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Rotorcraft

Maria Rodriguez To Receive HAI's Pilot of the Year Award

Rodriguez is receiving the award for her actions during Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
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Rotorcraft

Claude Vuichard To Receive HAI BLR Aerospace Safety Award

Vuichard, who developed the Vuichard Recovery, will receive the Salute to Excellence Award for promoting safety in the helicopter industry.
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HAI To Honor Deputies Eric Bashta, Jerry Osterloh

The deputies from the Riverside County sheriff’s department are receiving the Law Enforcement award for their heroic efforts in January of 2017.
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Maintenance and Modifications

Stevens Aviation Completes King Air 350 Blackhawk Upgrade

Stevens Aviation's Nashville facility completed the modification in two weeks during a regular phase inspection.

Spartan College Creates Partially Online AMT Program

The school has created a hybrid program that combines online courses with traditional courses in person at its Tulsa, Oklahoma facility.
Maintenance and Modifications

Pentastar Completes DU-875 Upgrade on Global Express

Pentastar Aviation upgraded all six of the aircraft's monitors in less than three hours.
Maintenance and Modifications

BendixKing Adds PAG as Distribution Partner

In addition to repair and overhaul services, PAG will provide sales support for BendixKing customers around the world.
Maintenance and Modifications

Elliott Gets Nod for Citation Excel/XLS ADS-B Solution

Elliott Aviation recently received an STC for an ADS-B solution for the Citation Excel and XLS.

Cobham Satcom Displays Aviator 300D, 350D in Singapore

The Aviator 300D and 350D are next gen systems powered by SwiftBroadband-safety (SB-S).

NBAA, S&D Committee Name Scholarship Recipients

The six recipients were recognized during the Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference in Long Beach, California.
Fuel

XJet Chooses AEG as Fuel Provider

AEG Fuels will be the exclusive fuel provider at Xjet's flagship facility in Denver, as well as its facility in London.
Maintenance and Modifications

Avfuel Adds Lux Air to FBO Network

Based at Arizona’s Phoenix-Goodyear Airport (GYR), Lux Air Jet Centers offers aircraft maintenance and ground support for all aircraft.
Maintenance and Modifications

Jetex Launches Its First U.S. FBO in California

While the company has an operations center in Miami, FL, the SBD facilty is the first FBO Jetex will establish in the U.S.
Maintenance and Modifications

Tempus Jets Relocates Pilatus Service Center

Tempus Jets moved its authorized Pilatus service center from Scottsdale Airport (SDL) to Falcon Field Airport (FFZ).
Maintenance and Modifications

ExecuJet Haite Becomes Dassault Service Center

Based at Tianjin Binhai International Airport (TSN), ExecuJet Chinese facility can now perform maintenance and AOG support for the Falcon 7x and 8x.

Straaltechniek Adds Daes Distribution as Distributor

Straaltechniek will see its products distributed in North America and the Middle East through Daes Distribution.
Avionics

IMP Electronics Receives STC for Pro Line 21 Avionics

The STC is for a Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics system adapted for the 19-passenger Hawker Beechcraft 1900D twin turboprop.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

M1, ATMRI to Work on Mobile Phone Network for Drones

Through the MRU, researchers from Nanyan Technology University of Singapore will use existing mobile phone networks to track and control drones.
Maintenance and Modifications

Avio Design Group Attains DAO

This certification will allow the company to expand its design, engineering, and certification services for fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft.
Maintenance and Modifications

Eagle Creek Aviation Offers Twin Commander Mx Classes

Eagle Creek Aviation Services is offering Twin Commander 690-695B maintenance initial training classes from May 7 to 15 and September 17 to 25.
Maintenance and Modifications

Western Aircraft Announces Personnel Changes

Don West and Jeff Watson were promoted to managers while Paul Harrington joined the company as an avionics team lead.
Maintenance and Modifications

BendixKing Receives STC for AeroVue Flight Deck

BendixKing plans on installing AeroVue in more aircraft models in the future.
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Maintenance and Modifications

West Star Offering TFS Paint Protection

West Star Aviation now offers Top Flight Supplies (TFS) titanium paint protection at its facilities in Grand Junction, Colorado, and East Alton, Illinois.

Titanium Asia Conference To Be Held Before Singapore Airshow

The first-ever conference, which will address the state of the aerospace industry and supply chain issues, will be held on February 4 and 5.
Maintenance and Modifications

Legacy 600 Avionics Upgrade Adds LCDs, FANS-1/A+

Duncan Aviation created a package with Honeywell to update an Embraer Legacy’s avionics, which prompted the service provider to create three new STCs.
Maintenance and Modifications

Leonardo Helicopters Opens Mx Facility at Milano Linate Prime

This facility is equipped to provide maintenance for private and commercial AgustaWestland AW109 and AW139 helicopters.
Maintenance and Modifications

Stevens Aviation Announces STC for NXT-600 Transponder

The first aircraft the Stevens Aviation Dayton avionics team STC'd with the L3 NXT-600 was a Citation 650 with a non-integrated avionics suite.
Maintenance and Modifications

Duncan Aviation Increases Rental Turbine Engine Pool

The pool includes rental engines for Honeywell models such as the HTF7000, HTF7350, and TFE731 (-2C, -3, -5B, -20, -40, and -60).
Safety

Episode 10: Flying Under the Influence, Part 2

We continue our discussion about pilots battling drug and alcohol addiction and where they can receive help.
Maintenance and Modifications

StandardAero To Close LAX Bizav Maintenance Facility

The LAX-based bizav facility will close by the end of March 2018, but StandardAero will continue mobile service capabilities in southern California.