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Maintenance and Modifications

VIP Boeing 757s Get Aviation Partner Winglets

No fewer than 10 Boeing 757-200s–both VIP and head-of-state aircraft–now benefit from Aviation Partners’ Performance Enhancing Blended Winglet Systems, th
Charter & Fractional

Skylliance Charter Adds Two New Members

Skylliance, the charter jet program of Jet Aviation, announced here that it will add JetNetherlands and Elite Jets of Dubai, effective June 1.
Maintenance and Modifications

Midcoast To Upgrade Falcon 50s

Premier Aircraft, a joint venture between West Star Aviation and Yankee Pacific Aerospace, has named Midcoast Aviation as an authorized distributor for 50D
Rotorcraft

Rotocraft Update: Hold that Tiger

Just weeks after proclaiming its market dominance at HAI’s Heli-Expo 2002, Eurocopter took a hit in its sales column with the news that France and Germany
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: It's a gas

In certain oil-rich regions of Russia and its federated republics, natural gas is so abundant that it is treated as a waste product of the crude-oil extrac
Accidents

Rotorcraft Update: PHI accident claims pilot

Petroleum Helicopters pilot Charles Getchell, 56, of Milton, Fla.

NetJets Europe Hiring Tomorrow in Hall 1

NetJets Europe is here at EBACE holding its first company-wide career fair tomorrow.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Good news for Long Island east enders

Once asked his opinion of the almost 200-mi island stretching from the towers of Manhattan to the wet salt marshes and massive summer homes that are the pl
Accidents

Rotocraft Update: Turbomeca demo flight kills two

A Eurocopter AS 350 helicopter crashed at the Tarnos, France factory of engine maker Turbomeca on March 26, killing company test pilot Eric Fortier, 41, an
ATC

Boeing’s futuristic air traffic plan goes back to the basics

When Boeing unveiled its air traffic management (ATM) plan last June, it presented a future world of advanced communication, navigation and surveillance te
Avionics

Meggitt Magic autopilot keeps turboprops flying

Seeking to establish a firmer foothold in the avionics retrofit market, Meggitt last month introduced a new digital flight control system for older turbopr
ATC

DOT/DOD releases its latest federal radionavigation plan

Other than the occasional contradiction, the recently released federal radionavigation plan (FRP) reveals few surprises.
Avionics

Eight (new technologies) in one (737-900)

Boeing has installed the following eight new technologies in its 737-900 Technology Demonstrator:• Synthetic vision system (SVS)
Avionics

EMS Technologies is next in line for Swift64 hardware approval

At press time EMS Technologies’ satcom division in Ottawa, Ontario, was set to become the second approved hardware retailer for the Swift64 service.
Avionics

A ‘Swift’ concept brings Web inside the business jet cabin

Inmarsat last month announced the commercial availability of the new Swift64 mobile data pipeline, an airborne satellite Internet service that the company
Avionics

Falcon 20 sharpens its talons with Pro Line 21 upgrade

Garrett Aviation has completed installation of the first Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 Continuum retrofit avionics system in a Falcon 20.
Avionics

Start of datalink test buoys ATC modernization efforts

Maneuvering over Southern Florida and through busy Miami airspace on a classically warm and convective Thursday in March, an FAA test airplane spent severa
Avionics

Avionics Update: AirCell to market cockpit weather service

Airborne cellular communications provider AirCell has announced a partnership with Control Vision, a Pittsburg, Kan.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Intheairnet acquires passenger networks

Irvine, Calif.-based Intheairnet last month announced it has purchased most of the assets of Passenger Networks, a Santa, Ana, Calif.
Avionics

Avionics Update: Tenzing, Baker introduce airborne e-mail service

Seattle-based Tenzing Communications announced a partnership with avionics manufacturer Baker Electronics to develop e-mail and information services for co
Avionics

Avionics Update: FAA proposes new TAWS class

Recognizing that some aircraft operators will want to equip with terrain awareness and warning systems (TAWS) even though they are not required to do so, t

Avionics Update: Apex databus maker gearing up for mass production

An ad that carmaker Audi began running on radio stations in select cities last month  proclaims that the German company’s automobiles “now feature the
Avionics

Avionics Update: Apex glass cockpit tests proceeding on pace

Honeywell said it has removed the Apex 1000 glass displays from its Cessna 206 flying testbed in Olathe, Kan., to make way for evaluations of the Apex 2000
Avionics

Avionics Update: Thales evaluating EVS infrared sensors

Thales Avionics has completed the first round of assessments of infrared sensors from “potential partners” that the company said could be incorporated with
Aircraft

See You at LBA2009

NBAA president Ed Bolen, left, peeked in on Cirrus CEO Alan Klapmeier yesterday as he sat behind the controls of the Minnesota lightplane maker’s single-en
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Aircraft

Aerion SSBJ by 2014 unlikely, despite 40 LOIs

Aerion is still hoping to convince an OEM partner to join it by the end of this year in its quest to build a supersonic business jet capable of sprinting f
Aircraft

In the Works: Explorer 500T/500R/750T

Graham Swannell, CEO; Donald Joseph, president; and Geoffrey Danes, director of operations, research and development–the three principals of Explorer Aircr
Aircraft

In the Works: Century Jet CA-100

New  life could be breathed into the Century Jet program if owner Bill Northrup and Roy Norris, chairman and CEO of AASI, can reach an agreement.
Safety

Bombardier will continue its Safety Standdown Europe

Bombardier Aerospace marked EBACE eve with its second annual day-long European Safety Standdown, and made it clear that the program in Europe will continue