DANIEL MORRIS was appointed division manager for Keystone Helicopter's engineering services/product division, KeyTech. Morris joined the company in 1973 as mechanics assistant and has held positions of increasing responsibility, including his most recent title of manager of engineering.
MIKE BRODERICK was named helicopter program business support manager for Airwork. Broderick, formerly of NAC Helicopter Support Group, will provide sales and technical support to Allison 250 and Pratt&Whitney Canada PT6T Twin Pac operators, owners and service centers.
DASSAULT FALCON JET CORP. appointed Garrett Aviation Services of Augusta, Ga., an authorized Falcon Service Center. The facility is authorized to provide after-sale service and support on all Falcon business jet models, including maintenance and inspection work on the Falcon 20/200, Falcon 50, Falcon 900 and Falcon 2000. Garrett also is authorized to perform heavy maintenance on the Falcon 10/100. The addition of the Augusta facility brings the number of worldwide Falcon authorized service centers to 31.
SIDNEY HURST was named vice president of maintenance for the Eagle Aviation Group. Hurst, who has 24 years of aircraft maintenance experience, will oversee all aspects of aircraft maintenance for Eagle's fleet of Fokker F27, Cessna 207 and Cessna 402 aircraft.
First Equity Corp., Stamford, Conn., said it completed a public offering of First Aviation Services, Inc., which includes National Airmotive Corp. (NAC), of Oakland, Calif., and Aircraft Parts International (API Combs), a Memphis, Tenn., company that had been part of AMR Services.
NATIONAL AIR TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION and the Professional Aviation Maintenance Association will combine the trade show (exhibit floor) portion of their respective conventions beginning with the 1998 event in Kansas City, Mo. Each organization will have separate educational programs, technical sessions and social functions, independent of one another. Dates for the 1998 event in Kansas City will be announced later.
AERO INTERNATIONAL (REGIONAL) delivered the first two of three ATR 42-320s to Dutch regional Air Exel Commuter. The aircraft will be operated on Air Exel's Maastricht-Amsterdam, Eindhoven-London Heathrow, and Eindhoven- Charles de Gaulle routes.
National Air Transportation Association warned Texas officials that proposals to tax aviation fuel and sales of aircraft parts and repair equipment "would spell the end to many small businesses in Texas that sell fuel, provide maintenance services and operate on-demand air charter services." The state legislature is considering proposals to impose a 10-cents-per-gallon fuel tax and subject parts used in commercial aviation to a sales tax (BA, March 31/142). NATA last week appealed to state officials to "support any effort to block or kill" the new tax proposals.
General Aviation Manufacturers Association urged the Joint Aviation Authorities to adopt a 180-minute extended-range, twin-engine operations (ETOPS) threshold for business jets flown commercially, saying JAA's current proposal for a 120-minute threshold will decrease the margin of safety and be prohibitively costly.
The Federal Aviation Administration approved the data package for the Challenger 604 business jet to meet new Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) standards. The Challenger is the first business jet to receive such approval for the new standards that went into effect late last month. The RVSM standards apply to aircraft operating between Flight Levels 330 and 370 over the North Atlantic. Bombardier, which received similar approval from Transport Canada in January (BA, Jan.
RAYTHEON COSSOR won a contract to supply a Pre-Operational European Mode S (POEMS) secondary surveillance radar system to Eurocontrol under the European Air Traffic Control Harmonization Improvement Program. Raytheon Cossor, which will produce the system at its United Kingdom facility, valued the contract award at more than 9 million pounds. The system will be used to validate the Eurocontrol specification for the Mode S ground station. It will be deployed in Southern England and will be networked with similar stations in Germany and France.
ALLISON ENGINE COMPANY won FAA type certification for its AE 2100D3 turboprop engine that powers the new Lockheed C-130J Hercules II utility transport. The engine, which develops up to 4,591 shaft horsepower flat rated to 103 degrees Fahrenheit, increases the range of the C-130J by 35 percent over earlier models of the aircraft and boosts the cruise ceiling by 27 percent, Allison said.
SABRELINER CORP. will hold its annual operators symposium May 7-9 at the Regal Riverfront Hotel in St. Louis, Mo. The symposium will provide a technical forum for Sabreliner pilots, chiefs of maintenance and aircraft owners and operators. For more information, call Chris Mast at Sabreliner at (314) 863-6880.
MARY BRYANT was appointed head of the Cessna Pilot Center and Learn-to-Fly programs for Cessna Aircraft Company. Bryant formerly was president and co-owner of Attitudes International, a flight training company in Florida. In her new position, she will direct Cessna's student pilot promotional efforts as well as expand the worldwide network of CPCs.
NATIONAL INITIATIVE to boost the number of student pilots will begin running advertisements on selected cable television programs April 21.After two weeks on the air, organizers of the GA Team 2000 effort will analyze the response to the "Stop Dreaming, Start Flying" promotion to determine the level of interest and demographics of those who call the toll-free (888) BE-A-PILOT telephone number. Organizers say they will continue to monitor advertising responses closely to make sure the program remains on track and effective.
BELL Model 214B, 214B-1 and 214ST helicopters (Docket No. 94-SW-24-AD ; Amdt. 39-9959; AD 97-06-02) - supersedes an existing AD that establishes a retirement life of 40,000 high-power events for the lower planetary spider. This amendment changes the method of calculating the retirement life for the spider from high-power events to a maximum accumulated Retirement Index Number of 80,000 and makes this RIN applicable to an additional part- numbered spider.
FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL received FAA Level C approval for its Embraer EMB-120 flight simulator at its training center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The simulator is being used to train SkyWest pilots. The center, located on Salt Lake City International Airport, also houses a Boeing 737-300 flight simulator.
LOU CHURCHVILLE, the veteran marketer of executive jet completion and modification services, is joining the sales and marketing team at Associated Air Center, Inc., headquartered at Love Field in Dallas, Texas. Churchville, who previously held marketing posts with Page Avjet, most recently was senior director of sales and marketing at Aero Corp. in Lake City, Fla.
LEARJET last month broke ground for a 70,000-square-foot aircraft paint and delivery center. The ground-breaking follows the recent opening of the 98,000-square-foot expansion to the Bombardier Flight Test Center at the Learjet facilities in Wichita, Kan. (BA, March 10/112). The new $8 million paint facility will be used for exterior painting of Learjet 45 production aircraft and customer aircraft undergoing maintenance at Bombardier Aviation Services.
Pilatus Aircraft's PC-12 turboprop received certification from Transport Canada, paving the way for the use of the single-engine aircraft in commercial IFR operations. The aircraft will be used in commercial operations by Kelner Airways of Goose Bay, Canada, which ordered three PC- 12s for cargo and passenger transport (BA, Dec. 2/252). The Royal Canadian Mounted Police also is a new owner of the PC-12. In addition to Canada, the aircraft is certified in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Japan, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
SAE INTERNATIONAL will hold its General, Corporate and Regional Aviation Meeting&Exposition April 29-May 1 at the Century II Expo Center in Wichita, Kan. For more information, call (412) 776-4970.
BILL SHEA, FAA's associate administrator for airports from 1981 to 1984 and currently one of five elected commissioners for the Port of Astoria, Ore., was named commissioner of aviation for Broome County, N.Y. He will be based at Binghamton Regional Airport. Shea worked at Broome County twice in the past, as commissioner of aviation from 1970 to 1972 and Binghamton's commissioner of transportation from 1974 to 1976.
The United States Air Tour Association told acting FAA Administrator Barry Valentine it is "shocked and alarmed" by the process being used to establish an Aviation Regulatory Advisory Committee (ARAC) to develop national standards for flights over national parks and other public lands, charging that "this entire process smacks of manipulation and connivance. "
Executive Jet International ordered 11 more Gulfstream IV-SP business jets for delivery through 2000, bringing EJI's total Gulfstream orders to 29 aircraft, including two Gulfstream Vs. Eleven of the G-IV-SPs included in the 29-aircraft total are in operational service with EJI.
DUNCAN AVIATION signed an agreement renewing its designation as an authorized service center for AlliedSignal TFE731, TPE331 and APU lines. The agreements, renewed through Feb. 27, 1999, allow Duncan to continue performing TFE731 and TPE331 MSP and warranty work for repairs and inspections.
