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Piedmont Launches as Standalone Sales Firm

Piedmont Aircraft last month launched as an aircraft sales company for pre-owned Beechcraft and Hawker aircraft.
Training and Workforce

Web Program Improves English Skills

Carnegie Speech Company and the UK’s Mayflower College have launched “Climb Level 4,” an online English training product for pilots and air traffic control

OEMs Escape Storm Damage in France

Turboméca and Dassault Falcon factories located in south- west France suffered only minor damage, if any, during a storm in January that packed winds of 93
Charter & Fractional

Flexjet Offers Round-trip Pricing Program

Bombardier Flexjet on February 3 launched a round-trip pricing program that reduces the cost of one- or two-day round trips for owners committed to at leas
Training and Workforce

Working Group Creating Helo Simulator Standards

A group of industry representatives from helicopter OEMs, training companies and operators is close to submitting to the International Civil Aviation Organ
Rotorcraft

Heli-Expo 2009 Defies Gravity

The Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo kicked off this morning amid a wave of negative signs all pointing to a prolonged economic down
Rotorcraft

Helicopter Makers Bullish on Long-term Outlook

Executives at two of the world’s largest helicopter makers insisted at Heli-Expo that the industry can continue to flourish even in the face of a severe ec
Rotorcraft

Sikorsky Folds Schweizer into Global Helicopters Unit

Sikorsky yesterday announced the formation of Sikorsky Global Helicopters, a new umbrella business unit for the manufacturer’s commercial helicopters, incl

S-92 upgrade details coming soon

Heli-Expo is normally a venue for major announcements, but in an ironic twist, one of Sikorsky Aircraft’s announcements on Monday was that it will be makin

NTSB now says S-76 crash cause may be bird strike

DNA analysis of material taken from the pilot-side windscreen of a Sikorsky
S-76C++ helicopter that crashed January 4 near Morgan City, La., suggests

Heli-Expo’09 Attendance Could Set Record, HAI Says

First-day attendance at Heli-Expo’09 broke another record and continued to defy gloomy pre-show predictions.

Sunrise disputes NTSB findings for 2006 crash

The president of helicopter supply company Sunrise Helicopter has filed a petition to revise a 2008 NTSB report that held the company partially responsible

Agusta’s CEO insists industry is ‘in good shape’

Citing a backlog of more than ?10 billion ($12.8 billion) and increases in both revenue and orders during the first nine months of 2008 compared to the sam

StandardAero sees growth this year

Since the August 2007 acquisition of StandardAero (Booth No.

Heli-Expo’09 defies gravity

As a wave of negative signs points to evidence of a prolonged economic downturn, perhaps the biggest surprise at the start of Heli-Expo’09 is how packed th

TSA’s security plan worries operators of large helicopters

The Transportation Security Administration’s Large Aircraft Security Program (LASP) proposal has received criticism from industry groups and operators of h

Refinements making TAWS better suited to helicopter use

The recent increase in fatal helicopter accidents, along with a push by the FAA to standardize the manufacture of helicopter terrain awareness and warning

Families of three killed in MH-60S crash sue Sikorsky

The family members and heirs of three service members killed in the January 2007 crash of a Sikorsky MH-60S Knighthawk have filed a lawsuit against the man

Sikorsky expands X2 envelope

Sikorsky Aircraft has completed the first round of flight tests of the new X2 demonstrator and is on target to reach 250 knots by year-end, according to Ji
Maintenance and Modifications

Avatas Aerospace Acquires Prime Turbines

Dallas-based Avatas Aerospace, an FAA-approved repair station specializing in the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A, has acquired Hyannis, Mass.-based Prime
Charter & Fractional

Jet-sharing ‘Networks’ Emerge

Two U.S.-based companies have launched online networks that allow customers to book flights with other private jet users and share the cost of their flight
Charter & Fractional

As flight activity slows, charter firm narrows focus

Virgin Charter has had its fair share of ups and downs over the past few months.
Charter & Fractional

ARG/US: Flight Activity Down More than 20 Percent

Large-cabin business jet flight activity in December took the biggest hit–26 percent–compared with activity over the same period in 2007, according to the
Accidents

Fuel Exhaustion Cited in Citation II Crash

A Cessna Citation II that ran out of fuel and landed gear-up early Sunday morning at Wilmingto

The Forecast for Forecasting Technology

Without the ability to understand and accurately forecast weather, NextGen technology won’t amount to much.

Information Management

One of the first steps in developing the technology to automate the National Airspace System (NAS) is to coordinate and manage the data that is necessary f
Regulations and Government

Weather services in the NextGen Era

The focus of the NextGen Air Transportation System has largely been on the development of satellite-based navigation systems, trajectory-based operations a

As distressed Detroit drops its jets, bizav ponders the fallout

The news that General Motors and Ford are shutting their flight departments has rattled the business aviation community.