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Rotorcraft Update: Keystone honored by Rolls-Royce

Keystone Helicopter’s engine services division announced that it won Rolls-Royce’s program investment award.
Rotorcraft

Rotorcraft Update: Extex reveals extension plan

PMA parts maker Extex is finding current business so good it has embarked on an ambitious new expansion program.
Rotorcraft

EC 225 clearing hurdles; certification slips to 2004

Eurocopter now hopes to obtain certification for its EC 225 by early next year instead of in the third quarter of this year, as previously stated.
Rotorcraft

Russian helo designs struggle to enter market

“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia.
Aircraft

Finmeccanica’s Alenia Aermacchi division is launching a competition to find a nickname for its M346

Finmeccanica’s Alenia Aermacchi division is launching a competition to find a nickname for its M346.
Rotorcraft

MD Helicopters back in the black after a turbulent year

The light at the end of the tunnel is not a train bearing down on MD Helicopters Inc., said chairman and CEO Henk Schaeken.
Rotorcraft

Eurocopter quietly working on 'neighborly helicopter'

Just a few years ago Eurocopter scored a major coup at an HAI Heli-Expo show, amazing the crowds by introducing a new helicopter as a completely certified
Security

Mounting a solid defense

Thanks to the many miracles of modern optics, modern aerial surveillance crews can zoom in their lenses from improbable distances and get razor-sharp image
Accidents

News Note: Hughes 500 crash claims 3

A family of three were killed July 19 when the Hughes 500 helicopter they had chartered for a sightseeing flight over the Kentish countryside crashed short
FBOs

Touching Bases: FAA's E-STMP program under fire, again

A special traffic management program (STMP) for the Sun Valley, Idaho area last month has evoked the ire of some pilots who could not get slots.
FBOs

Touching Bases: FAA lawyer supports Naples decision

An internal FAA review last month upheld the agency’s decision to withhold airport grants from Naples Municipal Airport, Fla., though the Naples Airport Au
FBOs

Touching Bases: Jackson Hole keeps an eye on Naples

Airport officials at Jackson Hole, Wyo., are watching events in Naples to help determine how they will proceed with their own proposed Stage 2 ban.
Aircraft

Bureaucracy ends DC-3’s career

The need to protect passengers from terrorism was not uppermost in the mind of the Douglas Aircraft designers when they developed the DC-3, and they could
FBOs

Touching Bases: New bizav center planned for Amsterdam

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will get a new business aviation terminal next year.
Charter & Fractional

Touching Bases: L.A. sues charter operator over VNY noise

The Los Angeles board of airport commissioners, the agency that oversees several airports in the metropolitan area, announced last month it was suing chart
FBOs

Morristown, N.J. facility tries reversing the paradigm

Win Perkins doesn’t have much patience for the traditional FBO business plan.
ATC

"Tailored" arrivals reduce fuel and cut emissions

Boeing and its partners in industry and government accomplished significant reductions in fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions during recent tests
Airports

Harrods' terminal opens at London Luton

London-area FBO chain Harrods Aviation has opened its new 8,000-sq-ft facility at London’s Luton Airport.
Regulations and Government

Washington Report: Costs, delays still plague FAA projects

Even though Congress exempted the FAA from standard procurement rules in 1996, the agency remains mired in cost overruns and schedule slippages on many of
ATC

Washington Report: NATA questions domestic RVSM costs

The National Air Transportation Association said in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that the FAA has failed to take into account the
Aircraft

Sikorsky tooling up for CH-53K

Sikorsky has begun the tooling process for the U.S.
Regulations and Government

Congressional Observer: August 2003

Although the presidential elections will not take place until November next year, the voting public can expect the Bush Administration and members of Congr
Aircraft

Rotax-powered Ellipse goes 200 knots

Dwarfed by other aircraft in the static display area, the LH-10 Ellipse is only 17 feet long and has a wingspan of just over 26 feet.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: CRJ crew has bad vibrations

BOMBARDIER CL-600-2B19, CHATTANOOGA, TENN., MAY 8, 2003–At approximately 12:28 p.m.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Learjet 45 suffers birdstrike

BOMBARDIER LEARJET 45, MILAN, ITALY, JUNE 1, 2003–At approximately 3:26 p.m., Learjet 45 (I-ERJC), operated by Linate-based air-taxi opera
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Twinstar crashes on takeoff

AEROSPATIALE AS 355F1, MADISON, FLA., JUNE 11, 2003–About 1:29 p.m.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: GPWS warning preceded approach crash

BOMBARDIER CL-600-2B19 CRJ-100ER, BREST, FRANCE, JUNE 22, 2003–Air France Flight 5672 departed Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE) in France a
Accidents

Factual Report: Learjet 25 couldn't get airborne

GATES LEARJET 25B, PITTSBURGH, PA., NOV.
Aircraft

Mitsubishi MRJ90 to fly in 2011

Mitsubishi will fly its new 86- to 96-passenger MRJ90 for the first time in 2011, the Japanese industrial giant said here.