Joseph Tulowitzki joined Dallas Airmotive as Northeast regional engine manager for Honeywell TFE731 series engines and auxiliary power units and Pratt & Whitney Canada PW300 series engines. Tulowitzki has 25 years of aviation maintenance and management experience, holding positions as an airframe and powerplant mechanic, inspector, aircraft maintenance supervisor and assistant director of maintenance. Tulowitzki will be based in Warrenton, Va.
BOEING NAMES FORMER GE EXECUTIVE TO HEAD COMPANY - The Boeing Company board of directors named W. James McNerney, Jr., a former senior executive of General Electric Corp., to take over as chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer, effective immediately.
Brenda Seaman was promoted to assistant manager of FlightSafety International's learning center in Atlanta, Ga. Seaman previously was manager of regional marketing for FlightSafety's customers in South and Central America. She joined FlightSafety in 1998, marketing the company's Sabreliner learning center in St. Louis.
FAA apparently has pushed back its timeline by several months for publishing rules that would impose new safety standards on the air tour industry. FAA in November 2003 issued its highly controversial notice of proposed rulemaking on air tour operator safety standards. Many groups and individuals have been urging the FAA to shelve the proposal in its entirety and go back to the drawing board. An FAA official told NATA members a few months ago that the agency has not made any decision on what it planned to do with the proposal (BA, March 14/117).
Front Range Airport Authority in Watkins, Colo. was slated to dedicate a new general aviation tower Saturday that the authority said will enable more business jets to access the airport. The floor of the new tower cab is 190.6 feet above ground level, making it the tallest general aviation tower in the U.S. according to Front Range officials, who say the new structure has already become a landmark for people coming to the airport by plane or automobile.
House Appropriations Committee directed the Department of Transportation to set aside up to $3 million to reimburse fixed-base operators and general aviation ground support services at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and other airports within 15 miles of DCA for losses the businesses sustained while their airports were closed for security reasons following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The directive was included in the House fiscal 2006 transportation, treasury and housing and urban development bill that the committee approved on Tuesday.
BOMBARDIER Model CL-600-1A11 (CL-600), CL-600-2A12 (CL-601), and CL-600-2B16 (CL-601-3A, CL-601-3R, and CL-604) airplanes modified by Supplemental Type Certificate SA4900SW [Docket No. FAA-2005-21315; Directorate Identifier 2005-NM-090-AD; Amendment 39-14106; AD 2005-11-04] - requires revising the airplane flight manual (AFM) to require repetitive visual checks of the microphone jack assemblies on both control columns to detect damage that may interfere with movement of the control column.
BOEING COMPLETES SALE OF KANSAS, OKLAHOMA PLANTS TO ONEX CORP. - Boeing this month concluded the sale of its Commercial Airplanes operations in Kansas and Oklahoma to Onex Corp.
FlightSafety International has teamed with the Mayo Clinic to offer a Hypoxia Awareness training program. FlightSafety simulation and courseware developers worked with the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research to develop a program that could be conducted without the use of hypobaric chambers. Training equipment will be installed at FlightSafety learning centers to enable students to gain knowledge of the symptoms of hypoxia - lack of oxygen.
SENATE PANEL OKs HAWLEY TO HEAD TSA - The Senate Commerce Committee Thursday approved by voice vote the nomination of Edmund "Kip" Hawley to serve as assistant secretary of Homeland Security with responsibility for the Transportation Security Administration. The White House nominated Hawley to succeed Adm. David Stone, who left the helm of TSA earlier this month (BA, May 23/231).
EMBRAER Model ERJ 170 series airplanes [Docket No. FAA-2005-20501; Directorate Identifier 2004-NM-251-AD] - withdraws a proposed AD that would have required inspecting the engine fire handles of the overhead panel in the cockpit, and replacing the engine fire handles if necessary. Since the proposal was issued, FAA has received new data that the identified unsafe condition has been corrected on all airplanes that would have been subject to the proposal. Accordingly, the proposed AD is withdrawn.
Liberty Aerospace received FAA type inspection authorization for instrument flight rules testing of its single-engine XL2 aircraft. The two-seat XL2 is certified only for visual flight rules day and night operations, but the latest approval clears the way for the final phase of FAA testing for IFR use. The piston-powered aircraft is equipped with a full authority digital engine control and cruises at speeds up to 132 knots. The aircraft has a carbon fiber composite fuselage and 48-inch cabin. Liberty priced the aircraft at $139,900.
CESSNA WINS TC FOR NEWEST CITATIONJET MODEL - Cessna Aircraft won FAA type certification for its new CJ1+ business jet, the successor to its original entry-level CitationJet, following a program that comprised more than 200 flights and 400 flight hours over 11 months. Cessna Chairman Jack Pelton called the latest addition to the CitationJet family "a culmination of a very important partnership between our customers and employees," saying it incorporates many enhancements based on customer feedback.
CJ2 DAMAGED AFTER SLIDING OFF RUNWAY - A Cessna Aircraft CJ2 business jet was seriously damaged Monday after sliding off a wet runway while the crew was attempting to land at an airport in Venezuela. The Cessna 525A, N27VQ, is registered to Cessna Finance Corp. and was being operated by Venequip as a business flight.
GOODRICH SHIFTS JOBS OF THREE TOP EXECUTIVES - Goodrich Corp. has shifted the roles of the executives who lead its three business units, a move that is conducted periodically to give the leaders broader and deeper experience, according to the company's director of media relations. The shift, effective immediately, involves these changes: * Jack Carmola, who had been president of Engine Systems, will now lead the Airframe Systems unit.
June 29-30 - NBAA Management Fundamentals for Flight Departments Workshop, San Francisco, www.nbaa.org July 7 - NBAA Business Aviation Regional Forum, San Jose, Calif., www.nbaa.org July 11-14 - SAE International's Conference on Environmental Systems and European Symposium on Space Environmental Control Systems. Hotel Villa Pamphili, Rome. Call +1 (724) 776-4841 or see www.sae.org July 16 - National Aviation Hall of Fame 44th Annual Induction Ceremony, Dayton, Ohio, (937) 256-0944
All five persons aboard a Beech King Air 90 turboprop were fatally injured early Thursday morning when their aircraft crashed while attempting to land at the airport in New Roads, La. The aircraft, N62BL, had taken off from Jonesboro, Ark. about two hours before the accident.
RAYTHEON OFFERS LONGER-RANGE SPECIAL MISSION KING AIR - Raytheon Aircraft is developing a longer-range special mission King Air, the 350ER, in an effort to attract customers in the surveillance and reconnaissance markets. The King Air 350ER is equipped with additional nacelle fuel tanks, incorporates heavy weight landing gear and has a 1,500-pound gross weight increase to 16,500 pounds. The alterations to the King Air will enable the aircraft to conduct a low-altitude mission for more than seven hours.
Rolls-Royce acquired a Boeing 747-200 to use as a flying test bed for future engine development programs. The company will first test a Trent 1000 on the test bed. Testing of the engine, under development initially for the Boeing 787, will begin in mid-2007. Rolls-Royce bought the 747 from Air Atlanta Icelandic and sent the aircraft to Texas, where L-3 Integrated Systems is converting the aircraft to a flying test bed. The 747 will be based at L-3's Waco facilities.
EADS PICKS ALABAMA SITE FOR POTENTIAL TANKER ASSEMBLY - EADS North America will assemble KC-330 tankers in Mobile, Ala., if it wins a potential U.S. Air Force competition to supply refueling aircraft, the company announced June 22. Even if it does not get a tanker contract, the company plans to build an engineering center at the Mobile site to support Airbus commercial aircraft. That center is expected to open in about a year.
A celebrate general aviation event at Ronald Reagan National Airport Thursday evening drew a few hundred GA supporters, including proponents of reopening DCA to business aviation flights, but organizers were unable to win approval from the Transportation Security Administration to fly in a number of number of business aircraft for a static display. Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) and Rep.
GULFSTREAM Model Galaxy and Gulfstream 200 airplanes [Docket No. FAA-2004-19565; Directorate Identifier 2004-NM-104-AD] - withdraws a proposal that would have required inspecting for incorrect torque of the retaining bolt of the aft trunnion of the main landing gear, and for associated damage to certain components, and adjustments or repairs if necessary. Since the issuance of the NPRM, FAA has received new data that the identified unsafe condition has been corrected on 100 percent of the affected worldwide fleet.
Savannah Air Center (SAC), the Savannah, Ga. interior completions and aircraft modification specialist, won authorization from Bombardier Aerospace to perform completions on Bombardier Global 5000 and Global Express XRS business jets. SAC was previously authorized to do interiors, upgrades and maintenance on earlier Bombardier business jet models.
