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Magazine Issue

NBAA: ShowNews Day 2

November 18, 2015

FBO News

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Sales Tax Exemption to Help Sheltair in NY

Nov 18, 2015
Sheltair, a privately owned aviation development company operating 16 FBOs in North America, continues expansion efforts at properties in the states of New York and Florida.
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Sheltair, Jet Aviation Sign Exclusive FBO Pact

Nov 18, 2015
​In an effort to expand market share, Jet Aviation and Sheltair are launching a preferred partner alliance that will offer benefits to customers across their FBO networks in the U.S.
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Wilson Air Center Takes Advantage of Good News

Nov 18, 2015
Wilson Air Center’s business is picking up, signaling that the economic recovery in this segment of business aviation continues.
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Steady Growth For Atlantic Aviation

Nov 18, 2015
Houston-based Atlantic Aviation, a division of the Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation, continues its steady growth pattern with FBO acquisitions and enhancements to existing facilities. Foremost in news is the update of its $230 million purchase last year of Galaxy Aviation and its six FBOs.
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Hawthorne To Grow Under New Leadership

Nov 18, 2015
Hawthorne Global Aviation Services is planning to grow organically and through acquisition of more FBOs in coming weeks.
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NATA Acquires FBO Organization

Nov 18, 2015
The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has been strengthened considerably with its purchase of the for-profit Independent Fixed Base Operators Association (IFBOA), according to the head of the association.
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Million Air Continues Expansion Drive

Nov 18, 2015
Million Air continues to grow its FBO network through acquisitions and makeovers of existing properties despite the lackluster economic recovery.
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Cutter Enhances its MRO Operation

Nov 18, 2015
The Cutter Aviation FBO chain based in Phoenix, Ariz., is restructuring its maintenance department with new personnel to better serve customers and enhance its marketability.

Aircraft

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Embraer Lineage 1000E Has Long Legs

Nov 18, 2015
Embraer’s Lineage 1000E was showing off its range capability last Saturday, flying nonstop from New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport to Las Vegas, departing with a reduced fuel load to meet the Teterboro weight restriction of 100,000 lb.
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Airbus ACJneo Program Gaining Traction

Nov 18, 2015
ACJ sees an important market for the ACJneo business jets in North America, “where private jets are widely used as business tools by companies, billionaires and governments, helping them to be more productive.”

VIP Completions

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BizJet International Delivers BBJ to Yunnan Jingcheng

Nov 18, 2015
BizJet International comes to NBAA 2015 on the heels of delivery of its ninth BBJ into the East Asia market.
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Jet Aviation Basel Expanding to Meet Demand

Nov 18, 2015
Jet Aviation Basel is looking forward to plenty of business jet interior outfitting and is expanding to meet that demand.
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Flying Colours Continues to Grow

Nov 18, 2015
“This is our biggest show at which we will have the biggest presence,” said Sean Gillespie, vice president of Canadian completion, refurbishment and conversion specialist Flying Colours at the opening of NBAA 2015.
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Comlux Expands to Win Greater Market Share

Nov 18, 2015
Comlux America, the Indianapolis-based completion and services center of the Comlux Group, is expanding its capabilities as a strategy to weather a slowdown in the VVIP single-aisle-aircraft-completions market.
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Associated Air Center at Capacity

Nov 18, 2015
Associated Air Center, with seven aircraft in its Love Field facilities in various stages of cabin completion, upgrade and interior refurbishment, is operating at capacity and occupies a substantial presence at NBAA 2015

Aftermarket

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Duncan Is More Than Refurbishment

Nov 18, 2015
There are many ways the MRO business has embraced technology, not just in performing actual work on aircraft, but some of the most popular technological advances have been in automating the fundamentals.

Cyber Security

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Astronautics Promotes Anti-Hacking PaTIO

Nov 18, 2015
Citing increasing vulnerability behind an increasing desire for connectivity on a wider range of devices, Astronautics Corporation of America is promoting a new architecture designed to prevent hacking of an aircraft’s data.

News

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Howard 500 Makes NBAA Debut

Nov 18, 2015
Lots of heads turned when Ryan Mohr, chief pilot for Phillippi Equipment Co. of Eagan, Minnesota, landed Lady of the Night, one of the firm's Howard 500 heavy twins at Henderson Airport on Saturday evening
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Boeing’s Bizjet Business Blooms

Nov 18, 2015
With the caveat that the year is by no means over yet, Boeing Business Jets presented its near end-of-term sales and delivery figures as the convention opened.
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Sandel Unveils Avilon for King Airs

Nov 18, 2015
Emphasizing safety, especially on approach, Sandel Avionics has introduced Avilon as an easy-to-install retrofit King Air cockpit that can replace legacy equipment for a guaranteed fly-away price of $175,000.
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P&WC Launches Most Powerful PT6 Turboprop

Nov 18, 2015
Having developed the 867-shp PT6-140 turboprop engine for the Cessna Caravan, Pratt & Whitney Canada has unveiled a Dash A version with a twin, bifurcated exhaust that will suit it to many other potential applications.
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FAA Oks Blackhawk’s XP140 Engine Upgrade for Caravan

Nov 18, 2015
The FAA has certified Blackhawk Modifications Inc.’s XP140 engine upgrade for Cessna 208A and 208B Caravans.
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20 Years Later, Flexjet Still Accelerating

Nov 18, 2015
With the court decision in October to recognize fractional operator Flexjet and sister company Flight Options as a single carrier under parent company Directional Aviation, Flexjet is growing fast as it adds pilots and planes under its own brands and service offerings.
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Flying Colours Wins Bombardier Excellence Award

Nov 18, 2015
Bombardier Business Aircraft has awarded St. Louis-based Flying Colours Corp.'s MRO and completions facility its Authorized Service Facility Excellence Award in the North American category.
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SyberJet’s NWorx Cabin at Henderson

Nov 18, 2015
SyberJet Aircraft is showing new SJ30i cabin interior at Static Space 300 at Henderson and wants customer input to help complete the design.
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PATS Rebrands As Aloft AeroArchitects

Nov 18, 2015
Those who visit PATS Air Services’ booth Tuesday will find a surprise at the same booth today as the company unveils the freshly rebranded Aloft AeroArchitects.
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Honeywell to Acquire Satcom1

Nov 18, 2015
Honeywell has agreed to acquire Copenhagen-based Satcom1, positioning it to offer operators “a seamless experience with an all-in-one connectivity solution
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Hartzell Composite Five-Blade Prop Flying on 20% of TBMs

Nov 18, 2015
​Hartzell Propeller has delivered more than 150 of its advanced high-performance swept airfoil five-blade propellers for DaherBM 700/850/900 turboprop singles in the 18 months since receiving FAA type certificate approval.
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Airbus Goes With CAMP for More Choices

Nov 18, 2015
Airbus Corporate Jet customers and operators can now benefit from a wider range of computerized maintenance planning services, following an agreement concluded here with CAMP.

Connectivity

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Astronics, Panasonic Partner To Bring High-Speed Connectivity

Nov 18, 2015
Astronics AeroSat and Panasonic Avionics announced a partnership to bring high-speed connectivity services and global live television programming to the business and VVIP aviation market.