Content Archive: April 2020

CAE To Produce Ventilators, Offer Healthcare Training

CAE, which designed an easy-to-manufacture ventilator prototype in 11 days, hopes to produce some 10,000 of them over the next three months.
Training and Workforce

CAE Expands Temporary Layoffs

CAE is temporarily laying off 2,600 of its 10,500 employees, and placing another 900 on reduced workweeks.

Patriots Owner Taps Universal for Delivery of 1M Masks

Universal Weather and Aviation once again assisted in the delivery of masks from China, this time using the NFL Patriots Boeing 767 team airplane.
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Regulations and Government

FAA Proposes Another Enforcement for Illegal Charter

The FAA proposed a $1.5 million civil penalty agains B E L Aviation for conducting 114 illegal charter flights in a Piaggio Avanti.
Regulations and Government

CBAA Urges Government Relief for Canadian Bizav

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic's effect on business aviation, the CBAA is urging help from Canada's government.
Aircraft

Hexcel-Woodward Merger Called Off

Deteriorating market conditions due to the Covid-19 crisis prompted Hexcel and Woodward to terminate their merger agreement.

Avionics Firm Sets Up Protective Gear Assembly Line

Universal Aviation is accommodation a local charity's efforts to manufacture face masks and shields.
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Aircraft

EasyJet Founder Amplifies Calls To Nix Airbus Order

Stelios Haji-Ioannou said he wants EasyJet’s CFO removed as part of an effort to abandon an A320neo order.
Aircraft

Airbus Extends Production Pause to German, U.S. Plants

Europe’s dominant aerospace company halts production activities in Bremen, Stade, and Mobile.
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Former CAN Exec Director Peter Fleiss Flies West

Peter Fleiss, the executive director of the Corporate Angel Network until 2016 and highly regarded executive in the bizav industry, died on April 4.
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