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Universal, CMC testing M-Series EVS in King Air

The marketing alliance announced last year between Universal Avionics and CMC Electronics is beginning to bear fruit with the recent test installation of C
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Avionics

Gulf Coast Named Alliant Installer

Gulf Coast Avionics last month became an authorized sales and installation center for the Alliant King Air flight deck offered jointly by Avidyne and S-Tec
Avionics

GE Announces Deal To Buy Smiths Aerospace for $4.8 Billion

Smiths Aerospace, the supplier of flight management systems on the Boeing Business Jet, is poised to become a subsidiary of General Electric after the Smit
Avionics

Boeing and Collins Launch EVS Program for the BBJ

Boeing Business Jets and Rockwell Collins last month announced a program to bring enhanced-vision system (EVS) capability to the BBJ by early next year.
Avionics

Cessna Selects IS&S for Its Citation Cockpit Upgrade Program

Cessna has placed an order with avionics maker Innovative Solutions & Support for an undisclosed number of flat-panel cockpit displays that will be off
Avionics

Thales out to prove it's a worthy competitor

In a shift from its traditional role serving the airlines, Thales is preparing to expand its presence in North America this year with a line of avionics pr
Rotorcraft

AeroVision improves aerial camera

Toulouse, France-based aerial work specialist AeroVision is further developing its proprietary aerial cinematography system, which Airbus uses exclusively
Avionics

ADS-B taking hold in Europe

The promise of ADS-B is well known by now: provide quality surveillance at a lower cost than conventional radar and improve situational awareness in the co
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Profits up, departures down in third quarter

Notwithstanding recent complaints of poor operational performance by the nation’s biggest regional airlines, passenger boardings, revenue passenger miles (
Training and Workforce

Sometimes nothing helps

The FAA wonders why pilots occasionally land on taxiways, and in new Engineering Brief No.

Pinnacle buys Colgan Air

Pinnacle Airlines bought Manassas, Va.-based Colgan Air for $20 million last month.

Midwest Airlines hires SkyWest as AirTran foil

A new code-share contract signed last month by St.
ATC

Controllers claim losses exceed hires

Although the FAA needs to hire 11,800 new controllers through Fiscal Year 2015 to replace retirees and other vacancies, the National Air Traffic Controller

Millman replaces Redenbaugh at Bell

Mike Redenbaugh, who joined Bell Helicopter in May 2003 as president after being a v-p at Honeywell engines, resigned from the company last month.

Mesa lends hand to launch new airline in China

Mesa Air Group will help establish a new Chinese regional airline under a contract it signed in late December with China’s Shenzhen Airlines.
Regulations and Government

Confusion reigns over French visas

Confusion over French visa requirements for U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

Citation service center relocating

Cessna will construct a Citation Service Center at the Williams Gateway Airport in Mesa, Ariz., and close the Long Beach, Calif.

US Airways takes first Embraer E190s

US Airways expects to launch Embraer E190 service from Philadelphia this month, marking the first application of the Brazilian narrowbody in mainline servi
Accidents

Two fatal accidents

Two fatal bizjet accidents in the first two weeks of this year, already half the total for all of 2006, have claimed the lives of four pilots.

In The Works: Utilicraft Aerospace FF-1080-300ER

There are signs of life at Utilicraft Aerospace, which now trades on the stock market as symbol UITA on the Over The Counter Bulletin Board.

Mediator joins Comair talks, new deadline set

A private mediator joined contract negotiations between Comair and its 1,500 pilots last month as part of a tentative settlement that saw the airline move

Accusations blemish Mesaba bid

Shareholders of Mesaba Airlines parent MAIR Holdings last month accused Northwest Airlines of a conspiracy to suppress the value of its regional affiliate

In The Works: Aviation Technology Group Javelin

ATG’s Javelin, a sporty contender in the VLJ market with its two engines and military-looking canted vertical stabilizers, will need the FAA to grant speci
Aircraft

Republic To Fly E170s for Frontier

Republic Airlines will fly 17 seventy-six-seat Embraer E170s as Frontier Jet Express under a new code-share contract meant to replace and expand service no

Pinnacle Reaches Terms with NWA

A new code-share contract with Northwest Airlines (NWA) will allow Memphis-based Pinnacle Airlines to keep its fleet of 124 Bombardier CRJs, potentially fl

In The Works: Eclipse Aviation Model 500

Delivery of the first Eclipse 500 very light jet happened on either Dec.

Big Sky To Cover Boston

Big Sky Airlines will fly eight 19-seat Beech 1900Ds from Boston starting early in the year’s second quarter under a new code-share contract the Billings,
Aircraft

Delta Chooses CRJ900s

Delta Air Lines last month signed a letter of intent with Bombardier to acquire as many as 60 CRJ900s to deploy with its Delta Connection regional affiliat

In The Works: Quest Aircraft Kodiak

While Quest Aircraft’s brawny high-wing all-metal utility turboprop didn’t achieve FAA certification by the end of last year as the company had hoped, the

In the Works:Hawker Beechcraft Hawker 4000 on Horizon

One month after the Hawker 4000 won FAA certification on November 21, Raytheon announced that it agreed to sell Raytheon Aircraft to Onex Partners and GS C