Basel-based Jet Aviation is to offer its customers OnAir, the onboard mobile phone service developed by Airbus and SITA. OnAir combines an in-aircraft miniature cellular base station with an Inmarsat satcoms air-to-ground link. Passengers can use their own mobile phones in-flight. Jet Aviation will offer OnAir installations for various Bombardier, Boeing, Gulfstream, Embraer, Cessna and Excel jets. It is available as an option on Airbus ACJs.
Source: Flight Daily News
Textron Aviation’s machinists walked off the job on 23 September after members of the 5,000-strong work group voted down the company’s proposed new employment contract. The Wichita-based aircraft manufacturer, which owns the Cessna and Beechcraft brands, confirms that workers represented by the International Association of Machinists (IAM) went on strike. ...
Dassault has developed a modification for Falcon 20 business jets to increase aft-fuselage drainage after a flight-control icing incident involving a UK-registered aircraft. The aircraft’s crew found that pitch control became restricted at 19,000ft and could not be moved nose-up sufficiently to maintain level flight during turns, according to the ...
US authorities have seized a Dassault Falcon 900EX which is alleged to have been operated for the benefit of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, in violation of US export control and sanction laws. The aircraft – registered T7-ESPRT – was seized in the Dominican Republic and transferred to Florida, says the ...
