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July 1, 2009
Maintaining Cessna’s New SkyCatcher
By designing ease of maintenance into the SkyCatcher, Cessna is taking strides to ensure its new light sport aircraft (LSA) will make flying more affordable. When Cessna Chairman, President & CEO Jack Pelton made the official announcement in 2007 that the company would enter the fledgling light sport aircraft (LSA) market, he said that after extensive market research, "it is clear to us there is a...
May 1, 2009
Costs of Developing an STC
There’s an old saying that goes: "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Well, that adage certainly does not apply to earning an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC) in today’s world. "We lovingly say that what we were able to do with a simple logbook entry 15 years ago became a field approval 10 years ago, and five years ago became an STC," explains Jim...
November 1, 2008
Jet Repair Anywhere: Offering Information When You Need it Most
This company’s founder, Cheryl Janke, saw and opportunity and seized it. Her goal was to make information instantly available to business jet owner/operators about shops that could service their aircraft. As the director of maintenance for fleets of business jets that flew all over the world, Cheryl Janke had a recurring problem — how do you find qualified repair facilities, given an AOG...