The city of Santa Monica, Calif., is urging a U.S. District Court to reject FAA’s motion to dismiss the city’s lawsuit over control of Santa Monica Airport (SMO), saying the agency should not be allowed to hold the airport hostage over an unfounded assertion that the city acted too late.

Bell Helicopter won initial Canadian and Brazilian approvals for a new variant of its 429 helicopter with retractable wheeled landing gear. Bell 429WLG certification comes three months after Bell announced the latest variant to the business aviation market at the National Business Aviation Association annual convention in Las Vegas.

The number of used business jets available for sale has dipped to the lowest levels since the business aircraft market downturn began and finished well below the 20-year average last year, according to business aviation market analyst Amstat.

Patrick Ky was appointed executive director of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in September 2013. He is the second person to head this organization, which was formed in 2003 to develop a single civil aviation regulatory system for the European Union's member states.

The cliff-hanger Boeing machinists' vote that cleared the way for 777X production in Washington state in the first few days of 2014 was crucial to the company's commercial future, says Boeing chairman and CEO, Jim McNerney. “We are exiting a period where every few years we had a dramatic event and entering a period of 10 years of stability. Having said that, the vote was close. There were emotions on both sides of the equation but eventually everyone centered on this huge business opportunity we had with the 777X and we came together.”

Singapore is synonymous with MRO in the Asia-Pacific region, but the fast-paced growth of Asia-Pacific airlines is drawing local and global companies to establish aftermarket support entities in Indonesia and Malaysia as well.

Full-service carriers can prosper from the Asian low-cost challenge

UPS set to begin certification trials of active fire-suppression system