All General aviation articles – Page 598
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Raytheon modifies F33C
Raytheon has modified a Beech Bonanza F33C as a testbed for NASA's Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments programme. The aircraft features two flat-panel primary flight displays presenting "highway in the sky" guidance symbology; a real-time graphical weather display; digital datalink; and automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast. Fly by wire decoupled flight ...
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Gulfstream/Chrysler launch aircraft management service
Kate Sarsfield/LONDON Gulfstream has teamed with Chrysler Pentastar Aviation to provide an aircraft management service designed to "simplify aircraft ownership" and stimulate business jet sales. Called Gulfstream Management Services, the programme is aimed at new and existing Gulfstream owners and offers a turnkey aircraft service. "We will offer ...
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Schiphol Airport earns safety black mark from pilots
David Learmount/LONDON Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport has been blacklisted as unsafe by the International Federation of Airline Pilots (IFALPA) for putting pressure on pilots to use runways chosen for environmental considerations rather than flight safety. IFALPA chief Rob McKinnis says that the Federation is concerned that environmental lobbies will ...
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Lancair picks Avrotech display for Columbia
Lancair has selected an AvroTec multifunction display with Avidyne software for its Columbia 300 light aircraft. The four seat, all-composite Columbia 300 is planned to be certificated in the fourth quarter of 1998. AvroTec will supply the 265mm-diagonal, full-colour, flat panel display, with the control unit integrated into the ...
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TLM revives Grumman singles
Dave Higdon/WITCHITA TLM Aerospace has acquired the rights to the four-seat Grumman Tiger and Cheetah piston singles, and plans to start production by the year-end at a factory under construction at Martinsburg, West Virginia, in the USA. TLM, a subsidiary of Taiwan's Tong Lung Metal Industries, plans to ...
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Live TV
Cessna is installing an Airshow live television system in a Citation X business jet for delivery in October. Airshow TV receives the DirectTV service in flight via direct broadcast satellite. Two business jets have been retrofitted with Airshow TV, but Cessna is the first manufacturer to install the system. ...
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Cirrus expands
Cirrus Design has completed a manufacturing expansion to support production of the SR20 all-composite light aircraft. Wings and horizontal stabilisers will be produced at Grand Forks, North Dakota, and shipped to Duluth, Minnesota, for final assembly. Source: Flight International
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SabreTech fined over ValuJet DC-9 crash
The US Federal Aviation Administration is to fine SabreTech $2.3 million for its role in the ValuJet McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crash in May 1996, which killed 110 people. The fine is the largest ever proposed by the FAA for violation of hazardous materials shipping regulations. The agency says that ...
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Across the spectrum
Dave Higdon/LAKELAND, FLORIDA Sport aviation's annual spring fling, the US Experimental Aircraft Association's Sun 'n' Fun Fly-In, attracted more than half a million aficionados who witnessed, among other things, the relaunch of the Wing Derringer and unveiling of a "flying motor home", the Private Explorer. Rain and humidity did little ...
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Hartzell urges early compliance with AD
Hartzell is urging operators to comply quickly with a US Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD) affecting older light aircraft types, by upgrading or replacing the propellers. The appeal follows discovery of more cracked components during inspections of so-called "V shank" propellers affected by the AD. Hartzell says that ...
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Czech Government allows Ayres to have Let
US agricultural and cargo aircraft builder Ayres is set to purchase Czech manufacturer Let Kunovice after agreeing terms with the Government in Prague. A deal is due to be signed by the end of May. Ayres is expected to take a 93% stake in the Aero Holdings-owned company. Fred Ayres, ...
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Eurocontrol alters B-RNAV date following poor compliance level
Emma Kelly/LONDON Eurocontrol has set a final deadline of 1 August, 1998, for operators in European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) airspace to meet basic area navigation (B-RNAV) requirements following a "very disappointing" level of compliance achieved for the 23 April deadline. Under the April schedule, the carriage of ...
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More trouble hits Europe's singles in certification bid
Julian Moxon/PARIS Fresh attempts by the European Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) to settle the long-running controversy in Europe over the approval for commercial operations of single-engined aircraft in instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) and at night have run into difficulties. The JAA is on the verge of taking the unusual ...
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Hong Kong starts on move to Chek Lap Kok
The Airport Authority of Hong Kong is beginning the relocation from Kai Tak to the territory's new international gateway at Chek Lap Kok two months ahead of its scheduled opening on 6 July. The formal move to the new HK$70.7 billion ($9.1 billion) Hong Kong International Airport starts on ...
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Maintenance Directory
Ian Sheppard/London Despite its current economic troubles, Asia looks set to continue to attract the attention of airframe and engine maintenance providers anxious to cash in on a region that will continue to be a pace setter in the dash for global air transport growth over the next few ...
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NASA and FAA get going on post-AGATE goals
Dave Higdon/HOUSTON NASA and the US Federal Aviation Administration have begun studying the next step in general aviation revitalisation, even before programmes to develop new aircraft and engine technologies have reached fruition. It already appears that infrastructure will be the focus of the next NASA/FAA effort after the ...
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Thomson protest holds up Philippine radar plans
The Philippine air force has been forced again to delay issuing a tender for new air defence radars after Thomson-CSF protested about being dropped from the shortlist. The new fighter programme has now taken a step forward with the issue of the long awaited invitation to bid (ITB). Manila ...
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Regional Airlines Survey
Rank Airline Pass 000 Emp Revenue US$ 000 Net Result US$ 000 Year end Regional fleet details (In service + On order + On option) Significant shareholders Alliances Rank 1 American Eagle ...
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Two Bobs stir the immunity debate
Could the two Bobs - Ayling and Crandall - have had an inkling of the amount of controversy they would raise when they first aired their plan to forge an alliance between their airlines? That controversy took yet another turn in March when Robert Ayling, chief executive of British ...
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Crossing into the EU
The launch of its French subsidiary will give Crossair greater access to southern European markets and boost its Basle hub. Tom Gill reports. 'Some guys talk about the Star Alliance; well, we have our own new born star.' The star Crossair's president and CEO Moritz Suter is hailing is a ...