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April 1, 2013
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a $100,000 fine to Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Airlines for a tarmac delay at New York's JFK Airport...April 1, 2013
Raytheon has received a $14.9 million order to provide pod adapter units and NavFLIR Surrogates for the Naval Air Systems Command...April 1, 2013
MD Helicopters CEO Lynn Tilton through the cockpit of the MD540F. At HAI Lynn Tilton, owner of MD Helicopters, said she was scarred, but stronger for it, in her efforts to turn MD Helicopters around since buying the company in 2005. “I can feel the Howard Hughes legacy on my shoulders.” The latest MD product, the MD540F, is on many military wish lists, she said. “We have...April 1, 2013
Lockheed Martin/Kaman unmaned cargo K-Max. Gary Tenison, vice president of business development and marketing for Kaman Aerospace, told Rotor & Wing that the company’s recent restructuring is part of a strategy to focus on operators. “One Kaman is about consolidating the Kaman business,” he said. “Helicopters were once apart and are now within the Aerosystems group...March 29, 2013
Eurocopter has received an order for two EC225s from Weststar Aviation Services, which is based at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in...March 29, 2013
Africair, independent representative of Bell for Africa, has signed a purchase agreement with Scott’s–Bell 47 (SB47) for two 47GT-6 helicopters...March 29, 2013
FAA issued an amended production certificate (PC) to Eclipse Aerospace Thursday, authorizing final assembly, test and certification for its new production 550 twin-engine very light business jet. The final production certification comes following the company’s announcement last week that it powered on the new production jet for the first time. The aircraft entered...March 29, 2013
Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, founders of the Solar Impulse project, on Thursday announced a schedule for their coast-to-coast U.S. flight with their aircraft powered exclusively by solar energy. Piccard and Borschberg first debuted the Solar Impulse aircraft with a successful 26-hour solar powered flight over Switzerland in2010. Now the team is ready for a flight from California to...March 29, 2013
FAA said it will hold an online public engagement forum Wednesday April 3, to allow public comments regarding the privacy policy being drafted to regulate the introduction of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into domestic airspace. Public comments will provide the...March 29, 2013
Bombardier received a $134.7 million order from Danish aircraft leasing firm Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) to acquire four Q400 Nextgen aircraft. The Q400s will be operated by Riga, Latvia-based carrier airBaltic...March 29, 2013
Bloomington, Ill.-based Central Illinois Regional Airport is filing a lawsuit against FAA regarding the agency’s plan to cut funding for the air traffic control tower that manages air traffic at its airport. The tower operating at Central Illinois is one of 149 total towers scheduled to lose FAA funding beginning in April due to the recent five percent...March 28, 2013
Shanghai-based Avia-Tek aviation consultancy has forecast the delivery of 65 civil helicopters into the Chinese rotorcraft market during 2013, bringing the total number of airframes in China to 435. Avia-Tek publishes an annual report that in 2011 predicted that the Chinese civil market would have 357...March 28, 2013
Robinson Helicopters announced that the Russian Interstate Aviation Committee Aviation Register (IACAR) issued a type certificate for the R66 turbine on March 15, 2013, the culmination of a process that began in November 2010. The welcome news will now allow Robinson to export 22 R66 helicopters to Russia. A further 18 are in production and will now be delivered to Russian later in...March 28, 2013
AMR Corp., parent company of American Airlines, received approval for its merger with US Airways from a bankruptcy judge in New York Wednesday. The approval moves American Airlines a step closer to finishing its reorganization plan and exiting bankruptcy protection. The Ft. Worth, Texas-based carrier announced its merger with US Airways last month, a little over a year...March 28, 2013
The integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the national airspace system (NAS) by FAA’s 2015 deadline has the potential to create jobs and new technological applications for the civilian, commercial and scientific use of UAS, a new study from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NPCA) says. NPCA said the negative connotation associated with unmanned aircraft resulting from the drone...March 28, 2013
The U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command selected Northrop Grumman for a $13.2 million contract to provide logistics and support for the AN/ASN-139 Carrier Aircraft Inertial Navigation System (CAINS II). The AN/ASN-139...March 28, 2013
Italian carrier Alitalia received a $125,000 fine from the U.S. Department of Transportation for providing false information regarding its passenger cancellation policy. The department discovered that the...March 28, 2013
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is launching the Environmental Measures Project, a new project aimed at reducing aviation emissions in Indonesia. Indonesia’s Ministry of Transport and Directorate of General Civil Aviation (DGCA) are collaborating with ICAO’s Technical Cooperation Bureau (ICAO-TCB) to oversee the project. ICAO said...March 27, 2013
Sikorsky has handed over five S-70i Black Hawks to the Special Forces unit of the Columbian Army’s Air Assault Division. The airframes were built at PZL Mielec...March 27, 2013
The Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) released its first ever avionics market report on Tuesday, showing total avionics sales of nearly $6.3 billion in 2012 for the general aviation industry. AEA said the $6.3 billion figure represents sales data from 19 avionics manufacturers, and includes all aircraft electronic sales, including cockpit upgrades, cabin and software upgrades, components and...
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