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Eurocontrol To Address ATC Communications Errors

Eurocontrol and other stakeholders from across the aviation industry have agreed on the outline of a plan to address ATC communications safety issues in Eu
Aircraft

Gulfstream Flying into a ’Very Strong’ Year

Gulfstream’s third-quarter results show double-digit improvements in net sales (14.3 percent) and operating earnings (34.3 percent), as well as an increase
Aircraft

Cessna Exceeding Order and Delivery Expectations

Cessna booked orders for 71 Citations in the third quarter, bringing the order book to just under 230 for the first nine months of this year, according to
Security

TSA Directed To Expand GA Security Program

President Bush Tuesday signed into law a homeland security spending bill that includes language directing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Regulations and Government

FAA Takes Up Cause To End Fuel Tax Changes

Business aviation groups welcomed a letter from the FAA assistant administrator for aviation policy to the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service ask
Aircraft

Executive Shift at Sino Swearingen

As Sino Swearingen prepares to shift from certification flight-testing to full-scale production of the SJ30-2, it has also shifted the CEO title from compa
Charter & Fractional

Flight Options Union Drive Strengthening

Three of the five pilots for Cleveland-based fractional aircraft operator Flight Options who are trying to organize pilots under International Brotherhood
Aircraft

Mustang Not Seen for Air-limo Network

Few, if any, Citation Mustang orders are for air-limo operations, and Cessna appears neither surprised nor alarmed.
Charter & Fractional

Wet-lease Guidance Issued by the FAA

Part 135 operators and charter management entities will be affected by a proposed policy guidance involving wet leases.
ATC

Snowbird Route Congestion Being Addressed

With input from NBAA, the FAA has taken steps it hopes will reduce air traffic congestion this winter between the Northeast and Florida.
Charter & Fractional

Charter Broker, DOT Reach Enforcement Settlement

New York-based charter broker Blue Star Jets and the DOT on Monday reached a compromise settlement regarding the company’s alleged regulatory violati
Aircraft

Bombardier Establishing Mexican Manufacturing Site

Bombardier Aerospace yesterday revealed it will build a component manufacturing facility in Querétaro, Mexico, to begin operations next May, initially prod
Aircraft

Raytheon Increases Aircraft Delivery Forecast

During its earnings report presented today, Raytheon said it delivered 29 business jets and 27 King Airs in the third quarter, bringing turbine airplanes d
FBOs

Well Known Names Morph into Landmark Aviation

It's a landmark event for Garrett/Piedmont Hawthorne/Associated (GHPA).
Safety

Bulletin Warns of R22/R44 Rotor Blade Debonding

A Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) issued today warns owners and operators of Robinson R22 and R44 helicopters that the rotor blade skin m
Aircraft

Greensboro, N.C., Selected for HondaJet Production

Honda Aircraft announced today that it selected Piedmont-Triad Airport in Greensboro, N.C., to be its world headquarters and sole production and final asse
Aircraft

Business Aircraft Shipments Climb Nearly 26 Percent

Manufacturers delivered 738 turbine airplanes in the first nine months of this year, some 26 percent more than the 585 delivered in the same period last ye
Aircraft

SJ30-2 Receives FAA Type Certification

Following a nearly 20-year development program marked by financial and management challenges, technical issues and a fatal crash in 2003, San Antonio-based
Charter & Fractional

Air-taxi Hopeful Pogo Co-founder Burr Quits

Donald Burr recently left air-taxi hopeful Pogo to "pursue other opportunities," according to a company statement.
Rotorcraft

Sikorsky To Acquire Keystone Helicopter

Sikorsky Aircraft of Stratford, Conn., today announced an agreement to acquire Keystone Ranger Holdings, the privately owned parent of West Chester, Pa.-ba
Security

Comments Due Tomorrow on D.C. Flight Restrictions

Thanks primarily to a campaign by AOPA, the FAA has received more than 16,000 comments, the vast majority mostly negative, to the agency's proposal to make
ATC

FAA Loosens Ski-country Slot Machine

The FAA plans to evaluate a new and less restrictive special traffic management program (STMP) this year to manage operations at Colorado ski-country airpo
Aircraft

Man Behind Starship Introducing Twin-engine Jet

Look for a new twin-engine very light jet to be unveiled at the NBAA Convention next week in Orlando, Fla.
Regulations and Government

Final Rules Retain Part 91 Air-tour Operators

The FAA’s final rules on air-tour operators, scheduled to be published next Tuesday, ease some of the more controversial requirements that were part of the
ATC

Beijing World First in Parallel Approach Monitoring

Beijing’s Capital International Airport, expanding to handle 2008 Olympics traffic, has opted away from traditional radar monitoring of simultaneous approa
Charter & Fractional

Raytheon Stands by Its Flight Options Fractional

Net sales for Flight Options increased in the fourth quarter of last year compared with the same period in 2005, but the fractional provider recorded an op
Regulations and Government

Some Proposed Part 61 Changes Significant

The FAA issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) yesterday that seeks to update, modify and clarify Parts 61 and 141, the sections devoted to pilot an

Gulfstream Top Leadership To Change

General Dynamics (GD) announced this morning that on April 9, Joseph Lombardo will become executive v-p of its aerospace business group and president of su

People in Aviation: December 2004

Executive Jet Management has reorganized its management staff with the following appointments: Robert Mayo, formerly senior v-p for client transition, was
Accidents

Factual Report: U.S.-registered Malibu lost in France

PIPER PA-46-310P MALIBU, DIJON LONGVIC, FRANCE, OCT.