Andy Cebula, who has spent nearly 20 years with the National Air Transportation Association, has accepted a position with the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association in Frederick, Md., beginning next month. Cebula will be senior vice president of government and technical affairs, replacing Dennis Roberts, who had been vice president and executive director of government and technical affairs. Roberts accepted a position with the Louisville, Ky. Airport Authority.
AVCARD, the Hunt Valley, Md. aviation credit card provider, is offering a new service based on its database of 6,000 firms worldwide that accept the AVCARD for fuel and other aircraft-related products and services. The company said pilots can use a personal computer to download information on FBOs and the services each provides. The selected list of vendors then can be downloaded into a pilot's personal digital assistant and accessed during flight.
A New Jersey environmental group wants FAA to use a variety of noise-measurement standards in addition to the customary 65 dB DNL as part of its airspace redesign for the New York/New Jersey area. The 65 dB DNL is a year-long 24-hour weighted average, and is the threshhold for FAA's definition of "significant" noise eligible for mitigation - and federal spending. According to the group, New Jersey Citizens for Environmental Research (NJCER), additional "metrics" FAA should use to guide airspace redesign include:
BRUCE WEAVER was promoted to chief financial officer for Dallas Airmotive. Weaver joined Dallas Airmotive in 1986 as a senior accounting clerk and has held a series of positions of increasing responsibility including his most recent position of vice president of finance.
CESSNA is offering interior and avionics upgrades for its single-turboprop Caravan. The interior enhancement includes new seat designs and fabric choices. Cessna also is adding the KLN 94 GPS color moving map as an option for situational awareness and the KFC 225 digital autopilot.
Federal Aviation Administration outlined early plans to improve its field approval process, but the National Air Transportation Association fears that the agency's recommendations don't go far enough. FAA met with industry representatives late last month to detail the progress of its multi-year review of the field approval process. FAA discussed a number of administrative improvements to the program, said Ric Peri, NATA technical services manager.
FAA told Bombardier Challenger 604 business jet operators last week they must revise the aft center of gravity limits for their aircraft because of potential control problems due to fuel sloshing around in the fuel tanks.
Demands for noise relief and better land compensation are dimming prospects for a second international airport for Sydney, Australia despite an A$190 million (US$99 million) government investment over the last 15 years. Two months ago, the government halted the project when Transport Minister John Anderson said plans for the airport would not be reviewed until 2005.
Since FAA already has spent 25 years considering changing rules governing repair stations, the agency should not rush at this time to issue a final rule, groups representing repair stations and manufacturers contend. Those groups appealed to Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta to delay adopting FAA's final rule, which rewrites Part 145 governing repair stations, and instead issue a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (BA, Feb. 19/83).
KEITH MORDOFF will join the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association next week as senior vice president-communications, reporting to AOPA President Phil Boyer. Mordoff has been director of corporate communications at Gulfstream Aerospace since 1998. At AOPA, Mordoff will have the same title formerly held by Drew Steketee, who left AOPA to become president of the BE A PILOT program last year (BA, Sept. 11/117), but Boyer said the position is being expanded to include responsibility for both communications and Internet services.
BAE Systems, which has been largely observing while other manufacturers have been logging regional jet orders, said it signed a deal with British European airline for up to 20 of the manufacturer's RJX-100 airliners, a contract valued at more than $600 million.
TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY NORM MINETA last week took his case for streamlining the environmental regulatory process to the states, asking the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials to consider conducting concurrent state and federal airport expansion environmental reviews.Noting such projects involve state, local and federal government, Mineta said multiple reviews "are out of alignment.
ROBERT F. JULIANO, bureau chief for the Connecticut Department of Transportation's Bureau of Aviation and Ports, died March 1, a day after his 62nd birthday, after suffering a heart attack. In his post as bureau chief, Juliano ran Bradley International (BDL) and five other airports, in addition to overseeing maritime programs. Juliano was airport administrator at BDL for more than 20 years and had been with the Connecticut DOT and the airport for more than 43 years. He is survived by his wife, Nan, and their son and daughter.
Model 204B helicopters (Docket No. 2000-SW-16-AD; Amendment 39-12096; AD 2001-02-11) - requires replacing any main rotor mast assembly, part number (P/N) 204-011-450-001, within 25 hours time-in-service (TIS). This amendment is prompted by the crash of a restricted category Model UH-1B helicopter due to failure of a mast, P/N 204-011-450-001. The same mast P/N is used on the Model 204B helicopters. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent failure of the mast and subsequent loss of control of the helicopter. FAA estimates that 15 helicopters on the U.S.
Canadian aerostructures maker Avcorp Industries Inc. won a "life of program" contract, with an expected value of more than $100 million (Canadian), to supply wing spar assemblies for Cessna Aircraft's new Sovereign business jet. "This award is extremely important," said Avcorp President and CEO John Nicholson. "It is a breakthrough into a solid, new customer for Avcorp, it increases our backlog by over 30 percent and it will only require modest investment because it will use existing skills, machines and facilities already at our Delta, British Columbia facility."
NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION promoted Doug Carr to director of government affairs. Carr helps manage NBAA's legislative and political agenda at the federal, state and local levels. He joined NBAA in 1998 as manager of domestic operations after serving with the National Air Transportation Association. A graduate of Southern Illinois University with a bachelor's degree in aviation management, Carr is a commercial, multi-engine, instrument-rated pilot and certified flight instructor.
NATIONAL AIR TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION is asking its members to write Congress in support of an effort to throw out the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's massive ergonomics rule issued late last year. See article below.
MARK SJOSTROM was appointed Midwest regional charter sales manager for Jet Aviation. Sjostrom, who will be based in Chicago, Ill., previously has served with Atlantic Aviation Westwind Sales, AMR Corp. Avanti Sales and Darfin Yachts, Ltd.
National Air Transportation Association Friday sent an "Action Call" to its members asking them to appeal to their Senators to throw out the Ergonomics Protection Standard rule the Occupational Safety and Health Administration adopted in November. Various industry lobbyists are working with legislators to draft bills that would overturn the controversial rules. The Senate is expected to consider a joint resolution of disapproval, which would reverse the rule and prevent its reissuance in "substantially the same form," NATA said.
LIMA AIRPORT PARTNERS S.R.L., a consortium of three international companies, took over operation of the Lima, Peru International Airport (LIM) Feb. 15. The Peruvian government privatized the airport in November when it awarded a 30-year contract to the partnership: Fraport AG (Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide); Bechtel Enterprises International Ltd., the U.S. construction firm; and, Cosapi S.A., a Peruvian construction company.
CENTENNIAL AIRPORT will hold its sixth annual open house May 12. The day-long event, with warbird, vintage, military and corporate aircraft on display, is expected to draw 15,000 attendees.
FAIRCHILD DORNIER named Peter Kellner director of communications-Europe, effective March 2. Reporting to Robert Stangarone, Fairchild Dornier's vice president of corporate communications, Kellner will be based at the company's headquarters in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. Kellner, who had headed corporate communications for DaimlerChrysler's MTU Aero Engines unit, will be responsible for European media relations, company-wide internal communications and other European-based communications initiatives.
RIFTON AVIATION, New Windsor, N.Y., acquired a Citation X and a second Citation Excel. The company's fleet now includes a Gulfstream IV, two Excels and the Citation X, and a Falcon 2000 is scheduled for delivery in June.
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S first budget proposal restores some funding that had been threatened and seeks full funding of $13.3 billion for FAA in fiscal 2002, but some of the language in the budget documents is raising eyebrows in the aviation community.
ATLANTIC AVIATION CORPORATION appointed Joseph Fazio general manager of its facility in Teterboro, N.J. Fazio formerly was vice president and general manager for Jet Systems at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. and also has served as general manager for Aero Services International in Morristown, N.J.
