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| 06.01.2006 |
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Boeing Buys Aviall The Boeing Company announced on May 1, 2006, that it will purchase Aviall, Inc. The all cash merger will take place for $48 per share, which translates to about $1.7 billion. Aviall, one of the largest independent providers of new aviation...
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| 05.01.2006 |
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IS-BAO for Dassault Falcon Dassault Falcon's Teterboro flight operations department recently achieved International Standard for Business Aviation Operations (IS-BAO) registration. New Qantas Parts Center Qantas opened a $55 million material and logistics...
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| 05.01.2006 |
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Landmark Acquires Scottsdale-based Corporate Jets Inc. Landmark Aviation announced the acquisition of Corporate Jets, Inc., of Scottsdale, Arizona, in early April. Corporate Jets Inc. was a full service business aviation fixed base operation and aircraft...
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| 04.01.2006 |
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Pratt & Whitney Boldly Enters PMA Parts Manufacturing Market Highlighting the cutthroat nature of the aviation maintenance business, Pratt & Whitney announced that it will begin manufacturing replacement parts for a rival engine, the CFM56. Louis...
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| 03.01.2006 |
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Jet Aviation to Acquire Midcoast Jet Aviation announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Midcoast Aviation. The transaction is expected to close by the end of March 2006. "When Jet Aviation was acquired by Permira Funds, they made a statement that...
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| 02.01.2006 |
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PAMA Presses for National Aviation Maintenance Technician Day The Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (PAMA) has set its sights on having President Bush sign a resolution designating May 24 as National Aviation Maintenance Technician Day to...
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| 01.01.2006 |
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Vantage Engine Receives Production Certificate More than a year and a half after awarding a type certificate to Superior Air Parts for its 360-cubic inch Vantage piston engine, the FAA has finally signed off on the engine's production certificate. The Vantage...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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20-Year Rolls-Royce Forecast Sees 48,000 Engines
Rolls-Royce released its business aviation forecast at the NBAA Convention November 9, predicting deliveries of 23,000 new jets during the next 20 years. Those jets will be powered by 48,000 engines valued at $61 billion. From 2005 through 2014, Rolls-Royce...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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API Deploys ESP Aerospace Products International has deployed version 5.1 of its Electronic Supply Program, a web-based inventory-management system. API customers can use ESP to track inventory transactions, view inventory status, and automatically replenish...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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Eclipse Reveals 3rd Service Center
Eclipse Aviation will open seven factory-owned service centers to try to achieve the goal of having a maintenance facility within 1.5 flying hours of any Model 500 customer location in the U.S. The state of New York provided a $1.5 million grant to the...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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Honeywell Sees Bright Business Aviation Future
Honeywell's annual forecast predicts deliveries of about 9,900 new business jets from 2005 through 2015 worth $156 billion. Honeywell released the results of its 19th business aviation forecast (the 14th publicly released Business Aviation Outlook) on...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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Mexico Destination for Aero OEMs
Two major aviation companies--Bombardier and the SAFRAN Group's Messier Services--announced plans to build facilities in Mexico. Bombardier announced in late October that it will spend about $200 million during the next seven years to build a factory in...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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Briefs
Bearing Inspection Acquired The Timken Company has purchased Bearing Inspection, a company that specializes in reconditioning expensive turbine engine bearings. Bearing Inspection, based in Los Alamitos, California, will operate under the Timken Aerospace...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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Chicago Now Home to Bombardier Parts Bombardier Aerospace celebrated the inauguration of its new parts distribution warehouse, adjacent to Chicago's O'Hare Airport, on September 7. The manufacturrer now has three parts centers worldwide; a new...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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Safety News
Outsourced Maintenance Columnist Harold Meyerson sees in the JetBlue case a problem with outsourced maintenance and the need to trim costs that are part of corporate America at large. Below are extracts of his column in the September 28 Washington Post, and a...
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| 10.01.2005 |
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BAE Regional Aircraft Adds New Support Services
Maintenance, engineering support, modification, aircraft conversion, and spares provisioning have all been taken on by BAE Systems Regional Aircraft under a new program of customer service and product enhancement recently announced. A division of BAE Systems...
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| 10.01.2005 |
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Private Jet Mech Offers Mechanics on Call As the use of corporate aircraft has gone from the “nice to have” to the practically “got to have” status, pilots and operators are finding themselves in positions where they are at smaller...
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| 10.01.2005 |
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Pneumatics - Thrust-Tech Opens New Pneumatics Facility
Thrust-Tech Aviation, a company specializing in the overhaul, repair, and functional test of components, has completed its new pneumatics test facility in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The new facility will specialize in providing pneumatic maintenance support for...
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| 10.01.2005 |
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Safety News
Vacuum Monitoring May Predict Impending Structural Failures A China Airlines Boeing 747 suffered catastrophic structural failure in May 2002, crashing and killing 225 people. The cause was a 180-centimeter (5.9-foot) crack on the under fuselage which had been...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Commercial - TWU, American Airlines Team Up for Tulsa Profit Center
In order to keep American Airlines's MRO work in-house, TWU Local 514 has joined with AA management to achieve $500 million in extra revenues and cost savings at the airline's Tulsa Maintenance & Engineering Base (Tulsa Base). Under the deal, a joint...
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