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Nigel Moll

Luck can change in an instant.

Pilots of Embraer Legacy in midair in Brazil

Gregory Polek

Since taking over as president of the Regional Airline Association (RAA) from Walt Coleman six years ago, Debby McElroy has steered the organization toward

Debby McElroy leaves RAA for airports council

AIN Staff

Mark Rosenker became the 11th chairman of the NTSB in August after serving as acting chairman since March 2005.

NTSB: Mark Rosenker

Matt Thurber

Building a new engine is a huge gamble, but if the timing is right the payoff can be enormous.

Pratt & Whitney team brings PW600 series to three light jets

After becoming the longest-serving Transportation Secretary in the department’s history, Norman Mineta tendered his resignation to President Bush in June.

DOT: Norm Mineta to Mary Peters

Jonathan Ornstein rarely goes more than a few weeks without making headlines in the aviation press, but the fiery CEO of Mesa Air Group outdid himself last

Mesa CEO takes aim at Hawaii market

As president and CEO, Stuart Matthews has been the face of the Flight Safety Foundation for the past 13 years.

Flight Safety Foundation: Stuart Matthews to William Voss

At last report Comair first officer James Polehinke still didn’t recall his abrupt and tragic entry into the ranks of this year’s newsmakers.

First officer sole survivor in crash of Comair Flight 5191

David A. Lombardo

A little over two years after joining NetJets as president, Bill Boisture Jr.

NetJets president Bill Boisture departs to serve as a consultant at powerhouse firm The Carlyle Group

Glenn Maben & Nathan Forrest On July 25 Glenn Maben, 53, director of flight operations for Spectrum Aeronautical, and vice director Nathan Forr

Newsmakers: Final flights

Twenty years after beginning a quest to develop a jet, Michimasa Fujino stood proudly at the Honda display during last year’s NBAA Convention as Honda Moto

Michimasa Fujino: father of the HondaJet

Early last July Pierre Beaudoin’s 10-month stint as president and COO of Bombardier Aerospace came to an end as he passed the baton to Pierre Gabriel Côté.

Bombardier: Pierre Beaudoin to Pierre Gabriel Côté

Gordon Gilbert

Remarkably, the two pilots and three passengers on a NetJets Hawker 800XP and the pilot of a Schleicher sailplane escaped with their lives when the two air

All survive midair between a glider and Hawker 800XP

Swiss manufacturer Pilatus elevated Thomas Bosshard from COO to president and CEO of its U.S.

Pilatus Aircraft: Thomas Bosshard to Thomas Hunziker

Announced at the 2002 NBAA Convention, the recently certified Citation Mustang is cementing Cessna’s reputation as an on-time, as-promised manufacturer.

Cessna’s Citation Mustang team certifies and delivers VLJ on schedule

A spate of crashes that led the FAA to propose mandatory pilot training requirements for the Mitsubishi MU-2 galvanized Rep.

Congressman Tom Tancredo wages lengthy battle urging the FAA to ground the Mitsubishi MU-2

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey stonewalled the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (Natca) in new contract talks, declaring an impasse on April 5

Marion Blakey takes on controllers union, stays mum on user fees

Fabrice Brégier to Lutz Bertling

Industry groups, including NBAA, were working with the FAA late last year to get it to ease requirements on two issues that carried a January deadline.

FAA expected to update two issues

Cessna has asked the FAA to allow the Citation CJ4, being certified under Part 23, to meet the lower landing gear ground loads of Part 25.

Cessna asks FAA for CJ4 exemption

It has been a long road for Raytheon Aircraft, but on November 21 the Hawker 4000 (née Horizon) super-midsize received full FAA certification, following th

Hawker 4000 wins certification

Sabreliner has announced the following personnel appointments: Ronnie Herman, senior v-p of operations; Gene Harbula, senior v-p of business development; G

People in Aviaton: January 2007

Although the FAA allowed only 30 days for comments on the proposed Special FAR mandating Mitsubishi MU-2 pilot training, 72 comments were submitted to the 

Pilots concerned about MU-2 NPRM

Dassault Falcon Jet’s Little Rock, Ark., completion center on December 12 accepted the first Falcon 7X (S/N 05) for completion.

Completions of Falcon 7X begin at Little Rock facility

On December 21 Raytheon announced a $3.3 billion “definitive agreement” that will result in the sale of Raytheon Aircraft to Onex Partners of Toronto and G

Raytheon Aircraft finds buyer

Leonard Greene Friends say Leonard Greene wasn’t just brilliant.

Final Flights: January 2007

A DOT notice issued December 19 warns colleges arranging charter flights on large aircraft to football bowl games, basketball playoffs or other “special ev

DOT warns about Part 125, brokers

AOPA and seven flight schools have challenged in federal court a New York state law that requires criminal background checks for all flight school students

AOPA files suit to change state law requiring background checks

Aircraft maintenance tracking service provider Camp Systems of Ronkonkoma, N.Y., entered a “definitive agreement” to acquire Aircraft Shopper Online, a Cor

Camp To Acquire Pre-owned Marketplace

Amid ceremonies December 12 in Toulouse, France, the Airbus A380 received joint type certification approvals from the FAA and the European Aviation Safety 

Airbus A380 Certified; can a BEHEMOTH bizliner be far behind?

Jack Elliott

A November 27 town meeting about the effect of voluntary operational restrictions at Teterboro Airport raised questions about how long the cooperative spir

Tenuous peace between TEB users, neighbors

NASA disclosed last month that flight crew, ground crew, air traffic controllers and others involved in aviation operations can now securely submit electro

ASRS Reports Can Be Filed Electronically

Thierry Dubois

Giuseppe Airaudi, 52, and his passenger died in the crash of an Agusta Bell AB412 on November 27 in the Italian Alps.

Airgreen founder dies in crash

Although a strike last summer at Learjet facilities in Wichita held down aircraft deliveries in the third quarter of this year, Bombardier reported that it

Bombardier deliveries climb

Transport Canada increased the minimum visibility required before beginning an approach from the previous 1,200 feet to 1,600 feet, effective December 1.

Approach limits raised in Canada

Menominee, Mich., Twin County Airport manager Tony Krysiak told AIN that on December 5 he saw Cessna 425 Conquest N425JP taxi in, turn left and crash into 

Terminal Recovering from Conquest Hit

New Advisory Circular AC 120-87A updates guidance on the use of child restraint seats (CRS) on aircraft.

Advisory Is Not Child’s Play

Cessna received the FAA production certificate for its new Citation Mustang very light jet on November 22, two-and-a-half months after type certification o

Mustang approved for full-scale production

In lieu of a passport, U.S.

Passport Requirements Tightened

A $27 million child-abduction suit involving charter and aircraft management services operator Executive Jet Management (EJM) has been settled out of court

Executive Jet settles abduction lawsuit

Stephen Pope

Arinc Direct and Starling Advanced Communication have joined forces to offer integrated broadband connectivity to business jet customers.

Arinc and starling team

The New York State Assembly didn’t follow the Senate’s lead and pass legislation that would exempt Part 91 aircraft from sales and use taxes.

New York fails to pass tax break

Charles Alcock

An Airbus Corporate Jetliner is about to get the chance to prove the value of its certification for flights into known icing conditions as it begins shuttl

ACJ will fly shuttle service to Antarctica]

Brazilian business jet and regional airline manufacturer Embraer estimates 11,115 business jets will be delivered over the next 10 years and that 2,500 to 

Embraer’s Phenomenal Forecast

NetJets subsidiary Executive Jet Management (EJM) told AIN last month it logged record revenues last year but declined to reveal a dollar number.

EJM Boasts Record Charter Revenues

General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Transport Canada generally support, with some suggested clarifications, the FAA’s recent proposal to amend the type certi

Engine Notice Garners Just Three Comments

The FAA has released an NPRM for FAR Part 145 repair stations that proposes revising the established rating system to eliminate the current class system in

FAA takes aim at FAR Part 145 repair stations

Around 80 exhibitors have committed to participating in the Middle East Business Aviation (MEBA) conference and exhibition to be held in Dubai from January

Dubai ready to host new bizav show

Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y., presented its annual Spirit of Noise Abatement Award to 32 of its based operators for maintaining 100-per

Operators honored for flying more quietly

A wrongful-death lawsuit in connection with the Feb.

Citation Crash Lawsuit Settled

After a second taxiing incident damaged the EMAS arrestor bed at the end of New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport Runway 6, the airport installed delineators to m

EMAS at Teterboro Gets Reflectors

Meredith Saini

U.S.

U.S. Helicopter expands New York shuttle service

A lawsuit in which former Sino Swearingen president Carl Chen is suing the company for breach of contract and other alleged wrongdoings has been reschedule

Chen vs Sino Swearingen Trial Postponed

The U.S.

Civilian market drives record industry sales in ’06

Aspen Avionics, the maker of the AT300 hazard awareness display, has asked a New Mexico court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Eclipse Aviation in October cla

Aspen avionics asks judge to throw out Eclipse lawsuit

Release of a new air-taxi operations specification (OpSpec A008) to replace interim Notice 8400.83, published last June, has been delayed again–from the en

Air-taxi OpSpec delayed again

Safety information about TCAS equipment and its use is now available in the form of a new FAA Safety Bulletin (www.faa.gov/and/and500/500/docs/TCAS_SAFETY_

TCAS Users Advised of Incorrect Response 

Garlick Helicopters and Double R Flying Service in Montana and their owner, Ronald Garlick, have been indicted on federal fraud charges in connection with 

Helo Repair Firms and Owner Indicted

Switzerland officially joined the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) on December 1.

Switzerland joins EASA

John Goglia

Safety Management Systems (SMSs), popular in other industries for years, are coming to aviation because regulatory authorities, safety experts and industry

Aviation industry embraces SMS

Eclipse Aviation has further refined the Model 500 very light jet’s design to reach performance goals, according to a customer technical communication sent

Design changes continue on Eclipse 500

Landmark Aviation last month received STC approval to install Rockwell Collins’ Pro Line 21 IDS integrated display system in the Falcon 50.

Landmark gains STC for Pro Line 21 in the Falcon 50

Ten months ago all 16 of England’s and Wales’ air ambulances created the Association of Air Ambulance Charities (AAAC) to lobby the government to consider 

UK air ambulance group lobbies for infrastructure

Add Belgium’s Barco to the list of companies interested in entering the market for business aircraft avionics.

Barco views role on Apex as a ‘stepping stone’ into bizav

The Palm Springs market has a new full-service FBO at Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport.

According to Tradition

The aviation rulemaking committee (ARC) advising the FAA about whether airline pilots should be able to fly after reaching the agency’s mandatory retiremen

FAA mum on age 60 rule changes

Pilots of large-cabin jets who work as independent contractors complain that former airline pilots and young pilots willing to work for much less are under

Big-iron pilots flood corporate market

New funding from the Florida DOT for three projects at Page Field in Fort Myers includes $500,000 for landside improvements associated with a future termin

Florida GA Airport Receives Funding

Thunder Aviation opened its doors in 1997 after several people approached owner Larry Moskoff, who based his Beech Duke at Spirit of Saint Louis Airport, a

Thunder Aviation

PrivatAir has ordered the first 787 Boeing Business Jet but has yet to decide whether to use the widebody for executive charter services, corporate shuttle

Private Air to take first 787 BBJ

Cincinnati-based Aviation Research Group/U.S.

Charter audits expand to Europe

Ground-support equipment maker Tronair acquired aircraft-towing company Jetporter and introduced a line of ground-support products designed specifically fo

Tronair Tows the Line

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) opened a distribution center in Amsterdam, eliminating the need for many customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to g

P&WC Parts Center Opens in Amsterdam

Private jet passengers whose consciences are troubled by their jet’s contribution to global warming can now rest easier with the new CarbonNeutral option f

Eco-friendly charter offered

Jet Aviation has dropped plans to build an FBO at Kuwait International Airport.

Jet Aviation Drops Kuwait FBO Plan

The Isle of Man–a British Crown dependency located in the Irish Sea between the UK and Ireland–is on track to have its new aircraft register up and running

New offshore register close to opening

First Gulfstream and now Embraer has selected the PilotView electronic flight bag (EFB) from CMC Electronics for its line of large business jets.

Embraer selects PilotView EFB

Zurich-based charter company Comlux took possession last month of an Airbus A318 Elite, making it the first to operate the type.

First customer A318 Elite delivered

FAA Information for Operators 06005 (<link http://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry/airline_operators/airline_safety/info)>www.faa.gov/other_visit/

Beware False TCAS Alarms from…Ships

Sky-Nets, which offers free wireless Internet (WiFi) systems to FBOs, released the results of a survey of FBOs, assessing their level of WiFi adoption.

Small Airports Said To Be Ideal for WiFi

On December 1 a Learjet 36 with two pilots and one passenger aboard lost its right elevator while maneuvering off the coast of San Diego.

Learjet Safe after Losing Right Elevator

Embraer has chosen Stevens Aviation to provide factory-approved maintenance and product support for its new Phenom 100 very light and Phenom 300 light jets

Stevens Aviation chosen at Phenom service center

Libya’s Sirte Oil has ordered an Embraer E170 twinjet for corporate shuttle operations.

Libyan oil firm buys Embraer jet

Eighty percent of pilots polled said they would make the switch to electronic charts if the cost was reasonable, the FAA said it was OK to do so and the ha

Switching to electronic charts? Read this

For this year’s look in the crystal ball, AIN added a number of aircraft to the list to reflect ongoing programs more accurately.

2007 looks bright for makers of entry-level bizjets

Former AOPA and Air Transport Association official Roger Cohen replaced Debby McElroy last month as the president of the Regional Airline Association (RAA)

RAA names McElroy’s successor

Bombardier is boosting aircraft-on-ground (AOG) support in Europe with new operations in Germany and Austria.

Bombardier extends global network 

NetJets Europe (NJE) has offered its flight crew new onshore contracts and improved pay.

Flight crews get new offer from NetJets Europe

Elizabeth Johnson

Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino, the pilot and copilot of the ExcelAire Legacy 600 involved in a midair with a Boeing 737 operated by Brazil’s Gol on Septem

ExcelAire pilots return home; Brazil bizav still feels the heat

Mark Huber

Structural failure appears to have caused the fatal crash of the second Grob SPn prototype near the company airfield in Tussenhausen-Mattsies, Germany, on 

Structural failure eyed in Grob crash

The second prototype of the Bell/Agusta BA609 tiltrotor has been flying in airplane mode since November 9 (see AIN, December 2006, page 3).

BA609 flight tests continue in Italy

The labor crisis at Comair appeared headed for a climax late last month as the Cincinnati-based airline’s management and pilot representatives prepared to 

Comair pilots authorize strike as standoff approaches climax

Europe’s skies have become safer since two landmark accidents, according to a new independent survey commissioned by air traffic management agency Eurocont

Eurocontrol’s safety plan improves air traffic management in Europe

Certification of the Grob SPn Utility Jet will be delayed by a few months, according to a statement released last week, 16 days after the fatal crash of th

Grob Sees Slight Delay in SPn Jet Program

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