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AirCare To Demonstrate Full-Cabin Emergency Simulator

This is as close to real aviation emergencies as most should hope to be.
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Airports

Maria Leaves Her Mark on St. Croix

With widespread damage from the latest storm, St. Croix and its airport look to restore normal operations.
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Airtext Takes Off With New Capabilities, Customers

The Airtext+ system is now offering "big data," while new FBO and charter customers are coming on board.
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Maintenance and Modifications

West Star Aviation Outlines Expansion Plans

Seeing increasingly steady work, the Illinois-based MRO has two major expansion projects in play.
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Charter & Fractional

AirOps Europe Rounds Off Successful Second Year

New EBAA event concluded this week with double the delegates and a much-boosted program.
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Fuel

New Jet Biofuel Derived from Oil-producing Sugarcane

If grown on 23 million acres of now-marginal land in the U.S. Southeast, the sugarcane-plant feedstock could supply 65 percent of U.S. jet-A consumption.
Maintenance and Modifications

Associated Air Center To Shut Its Doors at Year-end

The Dallas facility will close its business just shy of its 70th anniversary.
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Aircraft

Spike Plans To Fly Unmanned Demonstrator This Month

The SX-1.2 is an unmanned scaled proof-of-concept aircraft that will help validate the control and stability of the S-512 at low speeds.
Airports

San Juan Assesses Maria's Wrath

Hit by the strongest storm in nearly a century, aviation businesses in Puerto Rico begin to shake off the impact.
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Australian Military Revises Small Drone Operating Procedures

The revised procedures are a response to the U.S. Army's instructions in August to discontinue using Chinese-manufactured DJI drones.
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Finance, Taxes, Insurance

PNC Bullish on Aircraft Finance

The company finances a broad spectrum of business aircraft types from single-engine turboprops to large cabin, long-range business jets.
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Rotorcraft

Armed VTOL Machine at Helicopter Show In China

The event in Tianjing also produced news on the Sino-Russian Advanced Heavy Lift helicopter.
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Aircraft

Extent of Russian UAV Use Over Syria Revealed

Although no medium-to-large drones have been deployed, smaller ones have helped the Syrian regime overcome its opponents.
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Airlines

Ryanair’s O’Leary Apologizes For Mass Cancellations

Pilot scheduling snafu forces airline to scrap 2,100 flights over six weeks
Aircraft

Confusion Arises Over the JSTARS Recap Plan

Senior U.S. Air Force leaders said that source selection would proceed on schedule, even as the requirement is re-assessed.
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Aircraft

Airbus Inaugurates A330 Delivery Center in China

European airframer plans to outfit two airplanes per month for Chinese customers by 2019
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Charter & Fractional

Shareholders, Execs Wage Dispute over Control of Zetta Jet

The legal struggles come two years after the company launched the Zetta Jet brand.
Charter & Fractional

ExcelAire’s Latest Legacy Offers High-speed Wi-Fi

The Gogo Business Aviation Avance L5 ait-to-ground connectivity system allows video streaming and other data-intensive operations.
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Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier Looks To Bolster Maintenance Staff

The airframer's Teterboro, N.J. service location is holding a job fair for A&P and avionics technicians.
Aircraft

Five Years On, G650 Still 'Top of Market' Bizjet

Gulfstream president Mark Burns said “the G650 set a new standard in business aviation” for its range and payload, low sound levels and four-zone cabin.
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Maintenance and Modifications

West Star ALN Receives Full Embraer Line Mx Nod

Adding to its previous authorization for the Phenom series, the MRO's East Alton, Illinois location is now approved for Legacys and Lineages as well.
Regulations and Government

AIA Urges Quick Action on Ex-Im Nominations

AIA's Melcher cites Ex-Im estimates that more than $30 billion dollars of U.S. export sales are unable to be completed without a board quorum.
Regulations and Government

White House To Nominate AOPA's Landsberg to NTSB

Landsberg would fill the final slot on the board, providing the NTSB with a full complement of five members.
Maintenance and Modifications

Bismarck Aero Center Granted Part 145 Approval

The full service provider has been a fixture in North Dakota for nearly three decades.
Avionics

Universal Avionics Earns EASA STC on Datalink Upgrade

The solution, for the Bombardier CL-600-2B16, uses the company's UL-801 CMU and allows compliance with the 2020 European datalink services mandate.
Engines

Russia and China to Partner on Engine for New Widebody

MOU signed during Aviation Expo China outlines collaboration on new engine to generate 75,000 pounds of thrust
Engines

Northrop Grumman Announces Intention To Acquire Orbital ATK

Assuming approvals, Northrop Grumman's planned $7.8 billion acquisition of Orbital ATK is expected to close in the first half of 2018.
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Aircraft

Mitsubishi Embraces Updated Training Rule

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries gets new U.S. general manager, MU-2 SFAR now 14 CFR Part 91, subpart N.
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Airports

Hurricane Maria Hammers Puerto Rico

The Category 4 storm, the worst to hit the island in nearly nine decades, has left it largely without power.
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Accidents

Episode 04: Engine Fire Forces Water Landing, Part 1

Dennis Murphy was forced to ditch his Cessna 402B in the Straights of Florida after an engine fire.