Docket No.: FAA-2000-8055 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 145.45(f) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Honeywell to make its Inspection Procedures Manual (IPM) available electronically to its supervisory, inspection, and other personnel, rather than give a paper copy of the IPM to each of its supervisory and inspection personnel. Grant, Nov. 6, 2000, Exemption No. 7378
SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT commenced a tender offer last week for the outstanding 11 percent senior notes due 2005 of Aircraft Service International Group (ASIG). BBA Group, Signature's parent company, announced earlier it planned to acquire Ranger Aerospace, the parent company of ASIG, an airline ground handling company (BA, Nov. 20/233).
HONEYWELL'S Engines and Systems Division named Unison Industries to supply permanent magnet alternators, generator rotors and stators for most of its line of power generation products. The contract runs through 2005 and will be managed and fulfilled by Unison's Norwich, N.Y., production facility.
Universal Weather and Aviation, Inc. has teamed with Swissport International Ltd. to operate a new ground handling facility in Nice, France. Beginning Feb. 1, the two companies will manage Swissport Executive Nice, a fixed-base operation at the Cote d' Azur Airport (LFMN) in Nice.
AN OMNIBUS BUDGET BILL Congress passed late last month that calls for government-wide spending cuts is forcing FAA to cut its fiscal 2001 appropriations by 0.22 percent. FAA said it is "still determining" where and how its operations, research, engineering and development and Airport Improvement Program funds will be reduced.
CESSNA AIRCRAFT promoted Mark Patterson to director of worldwide sales for Cessna Single Engine. Patterson will be responsible for domestic and international sales as well as for developing the Cessna Sales Team Authorized Representative and Cessna Pilot Center networks. Patterson joined Cessna in 1996 as division sales manager for the Central Division and was named senior division sales manager in 1998.
Docket No.: 26048 Section of the 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 91.319(a)(1) and (2) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit NTPS to (1) train non- flight-test students, (2) revise the limits of the areas within which the NTPS operates its experimental category aircraft, (3) reduce the total flight time required for rated U.S. and certain foreign military or former military pilot students from 1,000 hours to 750 hours, and (4) permit pilot students to operate aircraft in solo flight with a current Letter of Authorization (LOA).
REP. HAROLD (HAL) ROGERS (R-Ky.) was appointed to chair the House transportation appropriations subcommittee. Rogers succeeds Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), who must vacate the post because House Republican rules limit members to six-year terms as chairmen of committees and subcommittees. Rogers, who has served in the House since 1981, formerly was a member of the transportation appropriations subcommittee, but chaired the commerce-justice-state appropriations subcommittee.
SOCATA Models MS 880B, MS 885, MS 892A-150, MS 892E-150, MS 893A, MS 893E, MS 894A, MS 894E, Rallye 100S, Rallye 150T, Rallye 150ST, Rallye 235C, and Rallye 235E airplanes (Docket No. 2000-CE-34-AD; Amendment 39-11964; AD 2000-22-17) - requires repetitive inspections, and, if necessary, replacement of elevator clevis and rudder governor control clevis that are too thin. This AD is the result of mandatory continuing airworthiness information issued by the airworthiness authority for France.
Docket No.: FAA-2000-7983 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 133.43(a) and (b) Description of Relief Sought: To permit Whisper Airlines, Inc., to use its helicopters to conduct acts by an aerial performer on certain rigging apparatuses without using an approved external-load-attaching means or an approved quick-release device. Grant, Nov. 20, 2000, Exemption No. 6563B
FLEXJET, Bombardier's fractional jet ownership program, signed an agreement under which all Flexjet flight crew members will receive MedAire's Management of Inflight Illness and Injury (MIII) training, in addition to having access to MedAire's Emergency Telemedicine Center for first-hand communication with emergency physicians if health problems occur en route. MedAire had been providing training and assistance for Flexjet's Challenger flights, but those services will now include Model 31A, 45 and 60 aircraft.
Docket No.: 27001 Section of the 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR Sec. Sec. 25.562(c)(5) and 25.785(a) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit the retrofit of front row passenger seating in Jetstream Series 4100 airplanes already delivered. Grant, Nov. 21, 2000, Exemption No. 5587G
JEFFREY HABIB was named vice president-international marketing for Dassault Falcon Jet. A former Navy pilot, Habib spent one year as a Falcon demonstrator pilot before joining Southwest Airlines as a pilot. After a year with Southwest, he returned to Falcon in 1995 as a district sales manager and subsequently held other marketing positions with the company.
BFGOODRICH COMPANY named Edward Hart vice president and general manager of its Advanced MicroMachines, Inc. unit. Hart will be responsible for micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) business in sensors and controls within traditional Goodrich aerospace markets and new markets as well. Most recently, Hart was president of Wabash Technologies, a sensor and actuator supplier to the automotive industry and president of Casablanca Fan Co. He holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University.
BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE appointed ExecuJet Australia an authorized Learjet service facility and as a sales representative for the complete line of Bombardier business jets in Australia. Maintenance services will be provided by ExecuJet in Kingsford-Smith, Sydney.
Business jet operators have until Jan. 1, 2004 to equip their aircraft with an emergency locator transmitter under a new rule the Federal Aviation Administration issued late last month. Congress last spring directed FAA to remove the turbine aircraft exemption from the ELT requirement by the end of the year. FAA initially required ELTs on all aircraft in 1971 but exempted turbine aircraft as well as aircraft operated in scheduled commercial service from the mandate.
Docket No.: 28663 Section of the 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 145.47(b) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Goodyear to use the calibration standards of the Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Normalizacao e Qualidade Industrial in lieu of the calibration standards of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to test its inspection and test equipment. Grant, Nov. 30, 2000, Exemption No. 6547B
ROBERT SMITH was promoted to vice president of industrial operations, Little Rock, for Dassault Falcon Jet. Smith most recently was director of commercial completions, where he helped revamp Dassault Falcon Jet's Little Rock completion center operations, nearly doubling its output. Smith, who joined Dassault Falcon Jet three years ago, previously was director of operations for American Eurocopter and also has held the same title for MBB Helicopters.
A Super King Air 200 crash in Maine last month killed both the pilot, Stephen Bean, 58, and the only passenger, Edson Mitchell, 47, a senior official of Deutsche Bank of Germany. Authorities said the aircraft was en route from Portland, Maine to a vacation lodge in Rangeley, Maine Dec. 22 when controllers lost radar and radio contact with the aircraft about 1716 EST. Rangeley, on the shore of Lake Rangeley, is about 30 miles from the New Hampshire border. The wreckage was located the following day on Beaver Mountain.
Docket No.: 29228 Section of the 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR Secs. 121.433(c)(1)(iii), 121.441(a)(1) and (b), and Appendix F to Part 121 Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit PSA to combine recurrent flight and ground training and proficiency checks for PSA's flight crewmembers into a single annual training and proficiency evaluation program, which is a single-visit training program. Grant, Oct. 2, 2000, Exemption 6821A
EXECUTIVE JET MANAGEMENT added 12 aircraft, including three Gulfstream IVs, to its fleet, bringing its total fleet to 56 aircraft in 31 locations. The new additions include a G-IV at Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y., a Challenger 600 at the Teterboro, N.J. Airport, a Citation II in Hartford, Conn. and another G-IV at Philadelphia's Northeast Airport.
BARBARA BELL was named manager-executive jet programs for Raytheon Aircraft. Bell joined Raytheon in 1968 and has held a number of roles of increasing responsibility in engineering, operations, strategic planning, administration and human resources.
Docket No.: 30103 Section of the 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 133.19(a) and 133.51 Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit HeliQwest to conduct external-load operations in the U.S. using its dry-leased, Canadian-registered Bell 205A-1 helicopter (Registration Mark C-GEAK, Serial No. 30183). Grant, Nov. 20, 2000, Exemption No. 7383
EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND Model EC135 P1 and T1 helicopters (Docket No. 2000-SW-19-AD; Amendment 39-12049; AD 2000-26-02) - supersedes an AD that requires visual and dye-penetrant inspections for a cracked stator blade of the fenestron tail rotor. That AD also requires either stop-drilling a cracked blade or, as necessary, replacing an unairworthy stator blade with an airworthy stator blade.
THE BFGOODRICH COMPANY named Jerry Witowski president of the Aircraft Sensors Division. He had been vice president and general manager of the division's commercial sensors/test systems unit. He succeeds Ronald Hodges, who was named vice president of the company's space systems business.
