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F-35A JSF Remains Grounded, But Program Advances

The first Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter) has now been grounded for nearly six months.
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Branson: Unlikely That Fossett Is Still Alive

Will Steve Fossett suffer a fate similar to Amelia Earhart’s? That’s the question on many people’s minds as winter starts to take hold in the Nevada mounta
Avionics

Committee Wants Faster ADS-B Implementation

The recently released ADS-B aviation rulemaking committee (ARC) report says the FAA must implement “some combination of financial incentives and operationa
Accidents

IFALPA to Brazil: Don’t Criminalize Midair Collision

The International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) late last week called on the Brazilian government “to return to agreed international
Charter & Fractional

AMI Problems Began with DOT Consent Order

AMI Jet Charter had problems with the U.S.
Charter & Fractional

Delta AirElite launches block-charter program

Delta AirElite, which has operated an aircraft management and charter service since 1991 when it was still Comair Jet Express, took a step toward further e
Charter & Fractional

Aviation Industry Reacts To AMI’s Part 135 Revocation

The aviation industry is beginning to react to the FAA’s October 4 suspension and then last Friday’s revocation of AMI Jet Charter’s Part 135 certificate,
Engines

Two new contenders vie to power future RJs

Pratt & Whitney Canada and the French-Russian Snecma-NPO Saturn joint venture are knocking at the door of the market for regional-jet turbofan engines.

Jet Aviation Zurich expands refurb capabilities

Jet Aviation Zurich has expanded its capabilities to include major interior refurbishment.

Jackson Hole Airport copes with growth limits

This is a story about an airport in the American West surrounded by towering mountains, an airport nestled amid staggering scenic beauty and smack in the m

Frax regs ready for OMB signoff

FAR Part 91 Subpart K, which will regulate fractional-ownership operations, has finally moved out of Transportation Department final review and on to the W
FBOs

The Signature opens London Luton base

Signature Flight Support expects to open its new 74,000-sq-ft hangar at London Luton Airport this month.
Airports

Naples will appeal FAA ruling on Stage 2 ban

Naples Airport Authority (NAA) officials have appealed the FAA’s ruling, announced in early March, against the Florida airport’s ban on Stage 2 aircraft op
Maintenance and Modifications

Five-year Maintenance Plan Offered for G200

Buyers of new Gulfstream 200s now will receive a five-year or 2,500-hour maintenance and training program, similar to what Gulfstream has been offering buy
Safety

Guidelines Issued for Flight Crews about SARS

Guidelines for flight crewmembers regarding severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) have been published by the Centers for Disease Control.
Charter & Fractional

CitationShares Boasts of All-RVSM Fleet

CitationShares, the fractional aircraft ownership venture between Cessna and TAG Aviation USA, claims to be the first fractional operator whose aircraft ar
Maintenance and Modifications

RVSM Solutions In Works for BAC 1-11s and Falcons

UK-based Avionics Mobile expects to complete by the end of the month an RVSM equipment and operational package for the BAC 1-11.
Maintenance and Modifications

Astra and Westwind RVSM STCs Issued

Duncan Aviation of Lincoln, Neb., has received RVSM group certification for the Westwind 1124 and RVSM equipment certification for the Astra series.

First U.S. Bizav Int’l Standard Certificate Issued

New Orleans-based Entergy Services, which operates three Citation 650s, has become the first U.S.

Regional airlines, bizav shine in FAA forecast

The FAA now doesn’t expect domestic commercial air travel to return to pre-9/11 levels until 2006, and its earlier forecasts that U.S.
Aircraft

Britten-Norman Evaluating Islander Diesel Retrofit

UK-based Britten-Norman, which is set to resume manufacturing its piston-powered Trislander regional/utility airplane, production of which was suspended in
ATC

Bill Introduced to Prevent ATC Privatization

A bipartisan team of representatives last month introduced H.R.1711, legislation that would prohibit the privatization or contracting out of the nation’s A
Maintenance and Modifications

Safety Board Wants an AD for Certain Repairs

An AD should be issued requiring all operators of transport-category airplanes with certain pressure-vessel structural repairs to determine if they were do
Aircraft

Diamond Now Taking Orders for its Light Jet

A $20,000 deposit will secure a delivery slot for the D-Jet, a proposed five-seat, all-composite single-engine jet that Diamond Aircraft hopes to fly next
Training and Workforce

Training Kit Available for EVAS

EVASWorldwide, the marketing arm for the emergency vision assurance system (EVAS), now has a training kit available for rental by its customers.
Accidents

Saab 340B Compressor Stalls Lead To Emergency AD

Emergency AD 2003-08-52 was issued last month for the GE CT7-9B turboprop in response to 12 compressor-stall events in Saab 340Bs over a six-month period.
Maintenance and Modifications

Electromagnetic De-ice Selected for Hawker Horizon

Raytheon Aircraft selected Cox & Company of Manhattan, N.Y., to supply its electromagnetic expulsion de-icing (EMED) system for the horizontal stabiliz

Bombardier Consolidates U.S. Sales Efforts

Bombardier Aerospace consolidated its U.S.
Regulations and Government

DOT top cop blasts FAA business practices

Reporting to Congress on the state of the FAA, DOT inspector general Kenneth Mead–the department’s program and fiscal watchdog– didn’t mince words in his a