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FBOs

First The Towbar, Now The Whole Tug

Aircraft towing technology has advanced markedly in the past decade, with towbarless tugs improving efficiency and lessening wear and tear on nosewheels.
FBOs

Mercury Moves Into New Digs At LGB

Mercury Air Center LGB, a division of Mercury Air Group, has moved its operations into a newly built facility at Long Beach’s Daugherty Field.
FBOs

FBO Profile: Orion Flight Services

And what’s it like when close to 10,000 airplanes descend on your airport? Toby Kamark and Jeff Wanke, co-owners of Orion Flight Services (CEO and presiden
FBOs

Rialto Airport Lost In The D.C. Shuffle

The so-called “stealth” amendment passed Congress last month, granting the City of Rialto, Calif., special dispensation to sell its municipally owned airpo
FBOs

Surveilance System Chosen For Long Beach Airport

BroadWare Technologies has been selected to implement a wireless video surveillance platform at Long Beach (Calif.) Airport.
FBOs

Association Health Plan Bull Could Benefit FBOs

NATA has expressed its pleasure that the House passed H.R.
FBOs

Ross Aviation Closes On Scottsdale Aircenter

Ross Aviation and Centre Partners finalized their acquisition of Scottsdale AirCenter last month.
Airports

Torqued: Fallout from the TEB Challenger overrun crash

Last month we reported that, in the fallout from the February 2 Challenger overrun at Teterboro (TEB), the FAA levied a fine of almost $2 million against P
Maintenance and Modifications

MRO Profile: DAS Wilmington

“Lindbergh flew off our ramp right out front,” John Rahilly, vice president of sales and marketing for Dassault Aircraft Services (DAS) Wilmington, Del., t
Maintenance and Modifications

Arinc Scottsdale Facility Gets Repair Station Certification

The FAA has recently awarded a repair station certificate to Arinc Direct’s Scottsdale Airport facility in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Aircraft

Bombardier Fault Isolation Tool Available For Learjet 60

Learjet 60 operators are the latest to benefit from the Learjet Electronic Technician (e-Tech) troubleshooting tool.
Maintenance and Modifications

Conklin & De Decker Releases MxManager 7.5

Conklin & de Decker has released the latest version of its maintenance management software, MxManager Version 7.5. The company has upgraded
Maintenance and Modifications

Whelen Marketing LED Anti-collision lights STC

Whelen Engineering has received STC approval for its Model 70900 Series LED anti-collision beacon, the first of its kind to be approved for general aviatio
Maintenance and Modifications

Russia Approves Bombradier Berlin Service Center

Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) has received approval from the Federal Civil Aviation Authority of Russia (FCAAR) to perform line and base ma
Rotorcraft

BA609 makes first flight in airplane configuration

The first Bell/Agusta BA609 tiltrotor made full conversion to airplane mode near Fort Worth, Texas, in late July.
Rotorcraft

New majority owner revives MD Helicopters

After months of uncertainty, MD Helicopters (MDHI) has a new owner.
Rotorcraft

Roy Resavage to leave HAI’s top position

Helicopter Association International (HAI) president Roy Resavage is calling it a day, after seven-and-a-half years at the helm of the helicopter industry’
Safety

FAA Publishes EMSRisk-assessment Program

The FAA has conducted a review of accidents involving commercial emergency medical services (EMS) helicopters between January 1998 and December last year.
Training and Workforce

Florida School Expands

Helicopter Adventures has opened a new flight-training facility.
Rotorcraft

Chinese S-76 Fleet Grows

China Eastern General Aviation Corporation (EGAC) is to buy two Sikorsky S-76C+s to support oil support missions off northern China.
Rotorcraft

LongRanger Still in Demand

Bell has delivered the first of a six-aircraft LongRanger order to Gulf of Mexico operator Rotorcraft Leasing Company (RLC). The addition of the new
Aircraft

RRJ Passes Critical Design Reviews

The Sukhoi-led consortium building the Russian Regional Jet got some good news when the RRJ-95B/LR and RRJ-75B/LR passed their critical design reviews (CDR

AvCraft’s Bartel released from jail

German authorities released AvCraft Aviation chairman Ben Bartel from a Munich jail last month, some two weeks after sending him there on suspicion of tax
Regulations and Government

Boston-Maine Airways under fire in DOT probe

The Department of Transportation’s Inspector General’s Office has launched an investigation into charges of fraudulent financial reporting by Boston-Maine
Aircraft

Mesa takes on Dornier 328s, seeks lessees

Mesa Air Group has taken responsibility for part of the lease payments on some 30 idle Fairchild Dornier 328Jets as a condition of its new code-share contr

Colgan Air To Fly as United Express

Colgan Air will take Shuttle America’s place at Washington Dulles Airport as the Saab 340 turboprop provider for United Airlines (UAL) under an agreement-i

Winds Collapse Chautauqua Hangar

Strong wind gusts from August 5 thunderstorms collapsed part of the roof of a new maintenance hangar under construction for Chautauqua Airlines at Louisvil

Independence Air in Dire Straits

Discount-fare Bombardier CRJ operator Independence Air raised “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern” in last month’
Security

FA Cites 9/11 Hysteria in Lawsuit

Former Comair flight attendant (FA) Gilbert Knops has filed suit against the airline, claiming his ethnic appearance and anti-war sentiment bred suspicion
Accidents

ATR Crash Probe Homes In on Fuel

Italian authorities strongly suspect that fuel starvation or contamination caused the crash of a Tunisian ATR 72 off the northern coast of Sicily on August