Content Archive: June 2007

Maintenance and Modifications

Coca-Cola orders blended winglets for Hawker fleet

Coca-Cola Enterprises’ Atlanta-based corporate flight department ordered four blended winglet shipsets from Aviation Partners to equip its Raytheon Hawker
Maintenance and Modifications

CD Aviation services positions rep in Europe

Neosho, Mo.-based CD Aviation Services (CDAS) has opened an office in Sweden.
Maintenance and Modifications

Bombardier moves to support team concept

Recognizing the complexity customers face when they have to work with multiple people during maintenance, Bombardier has created customer support teams tha
Safety

Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar

As its name implies, the Corporate Aviation Safety Seminar, hosted by the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) and NBAA, focused on the common theme of improving
Regulations and Government

Alphabets question value of screening for airport workers

House and Senate bills to require all airport employees with access to secure and sterile areas of an airport to undergo metal detection screening in the s
Aircraft

2007 Paris Air Show Preview

This year poses a stiff test for the debate about whether business aircraft manufacturers need to be at both the annual European Business Aviation Conventi
Aircraft

In The Works: Eclipse Aviation Model 500

It’s been more than seven years since Vern Raburn launched the Eclipse 500, a small, low-cost very light jet that he predicted would bring “disruptive tech
Avionics

‘NextGen’ avionics could cost users up to $20 billion

While preparing for traffic to double and perhaps even triple in the coming decades, the FAA has made clear that putting up the ground-based infrastructure
Avionics

Special Report: Major Cockpit Retrofits

The scene was straight out of a science fiction movie.