Content Archive: August 2010

Accidents

NTSB Examines Alaska Crash Site

NTSB investigators are at the site of Monday’s Alaska crash of a de Havilland Canada DHC-3T turboprop-conversion floatplane that killed five, including for
Aircraft

Boeing Still Inspecting 787 Dreamliners for Workmanship ‘Issues’

Boeing hasn’t finished inspecting parts of the tail sections of flight-test and production 787 Dreamliners, several weeks after the Chicago-based aerospace
ATC

FAA Adopts ICAO’s ‘Line Up and Wait’ Terminology

Current FAA terminology for an air traffic controller’s instruction for a pilot to taxi onto the runway and await takeoff clearance is “position and hold.”
Training and Workforce

Phenom 100 Synthetic Vision, Phenom 300 Sim OK’d

Embraer yesterday received Brazil ANAC, FAA and EASA approval for Garmin’s synthetic vision technology (SVT) system on the Phenom 100, which has a Garmin G
Maintenance and Modifications

Piaggio America Adds to Its Service Network

Piaggio America has added three new locations–Crownair Aviation in San Diego and Carlsbad, Calif., and Constant Aviation in Birmingham, Ala.–to its list of
Maintenance and Modifications

AEA Survey Predicts Need for Avionics Techs

The Aircraft Electronics Association has released the results from its 2010 rate & labor survey to its members.
Maintenance and Modifications

Spectrum Aeromed, Cessna Team on Medical Mustang

Cessna Aircraft and Spectrum Aeromed have teamed to pre-fit a Cessna Citation Mustang for an air medical interior during manufacturing.
Maintenance and Modifications

JSSI Enrolls First Phenom 300 into Engine Program

Jet Support Services (JSSI) has signed an agreement with Executive AirShare covering the P&WC PW535E engines on two Phenom 300s under its premium hourly-co
Aircraft

Embraer Legacy 650 To Debut This Week at Labace

The Embraer Legacy 650 will make its public debut at the seventh Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (Labace), which starts on Thursda
Maintenance and Modifications

Independent centers prep for 787 completion challenge

Boeing Business Jets has already sold a dozen of its new 787s for configuration as private aircraft, and the independent completion centers are climbing th