Security

With general aviation access to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in an indefinite holding pattern, NBAA has decided to re-target its monthly

One year after September 11, corporate aviation is still seeking assurances that its business aircraft will be able to operate on par with the commercial a

When the call went out in those early, panicky hours of the crisis that’s collectively come to be called “9/11,” some 4,500 aircraft were airborne in U.S.

“In the next 60 to 90 days, you’re going to see security in the United States like you’ve never seen before,” said retired U.S.

“Know your enemy,” Dr.

I was till recently the chief pilot of the Port Authority police helicopter operation.

Not a single person interviewed by AIN expressed the opinion that the business aviation security requirements to fly to the Winter Olympics either made sen

Under the first major rulemaking of the DOT’s newly created Transportation Security Administration, scheduled for publication February 22, charter operatio

Marxist rebels on February 20 abducted a Colombian senator after hijacking an Aires Colombia de Havilland Dash 8 flying a domestic service from the souther

NBAA announced at its convention in Orlando, Fla., last month that additional dates have been scheduled for its new “Security Training for Part 91 Operator

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With the U.S.

After a Learjet 55 on an IFR flight from Syracuse, N.Y., on February 26 lost voice and transponder communications over Holston Mountain, Tenn., ATC notifie

In what has been the biggest flurry of notams, TFR issuances and general uncertainty since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation

While the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and NBAA continue to work on a security protocol demonstration at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport–whi

Like many a “Washington hand” leaving a position, the Air Transport Association’s Carol Hallett was more forthcoming in her comments to the Washington Aero

Although the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is among the 22 separate government agencies that will become part of the new Department of H

Although general aviation access to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) continues to be an elusive and possibly unattainable goal, the Transpor

What is the realistic likelihood of your aircraft being targeted by a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile (SAM) in the hands of a terrorist? After an

The U.S.

What began as a straightforward interim final rule on alien flight training has caused heartburn at some general aviation groups.

Norwegian authorities have rushed through new security requirements at the country’s smaller airports in response to a September 29 incident in which a man

Apparently it’s OK to pose as terrorists for an NBC “exposé” on the lack of security at the nation’s general aviation airports.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, a veteran of the bare-knuckle school of politics, is defiantly defending his destruction of Meigs Field last year despite thre

The head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has said that he fully supports NBAA’s Transportation Security Administration Access Certifica

MedAire has expanded beyond the medical-assistance services and products the company has provided the airline and business aviation industry for 20 years,

Million Air Houston (HOU), headquarters FBO for the Million Air Interlink franchise network, recently completed a two-year joint effort with Navigance Tech

In response to numerous reports of lasers being pointed at aircraft, the FAA last month issued advisory circular (AC) 70-2 requesting all aircrews to repor

Aviation Technologies has created what it believes is a solution to the time-consuming process of checking air passenger and employee names against Transpo

Perhaps one of the least appreciated benefits of corporate aviation is that its pilots and their passengers don’t have to endure the security procedures of