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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

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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

The days following the unprecedented shutdown of the National Airspace System caused massive grumping and anguish in the corporate and general aviation com

In the aftermath of the U.S.

Gulfstream was able to make the first two flights of its GV-SP prototype for a total of five hours before all aircraft operations in the U.S.

Some charter companies are reporting new interest and bookings as a result of last month’s terrorist attacks.

Boeing Business Jet officials in Seattle were uncertain at press time how the BBJ program would be affected by the planned layoffs of between 20,000 and 30

Thomas McSweeny is delaying his planned departure from the FAA at the request of the agency.

NBAA will not host social events, including the safety awards banquet at the association’s rescheduled convention.

At a meeting on September 20, the NBAA board of directors decided to  re-schedule the association’s 54th annual convention and trade show for December

Garrett Aviation has selected Rockwell Collins to provide elements of its Pro Line 21 avionics as part of a retrofit program aimed at upgrading Cessna Cita

Teal Group announced the results of its market analysis for the turbofan industry, predicting a total of 40,989 turbofan engines will be built in the 10 ye