EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY is holding its seventh annual Airport Concessions Analysis Seminar Nov. 13-15 at the Omni Netherland Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio. The seminar will include presentations from airport managers, consultants and concessionaires on all aspects of concessions performance. Advance registration costs $395. For more information, contact Bill Minter at (904) 226-6186.
National Air Transportation Association asked the Federal Aviation Administration to delay the implementation of an advisory circular that essentially would allow flight students credit for up to 10 hours of training toward an instrument rating through the use of personal computer- based aviation training devices.
The Federal Aviation Administration denied Wilcox Electric's protest against its Wide Area Augmentation System contract award to Hughes Aircraft Co. last week, citing a special master's conclusion that the agency did not have to compete the award and that its market analysis was sufficient. Wilcox protested the contract May 28 after FAA canceled Wilcox's original contract to develop WAAS and retained Hughes, a Wilcox subcontractor, on a sole-source basis as the new prime contractor.
A new fixed-base operation aimed at attracting corporate aircraft to the Philippines began operations this month at the former Clark Air Force Base. Pacific Jet Aviation is headed by Robert R. Rada, chairman and chief executive, and Richard (Dick) Kimm, president and chief operating officer. Rada is a former marketing executive with British Aerospace, Inc., while Kimm spent many years with FlightSafety International and then Page Avjet, where he was in charge of marketing.
CESSNA AIRCRAFT workers who are members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers were scheduled to vote Saturday on a new contract with the manufacturer. The existing contract was to expire Sunday and negotiations between the sides were continuing late Friday.
Forstmann Little, the majority owner of Gulfstream Aerospace, executed a financial coup last week with an initial public offering (IPO) of Gulfstream stock that was heavily oversubscribed. In a Securities and Exchange Commission registration statement filed two months ago, the parties indicated they planned to sell 28 million shares of stock at a price of $21 to $25 per share (BA, Aug. 19/77). Thursday, however, Gulfstream said it increased the size of the IPO to 42.5 million shares after underwriters led by Goldman, Sachs&Co.
SOCATA TBM 700 airplanes (Docket No. 95-CE-67-AD; Amdt. 39-9755; AD 95-19-18) - requires installing four rivets on the right side of the rudder and drilling drainage holes at the areas of the elevators and rudder. The action is prompted by reports of water accumulating in the areas of the elevators and rudder and a report of a bonding defect between the skin and rudder rear spar.
JET AVIATION increased its hangar space to 66,900 square feet at its facilities on Dusseldorf, Germany Airport. Jet Aviation now offers complete ramp services to business and general aviation aircraft operators at the facility. Jet Aviation also said its facility in Hannover, Germany received German government approval to perform maintenance on all Israel Aircraft Industries Astra and Westwind aircraft.
Congress ordered the Transportation and Commerce departments to submit within six months a plan for future use and funding of Loran-C. In a sharp rebuke - particularly of the Department of Transportation, which ignored protests of Loran-C users by scheduling an early phaseout of the navigation aid - the Coast Guard authorization for fiscal 1996 and 1997 contains Loran-C language that received unanimous bipartisan approval.
Raytheon Aerospace won a contract valued at $21.4 million from the U.S. Air Force to provide maintenance for T-37, T-38A and T-1A aircraft at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi. The contract, the third option in a potential five-year deal, calls for Raytheon to support more than 213 aircraft at Columbus AFB. Raytheon also will provide transient aircraft support, preservation of historical and static display aircraft and off- station aircraft support. Raytheon began providing maintenance support under the initial contract in fiscal 1994.
A controversial requirement by FAA to force air taxi operators to display the name of the certificate holder on the exterior of all aircraft used in Part 135 operations has come under fire from more than 60 aviation businesses and trade associations. Opponents of the rule, which was adopted as part of the massive "one level of safety rulemaking" (BA, Dec.
A new cost allocation study (CAS) just completed by FAA officials assigns all of the agency's $9 billion budget to specific system users, but those who prepared the document say it makes no judgment on how those costs should be recovered. FAA Administrator David Hinson was scheduled to receive a briefing on the CAS document Friday, with Transportation Department and congressional staffers expected to be briefed this week or next.
NATIONAL BUSINESS AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION, which had explored the concept of certification for corporate flight department managers (BA, Aug. 29, 1994/87), instead has created a professional development program for corporate aviation management.
Rolls-Royce Industries Canada, Inc. (RRICI), a company whose principal business involves the manufacture and support of gas turbine engines, announced plans to sell its Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Bristol Aerospace Ltd., a repair and overhaul facility that also manufactures a variety of components for the aerospace industry. Bristol Aerospace has been owned by RRICI for about 30 years, but company President Stan Todd said Bristol's products "have gradually moved away from the business areas that Rolls- Royce sees as central to its operation in the next century.
THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago set arguments Nov. 1 on an appeal filed by several groups who are attempting to keep the City of Chicago from demolishing Meigs Field. Attorneys representing aviation interests will attempt to convince the court to overturn a district court ruling in favor of the city's plans to convert the airport site into a park. The airport closed at the end of September, but a stay issued by the Illinois Court of Appeals has blocked demolition until at least Oct. 25.
FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL appointed Jean-Pierre Bru airline marketing representative based at the Le Bourget learning center in Paris. Bru formerly held international aviation marketing and sales positions with France Telecom FCR and FT Mobiles International. He graduated from France's National Civil Aviation School and served in the French Air Force.
Lufthansa Technik has developed a luminescent strip to replace emergency floor lighting throughout Lufthansa's fleet, saving maintenance costs and improving aircraft turn times, the carrier said. While Lufthansa has not quantified the anticipated cost savings from the new system, the existing electrical system has caused so many flight delays that Lufthansa believes it can recoup initial costs simply by running a more efficient airline. "We've lost a lot of time from flight delays," said Charles Croce, Lufthansa director of corporate communication for the Americas.
U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to block a 1995 federal court order, upheld in an appeals court, requiring USAir to make public its internal safety documents involved in the July 1994 crash of a USAir DC-9 in Charlotte, N.C. USAir argued, and FAA agreed, that the information should be kept private because airlines would fear being candid in disclosures to FAA if they thought the information eventually might be made public.
KEVIN CURTIN, Democratic chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Commerce Committee, is leaving his position to become a partner at the Washington, D.C. office of the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP. Curtin had served in his position since November 1989 and as a member of the committee staff for 23 years. Ivan Schlager, senior counsel for the Senate consumer affairs, foreign commerce and tourism subcommittee, will succeed Curtin.
CHINA AIRCRAFT SERVICES LIMITED (CASL) signed an agreement with the Hong Kong Airport Authority to provide aircraft maintenance services at Chek Lap Kok. Under the agreement, CASL will provide line maintenance services at the new airport for 10 years. The contract is the second of three maintenance agreements that the airport authority will sign. The authority last month signed an agreement with Pan Asia Pacific Aviation Services Ltd., also for line maintenance.
PAUL THEOFAN was named director of Jacksonville operations for Unison Industries. Theofan, who is responsible for operations relating to manufacturing and materials, has served with Unison for 11 years.
Los Angeles Department of Airports this month transferred $31.1 million to the city's general fund as a repayment for loans and interest to the department over several decades. The transfer occurred before enactment of the FAA reauthorization bill, H.R.3539, which imposes a six- year statute of limitations on unreimbursed capital and operating expenses, but the Senate aviation subcommittee chairman pledged to work to recover the funds.
SCHWEIZER AIRCRAFT CORP. sold two Model 300C helicopters to the Argentinian Coast Guard. Aviacom, Schweizer's distributor in Argentina, delivered the float-equipped aircraft to Servicio De Aviacion in Buenos Aires. Both aircraft will be used for basic training and river patrol operations.
DONALD W. VANLANDINGHAM was named president of Ball Aerospace&Technologies Corp. He joined Ball Brothers Research Corp. in 1967 and most recently held the post of executive vice president-operations at BATC. He became a member of the BATC executive committee in June.
