BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE named British European Aviation Services (BEAS) a recognized Q Series/Dash 8 maintenance facility in Europe. Under the agreement, BEAS is approved to perform C checks, other heavy maintenance as well as aircraft modifications and upgrades on Dash 8-100, 200 and 300 and Q200, Q300 and Q400 aircraft. Bombardier has sold 165 Q Series/Dash 8 aircraft in Europe. BEAS is based at Exeter International Airport in southwest England along with its sister airline, British European.
THE CANADIAN BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION will focus on security and accessibility issues at its 41st annual convention in Montreal, June 17-19. Seminars at the convention will cover topics such as aircraft basing options operational safety standards system, aviation security and national standards policy-making and Customs through the CANPASS and GATE programs. For more information, contact CBAA in Ottawa at (613) 236-5611.
RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT CO. of Wichita, Kan., is being awarded a $15.8 million firm-fixed-price contract modification to provide for continued fiscal 2002 contractor logistics support for Option VII of the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System for T-6A aircraft. At this time, all the funds have been obligated. The Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio is the contracting authority.
CHEVRONTEXACO signed a deal with FlyteComm of Florida to provide its web-based flight tracking tool for ChevronTexaco fixed-base operators. ChevronTexaco is providing the FlyteComm aircraft situational displays through its ChevronTexaco TotalGA web site. The services include Flytecomm's FlyteTrax 2002 and FlyteTrax Express, which track flights and weather information in North American airspace.
BILL WENDELL was appointed sales director, pre-owned aircraft, non-Bombardier products for Bombardier Aerospace, Business Aircraft. Wendell has more than 20 years of sales experience and will be based in Georgetown, Tex.
KAISER AEROSPACE&ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, a Rockwell Collins company, sold Kaiser Fluid Technologies to Tactair Fluid Controls of Liverpool, N.Y. "Kaiser Fluid Technologies will be better able to enhance their strategic position under the ownership of Tactair, a company more closely aligned with the market KFT addresses," said Clay Jones, president and CEO of Rockwell Collins. KFT's product lines include valves, actuators and dampers for landing gear, brakes, engine bleed air, flight control and utility control systems on aircraft.
THE BATTLE TO REGAIN business jet access to Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) penetrated the White House last week when Signature Flight Support President Beth Haskins met with one of President Bush's advisers to discuss the situation.DCA has been a prestigious and profitable base for Signature for years, but except for limited fuel sales to government aircraft, the facility has sat largely empty since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Salt Lake Jet Center achieved a significant increase in its share of the corporate and general aviation fuel market at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) with its acquisition last month of the former Hudson General assets, leasehold and facilities at the airport. The transaction reduces the number of FBOs on the airport from three to two, with the other survivor being Million Air-SLC. Hudson General and Salt Lake Jet Center had previously formed a joint venture that took over the former Majestic Aviation holdings at SLC.
The Air Group, the Los Angeles-based aircraft management and charter provider, said its fleet has grown by 25 percent since Sept. 11. The company has added 10 aircraft in the past six months including six Gulfstream business jets, boosting the fleet to 50 aircraft at 10 locations across the country. "The economics of owning an airplane are better today than ever before when you calculate the added productivity and time savings you get from a private jet's predictability, flexibility and convenience," said Jon Winthrop, president and CEO. "While Sept.
Raytheon Travel Air sealed a deal with Cleveland-based Flight Options to combine their fractional ownership programs. The new company, which will be known as Flight Options, LLC, will consolidate more than 1,600 shareowners and a fleet of about 200 new and used aircraft, making it the second largest fractional provider in the world. Under the terms of the merger agreement, first announced in December 2001 (BA, Jan. 1, 5), Flight Options will hold 50.1 percent ownership of the new company and Raytheon will hold 49.9 percent.
GEORGE FERITO was named manager at FlightSafety International's Fort Worth Training Center. Ferito was previously the assistant manager at the center. He is a business aircraft pilot with ratings in three types of corporate jets and holds a commercial helicopter license.
SIKORSKY Model S-76A helicopters (Docket No. 2000-SW-46-AD; Amendment 39-12674; AD 2002-05-06) - supersedes an existing AD for Sikorsky Model S-76A helicopters that currently requires a service life limit on certain landing gear parts based on hours time-in-service (TIS). This amendment adds another method of calculating the life limit for certain landing gear parts based on cycles and requires the operator to choose and record the method of calculating the service life of each part in the rotorcraft history or equivalent record.
MESSIER-DOWTY appointed Allan Harvey acting group vice president in charge of the company's Business and Regional Aircraft business unit. Harvey succeeds Ken Laver, who is stepping down at the end of April for personal reasons. Harvey, who has 40 years of aerospace industry experience, worked for Indal Technologies, Spar Aerospace and Rockwell Collins before joining Messier-Dowty's Toronto operation in 1986 as commercial manager.
Docket No.: FAA-2002-11491 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 91.9(a) and 91.531(a) (1) and (2) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Cessna to allow certain qualified pilots of Cessna Citation Model 550, S550, 552, or 560 aircraft to operate those aircraft without a pilot who is designated as second-in-command. Grant, Feb. 25, 2002, Exemption No. 4050L (Previously Docket No. 23771)
CIRRUS Models SR20 and SR22 airplanes (Docket No. 2002-CE-06-AD; Amendment 39-12673; AD 2002-05-05) - requires incorporating temporary operating limitations into the Limitation Section of the airplane flight manual (AFM) for certain affected airplanes and installing a cable clamp external to the cone adapter on the Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System (CAPS) activation cable for all affected airplanes. The operating limitations will reduce the need to use the CAPS system in a loss of aircraft control emergency situation.
JET AVIATION SINGAPORE signed an agreement with Bombardier to perform reduced vertical separation minimum modifications to Learjet aircraft based in the Asia-Pacific region. The exclusive agreement will permit Jet Aviation to supply and install RVSM mods into 24 Model 31, 31A, 35, 35A, 36 and 36A aircraft operating in the region.
Four months after Congress adopted sweeping aviation security changes, certain foreign pilot students are still not able to access U.S. flight training schools, the National Air Transportation Association said last week, urging Attorney General John Ashcroft to take quick action to remedy the situation.
Docket No.: FAA-2001-11090 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR Secs. 91.319, 119.5(g), and 119.25(b) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation to operate its former military UH-1H helicopter, which holds an experimental airworthiness certificate, for the purpose of carrying passengers on local educational flights. Grant, March 4, 2002, Exemption No. 7736
EUROCOPTER FRANCE Model AS350B, AS350BA, AS350B1, AS350B2, AS350B3, AS350C, AS350D, AS350D1, AS355E, AS355F, AS355F1, AS355F2, AS355N, and EC130 B4 helicopters (Docket No. 2002-SW-09-AD; Amendment 39-12681; AD 2002-03-52) - requires checking for a gap between the adhesive bead and the metal bushing bonded on each STARFLEX star arm end (arm end) and, if a gap is found, replacing the STARFLEX with an airworthy part.
Avolar, the UAL Corporation's costly effort to break into the fractional aircraft market, is going out of business and operations will be shut down in the near future, officials said Friday.
Docket No.: FAA-2001-8744 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 91.315, 119.5(g), and 119.21(a) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Evergreen Air Venture Museum to operate its Boeing B-17G for the purpose of carrying passengers for compensation or hire on local flights for educational and historical purposes. Grant, Jan. 25, 2002, Exemption No. 6632C
The Federal Aviation Administration awarded a $26 million follow-on contract to Harris Corporation to maintain and support a weather tracking system, the Weather and Radar Processor (WARP), Harris said last week. WARP analyzes weather information from various sources and provides consolidated weather data to meteorologists at FAA en route centers.
BOMBARDIER EXECUTIVES are having discussions with Chinese officials "to see if there is a basis for a joint venture" under which Chinese workers could produce components for Bombardier regional aircraft, according to Robert Brown, president and CEO.Bombardier has delivered numerous business jet and regional aircraft to Chinese customers and Brown believes "we're extremely well positioned in China." He noted that Chinese workers are building outboard engines for Bombardier's marine products and also building rail cars for Bombardier.
JIM HAMPTON was appointed director of public relations at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. He will be responsible for media relations, crisis communications, planning and developing public relations strategies. Hampton was most recently the director of publicity and public relations at Universal Studios Orlando.
JOHN E. ROBSON, 71, president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. and former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, died March 20 after a six-month battle with cancer. Robson, who was raised in Chicago, graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. He practiced corporate law with the firm of Sidley and Austin, served in a number of management positions, including president and CEO, of G.D. Searle&Co. from 1978 to 1985 and held senior federal posts at the Treasury and Transportation departments.
