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April 10, 2013
Shreveport, La.-based Metro Aviation has started a completions project for Boston MedFlight’s new EC145, around the same time as securing an agreement to finish an EC155 for the University of Florida’s ShandsCair. Representatives of Boston MedFlight met with Metro officials during a visit to American...April 10, 2013
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that a private text conversation was one of the factors that contributed to a series of poor decisions resulting in the August 2011 crash of an Air Methods Eurocopter AS350 B2 in Mosby, Mo. Four people died as a result of the accident, including the pilot, James Freudenberg. According to NTSB, in addition to being distracted from...April 10, 2013
U.S. Air Force officials are grounding about one-third of active-duty combat aircraft as a result of the automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration implemented in March. (B1-B Lancer. Photo, courtesy of Boeing.) The spending cuts will reduce the Air Combat Command's (ACC) operations and maintenance accounts by about 45,000 flying hours, according to the Air Force News Service. The aircraft...April 10, 2013
House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.) along with 222 other members of Congress sent a letter to President Barack Obama last week opposing a $100-per-flight fee on commercial and general aviation operations. The letter was sent in anticipation of the president's budget proposal, which lawmakers assumed would include a call for the...April 10, 2013
CAE Oxford Aviation Academy plans to introduce 35 Piper single-engine and twin-engine training aircraft into its fleet as part of a five-year replenishment agreement between the two companies. Piper has been designated as the preferred...April 10, 2013
Azerbaijan Airlines has selected British Airways Engineering and AJ Walter Aviation to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul for its fleet of Boeing 787s, which will begin flight operations in 2014. Under the agreement...April 10, 2013
Rockwell Collins reached an agreement with South African Airways (SAA) for its PAVES 2 [programmable audio video entertainment system] in-flight entertainment (IFE) suite for the carrier's new and...April 10, 2013
The U.S. Army issued $13.8 million in incremental funding to AeroVironment for RQ-11B Raven unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). (Raven Gimbal. Photo, courtesy of AeroVironment.) The funding is for continued performance of previous...April 9, 2013
Eurocopter and Turbomeca have reached industrial cooperation agreements with Polish aviation maintenance company Wojskowe Zaklady Lotnicze No. 1 (WZL-1) to open two full assembly lines in Poland. The assembly...April 9, 2013
Russian Helicopters is taking its latest models to the LAAD Defense and Security 2013 exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, hoping to add more South American operators to its profile. The event starts Tuesday and runs through April 12...April 9, 2013
The U.S. Navy’s future Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) requirement looks like it’s breaking down into a straight fight between a modernized version of the current aircraft, Northrop Grumman’s C-2A Greyhound, and the new contender in the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey. At the Sea Air Space exposition being held at National Harbor, Maryland (from April 8-10), both of the contenders were...April 9, 2013
Turkish Airlines has committed to ordering 50 737 MAX aircraft from Boeing, a $6.9 billion order at current list prices. The order includes 40 737 MAX 8s, 10 737 MAX 9s and 20 Next-Generation 737-800s. ...April 9, 2013
French publishing company Lagardère announced the completion of the sale of its 61 million shares (7.4 percent of the share capital) of aerospace group EADS. The sale raised about $2.97 billion by means of a private placement through accelerated...April 9, 2013
The U.S. Air Force issued a contract award of more than $71 million to Northrop Grumman to provide sensors and payload systems upgrades for its fleet of Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). (Global Hawk Block 30. Photo, courtesy of Northrop Grumman.) According to the Department of...April 9, 2013
OnAir is expanding the in-flight connectivity program for Saudia, national carrier of Saudia Arabia, to include commercial flights between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and most of the airline's worldwide destinations. Mobile...April 9, 2013
FAA announced a settlement agreement Monday with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) agreeing to pay a $3.5-million fine for failing to comply with the agency's aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) regulations. The settlement covers New York's Kennedy (JFK)...April 9, 2013
Row 44 has completed installation of its in-flight entertainment system on 60 of Norwegian Air Shuttle's Boeing 737-800 aircraft, making it the first European airline to offer video-on-demand service to passengers' Wi-Fi-enabled devices. ...April 8, 2013
Erickson has renewed two heavy lift support contracts with Helifor Canada (an affiliate of Columbia Helicopters) and Western Forest Products, which is based in Vancouver. Erickson S-64 providing logging support. Photo courtesy of Erickson Western has renewed its...April 8, 2013
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday at age 87, may be remembered militarily for leading the United Kingdom in the campaign to retake the Falkland Islands in 1982, which had been invaded by Argentina’s forces in a surprise attack. She served three terms in office and her defining moment could be said to have been during the Falklands War. Her close relationship with...April 8, 2013
Malaysia’s Weststar Aviation Services has agreed to purchase eight helicopters from AgustaWestland, consisting of a pair of large-cabin AW189s and a six-pack of AW139s. Tan Sri...
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