Content Archive: July 2011

Rotorcraft

Bell Defends Civil Tiltrotor Government Funding

A Bell Helicopter spokesman denies that the company did anything improper in accepting approximately $300 million in U.S.
Aircraft

China Southern Takes First CFM56-7BE-powered 737

Boeing delivered the first 737NG powered by CFM56-7BE turbofans–a 737-800–to China Southern Airlines at Boeing Field in Seattle last week.
Aircraft

American Pulls Trigger on Massive Narrowbody Order

American Airlines signed a pair of “landmark agreements” to place orders for 460 narrowbody jets from Boeing and Airbus, the airline announced today.
Maintenance and Modifications

AAR Aircraft Services Eyeing Salina Location

With an eye toward expanding in the regional aircraft maintenance market, AAR Aircraft Services is exploring adding a maintenance, repair and overhaul faci
Maintenance and Modifications

Health Insurer Targets Small Aviation Companies

Berkley Accident and Health has set up Encap Business Aviation Captive to create “an insurance brokerage program specifically for business aviation employe
Maintenance and Modifications

Associated Air Center Adds Mockup for Design Work

Associated Air Center, StandardAero’s large transport-category VIP aircraft completions center in Dallas, has developed a full-scale airframe mockup for cr
Maintenance and Modifications

Professional Aviation Associates Eyes Helo Market

Professional Aviation Associates, which claims to be the largest independent parts and rotable supplier for the Beech King Air and Beech 1900, has plans to
Maintenance and Modifications

Jet Aviation Changes MRO Leadership in EMEA and Asia

Jet Aviation has made several key personnel changes.

AIN Blog: Biojet Cocktail May Produce a Big Hangover

At this year’s Paris Air Show, some big players bellied up to the biojet bar.

AIN Blog: Saving an Aviation Institution

I was rearranging the contents of one of my bookshelves to make room for a stack of books that had been read but had no permanent residence.