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Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier Moves Out, Indianapolis Jet Center Moves In

Bombardier’s repair facilities at Indianapolis International Airport are now the Indianapolis Jet Center.
Maintenance and Modifications

Aerospace Concepts Exceeds Last Year’s Forecast

Aerospace Concepts, a Toronto-based completions management specialist with a long record of performing Bombardier Global Express and Challenger interior wo
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Flight Environments Survives Act of Nature

While completion and refurbishment centers in Florida were cleaning up in the wake of a succession of late-summer and fall hurricanes, cabin thermal/acoust

Very light jet interiors challenge designers

With certification of the first of the very light jets (VLJs) somewhere on the horizon, manufacturers and interior designers are giving considerable attent
Charter & Fractional

VLJ air-taxi plan flawed

Don Burr and Bob Crandall exude confidence for their intended new venture, Pogo, but the air-taxi concept is not a matter of belief, nor is the outlook for

Torqued: Former NTSB member to tackle safety issues in new column

A few months ago AIN published an article that highlighted not only my NTSB career but also some of what I have done with a good portion of my worki
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Profile: A maintenance option for the single aircraft owner

Many operators consider maintenance to be a necessary evil, but a Kennesaw, Ga., company turns that notion on its ear.Flightworks is an aircraf
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Avtrak to power Raytheon program

Raytheon Aircraft has chosen Avtrak to provide aircraft maintenance and compliance tracking technology for its Web-based factory aircraft comprehensive tra
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Bombardier expands 24/7 service network

Bombardier Aerospace has expanded its U.S.
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Duncan Lincoln auctions RVSM slot

Duncan Aviation’s Lincoln, Neb.
Maintenance and Modifications

Eagle Creek opens Learjet Center

Eagle Creek Aviation Services (ECAS) is opening a Learjet Service Center at Eagle Creek Airport (EYE) in Indianapolis.
Maintenance and Modifications

PAMA to offer web-based career resource

The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) and Jet Professionals, an aviation staffing company, have entered into a joint venture to provide
Maintenance and Modifications

Innotech gets company service awards

Raytheon Aircraft has awarded Montreal’s Innotech Aviation Gold Bar status for service center excellence for Hawkers and King Airs.
Maintenance and Modifications

Premier Aircraft boosts Falcon 50

Premier Aircraft of East Alton, Ill., has entered an agreement with Honeywell Aerospace to upgrade the existing TFE731-3-1C and TFE731-3D-1C engines instal
Maintenance and Modifications

RAS Toluca is now Part 145 certified

Raytheon Aircraft Services Toluca, Mexico, is now FAA-certified as a Part 145 repair station.
Maintenance and Modifications

Duncan Battle Creek is Learjet facility

Bombardier Aerospace has named Duncan Aviation’s Battle Creek operation a Learjet authorized service facility (ASF).
Maintenance and Modifications

Hawker Pacific adds 800 gear overhaul

Hawker Pacific Aerospace is expanding its service to respond to a Raytheon maintenance communiqué regarding a Hawker 800 landing gear requirement.
Maintenance and Modifications

Raytheon slashes parts costs

Rapid (Raytheon Aircraft parts inventory and distribution) has launched the largest parts price-reduction campaign in the company’s history.
Maintenance and Modifications

Nevada company extends PT6 life

If the idea of extending your PT6 overhaul period from 3,600 to 8,000 hours is appealing, Wood Group Turbopower can do it for you.
Maintenance and Modifications

Jet Parts expands into Europe

Building upon 11 years of U.S.
Airports

All-new airport planned for Panama City, Fla.

Panama City (Fla.) Airport officials must be pinching themselves to see if they’re dreaming.

Move over turbos, the hydrotug is coming

Hydrogenics, a Toronto design and manufacturing firm, has won a contract to supply 65-kilowatt hydrogen fuel cells for aircraft tow tractors.
FBOs

FBO calculates profits by the truckload

No, Craig and Kim Powell, co-owners of Colorado Aviation in Colorado Springs, Colo., are not hauling in cash by the truckload.
Airports

FAA to buy airport development rights

An FAA program to buy private airport development rights is targeting “troubled airports” that the agency believes could be at risk for sale to developers
FBOs

ACM building terminal and hangar at San Jose

ACM Aviation has broken ground on a new, 17,000-sq-ft executive terminal with a 60,000-sq-ft hangar on the west side of Mineta San Jose International Airpo
FBOs

FirstAir FBO expands beyond New York State

FirstAir, an FBO with two existing locations, is adding its third branch at Addison Airport serving Dallas.
FBOs

Guardian Jet center to open new terminal

Construction has begun on the new executive terminal at the Guardian Jet Center at Ontario International Airport, Ontario, Calif.
Airports

New York Airport wins environmental approval

The environmental management system at New York’s Westchester County Airport (HPN) in White Plains has become the third such airport entity in the U.S.
Airports

New condo-style hangars at AUS

Aviation Development Group (ADG), in affiliation with Signature Flight Support, has announced plans to construct a private, master-planned hangar community
Maintenance and Modifications

JetCorp upgrades maintenance status

JetCorp, at Spirit of St.