AVIC Talking To Engine Makers After GE Deal Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), fresh from forming a joint venture with General Electric, is in talks with other leading aircraft engine makers, the head of the state-owned plane maker said Friday. More
In this issue:
November 21, 2009 U.S. Air Carrier Rosters Slip in September U.S. airlines reduced the number of full-time employees on their payrolls during September, according to the U.S. Department of... MORE Decline in October Passenger Demand The Air Transport Association (ATA) reports that passenger revenue, based on a sample group of U.S. air carriers, fell 15 percent in... MORE
ARINC Awarded Rockwell Collins Pact ARINC Engineering Services was awarded a contract by Rockwell Collins to install new navigation systems and communications equipment on the nation’s... MORE
Northrop Grumman Awarded RQ-4 Contract The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $302.9 million contract for five RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) unmanned... MORE
URS Receives Mod Contract on Four Helicopters Cannon Aviation Group has granted a contract to United Rotorcraft Solutions (URS) to modify an AgustaWestland A119, two Bell 407s and a Eurocopter EC130... MORE
November 20, 2009
Airline Signs Wheels & Brakes Deal Honeywell has inked a more than $50-million contract with British Airways to supply wheel and carbon brakes for its fleet... MORE
New Ascent MRO Opens in Tucson Ascent Aviation Services has begun offering maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services from a 30,000-square-foot hangar at... MORE
November 20, 2009
Raising the Aviation Safety Bar A new training facility specializing aviation safety and airworthiness training will be opened this November by Baines Simmons. The Aviation Safety Academy... MORE
AAR Selected for 757 Winglet Installations AAR has been selected by Continental Airlines to install winglets on 16 of the airline's Boeing 757-300 aircraft. The work will be performed at AAR Aircraft... MORE
Brownout" is probably the last term one would ever think of using in association with the Global Positioning System. So when a Stanford University professor briefed a congressional committee in May with a... MORE
Date Aircraft Type Narrative Death/Injury Remarks Oct 4, 2009 Gainesboro, TN PIPER PA-28-140 N95472 Pilot selected to depart from runway 36, a 3,500-foot-long, unlighted, asphalt runway. It was dark night, and... MORE
PRODUCTS/AVIONICS & INSTRUMENTS Helicopter accidents, especially those involving emergency medical services (EMS) flights, have been getting a lot of bad, but well-deserved press recently. The increasing... MORE
It is my understanding that this magazine began, in its current form, in the early ‘80s. It had existed as another entity, Aircraft Equipment Maintenance , for some time before that. Over the years, there... MORE
Lessors Shrug Off 30 Percent Decline in Rentals The current crisis in aviation continues but lessors to date have managed to largely sidestep the two worst effects of a downturn that impact lessors –... MORE
U.S. airlines reduced the number of full-time employees on their payrolls during September, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 4.4 percent... MORE
