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News and developments about airplanes, helicopters and unmanned air vehicles used in all varieties of operations, including airlines, military, business, commercial, general aviation and private.
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Proposed FAA policy appears to support BBJs
A story in The Bergen Record, a Northern New Jersey newspaper, opened a floodgate of protests from residents of communities surrounding Teterboro Airport.
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Boeing gives green light to heavy-lift airship project
Boeing has teamed with a Canadian firm to develop a massive commercial airship capable of lifting an 80,000-pound load and carrying it up to 200 miles.
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Finmeccanica’s Alenia Aermacchi division is launching a competition to find a nickname for its M346
Finmeccanica’s Alenia Aermacchi division is launching a competition to find a nickname for its M346.
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Bureaucracy ends DC-3’s career
The need to protect passengers from terrorism was not uppermost in the mind of the Douglas Aircraft designers when they developed the DC-3, and they could
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Rotax-powered Ellipse goes 200 knots
Dwarfed by other aircraft in the static display area, the LH-10 Ellipse is only 17 feet long and has a wingspan of just over 26 feet.
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Mitsubishi MRJ90 to fly in 2011
Mitsubishi will fly its new 86- to 96-passenger MRJ90 for the first time in 2011, the Japanese industrial giant said here.
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Honda's 'research project' expected to fly by year-end
Under the cover of private funding, Honda has been secretly and very seriously developing its six- to eight-seat light turbofan twin.
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Citations dogged by control problems
It has not been a good summer for the Cessna Citation 650 or 525.
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First production Citation CJ3 enters flight test
The first production Citation CJ3 (S/N 001) entered flight test last month, three weeks ahead of schedule, according to Cessna.
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Challenger 300 awarded JAA approval
On July 31, less than two months after receiving FAA and Transport Canada certification, the new Bombardier Challenger 300 super-midsize business jet was a
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Gulfstream 300 and 400 receive JAA validation
The recent validation by Europe’s Joint Aviation Authorities of the Gulfstream 300 and 400 enables these business jets to receive JAA-approved certificatio
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Piaggio gets confirmation of Avanti speed records
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale and National Aeronautic Association have certified five speed records set by a Piaggio Avanti.
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SJ30-2 returns to flight following April crash
The number-two SJ30-2 flight-test aircraft (S/N 003) took off on July 21 from Sino Swearingen’s headquarters at San Antonio Airport.
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Dassault admits to quiet work on Mach+ bizjet
Dassault is working quietly on the design for what could become a supersonic business jet (SSBJ).
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G550 will require evac crewmember
Gulfstream, which has been engaged in a dispute with the FAA over whether its new Gulfstream 550 could be certified with the traditional four elliptical wi
Charter & Fractional
Hybrids fill fractional-charter gap
At first glance, the fractional industry, like the alien menace in a sci-fi thriller, appears to be morphing into a menagerie of hybrids.
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Pilot Report: Embraer Legacy: Building upon a rich history
Embraer’s Legacy is an impressive corporate version of the company’s venerable ERJ-135/145
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Don't tangle with this E-6B
In aviation’s early days, long-distance HF communications used wire antennas trailing behind the aircraft.
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In The Works: Archedyne NauticAir 450
Archedyne Aerospace of Merritt Island, Fla., is still pursuing Lake Aircraft and Armand Rivard for a $1.4 million judgment, which Rivard has appealed, and
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In The Works: Extra EA-500
Extra Flugzeugbau of Hunxe, Germany, has operated under insolvency (similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S.) since January and has reportedly been in
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In The Works: Intracom GM-17 Viper
First deliveries of the Intracom General Machinery GM-17 Viper 8 executive aircraft have been made in Russia, where the much-reworked Piper Pressurized Nav
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In The Works: Sukhoi S-21 SSBJ
At best, a total of 300 to 400 supersonic business jets (SSBJs) could be sold over the next 30 years, according to Andrei Ilyin, general director at Sukhoi
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In The Works: Ibis Aerospace Ae270 Spirit
With Czech certification of the Ae270 turboprop single now expected in the fourth quarter of this year (earlier anticipated in September) and FAA approval
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Improving air safety by thinking inside the box
It is impossible to ignore the role technology has played in making the art of powered, heavier-than-air flight incrementally safer for the successive gene
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Regionals Update: ALPA foils US Airways' plans for CRJ705
Unable to convince the Air Line Pilots Association to accept further regional-airline scope-clause concessions, US Airways has converted its firm order for
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French, Russian avionics trio leap to front of RRJ 'short list'
AVPK Sukhoi’s ambition to use U.S.-built avionics on the Russian Regional Jet appear dashed due to an apparent lack of interest on the part of both Honeywe
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An-140 sales bode well for Antonov RJ
A growing order book for the 52-seat Antonov An-140 turboprop has stimulated engineers at Ukraine’s Antonov design house and the Kharkov manufacturing plan
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M7 won't wait for 328 deal to pursue RJ work in San Antonio
M7 Aerospace, the company that took control of the U.S.
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D'Long looks to place 728 back in fray
Shanghai-based investment group D’Long in late June confirmed it has signed a contract for the rights to the suspended Fairchild Dornier 728 program, but a
