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FBOs
FBO Profile: Epps Aviation
When discussion turns to the most prominent legacy independent FBOs, one of the first names mentioned is Epps Aviation at Atlanta’s DeKalb-Peachtree (PDK)
FBOs
Everything you need to know about Stormwater, and more
With growing environmental concerns about fuel, oil, de-icing fluids and even washwater, FBOs have had to spool up to speed in their knowledge of stormwate
FBOs
Comment period completed on FBO fuel-spill proposal
Last month saw the deadline on the second of two notices of proposed rulemaking to ease fuel-spill prevention, control and containment (SPCC) rules for fue
FBOs
Trajen continues expansion with Ranger acquisition
Trajen FBO Network, which late last year acquired ski-country’s Aspen Base Operation, has further enriched its portfolio of FBOs in another, very different
Avionics
Avio NG Software Delay Hurts IS&S
Reflecting on a “tough year” for Innovative Solutions & Support, company officials nonetheless said they are confident that the Avio NG cockpit for the
Hutchison Named Ranking Member of Senate Aviation Subcommittee
NBAA welcomed the announcement yesterday that Sen.
Safety
GAO Raps FAA over Runway Incursions
Per a request by House aviation subcommittee chairman Jerry Costello, the Government Accountability Office yesterday issued a
Accidents
Brazil Investigators: U.S. Pilots Didn’t Turn Off Transponder
Brazilian authorities have continually blamed ExcelAire pilots Joe Lepore and Jan Paladino for a midair between their Legacy 600 and a Gol Airlines Boeing
Aircraft
PiperJet To Have Rivetless Wing
Piper Aircraft is patenting a new metal bonding technique that will be key to the manufacture of the PiperJet’s all-aluminum wing.
FBOs
Cutter sharpens its edge with a seventh location
Beginning this month, Cutter Aviation will assume FBO operations from WingsPoint Aviation Services at McKinney Airport in McKinney, Texas.
FBOs
NATA hosts ATA's James May in strategic issues forum
James May, president of the Air Transport Association (ATA), the U.S.
Security
New software simplifies no-fly checklist
Aviation Technologies has created what it believes is a solution to the time-consuming process of checking air passenger and employee names against Transpo
Maintenance and Modifications
Torqued: Preparing for a new maintenance environment
During a discussion with a friend recently he touched on a problem he and most others in his industry are having.
Maintenance and Modifications
MRO Profile: Landmark Aviation
Newly named Landmark Aviation is still growing within the business aviation community, at least when it comes to name recognition.
Maintenance and Modifications
CRS Jet spares receives ASA-100 certification
The Aviation Suppliers Association (ASA) has awarded its quality system standard ASA-100 to CRS Jet Spares.
Maintenance and Modifications
Wing Aviation adds third paint facility in Houston
Less than two years after breaking ground on its second paint facility, Wing Aviation has announced that principal construction on its third paint hangar h
Maintenance and Modifications
Jet Source combines avionics and maintenance facilities
A recently completed 120,000-plus-sq-ft facility is the new home of Jet Source Business Aviation Center at McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, Calif.
Maintenance and Modifications
Corpair supply expands into Falcon and Haker markets
For years Corpair Supply of O’Fallon, Mo., has been closely associated with the repair and overhaul of Sabreliners.
Maintenance and Modifications
TAC Air forms alliance with THI Maintenance at Shreveport
The Hangar Incorporated (THI) has entered an agreement with Shreveport, La.
Maintenance and Modifications
FAA waives recurrent test for learjet 30s and 55
Bombardier Aircraft Services (BAS) has received approval from the FAA to eliminate skin contour tests for the ongoing operation of the Learjet 31, 35, 36 a
Maintenance and Modifications
BizJet International to provide maintenance in northeast
BizJet International of Tulsa, Okla., announced a service-center agreement with FirstFlight Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of FBO Air, located at El
Maintenance and Modifications
Sharp details offers Xzilon for aircraft cleaning
Sharp Details now offers Granitize Aviation International’s new product, Xzilon (pronounced zy-lon), an aircraft exterior high-solids formula corrosion inh
FBOs
New executive terminal set to open at Paris Le Bourget
Paris Le Bourget Airport is to open a new terminal building next month.
US Airways to take Embraer 190s
US Airways plans to start taking deliveries of Embraer jets again this November under a new agreement to convert its remaining positions on 57 Embraer 170s
Fresh off record year, ATR wary of hubris
ATR senior vice president commercial John Moore has seen his share of ups and downs in this business, but never since he joined the company a decade ago ha
Airports
Small airfields form front lines of noise wars
The story that tells the economic fortunes of smaller metropolitan airfields in Europe is very much a tale of several cities.
Precision Air a link to Tanzania’s future
Among the big jets filling the ramp at Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the small green and yellow ATR twin turboprops of Tanzanian regional ca
Bombardier turns its focus to 90/100-seater
It took a while for the message to register, but Bombardier finally heeded the airline market’s counsel in late January and shelved its languishing C Serie
