the company that took control of the U.S.
Aircraft

An-140 sales bode well for Antonov RJ

A growing order book for the 52-seat Antonov An-140 turboprop has stimulated engineers at Ukraine’s Antonov design house and the Kharkov manufacturing plan
Aircraft

French, Russian avionics trio leap to front of RRJ 'short list'

AVPK Sukhoi’s ambition to use U.S.-built avionics on the Russian Regional Jet appear dashed due to an apparent lack of interest on the part of both Honeywe