Embraer's senior manager for fleet maintenance support, Cezar Lima, received the Overhaul & Maintenance Award from Aviation Week's Overhaul & Maintenance magazine. Lima is based in So Jose dos Campos.
The NATA released its annual survey of general aviation employee compensation, including salary and benefit information for pilots, line-service personnel and maintenance technicians. The compensation information is divided by geographic region, company gross sales, employee base and size of location. Association Research Inc., an economic research firm based in Rockville, Md., conducted the research. The study is available for $50 for NATA members and $100 for non-members.
Skycorp at Snohomish County-Paine Field (PAE), Everett, Wash., has added a managed King Air to its FAR Part 135 certificate. For further information, contact Steen Bramer, director of aircraft management at (866) SKY-EXEC.
The U.S. version of Diamond Aircraft industries D-JET is to be offered with Ballistic Recovery Systems' high-speed parachute recovery system. The U.S. version of the aircraft will have a gross weight of 4,440 pounds (2,200 kilograms) against the 4,397 pound (1,999 kilogram) offering for European customers. Insurance considerations and higher average American passenger weights are driving the two versions of the single-engine unpressurized very light jet.
General Electric has delivered the first set of three CT7-8E engines for the US101/EH101, the heavy-lift helicopter AgustaWestland hopes will beat out the Sikorsky S-92 to become the presidential transport. GE delivered the first set of engines for the first model of the EH101 19 years ago. Since then, the GE-powered EH101 has amassed over 100,000 engine flight hours.
DURING HIS YEARS AS A MEMBER of the NTSB, John Goglia regularly sounded the alarm about a steady increase in maintenance-related accidents. As the only licensed A&P to ever serve on the Safety Board, Goglia's observations carried special weight. Recently succeeded by a Senate staffer, Goglia's clear, authoritative voice will be missed since his words of caution were founded in fact.
How to Use the Charts Aircraft Operating Costs are presented in a format that separates the data into seven separate areas: Mission Costs, Variable Costs, Fixed Annual Costs, Periodic Costs, Personnel Costs, Training Costs and Facilities Costs. Aircraft Category
The good news on the flight training front is that business is on the increase this year and the upward trend is forecast to continue into 2005. The major players of flight training -- CAE SimuFlite, FlightSafety International (FSI) and Pan Am International's business training arm SimCom -- across the board reported a welcome improvement in demand for simulator and classroom instruction at nearly all of their traditional facilities and also some unexpected areas.
PAMA's Professional Aviation Maintenance Olympic Committee is looking for volunteers to help plan and promote the 2005 Olympics. Specifically, assistance is needed to coordinate the marketing/advertising of the competition to potential teams, individual TechnAthletes, sponsors and the media. The committee meets once a month via teleconference. If interested, contact committee Chairman Tom Yanus at [email protected] or call (386) 323-5079
Honeywell will supply the Flight Control Electronics package for Boeing's new 7E7 Dreamliner. This is the third major 7E7 system awarded to Honeywell. Boeing previously selected it to provide the navigation package and crew information system/management system (CIS/MS) for the aircraft. Together, the systems represent a potential total program value in excess of $2.5 billion for Honeywell over the life of the 7E7 program. The Flight Control Electronics consist of the fly-by-wire system and the AFCS automatic flight control system that includes autoland.
Cessna has opened a new 155,000-square-foot Citation Service Center on the west side of Orlando International Airport (MCO), replacing the original 47,275-square-foot center that opened there in 1983. Cessna said it will add still another 45,000 square feet to the center to include a humidity-controlled paint room and aircraft detailing area. That addition is expected to be completed in October.
The U.S. House of Representatives has joined the Senate in passing legislation that includes a one-year extension (to Dec. 31, 2005) of bonus-depreciation tax benefits for sales of general aviation aircraft. The provision also applies to major capital improvements to older aircraft. GAMA applauded House passage in mid-June of H.R. 4520, the American Jobs Creation Act, which includes a 12-month extension of the placed-in-service requirement for purchasers of general aviation aircraft wishing to qualify for 50-percent accelerated or bonus depreciation.
The FAA completed flight tests of a fuel inerting system on board the NASA Boeing 747 used as a space shuttle transport. The FAA plans to use test data in its proposed inerting rule, which is set for release this fall. NASA's Glenn Research Center is studying technologies, including advanced gas separation methods, to make inert gas generation cheaper and fuels harder to ignite in the tank.
Delta AirElite Business Jets, Cincinnati, announced two promotions at its corporate headquarters at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG). Cameron Gowans has been promoted to vice president, sales and marketing, and Brandon Greene has been promoted to director of marketing.
In a reaction to the June 9 evacuation of the U.S. Capitol and the scrambling of two NORAD F-15s to intercept a fully identified, fully cleared King Air with a balky transponder that was inbound to DCA carrying the governor of Kentucky (B/CA, July, page 18), the FAA issued a NOTAM, June 18, directing any aircraft that experiences transponder failure in the Washington, D.C., ADIZ to immediately turn to the most direct course to exit the lateral confines of the ADIZ.
Two congressmen want the TSA to ease up on security requirements for business aviation repair stations. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, along with Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Aviation, sent a letter to TSA Acting Administrator David Stone in June stating that repair stations conducting work on aircraft certificated under FAR Parts 135 and 91 should not be subject to the same security requirements as those performing maintenance on Part 121 aircraft.
ARINC announced it would form another independent business unit focused on providing mission-critical contract management, operations and maintenance services for government and private industry (see ``Annapolis Giant Begins to Stir,'' B/CA, June, page 56). The new company, ARINC Managed Services, will establish its own headquarters and continue to be wholly owned but separately operated. James L. Martin, formerly senior director of ARINC Global Maintenance Services, has been named to head the new company.
Finnair has placed a firm order for 12 Embraer 170, 76-seat feeder airliners and eight options. The value of the firm order is estimated at $306 million with the potential of $510 million if all options are converted. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in September 2005 and will continue until May 2007. Before this latest announcement the Embraer 170/190 family had logged 258 orders and 342 options from nine customers.
General aviation leaders expressed alarm at the news of an impending NPRM to make the ADIZ permanent. ``What's astonishing to me is that if [DCA] were open to general aviation -- as it should be -- then this incident, with all the corresponding communications conundrums, would never have happened,'' said National Air Transportation Association President James Coyne.
WE WERE MONITORING THE TV in the newsroom on June 9 as the nation waited for an Air Force 747 to bring former President Reagan's body to Washington for his state funeral. After landing at Andrews Air Force Base east of D.C., the body was to be carried in a motorcade to the Capitol. Security was tight, particularly so at the Capitol, where most members of Congress planned to honor Reagan by being in attendance when his body arrived to lie in state in the Rotunda.
Pratt & Whitney, in partnership with the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, earned the Aviation Week Charles B. Ryan Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Award for innovative partnering providing cost-effective readiness to the U.S. Air Force.
FlightSafety International, Flushing, N.Y., has announced three promotions. Craig Newell is promoted to manager of the company's Wichita Learjet Learning Center; Tony Ossipov is promoted to assistant manager for the company's Teterboro Learning Center; and Barbara Taylor is promoted to corporate director -- customer support for FlightSafety International.
