AVIATION MANUFACTURERS and other interested parties continue to talk with FAA officials about finding a way to permit marketers, trade associations and publishers to have some form of access to the list of U.S. airmen certificate holders, but no agreement has been reached. FAA Chief Counsel Nicholas Garaufis said release of the names and addresses of airmen certificate holders violates the federal Privacy Act and ruled that as of May 30, FAA will release only names and ratings, not addresses (BA, May 11/207).
AUSTRALIA said it will abolish the Airservices Australia component of the aviation gasoline tax. "The general aviation sector now pays about $17 million per year through the avgas levy to pay for services they do not neces-sarily use. By removing this tax, the government is ensuring that there is a transparency in the charges collected by Airservices Australia," said Mark Vaile, minister for transport and regional development.
LISA SASSE was promoted to national accounts executive for The Air Routing Group. She has been with the Houston-based organization for the past two years, and was instrumental in securing agreements with Bombardier Aircraft to provide supplemental crew training to Canadair Challenger and Bombardier Global Express operators. She also serves on the Flight Safety Foundation's Corporate Advisory Committee.
MEIGS FIELD will host an open house and fly-in on June 13 to highlight the Chicago lakefront airport as a Living Aviation Museum. The Friends of Meigs Field is sponsoring the event to promote the airport as a vital part of the new Museum Campus, a connection of the city's museums, which opens that day.
France took a major step toward consolidation of the French aerospace industry Thursday, announcing a decision to transfer its 46 percent stake of privately controlled Dassault Aviation to state-owned Aerospatiale. The "moving closer" of the two companies is intended to "further the implementation of a concerted strategy for the French aerospace industry in prospect of alliances with the main European manufacturers which seem necessary in the short term," the French Ministry of Defense said.
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.
JACQUES ROUSSARIE was appointed vice president for total quality by Dassault Falcon Jet Corp., Teterboro, N.J. Roussarie will report to President John Rosanvallon and be based at the company's Little Rock, Ark. completion center. He will be responsible for implementing a permanent program of total quality improvements designed to bring Dassault Falcon Jet into compliance with ISO 9001 standards dictated by the International Organization for Standardization.
Orenda Recip Inc. won FAA type certification this month for its 600- horsepower OE-600 reciprocating aero engine and began deliveries of the initial units to Stevens Aviation, which plans to replace the original turboprop engines on King Air C90Bs with the new Canadian powerplants. The OE-600 is a liquid-cooled, aluminum block, V-8 that develops 600 horsepower at takeoff and is "the first new high-output piston engine to be certificated in over 40 years," according to Orenda.
MESA AIR GROUP retained International Airline Support Group (IASG) to advise it on the future need for 41 of Mesa's turboprop aircraft. United Airlines' decision to end its West Coast code-sharing agreement with Mesa unit WestAir dramatically changed Mesa's fleet requirements. IASG will advise Mesa on how best to deal with WestAir's leased fleet of 20 EMB-120 Brasilias and 21 Jetstream 31s. The United Express agreement expires May 31. IASG, headed by Alexius Dyer, is a spare parts supplier and lessor of aircraft and engines.
The latest of the new regional jets rolled out of a factory in Brazil Tuesday as Embraer reported a $19.9 million first-quarter profit for the period ended March 31. It was the third consecutive quarterly profit for the company, which consistently lost money before and after its privatization in 1995. The profit came on revenues for the period of $229.6 million. In the September 1997 quarter, the company made $9.4 million on $199.7 million in revenues and in the December quarter it was $12.8 million on $292.2 million in revenues (BA, April 20/176).
FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL is relocating a Model 55 Learjet simulator to its West Palm Beach, Fla. training center, where the company currently provides simulator training for Model 35/36 pilots. The company also said it had received FAA Level D certification for its new Challenger 604 flight simulator at the company training facility in Tucson, Ariz. In addition, the Tucson center houses Challenger 601-3A/3R and Model 31A and Model 60 Learjet simulators, also certificated to Level D standards.
Signature Flight Support started construction of a new terminal hangar and tank farm at Orlando International Airport. The new facility, scheduled to open this fall, will be modeled after Signature facilities in Las Vegas, Nev. and Hartford, Conn. It will include a 10,000-square-foot terminal with a flight planning area, pilot lounge/snooze room and conference facilities; a 23,300-square-foot hangar; and a 90,000-gallon above-ground fuel storage tank system.
Top FAA officials unveiled an ambitious plan last week to radically change the way the agency inspects and oversees the operations of the nation's largest airlines, an effort designed to replace random checks of the carriers with a more systematic and comprehensive approach.
Dallas Airmotive, Inc., acquired Precision Avionics and Instruments (PAI) of Atlanta, Ga. PAI employs 35 technicians who support a wide range of instruments and accessories for both fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. Ernie Kennemore, president of PAI, will report to George Derby, Dallas Airmotive president.
FRANK COLSON, associate director of civil aviation, U.S. Air Force, and executive director, Defense Department Policy Board on Federal Aviation, will retire, DOD announced. Neil Planzer, director of the Air Traffic Systems Requirements Service at FAA, will succeed him.
Group Aerospatiale Model TBM 700 series airplanes (Docket No. 97-CE-42-AD) - adopts a new AD requiring modifying the airplane's left-hand (LH) front side lower panel. The AD is the result of mandatory continuing airworthiness information issued by the French airworthiness authority. The actions required are intended to prevent interference between the side trim of the LH front side lower panel and the roll control compass on the LH wheel assembly, which could result in loss of directional control of the airplane.
ED AHRENS, a Garrett Aviation Services veteran, was named senior vice president-aircraft services division with Atlantic Aviation in Wilmington, Del. Ahrens, a 20-year Garrett veteran, had most recently been vice president and general manager of that company's Springfield, Ill. facility. Prior to that, he was vice president and general manager of Garrett's Houston, Tex. operation.
NBAA has signed up 765 exhibiting companies who have contracted for 3,791 10-foot by 10-foot booth spaces for this year's show, compared with 875 companies who took 3,464 booth spaces at the 1997 show in Dallas. To accommodate the strong demand, NBAA has opened up another entire section of the Las Vegas Convention Center for exhibits.
Model 328-100 series airplanes (Docket No. 98-NM-103-AD) - proposes a new AD that would require modification of the ground cooling fan. The proposal was prompted by a report from the German airworthiness authority, the LBA, that an unsafe condition may exist on certain 328-100 series airplanes. The LBA said it received reports of smoke in the flight deck and cabin due to an overheating condition caused by oil contamination of the heat exchangers and the failure of the ground cooling fans to dispel the smoke from the flight deck and cabin.
KEN WEAVER joined Showalter Flying Service, Orlando, Fla., as the Mooney Aircraft Sales manager for the state of Florida. He will be responsible for new business development, sales and service throughout the state. Before joining Showalter, Weaver had been marketing and sales director for Davis Air, a jet charter company in Pittsburgh, Pa. He also served as an aircraft salesman for Piper Aircraft in the Northeast.
Model A200CT, B200, B200C, B200CT, 200T/B200T, 300, B300 and B300C airplanes (Docket No. 97-CE-148-AD) - proposes a new AD that would require replacing the main landing gear left and right actuator clevis assembly. FAA said reports of main landing gear failure on two of the affected airplanes, a B200 and a B200C, prompted the proposed action. Investigation revealed that the main landing gear actuator clevis in those airplanes failed from fatigue cracking in the threaded shank portion of the clevis. FAA estimated that 897 airplanes on the U.S.
AlliedSignal Electronic&Avionics Systems is engineering a variety of new models of its Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) that "will make advanced terrain alerting available to virtually every type of aircraft," according to the company. FAA announced a month ago that it will require owners of all turbine- powered aircraft with six or more seats to install EGPWS units by 2003 and AlliedSignal officials said then they were working on different versions to accommodate different aircraft types (BA, April 20/173).
ATLANTIC AVIATION FLIGHT SERVICES added a second Gulfstream III and a Hawker 700 to its growing charter fleet. The G-III, based in Wilmington, Del., became available for charter this month. The Hawker is equipped with a new interior and is based in Teterboro, N.J.
WILLIAM H. TRACHSEL, 55, a veteran employee of United Technologies Corp., was named senior vice president and general counsel, reporting to George David, UTC's chairman and chief executive. Trachsel succeeds Irving B. Yoskowitz, who is retiring to become a senior partner in Global Technology Partners, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based venture with Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette's Merchant Banking Partners. That venture, whose partners include former Secretary of Defense William Perry and former CIA Director John M.
The Federal Aviation Administration has modified the Gulf of Mexico High Offshore airspace area in an attempt to improve the efficiency of air traffic operations in the area.
