Lanmar Aviation has received FAA Repair Station certification for Raytheon King Airs and Model 1900s, and Pratt & Whitney PT-6 engines. Lanmar is on the Web at www.lanmaraviation.com.
Embraer says it is confident it will meet the Embraer 170's new November certification date and expects Brazil to offer some financing to US Airways, the first U.S. operator of the aircraft. The company's executive vice president of airline markets, Frederico Curado, told Aviation Daily that like all banks, Brazil's development bank BNDES doesn't have unlimited funds and has been in talks with Embraer to flesh out the depth of the bank's involvement.
The C model has a full complement of Honeywell and Garmin avionics, including Bendix/King two-tube EFIS 40 on the pilot's side, dual Garmin GNS530 com/nav/GPS/moving map units, Honeywell KMD 850 MFD with RDS200 weather radar, IHAS880 traffic and terrain warning system, Honeywell FIS-B weather data link, KN63 DME, Garmin GTX-327 transponder, Garmin GMA 340 stereo audio panel provisioned for entertainment system input and Stormscope.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia-based National Air Services (NAS), which operates the NetJets Middle East fractional ownership program, and Arab Banking Corp. (ABC) of Bahrain have signed an agreement for the financing of a $30 million Gulfstream IV-SP. ABC is the largest bank in the Middle East, and five-year-old NAS has an owned and managed fleet of 11 aircraft.
Does the holding of a fractional share in an aircraft constitute true ownership of an asset or the purchase of a transportation service? In carrying out the contracted transportation service, is the fractional program manager conducting a private or commercial operation? Do you think that since the five-year initiative to hammer out FAR Part 91, Subpart K those questions have been unequivocally answered?
Aerolineas Argentinas announced that it has an executive-configured Boeing 737 for charter or lease. The 29-seat 737 can serve destinations in Argentina, as well as Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia.
The Air Carrier Access Act of 1986 (ACAA) provides one of the most specific statements of federal policy regarding accommodation of service animals. The act requires air carriers to permit service animals to accompany people with disabilities on flights (14 CFR 382.55): (1) Carriers shall accept as evidence that an animal is a service animal: identification cards, other written documentation, presence of harnesses or markings on harnesses, tags, or the credible verbal assurances of the qualified handicapped person using the animal.
In the ``there are no new accidents category,'' a tour helicopter crashed on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, killing all five people on board -- including a woman who survived several hours, authorities said. The woman and her male companion, another couple, and the pilot of the Bell 206B died in the crash, said fire Battalion Chief Mitchell Ikeda.
I found the compilation of statistics surprising in August's ``Accidents Redux'' (Intelligence, page 16). It's interesting that commercial/air taxi operators exceed so many other categories in accidents, considering all that required training, documentation and bureaucratic participation! New and innovative FAR Part 135 regulations and/or ideas don't always help. Thank you for keeping me up on my career. John Thompson Princeton, IL
The 51st annual Experimental Aircraft Association fly-in, AirVenture 2003, chalked up some impressive statistics: -- Total estimated attendance: 770,000. -- Total estimated aircraft flown to the event (both at Oshkosh and surrounding airports): 11,000. -- Total show planes at Oshkosh in 11 judging categories: 2,960 (record; previous record was 2,743 in 1998). Includes 825 home builts, 1,224 vintage, 405 warbirds, 357 ultralight/light planes, 129 seaplanes and 20 rotorcraft. -- Registered media: 1,075 from five continents. -- Commercial exhibitors: 807.
-- Be sure all vaccinations and certificates are up to date. Many commercial kennels require proof before accepting animals. -- Animal experts say that it can be stressful for pets to ride in cargo. Some airlines require a health certificate issued from a veterinarian before a dog can fly.
While the House and Senate enjoyed their summer recess, the NBAA, National Air Transportation Association, AOPA, and other groups stepped up lobbying efforts with Hill staffers and members to persuade legislators to approve FAA reauthorization legislation when Congress returns.
The FAA will begin issuing new, security-enhanced airman certificates. The new credit card-size certificates are made from composite PVC media card stock and will feature new security features, such as a hologram of the FAA seal. The new licenses will be issued to all new airmen and to existing airmen as they obtain higher licenses or additional ratings or replace lost or damaged certificates. According to FAA Administrator Marion C.
A friend of ours flew with an old mutt named ``Rabbit'' that he swore was so sensitive to airspeed that he'd bark whenever the aircraft was approaching a stall. When I told him he was full of baloney, he piled me and Rabbit into his airplane and off we went. Wouldn't you know that ol' Rabbit woofed just as the plane began to buffet; he was a reliable stall warning indicator after all!
ONE RECENT FRIDAY afternoon, I fetched the family and headed for the shore. A friend had invited us to weekend at his beach house. We were rolling south at 70 miles per when a highway advisory sign flashed that there had been an accident up ahead on the parkway. No problem; I'd take the interstate. When we entered the connector, I was surprised to see the opposing traffic was bumper to bumper, three lanes across, and backed up from the Hudson River bridge, 10 miles distant.
-- Adam Aircraft Industries, Inc., Englewood, Colo., has promoted Joe Wilding to vice president for advanced development, John Hamilton to vice president of marketing and Bill Mermelstein to vice president of propulsion. -- All Weather Inc., Sacramento, Calif.: Gary Wagner has been elected president and CEO by the company's board of directors. Wagner will be based at the company's Sacramento headquarters and will be responsible for the operation of the Sacramento and Hunt Valley, Md., AWI locations.
This past spring, federal legislators moved at near record pace to draft a comprehensive bill that would fund the FAA and various aviation programs. What in the past has taken years to create was put together in the House and the Senate in just a few months. Legislators followed many of the Bush administration's recommendations in what had been considered a non-controversial pair of bills in a non-controversial year for aviation.
A Learjet 35 crashed about a half-mile short of Groton-New London Airport (GON), Conn., hitting at least two houses and coming to rest in an estuary on the shoreline. The two pilots, the sole occupants, died. There were minor injuries to people in the houses, reportedly incurred when they jumped out of windows. The aircraft had made at least one missed approach after hopping from Republic Airport across Long Island Sound to pick up a passenger at 6:30 a.m.
The Chicago mayor scored a second victory when fellow Democrat Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed a bill approving a $6.6 billion expansion of Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Daley's O'Hare expansion plan was once linked to the continued operation of Meigs. Daley and former Gov. George Ryan (R) signed a pact that would have allowed O'Hare to move forward and ensured that Meigs would continue as an airport. Daley repudiated the agreement, denying that there had been a ``formal'' commitment to preserve Meigs.
The Experimental Aircraft Association's reproduction 1903 Wright Flyer received a Special Airworthiness Certificate at AirVenture 2003. FAA Administrator Marion Blakey presented Tom Poberezny, EAA president and fellow U.S. Centennial of Flight commissioner, with the certificate. ``This special airworthiness certificate will allow the EAA to fly its Wright Flyer near the dunes of Kitty Hawk, N.C.,'' said Blakey.
Don't pack undeveloped film or one-time-use cameras in checked airline baggage, advises Eastman Kodak Co. ``Newer [high-intensity X-ray scanner] systems will damage unprocessed film,'' said Matthias Freund, president of Kodak's Consumer Imaging products and services operations. Freund advises travelers to pack film and one-time-use cameras in their carry-on luggage. Scanners used to inspect carry-on items are safe for most consumer films, but he advises caution if multiple passes through these scanners will be necessary.
Early in August, we belted into the left seat of an airplane fitted with Garmin's new G1000 integrated avionics suite. We switched on avionics power, and an edge-to-edge earth-sky background appeared on the PFD. We used the EICAS on the MFD to monitor engine start and ran through the pre-taxi checklists. The appropriate takeoff V speeds popped up onto the PFD's airspeed scale. We double-checked the takeoff data, then used the radio management feature of the system to set up the com/nav/surveillance (CNS) equipment.
Multiflight says it is spending $14 million on new hangars, an FBO terminal and offices at its Leeds Bradford Airport base to be operational for the startup of its BBJ2 charter service. The two hangars (due to be operational by November) will have a combined floor area of approximately 68,0000 square feet, capable of housing four BBJ2-size aircraft. Multiflight Handling Service has been contracted by the airport authority to operate all south-side private and business aviation facilities. M.V.
The Sovereign is the third application for the Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306 turbofan. The engine went through its growing pains on the Dornier 328JET regional jetliner in the -A version and the Galaxy/G200 in the -B version, both with higher takeoff thrust ratings than the -C version fitted to the newest Citation. Now, the 306 is a mature engine, so reliability should be excellent. The engine is the second variant of the PW300 family, the first being the PW305 that powers the Learjet 60 and Hawker 1000.
