AVCARD, the Hunt Valley, Md., provider of credit services and information for corporate pilots and fixed-base operators, named Warren E. Boin, Jr. vice president of marketing and business development, effective March 13. Boin has held a number of top marketing and financial posts in the fixed-base industry over the past dozen years, working for AMR Services, Butler Aviation and most recently, at Signature Flight Support where he was senior vice president of marketing until early this year (BA, Jan. 13/20).
ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE is considering a resolution to urge FAA to allow small scheduled carriers to continue operating under Part 135 in rural locations in the state or grant specific exemptions for carriers that operate in rural Alaska. The resolution, introduced last week by Rep.
BOMBARDIER late last month opened its 98,000-square-foot expansion to the Flight Test Center at the Learjet facilities in Wichita, Kan. The $10 million facility includes a 45,000-square-foot experimental flight test hangar and a 53,000-square-foot office and workshop area. The new hangar, which more than doubles the capacity of the Flight Test Center, can accommodate up to three large Bombardier aircraft at one time, including the Global Express business jet and de Havilland Dash 8 Series 400 70- to 78-passenger regional turboprop.
AVIATION EXCISE TAXES went into effect Friday after President Clinton signed a bill Feb. 28 that reinstated the taxes until Sept. 30. The bill renews the 10 percent ticket, 6.25 percent cargo tax, $6 per person international departure, 15-cent-per-gallon aviation gasoline and 17.5- cent-per-gallon jet fuel tax. The 4.3-cent-per-gallon fuel tax that is slated for deficit reduction never expired.
DOMINICK DIGUILMI joined Garrett Aviation Services as manager, avionics services. DiGuilmi, who will oversee avionics services at Garrett's Long Island, N.Y. facility, previously was a senior systems engineer with Northrop Grumman.
JULIE WRENN was appointed aircraft sales representative for Stevens Aviation. Wrenn, who will represent Stevens in South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, joined the company's customer service department in 1993 and most recently was charter sales representative.
RAYTHEON Model Hawker 800 and 1000 and DH/BH/HS/BAe 125 series airplanes (including major variants C29A, U125, and U125A series airplanes) - supersedes an existing AD that requires repetitive inspections for fatigue cracking of the sidestay jack pivots of the main landing gear and replacement of the side-stay jack pivot assemblies with new assemblies. This amendment adds a requirement to replace the sidestay jack pivot assemblies with new, improved assemblies, which would constitute a terminating action for the repetitive inspections.
Airborne weather radar expert Archie Trammell scheduled eight sessions of his Radar Seminar over the next seven months at locations across the U.S. Trammell, a veteran pilot and former editor of Business&Commercial Aviation magazine, has trained more than 40,000 flight crews since beginning the seminars in 1979. Clients include a number of Part 121 airlines (American, Alaska, Continental, Southwest, United, UPS and USAir), plus FAA, the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Coast Guard.
The Air Transport Association's board of directors said it will oppose any nominee for FAA Administrator who does not have a "thorough knowledge of civil transport aviation," but a spokesman told BA that statement was not targeted at any particular candidate.
ROBINSON Model R44 helicopters (Docket No. 96-SW-15-AD; Amdt. 39-9900 ; AD 97-02-15) - supersedes an existing AD that requires installation of an improved throttle governor, an adjustment of the low RPM warning unit threshold to increase the revolutions per minute at which the warning horn and caution light activate, and revisions to the rotorcraft flight manual that prohibit flight with the improved throttle governor selected off, except in certain situations.
SIMUFLITE TRAINING INTERNATIONAL will offer Gulfstream IV/IV-SP maintenance training beginning this month. The program was developed following a nine- month review involving SimuFlite's 21-member Gulfstream/SimuFlite customer training advisory board and surveys of Gulfstream IV technicians. SimuFlite will offer training at its training facility at Dallas/Fort Worth airport or on site at the customer's location.
DON SEILER was appointed manager of FlightSafety International's helicopter training center in Lafayette, La. Seiler has 15 years of experience in helicopter flight operations and served as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot.
FOKKER Model F28 Mark 0100 series airplanes (Docket No. 95-NM-02-AD; Amdt. 39-9915; AD 97-03-09) - requires repetitive checks to detect backlash in the elevator mechanical control system and various follow-on actions. This amendment also provides for an optional terminating action for the repetitive check requirements. This amendment is prompted by a report indicating that corrosion was found on the pivot bolts and bushings of the backlash remover lever mechanism on the elevator booster control unit of an F28 Mark 0100 airplane.
Barry Valentine, FAA's acting administrator, and Tony Broderick, formerly the agency's top executive in charge of regulatory and certification activities, differed last week about proposals for changing FAA's regulatory and oversight responsibilities.
RAYTHEON Model BAe 125-1000A and Hawker 1000 series airplanes (Docket No. 96-NM-180-AD) - proposes to require various modifications to increase the size of certain existing pressure venting areas and to add additional venting areas. This proposal is prompted by results of a design review of the requirements for certification of the cabin pressurization system.
Robert T. (Tom) Marsh, former chairman of the board of Thiokol Corp. and a retired U.S. Air Force general, has been designated head of the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection by President Clinton.
VISIONAIRE CORPORATION named Douglas Herrman director of marketing communications and marketing research. Herrman previously was a senior consultant with Aragon Consulting Group, a management and marketing consulting firm. He also spent nearly 10 years with Gardner Advertising, a subsidiary of New York-based Wells, Rich, Greene.
ACCIDENTS involving business jets during 1996 are detailed in charts on Pages 102-103 of the hard copy of this issue. The information was compiled by Robert E. Breiling Associates, which specializes in accident data compilation and analysis for clients in corporate aviation, aircraft manufacturing and the insurance industry, among others. In addition to publishing an annual report on aviation safety statistics for turbine- powered aircraft, the firm also does reports detailing the safety record of specific aircraft types. For more information, contact Robert E.
KARL-HEINZ KOPFLE is the new managing director of Lufthansa CityLine, taking over from Karl Friedrich Rausch, who is moving to the management board of Lufthansa, the airline's parent company.
A COLLINS RTU-4200 radio tuning unit was certificated aboard a Sikorsky S- 76B helicopter that recently began operations as an East Coast corporate shuttle.
General aviation interests urged the House transportation appropriations subcommittee last week to deny the Clinton Administration's request to assess up to $400 million in user fees in fiscal 1998 (BA, Feb. 10/60).
Congress sent legislation to President Clinton last week providing for a short-term renewal of the aviation excise taxes. The Senate approved the legislation, H.R.668, by voice vote Thursday after the House passed the bill 347-73 Wednesday. The measure, which would reinstate the taxes seven days following President Clinton's signature, calls for a renewal of the taxes through Sept. 30.
NATIONAL AIR TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION warned its members that today (March 3) is the deadline for submitting comments on the Federal Aviation Administration's proposal to permit the use of single-engine aircraft in passenger-carrying operations under instrument flight rules. The proposal has received strong support from operators, but drawn a mixed reaction from manufacturers and opposition from pilots unions (BA, Feb. 17/75). Some have proposed limiting the proposal to turbine aircraft or allowing commercial piston single-engine IFR operations only in Alaska.
UNITED STATES AIR TOUR ASSOCIATION is seeking a new president to replace Dan Anderson, who is leaving at the end of March to start his own business in Florida. See article below.
