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Grob’s Paris Surprise Will Fly with Honeywell Apex Avionics

Grob’s SPn, a carbon-fiber light business twinjet introduced at last month’s Paris Air Show, will enter production with the Honeywell Apex avionics system,
FBOs

Fayetteville Million Air unveils renovation

After eight months of renovations of its FBO facility, Million Air Fayetteville, Ark., held a grand reopening on August 11.
FBOs

SheltAir buys Sowell facility at Panama City

SheltAir Aviation Services expanded its Florida FBO stable to seven and total count to eight with the acquisition of Sowell Aviation Services at Panama Cit
Avionics

Duncan Certifies Collins Retrofit Cockpit in Astra

Duncan Aviation has certified and installed a Rockwell Collins IDS-3000 retrofit cockpit and IFIS (integrated flight information system) file server in a c
Avionics

CMC Introduces SatLite Antenna

For the business aviation market, CMC Electronics has introduced a compact satcom antenna the company calls SatLite.
Airports

Clearing Customs at Dallas

Contrary to earlier reports that aircraft flying into the Dallas area from international departure points could clear U.S.
Avionics

Arinc and Jeppesen Team To Develop EFBs

Arinc and Jeppesen last month announced an alliance that will integrate “best of class” EFB components from each company’s portfolios to produce what offic
Safety

Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Aphis, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, will eliminate the exemption from inspection requirements and fees for commercial aircraft flying fr
Safety

SAMM warns of runway incursion potential

Aviation Communication & Surveillance Systems (ACSS), a joint L-3 Communications and Thales company, used last month’s Paris Air Show to introduce technolo
Cabin Interior and Electronics

Ericsson Decides To Join Airborne Cellphone Fray

Mobile phone maker Ericsson jumped into the race to supply hardware that will enable passengers to use their cellphones aboard aircraft after takeoff.
ATC

Collins’s Latest Satcom Makes Debut Aboard Global 5000

Rockwell Collins’s new SAT-6100 satellite communication system made its world debut aboard the Bombardier Global 5000 at the Paris Air Show last month.
FBOs

Business Jet Center Dallas Starts DCA Flights

Business Jet Center, a Dallas Love Field-based FBO, has been authorized as the first Dallas/Fort Worth-area gateway station for general aviation flights to
Airports

Port Columbus International Named DCA Gateway

Looking for a new Midwest gateway airport into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)? Look no further than Port Columbus International Airport in
Airports

Court of appeals upholds Stage 2 jet ban at Naples

Both sides claimed a measure of victory in the June 3 U.S.
FBOs

Mercury shakeup might rebrand some FBOs

“We’re still Mercury…for now,” is the way a customer service representative at one of the chain’s 16 FBOs responded to a question about the ongoing melding
Safety

Flight attendants seen as safety and political activists

Beau Altman’s retrospective put the profession of business aviation flight attendant into perspective at the 10th Annual Flight Attendants Conference in At
Aircraft

In The Works: Grob G160 Ranger

Certification of the seven-seat Grob G160 Ranger turboprop single has been delayed from this quarter to the middle of next year to incorporate a new interi
Aircraft

In The Works: Eclipse 500

Eclipse Aviation’s fourth conforming Eclipse 500–and the first of its two beta-test jets–joined the flight-test fleet last month.
Aircraft

In The Works: Evektor EV-55

Czech aircraft designer and manufacturer Evektor-Aerotechnik, best known for a line of light piston singles, used last month’s EAA AirVenture show to begin
Avionics

Dassault flight tests EVS on 2000EX

Late last month Dassault flew a Falcon 2000EX EASy with an enhanced flight vision system (EFVS) for the first time.
Regulations and Government

EU Approves Joint Bid fromFormer Galileo Competitors

The European Union (EU) has approved a joint bid from two groups that previously had competed against each other for the contract to run the $4 billion Gal
ATC

FAA DecommissionsMore than 200 NDB Approaches

In a cost-cutting move, the FAA last month decommissioned 216 NDB approaches across the U.S.
Avionics

Jeppesen Tackling ApparentFlightDeck 3.0 Software Bug

Jeppesen has assembled a team of engineers to look into complaints by users that the company’s latest electronic charting software, JeppView FlightDeck 3.0
Avionics

Advanced-vision concept inches closer to reality

The possibility of business jets and airliners making autonomous low-visibility approaches and landings to airports without an ILS has moved closer to real
Avionics

Researchers Begin Crunching SE-Vision Data

Officials from Rockwell Collins, Max-Viz, NASA’s Langley Research Center, the FAA and other organizations in late June conducted the culminating test fligh
Avionics

Retrofit Cockpit from UniversalInstalled in King Air 300

Duncan Aviation has installed and certified the Universal Avionics EFI-890R retrofit avionics system in a King Air 300, the Battle Creek, Mich.
ATC

FAA Tests New Type of TrafficCollision Alerting System

The FAA has completed the first round of flight testing of a unique traffic collision avoidance system that combines automatic dependent surveillance-broad
Avionics

Satcom Direct Service Squeezes More Capacity from Swift64

Satcom Direct, a satcom service provider based in Florida, has introduced a new service called Aero X that the company claims will provide significant incr
Avionics

Texas Firm Announces GII/IIB TAWS and RVSM Upgrade Programs

Business Jet Technologies, the co-developer of the Quiet Technologies Stage 3 hush kit for the Gulfstream II/IIB, has launched avionics upgrade programs fo
Avionics

Marinvent plans high-flying projects

Marinvent, a small but highly regarded aerospace engineering firm located just outside Montreal, has big aspirations to step out of relative anonymity and