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No European Mandate Foreseen for PRnav

As news about precision area navigation (more commonly referred to as PRnav) in Europe starts showing up in the aviation press, chief pilots and maintenanc
Avionics

CMC Electronics Sells Infrared Unit to L-3 Communications

Montreal-based CMC Electronics has agreed to sell its Cincinnati Electronics business unit to L-3 Communications for $172 million in cash, while simultaneo
Avionics

Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband Service Coming in 2006

Just as passengers were getting used to surfing the Web in flight over the Swift64 satellite datalink, Inmarsat spelled out plans for the next generation o
Aircraft

In the Works: Raytheon Hawker Horizon

Some requirements of certification flight testing are impossible to complete from the home airfield, no matter where that may be.
Aircraft

In the Works: Sukhoi S-21

Sukhoi is continuing its feasibility studies on the S-21, a supersonic business jet, but officials do not give consistent answers to the question of when t
Aircraft

In the Works: Jetcruzer LLC

Like the mythical phoenix, the AASI Jetcruzer 450/500 may arise from its ashes to fly again, this time as a single-turbofan, experimental airplane rather t
Security

John Goglia, a rebel with a cause, reflects on NTSB tenure

You don’t expect to see a 59-year-old, gray-haired guy who looks like a middle linebacker choking up as tears well up in his eyes, but then this is John Go
Accidents

Powerful prescription drugs found in accident pilot’s body

A cocktail of prescription drugs was found in the body of the pilot of a King Air that crashed on April 4, 2003, at 9:35 a.m.

Borge Boeskov, 1935 - 2004

Borge Boeskov, the Icelandic-born father of the Boeing Business Jet, died on June 9 after a lengthy illness, one day shy of his 69th birthday.

First EBAA regional forum will be at Biggin Hill

The first of the new regional forums organized by the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) will be staged at London Biggin Hill Airport on Septemb
Maintenance and Modifications

Cost of Raw Goods Going Up

Global events are apparently conspiring to create some increase in the cost of business aircraft interiors.
Maintenance and Modifications

Cessna Caravan Oasis Interior Makes UK Debut

As part of an alliance with interiors specialist Yingling Aviation of Wichita, Cessna began offering the Oasis executive cabin interior for its Cessna 208
Maintenance and Modifications

Audio Int’l To Distribute Avtec LED and Fiber Optics

In May, Audio International, a DeCrane Aircraft company, and Avtec reached an agreement that allows Audio International to distribute Avtec’s cabin-lightin
Maintenance and Modifications

Gerber Seeks Bizav Market for New Cutting Machine

Gerber Technology has begun expanding its business aviation activity with the sale two new Taurus XM cutting systems to interior components specialist B/E
Maintenance and Modifications

L-3 Communications Wins Widebody Interiors Contract

L-3 Communications Integrated Systems has won the contract for a head-of-state widebody executive/VIP interior.
Maintenance and Modifications

Falcon 20 Interior Adopts Everglades Theme

With Florida’s tropical Everglades as the theme, Jet Aviation designers and interior artisans recently delivered a refurbished Falcon 20 to a Florida-based
Maintenance and Modifications

Aviation Fabricators Gets Approval for Jetstream Divans

Two-place, side-facing divans for Jetstream operators are now available from seating specialist Aviation Fabricators.
Maintenance and Modifications

Jet Aviation Wins Bid for Two Boeing 747-400 Interiors

Following a fierce bidding process, Jet Aviation’s Basel, Switzerland completion and refurbishment center has won a contract from Dubai Air Wing to outfit
Maintenance and Modifications

First Duncan Design Collection Nears Completion

Duncan Aviation of Lincoln, Neb., is working on a redesign of its current offering of interior packages.
Maintenance and Modifications

Noise-reduction Research Finds ‘Fantastic Solution to the Wrong Problem’

Working on reducing high-frequency cabin noise produced by air passing over the fuselage skin, UK-based Ultra Electronics and QinetiQ found what a spokesma
Aircraft

Dassault Aims for Noise Reduction in 7X Cabin

Dassault plans to introduce an exceptionally quiet cabin in its new Falcon 7X business jet.
Maintenance and Modifications

Completions and refurbishments July 2004

After several years of cost reductions, layoffs, closings and general malaise, there are definite signs that a slow economic recovery is starting to have a
Maintenance and Modifications

A leaner PAMA group strives for effectiveness

“We’re very pleased with this year’s show,” Jill Hilgenberg, show manager for Cygnus Exposition’s Aviation Events, told AIN during Aviation Industry Week i
Charter & Fractional

NATA events anchored Aviation Industry Week

Business flying is definitely up, and so are fuel prices.

Clearing skies greet European convention

The economy is emerging from the soup not with the sudden clarity of a westbound flight through the shattered remnants of a cold front, but more as if it w
Airports

Budget bill would restore genav access to DCA

The House Appropriations Committee included language in the Department of Homeland Security fiscal year 2005 budget that requires Secretary Tom Ridge, in c

Back Up to Speed Again?

SSBJ UPDATE: Elsewhere in this issue (“In The Works,” page 78) is word of Sukhoi’s continuing work on feasibility studies on the S-21, a supersonic busines
Security

TSA not enforcing ticket revocation rule

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has quietly suspended enforcement of the rule that allowed the agency to revoke a pilot’s certificate for
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Bonus tax benefit bill may soon become law

The House of Representatives approved the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (H.R.4520) on June 17, paving the way for a one-year extension of the time all