Content Archive: September 2008

FBOs

...and Yosemite's green solar system

Fresno Yosemite International Airport is reaping 40 percent of its energy requirements from a solar panel installation at the airport, the largest such sys
FBOs

A new FBO for Livermore

The underutilized Livermore Airport near California’s San Francisco Bay Area might yet see development of a new FBO.
FBOs

Big Sky joins AvFuel network

Pilots can earn double Avtrip points from Avfuel’s new dealer, Big Sky Aviation.
Aircraft

Boeing To Consult on MRJ Project

Mitsubishi Aircraft has signed a support contract with Boeing under which the Chicago-based company will serve as a consultant on the 70- to 90-seat Mitsub

SkyWest to Take Stake in Brazilian Airline

SkyWest Airlines has agreed to buy a 6-percent stake in Brazilian regional airline Trip Linhas Aereas, SkyWest vice president of finan ce Mike Kraupp confi
Charter & Fractional

FAA Fishing for Sentient/TAG Connection

The FAA Eastern Region counsel’s office is trying to find out if employees of the former Sentient Jet Holdings were connected via payroll and other systems
Safety

Fuel Icing Likely Culprit of 777 Crash at Heathrow

The UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) today issued an interim report for the January 17 accident involving a British Airways Boeing 777 that l

Eclipse Aviation Splits Into Two Divisions

As part of its “operational excellence strategy” to finish incomplete customer-delivered airplanes, improve production efficiency, fulfill overdue payments
Regulations and Government

Settlement Reached in 1996 Gulfstream IV Accident

Years of litigation over a Gulfstream IV fatal crash at Palwaukee (Ill.) Municipal Airport (since renamed Chicago Executive Airport) in October 1996 finall
Safety

‘Watch Listed’ Pilot Returns to Work

Manassas, Va.-based regional airline Colgan Air has allowed pilot Erich Scherfen to return to work after he and his wife sued the U.S.