Eclipse Celebrates End-of-Year Milestones
Avionics certification, leading edge production and maintenance software and making production history by manufacturing and certifying 103 aircraft in 12 months, marked Eclipse Aviation’s new year. Eclipse Aviation Achieves FAA Certification of Avio NG As anticipated, Eclipse Aviation, received... [read more]
New Aircraft and Hangar for Phenom Program
Third 100 Takes Flight The third Phenom 100 jet took its first flight over the holidays from the test runway at the Embraer’s Gavião Peixoto facility in São Paul and joins the aircraft flight test campaign, performing interior function and reliability tests. This jet, the first to be...
Charter Safety Symposium Set
The Air Charter Safety Foundation (ACSF) set February 19-20 for its first Air Charter Safety Symposium – Developing a Healthy Safety Culture – to take place at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Training Center in Ashburn, VA, near Washington. NTSB Vice Chairman Robert Sumwalt will...
spn LJ Mock-Up Visits Banyan Air Service
Banyan Air Service recently hosted Grob Aerospace’s spn LJ mock-up display at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. Grob Aerospace sales directors, Skip Hockman and Joshua Kovac, as well as customer service director, Cary Brown, were on hand to answer questions. “We are pleased to have the spn here...
Cessna Wraps Up 80th Year
As 2007 comes to a close, Cessna Aircraft Company looks back at an eventful year including an aircraft manufacturing acquisition and the sales success of its Very Light Cessna Citation Mustang. Cessna acquired Columbia Aircraft Manufacturing Company, intending to continue production of its two...
New ARC on TO & L Performance
In response to National Transportation Safety Board recommendations stemming from the Southwest Airlines accident at Chicago Midway Airport in 2005, FAA recently formed a Takeoff/Landing Performance Assessment Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC). After the accident, the FAA found that aircraft operators...
Ground De-Icing, Caravan Focus of FAA Publications
New ground de-/anti-icing policies in addition to Caravan training requirements were issued by the FAA recently, according to the National Air Transportation Association. Caravan Training The Caravan training requirements came in the guise of a safety alert for operators (SAFO) on the Cessna Caravan (CE-208...
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