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Maintenance and Modifications

Audio Int’l To Distribute Avtec LED and Fiber Optics

In May, Audio International, a DeCrane Aircraft company, and Avtec reached an agreement that allows Audio International to distribute Avtec’s cabin-lightin
Maintenance and Modifications

Gerber Seeks Bizav Market for New Cutting Machine

Gerber Technology has begun expanding its business aviation activity with the sale two new Taurus XM cutting systems to interior components specialist B/E
Maintenance and Modifications

L-3 Communications Wins Widebody Interiors Contract

L-3 Communications Integrated Systems has won the contract for a head-of-state widebody executive/VIP interior.
Maintenance and Modifications

Falcon 20 Interior Adopts Everglades Theme

With Florida’s tropical Everglades as the theme, Jet Aviation designers and interior artisans recently delivered a refurbished Falcon 20 to a Florida-based
Maintenance and Modifications

Aviation Fabricators Gets Approval for Jetstream Divans

Two-place, side-facing divans for Jetstream operators are now available from seating specialist Aviation Fabricators.
Maintenance and Modifications

Jet Aviation Wins Bid for Two Boeing 747-400 Interiors

Following a fierce bidding process, Jet Aviation’s Basel, Switzerland completion and refurbishment center has won a contract from Dubai Air Wing to outfit
Maintenance and Modifications

First Duncan Design Collection Nears Completion

Duncan Aviation of Lincoln, Neb., is working on a redesign of its current offering of interior packages.
Maintenance and Modifications

Noise-reduction Research Finds ‘Fantastic Solution to the Wrong Problem’

Working on reducing high-frequency cabin noise produced by air passing over the fuselage skin, UK-based Ultra Electronics and QinetiQ found what a spokesma
Aircraft

Dassault Aims for Noise Reduction in 7X Cabin

Dassault plans to introduce an exceptionally quiet cabin in its new Falcon 7X business jet.
Maintenance and Modifications

Completions and refurbishments July 2004

After several years of cost reductions, layoffs, closings and general malaise, there are definite signs that a slow economic recovery is starting to have a
Maintenance and Modifications

A leaner PAMA group strives for effectiveness

“We’re very pleased with this year’s show,” Jill Hilgenberg, show manager for Cygnus Exposition’s Aviation Events, told AIN during Aviation Industry Week i
Charter & Fractional

NATA events anchored Aviation Industry Week

Business flying is definitely up, and so are fuel prices.

Clearing skies greet European convention

The economy is emerging from the soup not with the sudden clarity of a westbound flight through the shattered remnants of a cold front, but more as if it w
Airports

Budget bill would restore genav access to DCA

The House Appropriations Committee included language in the Department of Homeland Security fiscal year 2005 budget that requires Secretary Tom Ridge, in c

Back Up to Speed Again?

SSBJ UPDATE: Elsewhere in this issue (“In The Works,” page 78) is word of Sukhoi’s continuing work on feasibility studies on the S-21, a supersonic busines
Security

TSA not enforcing ticket revocation rule

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has quietly suspended enforcement of the rule that allowed the agency to revoke a pilot’s certificate for
Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Bonus tax benefit bill may soon become law

The House of Representatives approved the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (H.R.4520) on June 17, paving the way for a one-year extension of the time all

Olympic-size headaches for bizav

Greek aviation officials have at last started to release slots and aircraft parking positions for business aviation traffic heading for next month’s Athens
Regulations and Government

FAA/JAA Helicopter Noise Standards Harmonized

Manufacturers of newly designed helicopters will have to meet slightly revised U.S.
Regulations and Government

FAA Sets TSO Sights on Night Vision Goggles

The FAA is proposing a technical standard order (TSO) for night vision goggles.
Maintenance and Modifications

Texas Firm Adding Paint and Refurb to Its Capabilities

Denton Municipal Airport, Texas-based Business Air is adding corporate aircraft refurbishment and painting to its existing FBO and aircraft charter, manage
Charter & Fractional

NetJets Pilots Closer To Resolving Contract Disputes

After more than two-and-a-half years of negotiations for a new contract, the union representing some 1,900 NetJets pilots is closer to resolving their diff
Rotorcraft

Sikorsky Chairman Dean Borgman Retires

Dean Borgman, chairman of Sikorsky Aircraft, retired on July 1.
Accidents

Pilots Killed in Crash of King Air near Lewisburg, W. Va.

Pilot-in-command Lowell Lawson, 67, and copilot James Robinson were killed June 13 when their King Air 200 crashed on a Part 135 positioning flight from it
Accidents

High Density Altitude Helped Bring Down Helicopter

The pilot’s decision to rapidly maneuver the helicopter at a high density altitude near steeply sloping terrain was the cause of a fatal air-tour helicopte

Raytheon claims marked improvement in support

Raytheon Aircraft is proclaiming victory in its ongoing efforts to turn around its customer-support operations, and is now focusing on sustaining that clai
Regulations and Government

Sikorsky S-92 Obtains European Certification

The S-92 medium-twin helicopter has become the first rotorcraft to be certified by the new European Aviation Safety Agency.
Airports

GA Improvements Coming to Houston-area Airport

The Texas DOT has awarded an $8.3 million federal grant for the first phase of a planned $20 million project to renovate and expand general aviation facili
Accidents

Wind Shift Possible Factor in Premier I Overrun

A Raytheon Premier I that ran off the runway on landing at North Las Vegas Airport (VGT) on May 27 might have gotten caught in a wind shift from a crosswin