Content Archive: October 2008

Maintenance and Modifications

Innotech Aviation Adds Filter Installs, Paint Facility

Under a partnership agreement signed with Air Data, Innotech Aviation’s Montreal completion center will install Air Data JetAir bio-protection systems (BPS

Industry Pushes E-Scan Radar for Eurofighter

Eurofighter has offered India codevelopment of an active antenna for the Typhoon’s Captor radar, as part of its bid to secure that country’s 126-unit order
Aircraft

Airlift Leads Qatar’s Major Force Upgrade

Lockheed Martin announced on October 7 a $393.6 million contract to supply four C-130J-30 “stretched” Hercules military transports to the Qatar Emiri Air F
Security

NBAA Members React Negatively to TSA NPRM

If the TSA was expecting the business aviation community to embrace its Large Aircraft Securit
Charter & Fractional

TAA/VLJ Air Taxis Optimistic Despite Failure of DayJet

Air-taxi operators employing technically advanced aircraft (TAA) and very light jets (VLJs) are upbeat about their futures, even in the face of DayJet’s de
Safety

Business Aviation Accidents Up This Year

According to aviation safety consulting firm Robert E.
Charter & Fractional

Charter Brokers Predict Increasing Demand

The charter industry is increasingly optimistic, according to two charter brokerage firms.
Aircraft

Eclipse Claims Co-lienholder Role in DayJet Fleet Sale

An attempt by a group of buyers to make a low-ball bid for the former DayJet Eclipse 500 fleet appears to have run into a snag: Eclipse Aviation isn’t abou
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Bravo's wing shears off

Cessna 550 Citation Bravo, Reading, Pa., Aug.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Pilot's door pops open

Hawker Beechcraft Beech 99, Bakersfield, Calif., July 9, 2008–The pilot’s door of the Amflight Beech 99 opened while the airplane was flyi