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The new European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) came almost silently to life last month–as if echoing the muted expectations that many in the aviation indus

Sagem Avionics of Grand Prairie, Texas, has developed a glass cockpit for the Erickson S-64 Aircrane, a type currently much in demand as an aerial firefigh

A British company is finding success selling its portable helicopter landing pads in the Middle East.

The FAA presented Elliott Aviation’s Moline, Ill., and Omaha, Neb.

“Despite the economy there are still companies looking for pilots and OEMs looking to fill all sorts of positions, from pilots to sales reps to maintenance

The UK government is investigating GKN’s $1.79 billion (£1 billion) sale of its 50-percent stake in helicopter company AgustaWestland on grounds of nationa

Piedmont Hawthorne of Winston-Salem, N.C., has been elevated to platinum status as an authorized Raytheon service center.

Bombardier and Camp Systems announced an agreement that will allow Camp to assume responsibility for providing maintenance-tracking services for Bombardier

What began as a concept that met with outright skepticism and indeed some hostility by the established aviation industry has blossomed into a viable branch

Positioning itself to take advantage of an expected economic recovery, Banyan Air Service, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based full-service FBO, has signed a c

MD Helicopters has to slash its work force by a quarter.

When Piper introduced the Meridian in 2001, it marked the return of the Vero Beach, Fla.-based manufacturer to the turboprop market and the end of a nine-y

Sikorsky president Steve Finger said that Schweizer’s “ability for rapid prototyping makes the company an excellent choice for advanced concept evaluation

Some forest fires start with a blast of jagged lightning, incinerating the dry timber and flinging the flaming fragments into the tinder-dry underbrush fro

To associate the jet-set image of a corporate flight department with S-38 flying boats and Ford Trimotors might seem a bit of a stretch to those who fly in

Facility Access• Is the hangar/FBO property fenced off from the street and from adjoining unsecured property?• How do you control access

US Airways has placed a firm order for 92 Airbus airliners, including the first ever for the A350XWB by a U.S.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

The focus for flight departments since September 11 has tended to be on corporate aircraft as potential weapons, because that is what has most concerned th

A few days after last September 11 it became apparent that the FAA and even the Department of Transportation did not have much say in aviation security mat

Researchers at Jeppesen are rethinking the “next evolutionary concepts” in navigation charting in an effort that company officials said will involve a grad

here is a saying in aviation that a mile of highway gets you one mile, but a mile of runway gets you anywhere.

Civil aircraft in the 1990s didn’t look radically different from those of the previous 20 years but, as had happened in the previous decade, they were diff

L-3 Avionics Systems, the former Goodrich subsidiary that produces the well known Stormscope and Skywatch lines of cockpit safety systems, last month intro

EMS Technologies announced last month that it has been selected by Honeywell and Thales Avionics to supply satcom components for the companies’ joint HS-72

Arinc and Norway telecommunications company Telenor have successfully completed ground testing of technology that lets passengers continue talking on their

Cessna last month released class-A terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) service bulletins covering installation of Honeywell’s EGPWS in a variety of

Rockwell Collins has received the industry’s first TSO approval for a multi-mode receiver (MMR) with local-area augmentation system (LAAS) functionality, t

Although, sadly, the man most responsible for the accomplishment would not be around to see this day, Universal Avionics last month received FAA approval f

Satellite TV for less than $100,000? That’s the deal being offered by in-flight entertainment specialist Flight Display Systems (FDS), an Alpharetta, Ga.-b