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Learjet derives 2 new jets from its 45

At last month’s Farnborough Air Show, Bombardier Business Aircraft confirmed plans for two Learjet 45 follow-on models.
Aircraft

Eclipse sees light of day as prototype preps for first flight

Under a bowl of scorching blue New Mexico sky, Eclipse Aviation rolled out the first Eclipse 500 at its Albuquerque facility on July 13–one big step toward

People in Aviation: July 2002

Pilatus Business Aircraft announced three personnel changes.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Beechjet 400, Cleaveland, Ohio

BEECHJET 400, CLEVELAND, OHIO, MAY 8, 2002–Birds substantially damaged a Beechjet 400 operated by Georgia Jet while departing from the Bur
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Cessna Citation 550, Oklahoma City

CESSNA CITATION 550, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA., MAY 20, 2002–Substantial damage but little injury resulted from an aborted takeoff at the Wiley
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Cessna Citation 560, Leakey, Texas

CESSNA CITATION 560, LEAKEY, TEXAS, MAY 2, 2002–The first fractional jet to be destroyed yielded no injury to passengers or pilots.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Cessna 560 Citation V, Lake in the Hills, Ill.

CESSNA 560 CITATION V, LAKE IN THE HILLS, ILL., APRIL 25, 2002–At 1536 CDT a Citation V, N560RP, sustained substantial damage during a har
Accidents

Final Report: Wing succumbed to fire

FAIRCHILD/SWEARINGEN SA-226-TC METROLINER, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, JUNE 18, 1998–Often layers of events come together to create catastrophes.
FBOs

Marathon flight goes the distance at ISM

Family-owned Marathon Flight Services recently completed a $1.6 million construction project at Kissimmee (Fla.) Gateway Airport (ISM).
Airports

Customs now has new digs in Louisville

The former Delta Air Lines terminal at Louisville (Ky.), International Airport is now home to a dedicated U.S.
Airports

Boca Raton will get a noisebuster web site

Sometime this month, homeowners surrounding the Boca Raton (Fla.) Airport (BCT) should be able to go to a Web site if they have a complaint about a noisy a
FBOs

Signature unveils plans for European expansion

At the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE) in late May, Signature Flight Support announced plans for a new $2 million FBO at South
Regulations and Government

Congressional Observer: July 2002

The Bush Administration has proposed spending $759 billion next year for government agencies and programs other than Social Security, but more than half ha
ATC

Stars Wars

The FAA and the Transportation Department’s inspector general are at loggerheads over whether the new Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (Star
Accidents

Run a Diagnostic, Mr. Sulu

Investigations of aircraft accidents–referred to in the past as “kicking tin”–are taking a decidedly high-tech turn, and NTSB chairman Marion Blakey predic
Airports

Palwaukee tends to its noisefighting needs

With a noise study and plans for a Stage 2 aircraft nighttime ban approved by the Palwaukee Municipal Airport commission, Palwaukee (Ill.) Airport (PWK) ha
Security

Port Authority pilot speaks out on 9/11

I was till recently the chief pilot of the Port Authority police helicopter operation.
Rotorcraft

Osprey resumes flight test; tiltrotor future far from certain

With little fanfare and a lot of crossed fingers, flight test of the embattled Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey resumed in the final days of May at the U.S.
Rotorcraft

X-50A testbed may lead to faster hybrid helo

In the aeronautical mountain range, a few peaks are still unclimbed.

Executive Shuffle at Bombardier Aerospace

Bombardier today announced substantial changes to its aerospace group leadership team, most notably naming auto industry veteran Guy Hachey Bombardier Aero
Rotorcraft

Fire season gets hot as crash kills 3

By mid-June the national wildfire situation was speeding past all-time record proportions in nearly every category.
Rotorcraft

Air Methods buys Rocky Mountain

The inexorable “bigger is better” economic logic of consolidation that has reshaped much of the fixed-wing side of aviation is now beginning to emerge in t

Fort Lauderdale opens public-use helistop

The opening of a public-use heliport isn’t as rare as, say, the passage of a really visible comet, or a Mets victory in a World Series.
Rotorcraft

Anti-noise Advocates Lose Grand Teton Appeal

Anti-noise Advocates Lose Grand Teton AppealA federal appeals court has dismissed a bid by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Wilderness S
Rotorcraft

PZL-Swidnik SW-4 Preps for Certification

It seems summer is the time of year for somnolent helicopter programs to wake up and stretch their rotors toward the sun…and certification.
Rotorcraft

Russian Rotorcraft Resurrected

In the peek-a-boo world of Russian rotorcrafting (now you see the program, now you don’t), plans have been announced to finally go ahead with the Kamov Ka-
Rotorcraft

Helo Rescue Goes Awry on Mount Hood

Attempting to rescue injured climbers on Oregon’s highest peak in an accident that left three dead, a Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk search-and-rescue Black Haw
Avionics

Dassault first OEM to install airborne Internet system

Technicians at Dassault Falcon Jet’s completion center in Little Rock, Ark., have on this month’s docket the installation in a Falcon 900EX of a new high-s