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Reliance Aerotech, a business jet and regional airliner maintenance facility in Myrtle Beach, S.C., recently acquired the 180,000-sq-ft Flight Internationa

The so-called “Hoover Law” has proved to be ineffective, according to the Lawyer Pilots Bar Association (LPBA).

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Innovative Solutions & Support (IS&S) received an STC for installation of a dual digital air data computer (DADC) system on Boeing 727-100s and -20

Revisions to aircraft and airport security rules–FAR Parts 107, 108 and 139–increase the number of aircraft operators that must have security programs to i

Amendments to the DOT’s rules that require flight crew, instructors, mechanics and others involved in the operation and maintenance of commercial aircraft

Several new services and alliances have been added to Flightneeds.com, a Web site providing weather data, FBO information, airport descriptions, charter gu

Despite a slowing economy that is diminishing the rate of orders for some business jet manufacturers, delivery rates for many other manufacturers are holdi

With the exception of the Falcon 900C, deliveries in the first half of this year of the other three Falcon models increased significantly over the same per

French aerospace firms Dassault Aviation and Onera have signed an agreement to work on research and development that rekindle Dassault’s interest in possib

Bombardier plans to increase the maximum takeoff weight of the Learjet 45 by at least 800 lb, bringing the mtow to 21,300 lb.

A push to entice corporate operators into considering pre-owned, non-airline derivatives of the Saab 340A and 340B, which are no longer in production, has

Eurocontrol’s provisional council has given the go-ahead for the implementation of reduced vertical separation minimums (RVSM) in Europe starting next Janu

Deliveries of new Gulfstream IV-SPs and GVs in the first half of this year kept pace with the same period last year, although sales volume for the second q

The Corporate Angel Network recognized Corning for having flown a record number of flights carrying cancer patients to treatment centers aboard its Fairchi

The NTSB determined the probable cause of a January 2000 King Air C90 fatal accident was the failure of the pilot to follow his approach clearance, and his

A voice-capable, three-frequency ELT made by the UK’s HT Smith Group is now being marketed in North America by Winslow Life Raft of Lake Suzy, Fla.

While NBAA and the General Aviation Manufacturers Association support the December 2004 implementation of domestic reduced vertical separation minimums (DR

Some seven months after Signature Flight Support reached an agreement to acquire Ranger Aerospace and Ranger’s Aircraft Service International Group (ASIG),

Raytheon Aircraft reported sales of $768 million in the second quarter of this year, compared with $810 million for the second quarter last year.

EVASWorldwide, an affiliate of Ramsey, N.J.-based Aircraft Services Group, said its $11,000 Emergency Vision Assurance System (EVAS) personal cockpit smoke

The demise of Avolar before it really got started is not an omen for the fractional aircraft provider industry.

Boeing Business Jets are included in an emergency AD issued last month that prohibits using the speedbrakes on 737-600s and -700s at airspeeds in excess of

A recently delivered Boeing Business Jet on April 7 flew the farthest distance yet for a BBJ: 6,854 nm, from Seattle to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 14 hr 12 m

Wooden tongue depressors are implicated in the hard landing of a Gulfstream V last February 14 that drove the right main landing gear up through the wing,

In the first quarter of this year, the U.S.-registered Part 91 and 135 business jet and turboprop fleet experienced 22 total accidents, five of which kille

Boeing and Russia’s privately owned East Line signed an agreement to establish Russia Technique at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport for maintenance of non-Russi

The fourth Bombardier Continental super-midsize business jet to join the flight-test program is the first aircraft to have a complete interior, functional

Raytheon Aircraft reported an operating loss of $41 million in the first quarter, compared with a loss of $4 million in the first quarter a year ago.

So called “showstoppers” insurance, a form of business interruption coverage, will likely help NBAA recover some of the expenses and lost revenue the assoc