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United Signs Chautauqua, Republic, Shuttle America

United Airlines availed itself of more options to its imperiled code-share partnership with Atlantic Coast Airlines last month, when it recruited Indianapo

Bombardier gets serious about new jet project

Canada’s largest aerospace company has apparently given up playing coy about its reliance on government support to compete in the large RJ arena.
Safety

AD Addresses Falcon 900 EFIS Anomaly

Close to 100 Falcon 900s are the subject of an Airworthiness Directive requiring revisions to the “abnormal procedures” section of the airplane flight manu
Avionics

Honeywell targets its low-cost KMD 250 at business aviation

Sometimes the simplest ideas turn out to be the best ones.
ATC

FAA plans first ADS-B operations by end of 2004

If asked today for their views about automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), many pilots might respond that it was developed to meet the unique
Regulations and Government

FAA turns a blind eye to the ELT debacle

Although the FAA warned business jet operators that there was no way it could extend a January 1 deadline for installation of emergency locator transmitter
Avionics

Many planning to forego domestic RVSM upgrade

Just about everything written so far about domestic RVSM seems to be focused on ways operators can comply with the upcoming requirements by next year’s Jan
Avionics

Canadian Firm Upgrades Challenger with Universal Cockpit

Mid-Canada Mod Center has obtained an STC for a complete cockpit upgrade of a Challenger 601-1A with gear from Universal Avionics.
Avionics

RVSM Price Quotes Added to Online Search Site

Avquotes.com recently added RVSM modifications to its online aviation maintenance and refurbishment quote system.
Aircraft

Dallas Company Developing Gulfstream II/III RVSM Package

Dallas-based Business Jet Technologies is teaming with Shadin and AeroMech to develop an RVSM equipment package for Gulfstream IIs and IIIs.
ATC

Business Jet Operators Begin Sending Flight-intent Data to ATC

A handful of business aircraft operators have started transmitting flight-intent data to the FAA’s ATC System Command Center in Herndon, Va.
ATC

Boeing Scales Back ATM Investment

The struggling airline industry produced another casualty last month with Boeing’s announcement that it will put the brakes on its once ambitious Air Traff
Avionics

Thales Scuttles Takeover Rumor

Danis Ranque, CEO of European electronics conglomerate Thales, insisted last month that the company is not likely to be the object of a merger or takeover,
Avionics

Sagem Avionics Bows In at Helicopter Show

The merger of two small avionics firms, Sfim and Arnav, has led to the creation of Sagem Avionics, a Grand Prairie, Texas-based company with about 50 emplo

Evergreen is latest museum to display a Starship

A Beech Starship has joined the world’s most famous flying boat and the “world’s fastest aircraft” on exhibit in an Oregon museum, thanks to a donation by
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Gore Design breaks ground for $12.5M completion center

Gore Design Completions, armed with a new contract in hand for a Boeing 767-300ER head-of-state interior and an abiding faith in God, has broken ground for
Charter & Fractional

NTSB faults check airman in Flight Options MU-300 overrun

“The pilot’s failure to obtain the proper touchdown point on the runway at Cuyahoga County Airport [CGF], Cleveland, Ohio, and the PIC’s failure to initiat
Aircraft

In the Works: Avocet ProJet

Israel Aircraft Industries of Tel Aviv and Avocet Aircraft of Westport, Conn., are within weeks of finalizing their definitive partnership agreement on the
Aircraft

In the Works: Maverick Jets Leader

Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing (TAM) of Tbilisi, Georgia, in the CIS, in early January terminated its agreement with Maverick Jets of Melbourne, Fla., to c
Aircraft

In the Works: Eviation Vantage

Buying the assets of a bankrupt aviation company is one way to lower the cost of entry into the industry, but it’s still a risky business.
FBOs

Jet Aviation Singapore feels effect of economic recovery

The warm breeze drifting across Singapore Seletar Airport brings a welcome respite from the midday heat in this island nation near the earth’s equator.
Aircraft

UK TBM 700 crash eerily reminiscent of others

The Air Accident Investigation Branch of the British Department of Transport is adopting a cautious approach to its investigation of the crash of Socata TB
Maintenance and Modifications

Gulfstream makes wheelchair access easier

Gulfstream Aerospace has developed an airstair hoist system that provides easier access for business jet passengers who require a wheelchair or have diffic
Safety

Switlik Finds Golden Parachute in Life Preservers and Rafts

To anyone who hit the silk more than 30 years ago, the name Switlik Parachute is well known as a preeminent maker of the lifesaving devices.
Safety

Don’t deflate the value of an onboard life raft

For Michael Smith, the trip from Japan back to the states in a Pilatus PC-12 was intended as simply a little moonlighting, a job he took to make a few extr
Safety

Would you know what to do if things go sour?

Emergency procedures training is offered by several business aviation OEMs and all of the major simulator training companies as part of their wide array of
Airports

‘Undiscovered’ Trenton, N.J. embarks on improvements

“It’s the most important piece of undiscovered aviation property east of the Mississippi,” asserted Tom Carver, president of the New Jersey Aviation Associ
Regulations and Government

White House wants to cut NASA’s aerospace funds

While the Aerospace Industries Association calls for more money for aeronautics research and development, the Bush White House wants a NASA budget that wou
Safety

Runway incursions still plague operations

The investigation report of the October 2001 runway collision between a taxiing Citation CJ2 and a Scandinavian Airlines MD-87 taking off at the Linate Air

NBAA regional forum stops in West Palm

The regional NBAA forum at West Palm Beach International (PBI), Fla., on March 10 served a slice of business aviation with complex ingredients.