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Maintenance and Modifications

100-percent Financing for PT6A Engine Upgrade

Waco, Texas-based Blackhawk Modifications is offering an engine upgrade program with up to 100-percent financing to qualified U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

Engine Test Run Severely Damages Learjet

On June 18 a Learjet 40XR suffered severe damage at Fort Worth’s Meacham International Airport after an engine thrust control became stuck while taxiing du
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Maintenance and Modifications

Changes for Internet-Based FAA AMT Awards

The 17-year-old FAA Aviation Maintenance Awards Program has undergone a major change.
Aircraft

Boeing Moves To Take Over Vought

Boeing announced today that it has agreed to acquire the business and operations conducted by Vought Aircraft Industries at its North Charleston, S.C.
Rotorcraft

Sikorsky X2 Achieves Flight with Full Propulsor

Sikorsky’s X2 compound helicopter reached another milestone last week by completing two test flights that included full engagement of the high-speed tail p
Charter & Fractional

Avantair Flying High in Face of Recession

As the larger fractional ownership operations lay off employees and/or reduce aircraft delivery rates, Clearwater, Fla.-based Avantair is watching its flee
Regulations and Government

EC Takes UK to Task over Aircraft VAT Exemption

The UK government is considering a demand from the European Commission (EC) that it change its tax legislation to remove an exemption from value added tax
Charter & Fractional

Arabasco, Royal Jet Form Saudi Charter Venture

Royal Jet and Arabasco today launched a joint venture to expand private charter services in Saudi Arabia.
Aircraft

GIV, GV Reach Flight-hour Milestones

The Gulfstream GIV and GV fleets recently achieved significant flight-hour milestones, with both airplane fleets logging more than 4.6 million hours combin
Aircraft

Airbus Launches Program To Improve Flight Data Recovery

Airbus has launched a study for improving flight data recovery, including extended data transmission for commercial airliners, the company announced last w
Rotorcraft

Bell 429 Light Twin Gets OK from FAA, Transport Canada

Bell Helicopter on July 1 announced that it received FAA and Transport Canada certification for its long awaited Bell 429 light twin.
Aircraft

French Investigators Conclude Air France Flight 447 Did Not Break Apart in Flight

The condition of the wreckage recovered from that Ai
Charter & Fractional

NetJets Averts Pilot Layoffs and Furloughs

A voluntary furlough-mitigation program collaboratively formed
Safety

FAA Issues New Advisory on In-cabin Lithium Fires

The FAA yesterday issued a
Sustainability and Environment

Synthetic Fuels Move Toward Acceptance

The possibility of commercially available synthetic jet fuels took a step closer to reality last week when ASTM International’s aviation fuels subcommittee
Charter & Fractional

Royal Family Relying More on Aircraft Chartering

Britain’s Royal Household and Ministry of Defence are evaluating options for providing flights for Queen Elizabeth II and her family beginning April 1 next
Charter & Fractional

CitationShares Reduces Staff to Match Flight Activity

On Tuesday, fractional-share operator CitationShares laid off 41 office staff and furloughed 52 pilots, according to CEO Steve O’Neill, “to match both the
FBOs

Signature, AviaPartner develop in Nice

Signature Flight Support and AviaPartner will jointly develop an FBO at Nice Airport in France.
FBOs

Destin Jet opens FBO terminal

After completing a new hangar last November, Destin Jet on Florida’s Emerald Coast opened its new 6,000-sq-ft FBO terminal in April and held a grand-openin
FBOs

New hangar at Houston Exec

Privately owned Houston Executive Airport in Texas has experienced enough demand to justify building a new 23,400-sq-ft corporate hangar.
FBOs

Air Routing adds fuel analyzer

Flight planning and trip-handling company Air Routing has released a fuel stop analyzer as part of its new online Trip Quotes service.
FBOs

Ronson Aviation asset sale

Hawthorne TTN Holdings has agreed to purchase assets of Ronson Aviation at Trenton-Mercer Airport in Trenton, N.J.
FBOs

New Bahrain FBO company formed

Bahrain-based Bexair has launched a new company called Aventura Air Center to “own, operate and manage its FBO in Bahrain and expand FBO operations through
FBOs

Hangar 10 fuels first customer

On May 15, the new Hangar 10 FBO at Charles B.
Airports

Ramp repaires under way at Nashua’s Boire Field

At Boire Field in Nashua, N.H., the terminal ramp is undergoing a major resurfacing, including installation of subsurface wiring, extended drainage and rep
Aircraft

Embraer embarks on next phase of 450/500 program

Embraer engineers have begun the next phase in development of the Legacy 450 midlight and Legacy 500 midsize jets, having completed the joint definition ph
Accidents

Accidents: APU fire damages Embrear regional jet

Embraer ERJ 145, Kemi, Finland, Dec.
Accidents

Accidents: Russian helicopter crash kills all on board

Bell 407, Malyshkino, Russia, May 10, 2009–The helicopter was substantially damaged when it crashed in the Irkutsk region approximately th
Accidents

Accidents: King Air accident in Brazil claims 14

Hawker Beechcraft King Air B350, Porto Segura, Brazil, May 23, 2009–Operated by Metered Holdings, the turboprop twin crashed approximately 200 yards short
Accidents

Accidents: Control rigging error examined in Convair crash

Convair CV-580, Columbus, Ohio, Sept.