Flying Colours Corp. has signed an agreement with the Conair Group to modify six production Bombardier Q400MR aircraft to support multipurpose missions. Conair Group provides fixed-wing firefighting aircraft.
According to the U.S. Transportation Department Inspector General's Office, evaluations in 2013 and 2014 found that the FAA's Civil Aviation Registry lacked accurate and complete information on pilots and aircraft registered in the U.S., including aircraft owned under trusts.
Airbus Helicopters plans to build a second commercial helicopter, the EC145e, in the U.S. to support the emergency medical services (EMS) market. The company's Columbus, Mississippi, facility will build 25 of the models, following an order from Metro Aviation, an EMS operator and completion firm.
NTSB investigators took a long look at the human factors elements in the May 15, 2017, loss of a Trans-Pacific Air Charter Gates Learjet 35A and its two crewmembers while attempting an ILS 6 circle to 1 approach in VMC at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey.
Air medical transport company Air Medical Resource Group has changed its name to Guardian Flight. Air Medical Group Holdings recently acquired Guardian Flight, which operates a fleet of about 100 fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft in the Upper Midwest, Mountain West, Southwest, Alaska and Hawaii.
Textron Aviation is halting production of the high-performance Cessna TTx single. Last year, it delivered just 23 units, down from 31 in 2016 and 44 in 2015.
XOJet has enhanced its XOJet Elite Access Program, giving guaranteed rates on light and midsize business jets, in addition to its super-mid business jet product.
Owners and operators of about 100,000 of the 160,000 general and business aviation aircraft in the U.S. are expected to upgrade their aircraft with ADS-B equipment to comply with the FAA's Jan. 1, 2020, mandate.
Bell has officially dropped the word "helicopter" from its name. CEO Mitch Snyder explained that the term had become "very confining" but added "this does not mean we are not going to keep building helicopters or tiltrotors."
The U.S. Air Force recently named Nextant Aerospace as a subcontractor to Field Aerospace on the service's T-1A Avionics Modernization Program. The T-1A is a military derivative of the Hawker Beechcraft 400A business jet.
Continental Motors Group and the Aviation Industry Corp. of China have received three new type certificate validations from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
Bell is equipping its Model 407GXi single-engine light helicopter with Garmin's G1000H NXi integrated avionics suite and powering it with an uprated version of the Rolls-Royce M250 turbine engine.
Editor's Note: As promised last month and in honor of our late former colleague and editor-in-chief, Archie Trammell, we once again offer up his last article for this magazine, published in our March 2016 edition.
Duncan Aviation's helicopter component repair services business rose 80% in 2017, and the growth is expected to continue through 2018, the company said.
The Silvercrest turbofan engine, whose recurring problems caused Dassault to terminate the Falcon 5X program (see page 56) is being tweaked to better meet the needs of its only remaining application, the Cessna Hemisphere.
Why would anyone want to operate a business jet into Hong Kong? Arrival and departure slots at Hong Kong and overnight parking for non-airline aircraft are among the most difficult—and expensive—to obtain of any destination in the world. And with recent changes that disconnect slot reservations from parking assignments, coordinating a stay has become that much harder.
