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Public comments released last month on an FAR Part 161 noise study at Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (BUR) support a nighttime curfew (10 p.m.

The governor of Hawaii, Benjamin Cayetano, has indicated five state-operated airports may close if contract operators cannot be found to administer them un

Navigance, a consortium of several security equipment manufacturers and service providers, has added features to its Safe system.

It just got a lot easier to clear customs in Keflavik, Iceland.

In a cooperative agreement announced last month, ChevronTexaco Global Aviation (CTGA) employees will sponsor 22 children from around the world.

A noise study will be one of the first jobs of the new Palwaukee Airport Community Engagement Council (PACE), an airport/citizen group organized earlier th

At press time, technical experts from the FAA, the U.S.

On November 5, U.S.

A day before the opening of last month’s Moscow airshow, Sukhoi, Ilyushin and Boeing signed a series of agreements on the regional jet program proposed in

Several NBAA member companies have been informed that if they fail the Department of Transportation definition of U.S.

In a report prepared for several members of Congress, the General Accounting Office (GAO) said the FAA’s standard terminal automation replacement system (S

Although the bill is called the Aviation Industry and Reform Act and is designed to give more financial relief to the airline industry, H.R.5506 also conta

MaxVis Inc., a new company established in Portland, Ore., has thrown its hat into the enhanced vision system (EVS) ring, where competition is heating up.

Helicopters have traditionally gotten short shrift in the movies.

The successful helicopter airline is the rotorcraft world’s equivalent of the lost continent of Atlantis.

Russia’s Beriev, Irkutsk Aircraft Production Association (IAPO) and Klimov and the Ukraine’s Motor-Sich on June 19 signed a memorandum of understanding on

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“It doesn’t matter how small the operation, training is a key component to safety and success,” Sarah MacLeod, executive director of the Alexandria, Va.-ba

Finalizing an acquisition process long under way, leading aeromedical transport operator Air Methods of Denver acquired Rocky Mountain Holdings (RMH) of Pr

CHC Helicopter Corp.

British Airways (BA) flew a modified Concorde to Shannon, Ireland, on August 7 before conducting refresher crew-training operations last month.

For the last 15 years, a northern New Jersey bank has been quietly landing its AS 350 AStar on a grassy patch of ground a few yards from its Ramsey o

The FAA has released a list of stadiums to help pilots comply with notam 2/0199.

American Eurocopter has sold its first EC 145 in the U.S., to the Lee County (Florida) division of public safety/EMS.

Phoenix-based Westwind School of Aeronautics has teamed with SkyWest Airlines and Utah Valley State College (UVSC) in a program under which ab initio fligh

Most medevac helicopter missions are a race against time, and when the helicopter loses, it’s usually a time for sadness.

Nobody beats the Russians when it comes to rotorcraft “bigness.” Mil unveiled the Mi-12 in 1971 and later hoisted a record-setting 44 tons to more than 7,0

FlightSafety Boeing Training International (FSB) opened its UK training center at London Luton Airport on July 27.

Helicopter pilots who conduct commercial passenger-carrying flights in areas where whiteout conditions routinely occur should be required to have a helicop

Gulfstream and Arinc late last month were preparing for initial flight trials in a GIV of the dish antenna and other hardware components to power a new air