THE COUNCIL of the International Civil Aviation Organization reappointed Renato Claudio Costa Pereira of Brazil to a second three-year term as secretary general of ICAO. His new term begins Aug. 1, 2000. Before joining ICAO in 1997, Pereira was president of CERNAI, the Brazilian government agency responsible for international air navigation affairs.
The pilot and news photographer aboard a McDonnell Douglas HU-600N helicopter were killed March 3 after the pilot apparently encountered control problems and the tail boom separated from the aircraft.
JOUVE DATA MANAGEMENT received International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 certification. JDM, Irvine, Calif., designs, develops and implements digital document solutions for airlines and aerospace OEMs, including digital data conversion, imaging solutions, technical publications management and production services, and database consolidation and onsite product support and training.
OXFORD AVIATION HOLDINGS LTD., the parent company of CSE, was purchased by BBA Group plc. The acquisition covers Oxford Air Training School, Oxford Aviation College, CSE Aviation, Oxford Airport and the CSE Citation Center in Bournemouth. BBA is the parent company of Signature Flight Support and Dallas Airmotive.
Model ATR 72 series airplanes (Docket No. 98-NM-240-AD; Amdt. 39-11596; AD 2000-04-13) - requires repetitive inspections to detect fatigue cracking in certain areas of the fuselage, and corrective actions, if necessary. This amendment is prompted by issuance of mandatory continuing airworthiness information by a foreign civil airworthiness authority. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent fatigue cracking of the fuselage and the passenger and service doors, which could result in reduced structural integrity of the airplane.
CESSNA AIRCRAFT rolled the first production Citation Encore Model 560 aircraft off the assembly line in Wichita. Cessna still expects to receive FAA certification this spring and begin customer deliveries in the fall. The flight test program has logged 950 hours on nearly 600 flights and the company said more than half the flight conditions required for certification have been completed. Flight tests, which are being done with a production conformed prototype, are now focusing on icing and cold weather operations testing.
Tay 650-15 series turbofan engines (Docket No. 99-NE-61-AD) - proposes to establish cyclic life limits for Stage 1 high pressure turbine (HPT) and Stage 1 low-pressure turbine (LPT) disks operating under new flight plan profiles. This proposal is prompted by reports that on some engines disks, cracks in the Stage 1 HPT and Stage 1 LPT could initiate and propagate at a faster rate than forecast under the flight plan profiles originally published at the time the engine design was certified.
Dassault Falcon Jet said the Falcon 900EX business jet with the Flight Dynamics HGS-2850 head-up guidance system (HGS) won FAA certification last week for Category III approaches down to a 50-foot decision height and a runway visual range as low as 600 feet. French airworthiness officials issued Cat III certification for the HGS-equipped 900EX in late January.
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the Experimental Aircraft Association last week asked the Federal Aviation Administration to continue to approve petitions for exemption for certain charity flights from drug and alcohol testing requirements on a case-by-case basis even though FAA offered a blanket exemption for the groups.
LUFTHANSA TECHNIK named August-Wilhelm Henningsen, 49, executive board member for products and services, effective April 1. A graduate engineer, he most recently has been general manager of AMECO Beijing. Before being posted to Beijing, Henningsen was responsible for overhaul of the Boeing 737 fleet in Berlin and headed up the components maintenance and overhaul division in Hamburg, Germany. Gerald Korbler, 51, will take over as the new head of Lufthansa Technik's engine division. Since 1991, he has been responsible for planning and control, finances and accounting.
ART DAVIS, art director for AOPA PILOT magazine for more than 20 years, has retired. Davis joined AOPA in 1979 as creative director of AOPA publications and art director for the organization's monthly magazine. Before joining the staff of AOPA, Davis was with Air Progress magazine and art director of Flying magazine. Mike Kline, assistant art director for AOPA's magazine, was named to succeed Davis.
JET AVIATION BASEL is completing its first Airbus A319 Corporate Jetliner - equipped with a 28-passenger interior, and scheduled for delivery this month. The Basel facility also is completing an Airbus A320 as a corporate aircraft. The A320 will have a 13-seat VIP area in the forward section and seating for 35 passengers and crew in the rear compartment. That aircraft is scheduled for delivery this summer.
CIRRUS DESIGN CORP. boosted the base price for the SR20 aircraft to $188,300. The new price includes the Garmin GTX 327 transponder, S-Tec System FortyX autopilot, the ARNAV ICDS-2000 10.4-inch moving map display and the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) as standard equipment. Cirrus also is offering the BFGoodrich Stormscope display, which overlays storm information on the ARNAV ICDS-2000, as an option for $9,500. Cirrus now claims orders for 542 SR20s, of which 19 have been built.
ANDREW EROS joined Baker Electronics, Inc. as director of strategic engineering. Eros previously served with Aircraft Components and Engineering in McKinney, Texas. In his new position he will focus on the new Research and Development Department and head the Strategic Engineering Department.
AEROSPACE PRODUCTS INTERNATIONAL, Memphis, Tenn., will open a location in the Philippines to serve the Asian, Pacific Rim and Australia/New Zealand markets. The new logistic and distribution center will be located in the Clark Special Economic Zone, Clark International Airport, just north of Manila. API Asia Pacific is scheduled to open April 1.
AIR GROUP AVIATION, LLC, which acquired Tyler Jet Completions, Inc. last year (BA, Sept. 13/120), changed the name of the Tyler, Texas business jet modification business to Air Group Completions. "We believe that the name change highlights the company's independence and focus on unparalled services, and it positions the company for future growth," said Ben Bartel, the owner of Air Group. The company was founded in 1995 to support the operations of Tyler Jet Sales. Last year the modification business installed new interiors and avionics upgrades in 78 aircraft.
Model SA-365N1, AS-365N2, and SA-366G1 helicopters (Docket No. 99-SW-34-AD) - proposes to require conducting inspections of each tail rotor blade for bonding separation, measuring the clearance between the tip of each tail rotor blade and the circumference of the air duct, and replacing the blade if necessary. This proposal is prompted by an inflight incident in which the tail rotor blades were significantly damaged due to bonding separation.
NASA'S Ames Research Center awarded contracts with a combined value not-to-exceed $150 million to Raytheon Systems Company of Marlborough, Mass., and Computer Science Corp., Federal Sector-Civil Group, of Rockville, Md., to provide air traffic management system development and integration for research and development in the Aerospace Directorate at Ames. The firms will be operating under performance-based contract task orders for technical research and development, studies and activities for air traffic management concepts and automation technologies.
AVIDYNE said the AvroTec FlightMonitor FMP 300 received supplemental type certification in the Lancair Columbia 300 aircraft. The FlightMonitor FMP300 incorporates a large screen version of Avidyne's FlightMax flight situation display with vector-graphic moving maps and digitized IFR and VFR charts. It also includes an interface to the remote-mounted BFGoodrich Stormscope WX-500 sensor for lightning detection. The system, which received FAA TSO certification in December 1999, is AvroTec's first fully certified flight situation display.
RALPH BENWAY was appointed director of engineering for Consolidated Fuel Systems. Benway has more than 25 years of experience with IHI Turbo America and Teledyne Continental Motors. At Consolidated Fuel Systems, he will be responsible for all engineering operations, development plans and programs. Consolidated Fuel Systems, a unit of Kelly Aerospace, produces fuel and turbocharger system components for piston-engine aircraft.
CESSNA AIRCRAFT sold 16 Skyhawk 172Rs to Central Missouri State University. The aircraft replaced CMSU's fleet of Cessna 150s and 152s. CMSU, Warrensburg, Mo., offers an aviation technology degree that includes aircraft maintenance management, professional pilot, aviation management, avionics management, agricultural aviation and systems design programs.
RAYTHEON AEROSPACE COMPANY received a16-month contract valued at $68.6 million from the U.S. Navy and Air Force to support 109 C-12 aircraft, the special-mission Beech King Air B200. The contract includes nine option periods that run through 2010 with a potential value of $695.5 million. Raytheon will provide aircraft support, including on-site maintenance, logistics and technical support for 81 Navy and 28 Air Force C-12 aircraft.
ROBERT SCHAFER was named president of Envirovac, a producer of vacuum waste systems for aviation, marine, rail and commercial industries. Schafer has more than 30 years of customer relations and management experience, formerly serving with Hamilton Sundstrand.
SEN. CHRISTOPHER (KIT) BOND (R-Mo.) blasted OSHA's proposed ergonomics standard as "a devastatingly-broad and intrusive regulation," which he said is "so fundamentally flawed" that OSHA must withdraw the measure. Bond has introduced legislation, S.1070, that would require OSHA to wait for completion of a study by the National Academy of Sciences to determine whether sufficient scientific evidence supports the proposed ergonomics standard. A coalition of aviation industry organizations also criticized the OSHA proposal, arguing that it should be rescinded.
