All General aviation articles – Page 560
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Sumburgh Cessna on the rocks
A Benair Cessna 208 Grand Caravan, flown by Norwegian operator Hangar 5, overran runway 27 at Sumburgh, Shetland Islands, UK, on 6 September. It was on a mail and newspaper run from Inverness, Scotland. Witnesses say it overran the runway and came to rest on rocks 150m (500ft) beyond the ...
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London City wins over business aviation traffic
London City Airport's (LCA) courtship of business aviation is finally paying off, with the city centre airport reporting a 130% increase in general aviation traffic this year, compared with the same period last year. "The airport is experiencing a phenomenal growth in popularity due to its close proximity to ...
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Zeppelin heads for airship approval
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Zeppelin's new-technology airship flight test programme has passed the halfway mark with over 300 flying hours chalked up. The milestone comes 60 years after the German company halted development of its original family of rigid machines following the loss in May 1937 of the Zeppelin Hindenburg after a ...
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NTSB rejects ADS-B for cargo fleet TCAS
US cargo aircraft should be compelled to fit traffic and collision avoidance systems (TCAS) following two recent near collisions, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recommended to the Federal Aviation Administration. An alternative system favoured by the US Cargo Airline Association, automatic dependent surveillance - broadcast (ADS-B), ...
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Industry hails Aviation Act as saviour of jobs and production
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Five years after its enactment, the US General Aviation Revitalisation Act is being lauded as a "tremendous success" by the industry. Since the act became law in August 1994, limiting manufacturers' product liability to 18 years, piston aircraft production in the USA has more than doubled, says ...
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New Zealand passes cockpit voice recorder legislation
The New Zealand Parliament has approved long-awaited legislation to make the use of cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) mandatory in commercial aircraft. The law makes a major concession to pilots' unions, however, in specifying that CVR recordings will not be used for any purpose other than accident investigation. The Transport ...
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First Century Jet risk-sharer signs
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Century Aerospace has signed the first of five risk-sharing partners to help fund and develop its Century Jet CA-100. The remaining contractors will be announced at the US National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention in October, a year after the six-seat aircraft was transformed from a single to ...
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Falcon approval
Dassault Aviation has won US certification for the improved Falcon 900C business jet. The aircraft combines the 7,400km (4,000nm)-range Falcon 900B airframe with the Honeywell Primus 2000 integrated avionics of the longer-range 900EX. Dassault, which has an "18-month order backlog for every Falcon", including 51 Falcon 2000s for Executive Jet's ...
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Airports
South African president Thabo Mbeki opened a new passenger terminal at Johannesburg International Airport on 27 August. The R259 million ($43 million) development makes the airport the largest and busiest on the African continent. It handles 10 million passengers annually. The Kobe municipal government in Japan has reached agreement with ...
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Capital aircraft
Welsh charter operator Capital Trading Aviation (CTA) has acquired a new five-seat Cessna Golden Eagle. The aircraft will join the Cardiff-based operator's charter fleet, consisting of two Piper Chieftains. Source: Flight International
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BAe to relaunch regional jet family with update of RJ85
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC British Aerospace expects to launch development of the re-engined Avro RJ-X programme with the RJ-85 as a result of stronger market interest in the smallest version of the regional jet family. Two unbuilt RJ airframes have been allocated to the development programme, aircraft serial numbers ...
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Greek F406S deal
Reims Aviation has signed a contract worth Fr90 million ($14.5 million) with the Greek navy for two F406 Surmar maritime surveillance aircraft for the national coast guard. A further aircraft is on option. The Surmars will be equipped with a side-looking airborne radar, infrared line scanner, forward looking infrared and ...
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Embraer to develop armed RJ-145 jet
Paul Lewis/WASHINGTON DC Embraer plans to develop an armed maritime patrol (MPA) version of its RJ-145 regional jet on the back of an expected launch order from the Mexico for six aircraft. The proposed EMB-145 MPA would be closely modelled on the modified airframe of the remote sensing ...
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Mergers
Thomson-CSF subsidiary Sextant has become the sole owner of in-flight entertainment provider Sextant In-Flight Systems after acquiring the 49% of shares held by B/E Aerospace. Sextant took an initial 51% stake when the joint venture was created in January. The European Commission's review of the proposed AlliedSignal-Honeywell merger has entered ...
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Raytheon output rise may not be enough
Graham Warwick/WASHINGTON DC Raytheon Aircraft has increased planned production of its new Premier I and Hawker Horizon business jets to meet demand, but faces challenges meeting the programmes' schedules. Production of the entry-level Premier I will be increased by 25% to 60 a year, while production of the ...
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Global Echo
Orbcomm Global has teamed with Boulder, Colorado-based Echo Flight to launch a satellite-based weather information service for general aviation pilots. The service datalinks hourly Nexrad weather radar images to aircraft through Echo Flight's StratoCheetah Flight Manager III system and Orbcomm's network of low earth orbiting satellites. The pilot can request ...
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Police label SilkAir investigation as 'suicide cum murder'
The Singapore Police Force has classified its investigation into the crash of the SilkAir Boeing 737-300 in Sumatra on 19 December 1997 as "suicide cum murder". The police stress that the label has been adopted "solely to assist us in our investigation. It is not an indication of our ...
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Diamond Star flight test programme begins
Austria's Diamond Aircraft has begun flight testing its production configuration DA40-180 Diamond Star, four-seat piston single, for which it already has more than 200 orders. Four pre-production prototypes have already been flown from its Wiener Neustadt base. During the two-month programme the all-composite, Textron Lycoming IO-360-powered aircraft will perform ...
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Safety suite set to make Atlanta NBAA debut
AlliedSignal's new flight information service (FIS) is the centrepiece of a general aviation (GA) safety avionics suite to be unveiled at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention in Atlanta, Georgia, in October. The system will combine colour weather graphics received via the FIS datalink with the enhanced ground ...
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FAA selects Arinc to develop datalink
ARINC has been awarded a five-year contract by the US Federal Aviation Administration to support the development and initial operational capability of controller-pilot datalink communications (CPDLC) in the US national airspace system (NAS). The aeronautical communications specialist will develop a prototype CPDLC system in conjunction with the FAA's William ...