Used Retail Jet Deliveries Inside And Outside North America For July 2002 Used Retail Deliveries JULY '99 JULY '00 JULY '01 JULY '02 L M H L M H L M H L M H Jet North 55 40 20 44 27 16 31 13 12 51 28 17 America Jet Outside 7 8 4 3 0 1 7 2 4 8 4 3 N. America
ACM Aviation added a Bombardier Global Express business jet to its charter fleet. Based at Mineta San Jose International Airport in San Jose, Calif., ACM operates a fleet of 30 corporate jets.
Summary: Pursuant to FAA's rulemaking provisions governing the application, processing, and disposition of petitions for exemption (14 CFR Part 11), this notice contains a summary of certain petitions seeking relief from specified requirements of the Federal Aviation Regulations (14 CFR Chapter I), dispositions of certain petitions previously received, and corrections. The purpose of this notice is to improve the public's awareness of, and participation in, this aspect of FAA's regulatory activities.
National Transportation Safety Board renamed its Office of Family Affairs the Office of Transportation Disaster Assistance. "The name change reflects the broad range of the office's duties since it was established in 1996 and the extension of its services in many cases to all modes of transportation covered by the NTSB," the agency said.
SANTA MONICA PROPOSAL TO BAR LARGE BIZJETS DRAWS INDUSTRY OBJECTIONS - A Santa Monica, Calif. Airport Commission recommendation to fine and arrest aircraft operators in an attempt to keep large business jets off Santa Monica Airport (SMO) is drawing fire from the general aviation community, which charges that the proposal is based on faulty assumptions and violates federal law. The recommendations are part of an "aircraft conformance program" that the commission is drafting for Santa Monica City Council consideration.
Pratt&Whitney Component Solutions, Inc. (PWCS) has more than doubled the amount of space at its Muskegon, Mich. warehouse facility with the construction of a 15,328-square-foot addition to the existing facility.
A 1968 Sikorsky S-61L Helicopter crashed Aug. 8 about 50 nautical miles southeast of Prince George, British Columbia. One of the pilots was killed and the other seriously injured. The aircraft was registered as N346AA.
Avfuel added Southwestern Aviation of Benson, Ariz. to its network. Located at Benson Municipal Airport, Southwestern Aviation is a full service FBO with 24-hour security, a pilots lounge and a study room.
Keith A. Martinich was named president and chief executive of Strategic Jet Services, Inc., a unit of Aviation General, Inc. He succeeds John H. de Havilland, who was named chairman of the unit. Martinich joined Aviation General in 1999 as vice president of sales and marketing. He previously held sales and marketing positions with Piedmont Hawthorne Airport in Leesburg, Va., and Avpro in Annapolis, Md. He is a graduate of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
DFW International Airport opened its newly extended Runway 18L Aug. 8, two months ahead of schedule and under budget, the airport said. The runway was extended 2,012 feet to permit operations by aircraft making nonstop flights to destinations in the Asia-Pacific region. The project began Oct. 9, 2000 and was scheduled to be finished by Oct. 5, 2002. The work cost $44.3 million, $2.7 million under the $47 million estimate, the airport said.
Docket No.: FAA-2002-12534 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 141.55(d)(3), 141.55(e)(4) and 141.63(b) Descriptioncription of Relief Sought: To permit the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to hold examining authority for its FAA-approved training courses that do not meet the minimum ground and flight training time requirements of Part 141.
A 1968 Sikorsky S-61L Helicopter crashed Aug. 8 about 50 nautical miles southeast of Prince George, British Columbia. One of the pilots was killed and the other seriously injured. The aircraft was registered as N346AA.
AIR TRACTOR Models AT-802 and AT-802A airplanes (Docket No. 2000-CE-76-AD; Amendment 39-12834; AD 2002-15-06) - requires replacement of the rudder control cables and fairleads with parts of improved design. This AD is the result of a report that a rudder control cable broke because of wear at the aft fairlead. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent the rudder control cable from breaking because of the rudder control cables wearing in the fairlead area. Broken rudder control cables could result in loss of rudder control.
Model 222, 222B, 222U, and 230 helicopters (Docket No. 2002-SW-22-AD; Amendment 39-12835; AD 2002-08-54) - publishes an amendment adopting Emergency AD 2002-08-54, which was sent previously to all known U.S. owners and operators of the specified Bell Helicopter model aircraft by individual letters. This AD requires a visual check of each main rotor grip assembly and pitch horn at specified intervals and a visual inspection using a 10-power or higher magnifying glass of each affected grip and pitch horn for a crack at specified intervals.
Doris E. Hastings was named vice president-human resources at Dallas Airmotive. She will develop and implement human resources policy for the company's employees. Hastings was most recently national director of labor relations at Corporate Express.
AVIATION GENERAL IMPROVES FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN FIRST SIX MONTHS - Despite the sluggish marketplace, Commander Aircraft parent Aviation General, Inc. reported modest sales improvements and said all sectors of the company have strengthened. Sales for the six months ended June 30 were $6.2 million, compared with $5.8 million in the first six months of 2001. The company reported a net loss of $40,174 in the first half of 2002, but that compared with a net loss of just over $1 million a year ago.
PRATT & WHITNEY EXPANDS PARTS WAREHOUSE - Pratt & Whitney Component Solutions, Inc. (PWCS) has more than doubled the amount of space at its Muskegon, Mich. warehouse facility with the construction of a 15,328-square-foot addition to the existing facility.
Woodland Aviation added a Cessna 525 CitationJet to its charter fleet. In addition to the CitationJet, Woodland operates a Citation II, two King Air 200s, a King Air F90, six King Air C90s and two Beech Barons. Based at the Woodland Turbine facility near Sacramento, Calif., the six-seat CitationJet has a 1,200-nautical-mile range at speeds of up to 360 knots.
Aviation Innovator LeRoy (Roy) LoPresti died Wednesday in Vero Beach, Fla., at the age of 73. LoPresti's aviation career spanned more than 50 years as a pilot, engineer and manager. LoPresti's work in aviation began as a student at New York University, where he won the Chance Vought Design award for best student light airplane design. After graduating in 1950, he spent 16 years with Grumman Aircraft, where he was a designer and consulting pilot on the Lunar Module used in NASA's Apollo program. He took leave from Grumman for six years while he served in U.S.
The Haskell Company won a contract from GE Aircraft Engines to build a new aircraft hangar at South California Logistics Airport in Victorville, Calif. The 163,000-square-foot hangar will house the GEAE Flight Test Operation's Boeing 747 flying test bed. Construction is slated to begin in the fall and be complete in summer 2003. Based in Jacksonville, Fla., the Haskell Company is a design and construction management firm that has operations throughout the U.S. and Latin America.
Docket No.: FAA-2002-11900 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 21.325(b)(3) Descriptioncription of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit AMSAFE to issue export airworthiness approvals for Class II and Class III products manufactured by AMSAFE Aviation UK in the United Kingdom under AMSAFE's technical standard order authorizations. Grant, July 19, 2002, Exemption No. 7354A
National Transportation Safety Board investigators are trying to determine what caused engine problems in a Piper PA-46-350P Malibu that crashed Aug. 4 near Benton Harbor, Mich., killing all three people aboard. The owner pilot and his passengers were attempting to fly from Joe Foss Field Airport (FSD) in Sioux Falls, S.D. to Toledo Express Airport (TOL) in Toledo, Ohio. The aircraft departed at 1000 CDT. The pilot had filed an instrument flight plan, but VFR conditions prevailed along the route of flight.
MILLION AIR TETERBORO ANNOUNCES PROMOTIONS - Five employees of Million Air Teterboro were promoted last month by Ken Forester, chief executive officer of the fixed-base operation.
