The Week In Business Aviation - Nov. 8

Helicopter Operator Bristow Emerges From Chapter 11

Bristow Group

The company, which provides helicopters for oil-and-gas support operations and search-and-rescue services, has emerged with $535 million of new capital and a substantially reduced debt load by implementing a reorganization plan approved by a bankruptcy court in Texas in early October.

 

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Long-range Business Jet Needs Spur New Engine Advances

Rolls-Royce

Long a pioneering force for advances in avionics, aerodynamics and systems, business aviation is increasingly a champion for new propulsion technology, particularly in the fiercely contested heavy metal sector of the market.

 

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FAA, NASA Plan New Round Of Drone ATM Tests

FedEx/Wing

In a Nov. 5 message on Twitter, the FAA said the second phase of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) Pilot Program (UPP) will test technologies to remotely identify drones in high-density airspace.

 

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Turboprop Type Certificate, Drawings, Aircraft For Sale

A Meyers 200.

Interceptor Aircraft Co. has placed for sale the FAA type certificate, drawings, jigs, tooling and blueprints of the Interceptor 400, a pressurized single-engine turboprop, as well as the shared type certificate and tooling for the Meyers 200 piston-powered version.

 

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Thrush Aircraft Completes Restructuring With New Ownership

Thrush Aircraft

Thrush Aircraft, based in Albany, Georgia, has completed a 10-week restructuring and has new ownership and leadership. In August, the company announced it had filed a petition for Chapter 11 reorganization and was cutting a percentage of its workforce. 

 

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UPS, CVS Make First Prescription Deliveries By Drone

UPS

Package carrier UPS and pharmacy giant CVS on Nov. 5 said they completed the first moneymaking deliveries of medical prescriptions to customers by drone.

 

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NASA Looks For X-59 Sonic Boom Measurement System

Lockheed Martin

As it gears up to measure the public acceptability of reduced sonic booms, NASA is seeking proposals for an audio system capable of capturing high-resolution acoustic data from flights of its Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST low-boom demonstrator over communities across the U.S.

 

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Volocopter, Deere To Demo Crop-Spraying Heavy Drone

Volocopter

Volocopter is coopering with agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere to demonstrate its VoloDrone heavy-lift unmanned cargo aircraft equipped for crop protection spraying.

 

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