Content Archive: January 2007

Aircraft

Bombardier enters airline market with single-aisle C Series

Bombardier’s newly constituted board of directors last month gave approval to the company’s commercial airplane division to offer the C Series line of sing

Newsmakers 2003

The year 2003–the centennial of manned, powered flight–was supposed to be the one where aviation shone brightly.
Regulations and Government

NTSB To Expand Reportable Events

The list of events that must be reported to the NTSB will grow if the agency adopts proposed changes to NTSB Part 830.
Charter & Fractional

Scheduling draws pilot ire at NetJets

While the fractional providers said publicly that switching to the more stringent rules of Part 91 Subpart K on February 17 was a nonevent, a look behind t

Jack Pelton: Pelton succeeds Meyer

For the second time since 1975, Russ Meyer is not chairman of Cessna Aircraft.
ATC

FAA moves toward full WAAS implementation

After 10 frustrating years of technical delays, escalating costs and contractor changes, the FAA’s GPS wide area augmentation system (WAAS) is approaching
Aircraft

Eclipse 500 makes first flight with P&W engines

Keeping its promise, Albuquerque, N.M.-based Eclipse Aviation flew the first Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F-powered Eclipse 500 certification flight-test ai
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Training and Workforce

Frasca Delivers Its Second Full Simulator

Frasca International, the Urbana, Ill.
Aircraft

Gulfstream G150 rolls out

The G150, which Gulfstream touts as the first wide-cabin, long-range, midsize business jet, rolled out January 18 in Tel Aviv in front of hundreds of Israe
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Charter & Fractional

Bombardier merges charter operations

Bombardier has launched a global executive charter program offering both block occupied-hour terms and ad hoc rates throughout the U.S., Europe, the Middle