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Accidents

Unfortunate meeting

LEARJET 55 AND EXTRA 300, BOCA RATON, FLA., JUNE 23, 2000–“The failure of the pilots of both airplanes to maintain a visual lookout (while climbing

Sales slump threatens Bombardier debt ratings

Low demand for corporate aircraft and small airliners has led New York-based financial advisor Moody’s Investors Service to review, and possibly downgrade
Accidents

In-flight breakup

RAYTHEON KING AIR C90, MUNSON, FLA., JUNE 25, 1999–According to the NTSB, poor judgment killed a pilot and his passenger when their aircra

News Note: Polly Vacher prepares for solo circumnavigation bid

Polly Vacher is preparing for a May bid to become the first pilot to fly solo around the world via both the North and South Poles.
Accidents

That's why they're called 'choppers'

GULFSTREAM IV AND BELL 206, SAN DIEGO, CALIF., MAY 12, 2001–Thirteen people–pilots, passengers and line-service personnel–escaped injury w
Aircraft

News Note: UK's LEA places Mustang order

The UK’s London Executive Aviation (LEA) has placed a $12 million order for five Citation Mustang very light business jets.
Avionics

Flightman EFB introduced

Ireland-based Aircraft Management Technologies (AMT) launched a new electronic flight book system called Flightman.
Regulations and Government

Congressional Observer: September 2001

Early last month President Bush departed for a month-long hiatus in Texas and just about the same time Congress opted to take its August recess.

Pair of UK firms close flight departments

Two UK corporate flight departments have been quietly closed, and both companies appear to have been having a hard time finding buyers for their middle-age
ATC

FAA Unions Form Coalition

The unions representing nearly 20,000 employees of the FAA have joined in a coalition “to hold the FAA accountable” for meeting its modernization goals and
Rotorcraft

Top of the world

In a world in which one can, by means of a relatively inexpensive handheld GPS, determine one’s position within two feet, there just aren’t a lot of explor
Rotorcraft

PZL-Swidnik’s turbine single helo certified

More than a decade-and-a-half after PZL-Swidnik introduced it to the Western world in 1985, the Polish helicopter manufacturer’s Ecureuil-like SW-4 turbine
ATC

ITT Wins Nexcom Contract

The FAA has awarded an initial $20.5 million contract to ITT Industries aerospace/communications division to provide the agency with multimode VHF digital
Regulations and Government

Lawmakers Seek Flight/Duty Changes

In a letter to FAA Administrator Jane Garvey, 31 members of Congress have urged the agency to take immediate action to update pilot flight- and duty-time r
Rotorcraft

Delays stymie EC 145 entry into service in Europe & U.S.

The French Sécurité Civile (the state rescue arm) no longer has a defined entry-into-service schedule for its Eurocopter EC 145 twin-turbine helicopters.
Rotorcraft

Eurocopter expands U.S. market investment

With the arrival of its new CEO, American Eurocopter also revealed that it is expanding its “footprint” in the U.S.
FBOs

Executive Fliteways asking, 'What downturn?'

With 13 aircraft in its stable, Executive Fliteways at Long Island McArthur Airport (ISP) in Islip, N.Y.
Security

News Note: U.S. Border Patrol begins using helos

When you think about the U.S.
FBOs

Flying cloud expansion hearings this month

Minnesota’s Flying Cloud Airport (FCM) is holding hearings this month concerning runway expansion and a project to build new hangars on the airport’s south
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: U.S. corporate helo hit by ground fire

A helicopter owned and operated by U.S.
FBOs

San Francisco grapples with expansion plans

While New York La Guardia Airport (LGA) has been hogging all the airline-delay headlines, San Francisco is equally concerned that its international airport
FBOs

FAA holds informal meetings on ACK airspace

On August 20 and 21 the FAA held meetings at Barnstable Municipal Airport (HYA), in Hyannis, Mass., and Nantucket (Mass.) High School, respectively, to dis
Accidents

Rotorcraft Update: Beloved French baker killed in helo crash

French baking baron Lionel Poilane was killed November 7 when the Agusta 109C he was piloting crashed into the sea off Brittany, France’s northwestern coas
FBOs

Dulles organization touts proactive study

A Washington Airports Task Force (WATF) survey last November showed that 90 percent of residents living close to Washington Dulles Airport (IAD) are regula
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Aeromed pioneer passes on

Ellsworth “Dutch” Kuhlman, the hospital executive who in 1972 founded the Flight for Life medical airlift program at Denver’s St.
FBOs

ASOS station info can lag up to 2 minutes

Automated surface observation systems (ASOS) at airports without certified live weather observers have been a boon to pilots, but the information they disp
FBOs

Massport pushes Genav parkington to north ramp

At the request of airport authority Massport, Signature at Boston Logan Airport (BOS) relocated its aircraft parking area on August 10 from the south end o
Safety

Rotorcraft Update: Emergency AD grounds Bell 407 fleet

Once again, an emergency AD (No.
Accidents

Helo air-tour crash was fourth fatal for Papillon

The fatal crash of an Aerospatiale AS 350 at the Grand Canyon on August 10 was the fourth fatal accident of a Papillon Helicopters tour flight since Septem