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A $504 million increase in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grant funds for new security projects in fiscal year 2002 has affected the amount of funds ava

RAYTHEON KING AIR C90, SOMERSET, KY., JAN.

While promising to be “balanced and reasonable,” FAA Administrator Marion Blakey told those attending the recent AOPA Expo that the nation and her agency a

RAYTHEON KING AIR B90, WEST PALM BEACH, FLA., SEPT.

UK rotorcraft charter operator PDG Helicopters is poised to expand through acquisition after sealing a new £7.5 million ($12 million) funding package.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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