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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Gore Gets the Business from Airbus

Gore Design Completions of San Antonio is the second U.S.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Midcoast Delivers Its First Global 5000

Midcoast Aviation earlier this year delivered the first Global 5000 to be completed outside Bombardier’s factory completions center in Montreal.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Xzilon Protects the Paint

Extending paint life and preventing corrosion is the aim of Granitize, and liquid-formula Xzilon is the product.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Put a little makeup on that airplane, please

There is no airplane so beautiful that a good paint job won’t help it look even better, maybe a lot better.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

DeCrane Gets STC for New Executive Seats

DeCrane Aircraft Seating has received STCs from the European Aviation Safety Agency for its new-generation 16-g model 6004 single and model 6005 double exe

Franklin Products Offers a New Soft Touch in Seating

In cabin seats, it’s a question of comfort, and Franklin Products of Torrington, Conn., has an answer.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Duncan Picks Midwest Aircraft Products for Cabin Components

Duncan Aviation of Lincoln, Neb., has signed a new sales and service agreement with Midwest Aircraft Products to provide cabin interior products such as ho
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Jet Aviation Makes ‘Nice’ in North America

Lufthansa Technik has selected Jet Aviation as the sole North American authorized sales and service outlet for the German completion center’s Nice (network
Cabin Interior and Electronics

HighTech ‘Finishing’ in the Black

HighTech Finishing announced at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition that last year was its best 12 months since 2001.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Emteq Offers New Low-profile LED Lighting

It sheds a new light on things.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Side Ledge, Pocket Door Upgrades Coming from Aviation Fabricators

Aviation Fabricators of Clinton, Mo., is awaiting supplemental type certificate (STC) approval from the FAA for a new side-ledge kit for older Beech King A
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Associated Air Center Gets DAS Approval

Associated Air Center, a Landmark Aviation company and large aircraft executive/ VIP interiors specialist at Love Field in Dallas, has received FAA designa
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Limited-edition cabins evoke flavor of world's cities

One of the major selling points of the business jet seems always to have been the ability to customize and personalize the cabin to fit the customer’s desi
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Very Light Jets: Very Nice Cabins

The very light jets (VLJs) are coming.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Completions outlook good and getting better

It is hard not to get excited,” said General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) president and CEO Pete Bunce in April as he reflected on market acti

AIN wins aerospace journalism award

AIN avionics editor Stephen Pope won the Rockwell Collins award for Best Avionics Submission in the 2006 Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards for
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Citing airport construction, NBAA cancels LABACE 2006

Almost since its first show in 2003, the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (LABACE) has struggled to establish its identity as a reg
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ATC

NATCA promises to fight new FAA-imposed contract

Efforts by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) to force resumption of contract talks with the FAA through congressional maneuverings f

Bizav Veteran Bill Boisture Joins Carlyle

Former Gulfstream and NetJets Aviation executive Bill Boisture has resurfaced at Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm The Carlyle Group as a senior a
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CBAA touts success of designee program

An upbeat Rich Gage, president of the Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA), told attendees at the annual general meeting at its Montreal conventio
Airports

Congress restores airport funds

As many predicted, the House Appropriations Committee restored the nearly $1 billion that the Bush Administration stripped from the Airport Improvement Pro
Maintenance and Modifications

Dassault M&O focuses on product-support services

Dassault Aviation highlighted its renewed emphasis on product support at this year’s Falcon Jet Maintenance and Operations meeting.
Aircraft

Pilatus Launches Regional PC-12 Meetings

Pilatus Business Aircraft, the Colorado-based subsidiary of the Swiss company, is launching a series of one-day regional conferences for owners and operato
Accidents

Fatal King Air Crash Under Investigation

The NTSB is investigating the June 12 fatal crash of King Air A90 N7043G.
Avionics

‘Public Should Pay More of ATC Costs’

In the war of words between the airlines and general aviation about who should pay how much for ATC services, Pogo CEO Robert Crandall argues that the gene
Charter & Fractional

Pogo a No Go for a While

Very light jet air-taxi hopeful Pogo will likely “not launch operations before 2009,” according to company CEO and former American Airlines boss Robert Cra
Accidents

Final Reports Posted on NTSB Web Site

The NTSB recently posted on its Web site final reports on its investigations into two fatal business jet accidents.
Regulations and Government

Don’t Rest, Send Comments on Rest Rules

Comments are due July 10 on an FAA request for comments on Part 135 duty, flight and rest time rules.
ATC

JPDO needs road map to meet ATC challenges

In response to questions submitted by members of the House subcommittee on space and aeronautics, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said recently
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Accidents

Fatal Learjet Crash Under Investigation

At press time, the NTSB had not issued its preliminary report on the June 2 accident involving Learjet 35 N182K, which crashed in Baker Cove a few hundred