2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

Matt Thurber

Elliott Aviation is building a new $8 million FBO to replace its existing facility at Des Moines International Airport (DSM).

Elliott builds FBO at DSM

David A. Lombardo

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

Groups support scholarship funds for Mechanics

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

Sabena Technics will support ACJ in Armenia

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

Lufthansa Bombardier Aviation services CAMO+ certified

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

Purdue develops wireless engine bearing monitor

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

LTT joins European Aerospace Quality Group

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

GE signs Dubai MOU

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

Ameco Beijing breaks ground for central warehouse

Mxi Technologies has announced that Teknik Servis Sanayi Ticaret (myTechnic), a start-up MRO facility in Turkey, has selected the Maintenix maintenance man

Turkish MRO chooses Maintenix

Darnell Martens, president and CEO of Vitesse, has devoted his career to business aviation.

MRO Profile: Vitesse Aviation Services

John Goglia

Most maintainers believe that the aviation industry focuses on the flight 99.9 percent of the time, allotting the remaining 0.1 percent for the other aviat

Torqued: Training for maintenance techs needs overhaul

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

CRS receives 20,000th battery from Securaplane technologies

FBO chain Tac Air now owns 12 FBOs, having purchased the Southern Jet FBO at Raleigh/Durham International Airport (RDU).

Tac Air adds 12th FBO

Arcadia Aviation’s new 23,000-sq-ft hangar facility at Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport in Martinsburg, W.Va., was finished in the middle of last mon

New Arcadia hangars completed

In addition to buying Carolina Air Center on South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island in September, Signature Flight Support has also purchased Marathon Flight 

Signature adds FBO in Florida

Hamid Hashemi’s LAH Aviation Holdings purchased Avitat Boca Raton from Muvico Theaters on October 30.

Avitat Boca gets new owner

Business jet operators in the Washington, D.C.

ProJet opens at Winchester

Up-and-coming FBO company Maguire Aviation is now the largest leaseholder at Van Nuys Airport in Southern California, having bought the former Million Air 

FBO Profile: Maguire Aviation

Business Jet Center’s Oakland, Calif.

Oakland's BJC adds new hangar

On October 16, Encore FBO’s Frederick, Md.

Encore FBO welcomes high schoolers

Cutter Aviation celebrated the opening of the new crew lounge and flight-planning/business center at its FBO at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Cutter PHX offers new amenities

Gregory Polek

Mesa Air Group has hired celebrated attorney Daniel Petrocelli and asked for a new trial after U.S.

Mesa To Appeal Damages Ruling

Mark Huber

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

AgustaWestland Logs New Orders

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

Schweizer Studies 333 Derivative

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

Saudi Arabia Orders 40 Sikorskys

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

Robinson forges ahead on turbine R66 program

The high-flying turboprop market shows no sign of losing altitude, as builders on both sides of the Atlantic continue to collect a steady flow of sizable o

Turboprops still surging as fuel prices set records

The European Aviation Safety Agency last month determined that the failure of the main landing gear of a Scandinavian Airlines Q400 on October 27 did not r

EASA Q400 findings imply isolated fault

Embraer collected firm orders for 20 E-Jets from two customers in the Middle East and Africa during last month’s Dubai Airshow, raising its profile still f

Embraer Buttresses Mideast Position

Bombardier added another name to its list of customers for its new 100-seat CRJ1000 last month, when Slovenia’s Adria Airways signed for one of the big reg

Bombardier Sells Big Jets to Adria

The global scope of the airline pilot shortage became all too clear to Australia’s Regional Express (Rex) last month, when the Sydney-based Saab 340 operat

Pilot Shortage Squeezes Rex

Mary F. Silitch

Eurocopter AS 350-B2, Nuiqsut, Alaska, Aug.

Final Report: Sling load entangled in tail rotor

Thierry Dubois

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

Avionics options key to ATR’s -600 series

Julian Moxon

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

C Series to use Pratt GTFs

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

MRO first to sign lease in Dubai

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

Landmark Aviation and Air Alliance offer engine repair

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.

CAE inks MX training agreement with Hawke Pacific and Falcon

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

Standard Aero receives FAA ok for PT6A upgrades...

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

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

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

Air Works and Air Four join Bombardier network

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

Landmark Aviation chooses service training provider

Bombardier Learjet 35A, Goodland, Kan., Oct.

Preliminary Report: Learjet not aligned properly

AIN Staff

Interiors development and certification specialist Millennium Concepts of Wichita has received an order from Quest Aircraft for follow-on production interi

Millennium Gets Kodiak Interiors Order

BaySys Technologies in Accomac, Va., has been contracted to build and install an executive interior in a green Airbus A340-200 for a Middle Eastern custome

Down the Aisle…

An exterior paint job on a Gulfstream G550 will typically cost in the neighborhood of $150,000 and, with proper care and maintenance, will last about five 

Brilliance marks CareJet treatment

While corporate aviation has an enviable safety record, one comparable to that of the airlines, some flight departments operate on a shoestring budget with

NTSB Boss Urges Focus on Safety

John A. Pope

• At press time, appropriations for the 12 government agencies were still in the holding pattern.

Congressional Observer: December 2007

Former Top Gun instructor-pilot Robert Sturgell, who took over the FAA as acting administrator when Marion Blakey completed her five-year term on September

Industry awaits Sturgell’s confirmation to head FAA

Maybe it was pent-up demand.

Heli-Expo 2003

Crystal-ball gazing is a major part of any trade show.

Speaking of the future: Rolls-Royce/Teal

Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, Naches, Wash., Oct.

Preliminary Report: Caravan pilot did not get WX briefing

German interiors specialist Lufthansa Technik will be providing its network integrated cabin equipment (Nice) system to Bombardier as standard equipment on

Lufthansa Technik Cabin System Picked for Challenger 300

With a commendable bow toward candor, Honeywell released its civil helicopter market outlook at Heli-Expo by qualifying the results of its survey: “The 200

Honeywell Foresees Flat Civil Sales

Hawker Beechcraft King Air C90A, Pagosa Springs, Colo., Oct.

Preliminary Report: EMS King Air crashes in mountains

Bell 206B JetRanger, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, Oct.

Preliminary Report: JetRanger loses power while hovering

Cessna CitationJet 525, Memphis, Tenn., Oct.

Preliminary Report: CitationJet takes off on taxiway

Hawker Beechcraft Super King Air 200, Bogota, Colombia, Oct.

Preliminary Report: King Air Crew reports engine problems

Gulfstream IIB, Santo Domingo, Venezuela, Oct.

Preliminary Report: GII crash kills two pilots

Socata TBM 700, Dartmouth, Mass., Feb.

Factual Report: TBM crashes on missed approach

Fairchild SA-227-AC, Grain Valley, Mo., Aug.

Factual Report: Pilot blames fatigue for hard landing

Piper PA-42 Cheyenne, Prescott, Ariz., Oct.

Final Report: Cheyenne's tail separated in MiG jet blast

Jeff Apter

Avions de Transport Régional (ATR), the Franco-Italian turboprop aircraft manufacturer, last year just managed to keep its head above water despite the tro

ATR keeps head above water

Midcoast Aviation in East Cahokia, Ill., is offering customers BlackBerry connectivity.

Midcoast Offers the BlackBerry Connection

Leesburg, Va.-based AvCraft last month signed a contract to buy the Fairchild Dornier 328 program and its associated support businesses.

AvCraft finds bargain in 328 program deal

Elliott Aviation recently completed its first transformation of a Hawker 700A cabin into an 800XP equivalent.

Out With the Old, In With the New

Embraer Executive Aircraft has selected Alto Aviation of Leominster, Mass., as the baseline cabin entertainment audio system for all the Brazilian manufact

Alto Aviation Wins Audio Contract for Legacy 600s

As Atlantic Southeast Airlines president Skip Barnette maintains, few established companies emerge from a five-year, 25-percent annual growth plan untouche

From the inside out, ASA helps build Delta's future

B/E Aerospace has begun deliveries of its new UltimateComfort executive seat with adjustments ranging from “comfortable” to “bliss.” The Miami-based compan

B/E Offers an Executive Seat Designed for Bliss

CommutAir’s flight operations department accelerated preparations last month for a major expansion scheduled to start March 16 in Cleveland, where the Plat

ExpressJet pilots to staff new CommutAir base

America West’s decision to close its hub in Columbus, Ohio, has forced it to sever its relationship with code-share partner Chautauqua Airlines.

Chautauqua breaks with America West; expands Delta deal

Air Canada last month suggested the potential sale of Air Canada Jazz, just as executives prepared to meet with key unions to discuss cost cuts at its mone

Air Canada threatens sale of Jazz

 Bombardier last month delivered the first production example of its newest regional jet, the CRJ900, to Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group.

Mesa takes first CRJ900

Reed Exhibitions’ Aircraft Interiors Expo team is launching a new event for the Americas.

Coming To America: An Aircraft Interiors Show

In collaboration with TAG Aircraft Interiors, Italian design house Gianni Versace of Milan continues to move into the business aviation cabin.

Versace Executive Seat Fits Bizliner

Arinc Direct customers will soon be discovering new horizons.

Arinc Direct Expands Broadband Service

Steecon Enterprises has developed a bulkhead swinging door.

Steecon Offers Swinging Door

After announcing plans to lay off up to 350 employees starting March 1, Moravan Aeroplanes’ LZ Aeronautical Industries division continues to champion the l

LZ claims to be unfazed by Moravan bankruptcy

AirCell has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for its Axxess EZ satcom system on Bombardier’s Challenger 600, 601 and 604.

AirCell Axxess Satcom Gets EASA OK for Challengers

Lufthansa Technik has won a contract to do the first interior for an executive version of Boeing’s new 747-8.

Lufthansa Technik Wins First 747-8 Completion Order

Continental Airlines and Brazil’s Embraer last month agreed to defer deliveries on 60 fifty-seat ERJ-145XRs jets by as much as two years, sending stock pri

Continental defers Embraer deliveries

CHC Helicopter has ordered 12 Sikorsky S-92s and 13 AgustaWestland AW139s.

CHC Orders S-92s and AW139s

Sikorsky’s Keystone subsidiary will take over final assembly and completion of the S-76C++ and subsequent variants of the twin-turbine helicopter, includin

Sikorsky Moves S-76 Production

Early next year, Helsinki, Finland-based operator Copterline will restart one of the few scheduled public helicopter routes in the world.

Copterline plans to restart service between Helsinki and Tallinn

The Bell 429 can hover out of ground effect (OGE) at 11,000 feet at its maximum takeoff weight of 7,000 pounds.

Hot-and-high testing validates Bell 429 performance specs

Russian firm testing low-cost helo engine

Archrivals AgustaWestland and Eurocopter will join forces on a major environmental research program that will include integration technology demonstrators 

European OEMs partner to study environmentally friendly helos

The NTSB is calling for stricter FAA en route surveillance of Grand Canyon area air-tour operators based on its findings from two fatal helicopter accident

More oversight possible for air-tour operators

Earlier this year, Bell Helicopter celebrated the 40th anniversary of its popular single-turbine light helicopter, the JetRanger.

Bell 206 JetRanger reaches milestone 40th anniversary

Bombardier’s bottom line was bolstered by “solid” demand for its business jets, and the company said it plans to increase production to ease record backlog

Bizjet Sales Boost Bombardier’s Financial Condition

McAlpine Helicopters is now owned entirely by Eurocopter, which has renamed the company Eurocopter UK.

Eurocopter Takes Over McAlpine

Abu Dhabi-based Falcon Aviation Services (FAS) last month gave an update on its fleet expansion.

FAS Expands Fleet

Eclipse Aviation president and CEO Vern Raburn told customers in a letter sent Tuesday that the company has missed its high-rate production goals and as a 

Eclipse Targets Customers for Fundraising

The seven-member Santa Monica City Council on Tuesday unanimously voted to forward a proposal that would ban Category C and D jets, which includes Gulfstre

Santa Monica Proposes Category C/D Jet Ban at SMO

The FAA is reopening its investigation of an April 3 ground collision at DeKalb-Peachtree (Ga.) Airport between a Gulfstream II and Beechjet 400A.

Ground Collision Spurs New FAA Investigation

Local officials and Honda Aero executives yesterday broke ground for the new engine maker’s Burlington, N.C.

Honda Engine a Step Closer with Plant Groundbreaking

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