Content Archive: January 2007

Safety

Recent spate of accidents reinforces importance of following procedures

Why, when the safety record of professionally flown turbine twins is so impressive, did four business aircraft experience fatal accidents during a five-wee
Accidents

Preliminary Report: China grounds CRJ fleet after crash

Bombardier CRJ200, Inner MongolIa, China, Nov.
Accidents

Factual Report: Elevator trim implicated in Citation overrun

Cessna Citation 550 Bravo, Bethany, Okla., May 20, 2002–Citation N13VP was substantially damaged when it hit a perimeter fence and road during a runway ove
FBOs

New FBO in Ontario, Calif., Already Expanding

Guardian Jet Center, a one-year-old FBO at Ontario International Airport, Calif., has apparently outgrown its 24,000-sq-ft hangar and current terminal.
FBOs

Vail Valley Jet Center Upgrades

Vail Valley Jet Center at Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE), Colo., now has customs, immigration and agricultural inspection services available on site a
Regulations and Government

NTSB: Lowest Number of ‘Open’ Recommendations

For the first time since 1975, the number of safety recommendations classified as “open” has dipped below 1,000, the NTSB said last month.
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

New Rates Published for Passenger Air Tax

The Internal Revenue Service recently published Revenue Procedure 2003-85, which provides inflation-adjusted items for 2004.
Airports

London airports to get new runways

The British government has cleared the way for new runways to be built at London Heathrow and Stansted Airports.
ATC

RVSM rules take effect in North America

Whether pilots notice any difference remains open to debate, but anyone cruising in the upper flight levels over North America should at least be aware tha
FBOs

Mercury deal imminent

A source close to the Mercury Air Centers division of Mercury Air Group told AIN at press time that plans to sell the division to Washington, D.C.-b