DASSAULT AVIATION Model Mystere-Falcon 50 series airplanes (Docket No. 94-NM-227-AD; Amdt. 39-9114; AD 95-01-03) - requires measurement of the clearance between the electrical bundles in the left-hand cabinet of the electrical panel and the counterbalancing actuator of the passenger door and rerouting and clamping the wire bundles, if necessary. This amendment is prompted by a report of damage of the wire bundles between the actuator of the passenger door and the left-hand cabinet of the electrical panel.
ROLLS-ROYCE Spey series turbofan engines (Docket No. 93-ANE-31; Amdt. 39- 9072 ; AD 94-23-09) - supersedes telegraphic AD T89-02-52, which superseded AD T88-22-51. The initial AD (T88-22-51) reduced cyclic life limits for seventh stage high pressure compressor (HPC) disks from 40,000 total part cycles in service to 35,000 for Spey Model 506-14 and -14D engines. The second telegraphic AD (T89-02-52) requires repetitive inspections or further reduced cyclic life limits for seventh stage HPC disks.
ATLANTIC AVIATION said its Aircraft Services Division was authorized as a surface seal application center by PPG Industries. The PPG coating system involves application of an ultra-thin, water-repellent coating to the cockpit windows of aircraft that inhibits surface wetting and ice retention without affecting the strength, hardness or color of the glass.
FOKKER Model F28 Mark 0100 series airplanes (Docket No. 94-NM-214-AD) - proposes to require replacement of the flight control lock handle and switch with a modified unit. This proposal is prompted by a report of sudden engagement of the flight control lock system during approach for landing. The actions specified by the proposed AD are intended to prevent inadvertent engagement of the flight control lock system during flight and subsequent reduced controllability of the airplane. Comments on the proposal must be sent in triplicate before Feb.
A Perrysburg, Ohio company, Navion Holdings, Inc., has purchased the type certificate for the four-place Navion single-engine aircraft and plans to put the aircraft back into production.
THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION has published the Proceedings of the 1994 AIAA/FAA Joint Symposium on General Aviation Systems. The 638-page document, DOT/FAA/CT-94-63, contains copies of the paper presented at the symposium, which was held May 24-25, 1994 at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss. To obtain a copy, contact the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. 22161.
SAAB Model SF340A and 340B airplanes equipped with Flight Equipment and Engineering Limited Model 121 series seats (Docket No. 94-NM-23-AD; Amdt. 39-9083; AD 94-24-10) - requires repetitive inspections for cracking of the tray to spindle and backrest spindle bosses on the inboard sections of certain seats and replacement of the inboard sections, if necessary. This amendment also requires repair and identification of the modification plate as a terminating action for the repetitive inspections.
TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT officials expect to introduce a detailed air traffic control corporatization proposal by Feb. 6, when the Clinton Administration unveils its fiscal 1996 budget. Department staff is finalizing the details of the proposal, which is expected to be quite similar to the one DOT unveiled last year.
A Washington attorney with broad experience representing pilots in FAA medical certification cases and the president of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association blasted FAA's proposed changes to airmen medical standards during a public meeting Friday in Washington.
CHANDLER EVANS Control Systems Division is offering a program under which users of Allison 250 engines can exchange their current main fuel pump for a new fuel pump "for about the price of an overhaul," the company said. The Coltec Industries, Inc. unit said authorized Allison distributors will exchange current fuel pumps at overhaul with new CECO fuel pump Model MFP- 263, MFP-264-1 or MFP-264-2 units, depending on engine model.
Kaman Corp. said it would take a pre-tax charge of about $44 million to write down the investment in its Raymond Engineering subsidiary and merge it into its Kaman Aerospace subsidiary. In a statement that noted the continuing decline in defense spending, Kaman Corp. Chairman Charles H.
Composites-specialist Hexcel, struggling to emerge from bankruptcy protection, sold its Chandler, Ariz., honeycomb plant to Northrop Grumman for $30 million, Hexcel said, adding that it will book a $16 million gain on the deal.
LEE HAINES joined AAR Corporation this month as public relations and advertising manager. Haines is a veteran of the AlliedSignal organization, where he had been public relations manager for that company's Commercial Avionics Systems, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., since 1990. Haines will work out of AAR's corporate offices in Elk Grove Village, Ill.
BANNER AEROSPACE, INC., completed the sale of its Barcel Wire&Cable Corp. subsidiary to the unit's chief executive, Bob E. Inman, and key members of management. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. The Irvine, Calif., company manufactures high-temperature wrapper and low-temperature extruded electrical wire and cable.
Gene Rainville, a veteran aircraft marketer who has held executive positions with Falcon Jet Corp. and Cessna Aircraft, has joined Gulfstream Aerospace as executive vice president of international sales.
Innotech Aviation Services, Inc., part of IMP Group Ltd., of Halifax, Nova Scotia, has opened a fixed-base operation at Montreal's Dorval International Airport, the ninth in the company's chain across Canada and the U.S. and the fourth to be operated as a Shell Aero Centre.
NEW MEDICAL STANDARDS proposed by FAA came under attack Friday in Washington at the first of three public meetings to discuss the controversial proposals published in October. See article on Page 35. Additional meetings are scheduled Jan. 26 in Orlando, Fla. and Jan. 31 in Seattle, Wash. For details on times and locations of the meetings, call Effie Upshaw in FAA's Office of Rulemaking at (202) 267-7626.
LEIGHTON COLLINS, 92, who spent more than 30 years in the aviation publishing business as a writer and editor, died Jan. 16 in Hendersonville, N.C. Collins learned to fly in the 1920s and worked for Monocoupe and the Aeronautical Corporation of America in the 1930s. He also was one of the first Piper Aircraft dealers in the U.S. Collins is best known for founding Air Facts magazine in 1938, a publication he continued to publish until his retirement in the early 1970s.
JANINE K. IANNARELLI was named vice president-sales and marketing for AeroSmith/Penny, the Houston, Tex.-based corporate aircraft dealer. The company said Iannarelli will "continue to help engineer the company's expansion into international markets and product lines, as well as oversee advertising, promotion and all other marketing functions." Iannarelli has spent 10 years with AeroSmith/Penny, which specializes in Garrett TFE731- powered airplanes.
McDonnell Douglas Corp. said it has developed a new system for removing paint from aircraft surfaces that is environmentally safer and more cost effective than conventional stripping agents.
THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, in conjunction with the National Business Aircraft Association, is offering a week-long course, "Managing The Corporate Aviation Function," April 30-May 5 in Charlottesville, Va. The course will address accounting and cost analysis, budgeting, cost allocation, lease, buy and charter options, aircraft acquisition and fleet planning. Registration fee is $3,800 per person, which includes tuition, course materials, lodging and meals.
All U.S. helicopters stationed in South Korea will be retrofitted with Global Positioning Systems by March 1, the Defense Department announced last week. A Defense Department spokesman said the retrofit rate was accelerated following the crash of an OH-58A in North Korea on Dec. 17. The surviving crewman said the helicopter, which wasn't fitted with GPS, had unintentionally crossed the border. At the time of the crash, the U.S. Army was in the process of installing GPS in all its helicopters stationed in South Korea, but half were still without the system.
GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE was busy last week, signing the largest single order in the company's history and persuading a veteran marketing executive to leave a competitive manufacturer to help bolster Gulfstream's international sales efforts.See articles below and on Page 35.
JETSTREAM Model ATP airplanes (Docket No. 94-NM-151-AD) - proposes to supersede an existing AD that requires a revision of the Airplane Flight Manual to prohibit flight in certain freezing precipitation conditions. This action would add a requirement to install certain modifications of the engine air intake system. This proposal is prompted by the development of certain modifications of the engine air intake system intended to permit operation of the airplanes in freezing precipitation conditions.
Industry groups responding to FAA's call for comments on a series of National Transportation Safety Board recommendations raised a number of questions and concerns about how those recommendations might be implemented and enforced.
