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Cabin Interior and Electronics

Cabflex gets the green light

Cabin electronics specialist Intheairnet, based in Irvine, Calif., is reportedly close to signing its first business jet customer for the new Cabflex cabin
Charter & Fractional

Newly Acquired Flight Options Buying Phenom 300s

Flight Options late Friday simultaneously announced its finalized acquisition by Miami-based private equity firm H.I.G.
Maintenance and Modifications

Completions/Mx Startup To Open in Basel

AMAC Aerospace is preparing to open a new business aviation completions, refurbishment and maintenance facility in Switzerland next August.
Charter & Fractional

JetBird Gets Enough Funding To Fly

JetBird, Europe’s planned new low-cost charter service, has raised €21 million ($31 million) in fresh capital through an oversubscribed private placement o
Accidents

Final Report: Gear torque knee failed

Hawker Beechcraft King Air B300, Englewood, Colo., Jan.
Accidents

Final Report: Helicopter crashed while filming car commercial

Eurocopter AS 350BA, Panamint Spring, Calif., Dec.
Accidents

Final Report: EMS King Air encountered unreported slush

Hawker Beechcraft King Air A100, Sault Ste.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Aviation Finance

What a difference a year makes.In AIN’s annual report on aviation finance last year (October 2006, page 38), lenders expected 200
Aircraft

Special Report: Pre-owned Market 2007

Business Jets: In 2007 demand for business jets surges This year the business jet market started off busy and never took a breather.
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Rotorcraft

AgustaWestland Logs New Orders

VIP and government flight specialist Dubai Air Wing has ordered two AW139s in executive configuration.
Rotorcraft

Schweizer Studies 333 Derivative

Sikorsky subsidiary Schweizer is developing a derivative of the existing Schweizer 333 light single.
Rotorcraft

Saudi Arabia Orders 40 Sikorskys

In a major deal announced at the Dubai Air Show last month, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of the Interior ordered 40 Sikorskys.
Rotorcraft

Robinson forges ahead on turbine R66 program

Robinson Helicopter and Rolls-Royce are making progress with their partnership on the Robinson R66.
Aircraft

Avionics options key to ATR’s -600 series

French avionics maker Thales is in Toulouse developing an all-new flight deck for the ATR -600 series–the newly launched pair of upgrades to the now Honeyw
Aircraft

C Series to use Pratt GTFs

Bombardier has selected Pratt & Whitney’s Geared Turbofan (GTF) engine for its proposed 110- to 149-seat C Series airliners in a deal the Canadian manu
Maintenance and Modifications

MRO first to sign lease in Dubai

Livewel Aviation Services has signed the first lease for space at the newly launched Dubai World Central Aviation City on Al Maktoum International Airport,
Maintenance and Modifications

Landmark Aviation and Air Alliance offer engine repair

Landmark Aviation has expanded its agreement with Air Alliance of Germany to offer aircraft maintenance, repair, modification and completion to owners and
Maintenance and Modifications

CAE inks MX training agreement with Hawke Pacific and Falcon

CAE has signed a five-year agreement with Hawker Pacific to provide maintenance training for the company and its clients within the Southeast Asia region.
Maintenance and Modifications

Standard Aero receives FAA ok for PT6A upgrades...

The FAA has granted several supplemental type certificates (STC) to Standard Aero for upgrades to aircraft powered by the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A t
Maintenance and Modifications

...And marks 40th anniversary of Rolls-Royce 250 service

Standard Aero, a Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) Engineering company, is marking its 40th anniversary of service on the Rolls-Royce 250 turboshaft engine.
Maintenance and Modifications

Air Works and Air Four join Bombardier network

Bombardier has announced the addition of two new service facilities for Challengers and Globals to its worldwide maintenance network.Air Works
Maintenance and Modifications

Landmark Aviation chooses service training provider

ServiceElements has signed a three-year agreement to provide a customer service culture enhancement program for employees at Landmark Aviation’s four maint
Maintenance and Modifications

CRS receives 20,000th battery from Securaplane technologies

Securaplane recently announced that CRS Jet Spares, a Securaplane mainship and emergency battery line distributor, has sold its 20,000th mainship battery.
Maintenance and Modifications

Groups support scholarship funds for Mechanics

The AMTSociety has joined forces with Northrop Rice Foundation to generate scholarships for aviation maintenance-related education.
Maintenance and Modifications

Sabena Technics will support ACJ in Armenia

TAT Group subsidiary Sabena Technics has agreed to provide full A319 Airbus Corporate Jetliner support to the Armenian company Armavia.
Maintenance and Modifications

Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation services CAMO+ certified

The German Airworthiness Authority has certified Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation Services (LBAS) as a Continuing Airworthiness Management Organization (CAMO+
Maintenance and Modifications

Purdue develops wireless engine bearing monitor

Researchers at the Birck Nanotechnology Center in Purdue’s Discovery Park and at the Sadeghi mechanical engineering laboratory have developed tiny wireless
Maintenance and Modifications

LTT joins European Aerospace Quality Group

ASD’s European Aerospace Quality Group (EAQG) and Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that calls for LTT, a
Maintenance and Modifications

GE signs Dubai MOU

GE Aviation and Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) have signed a memorandum of understanding for global cooperation.As part of the agreement, GE
Maintenance and Modifications

Ameco Beijing breaks ground for central warehouse

Ameco Beijing has begun construction on an 86,300-sq-ft, 50-foot-tall central warehouse scheduled to be operational next October.