VISIONAIRE CORPORATION appointed Daniel Mickelson president and chief operating officer. Mickelson, who had a 30-year career with Monsanto Company, most recently served as chairman, president and chief executive officer at Aerofil Technology, a Sullivan, Mo.-based contract packager of aerosol, liquid, dust and granular products. He also has served as senior vice president-engineering and operations services of Rhone Poulence.
KARIN TENNSTEDT joined Midcoast-Little Rock as manager, interior design. Tennstedt will assist Midcoast customers in selecting all elements of aircraft interior design, from basic configuration, cabinetry and carpeting. She has six years of aircraft interior design experience, most recently with Dassault Falcon Jet.
Docket No.: 28559 Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 21.327(a) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Rockwell to use a printout from its Order Management System for Class II products instead of the Application for Export Certificate of Airworthiness (Form 8130-1). Grant, Oct. 1, 1999, Exemption No. 6604B
FLIGHT SERVICES GROUP added seven new jet aircraft to its Part 135 charter certificate. The new aircraft include: a Challenger 600 and Learjet 55 in St. Petersburg, Fla.; a Hawker 125-400/731 based in Nashua, N.H.; a Citation II in Binghamton, N.Y; a Citation II in Stratford, Conn.; and a Citation SII and Citation Ultra, in West Palm Beach, Fla. FSG manages 38 aircraft, including 11 Citations.
Model BAe.125 Series 1000A and 1000B, and Model Hawker 1000 series airplanes (Docket No. 99-NM-176-AD; Amdt. 39-11444; AD 99-25-01) - requires inspection of P1 pitot pipes for chafing or damage, and various follow-on actions. This amendment is prompted by reports of P1 pitot pipes chafing against adjacent flight control cables. The actions specified by this AD are intended to prevent a hole in the P1 pitot pipes, which would lead to erroneous input to the instrumentation and warning systems associated with the pilot's instruments.
MICHAEL MOORE was named vice president-aircraft sales for TAG Aviation. Moore will report to Jake Cartwright, TAG Aviation USA president and chief executive officer and be based in San Francisco. He has held a number of management, sales and marketing positions with FlightSafety International, Duncan Aviation, Executive Air Fleet, Learjet and Airwork.
Docket No.: 29827 Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 25.815 Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To allow movement of passenger seats into the required aisle space under certain circumstances on Gulfstream Model G-V airplanes, serial numbers 554 through 583. Partial Grant, Oct. 26, 1999, Exemption No. 7055
Bombardier signed separate agreements with U.S. and British completion facilities to boost the number of Global Express aircraft the company can complete and deliver to customers. The Canadian manufacturer said The Jet Center of Van Nuys, Calif., and Marshall Aerospace of Cambridge Aerospace Ltd. in the United Kingdom - working under subcontracts to Bombardier - will each design, build and install interior completions for four of the very long range Global Express business jets next year.
Docket No.: 29436 Section of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR 145.37(b) Description of Relief Sought: To permit Airport Services to apply for an FAA repair station certificate without having suitable permanent housing for at least one of the heaviest aircraft within the weight class of the rating it seeks.
ERIC JENSEN was named vice president-operations for Raytheon Aircraft Parts Inventory&Distribution Co. Jensen previously was director of continuous improvement for Raytheon Aircraft Montek. Before serving with Montek, he held positions of manager of customer support for Vickers Inc. and program manager and customer support engineer for Parker Hannifin.
In a bid to tackle the continuing ATC delay situation in Europe, European Transport Commissioner Loyola de Palacio called for the abolition of what she describes as "frontiers in the sky" and a move toward collective management of Europe's airspace. In a communication presented by the commissioner to try to avoid "a fresh crisis next summer," de Palacio offered a set of 23 technical, operational and institutional proposals aimed at relieving the situation (BA, Dec. 6/261).
FAA, already struggling with a tight fiscal 2000 budget that Congress adopted this fall, is facing another grim budget in fiscal 2001, if the Office of Management and Budget gets its way. OMB apparently squeezed the Transportation Department budget request for fiscal 2001, with FAA and the Coast Guard taking the biggest hits.
B/E Aerospace, Inc., a major manufacturer of aircraft seating that warned last month of sharply lower earnings (BA, Nov. 29/247), last week confirmed heavy losses for the three- and nine-month periods ended Nov. 27.
AMERICAN HELICOPTER SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL scheduled its 56th Annual Forum and Technology Display May 2-4 at the Virginia Beach Pavilion in Virginia Beach, Va. For more information, contact AHS at (703) 684-6777.
A QUEBEC SUPERIOR COURT this month ordered 15 InterCanadian turboprops and regional jets seized to cover the carrier's overdue bills. InterCanadian owes Nav Canada, three Maritime airports and the Toronto Airport Authority a total of about C$1.7 million. The airline had 23 planes, three of which were seized earlier by airports in Montreal and Ottawa. InterCanadian, a feeder for Canadian Airlines, shut down operations Nov. 27.
FlightSafety International received type rating training organization (TRTO) approval from Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities, allowing the company to offer type rating training to European pilots at the company's facilities in North America.
RAYTHEON AEROSPACE won a two-year contract valued at $4.9 million to provide aircraft maintenance, engineering, fabrication, technical support and airfield management services to NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif. The contract includes a one- and a two-year option, which could increase the potential value to $13.1 million. Under the contract, Raytheon will maintain, manage, and provide logistics, engineering, design and fabrication services for four rotary-wing aircraft and associated support equipment in flight research.
Honeywell, Inc. and Coherent Technologies, Inc. entered into a long term agreement to develop and sell hybrid airborne systems designed to provide advance warning of all types of atmospheric turbulence. "By using a combination of microwave radar and infrared radar, the new system will detect every type of turbulence from rough air in thunderstorms to clear air turbulence," said Frank Daly, president of Honeywell Commercial Electronic Systems.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators were continuing to search for clues last week as to what caused the fatal crash of an Israel Aircraft Industries Westwind II Dec. 12 while it was en route from the West Coast to the New York area.
NATIONAL AIR TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION, meanwhile, has told its on-demand air taxi members that they are not the focus of the enforcement notice, published in June with a Dec. 12 compliance date (BA, June 21/284). The association advises that if an operator is contacted by a principal operations inspector regarding the enforcement notice, then the operator should ask the POI to first check with FAA headquarters before taking further action.
OBTUSE, BYZANTINE AND CUMBERSOME. These are a few of the words pilots used to describe FAA regulations. The agency is taking steps to curb that image. See article below.
NATIONAL AIR TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION scheduled its next series of Line Service Supervisor Training seminars Jan. 13-14 in San Diego, Calif.; March 16-17 in Hartford, Conn.; May 9-10 in Tampa, Fla.; and, July 13-14 in Portland, Ore. Seminars cost $245 for NATA members and $295 for non-members. For more information, contact NATA at (703) 845-9000.
TROY ADAMS was appointed avionics manager at Elliott Aviation's Minneapolis, Minn. facility. Adams will oversee equipment installation and line maintenance activities as well as overall growth and profitability of the avionics operation. Adams has served as a lead avionics flight test technician for Dassault Falcon Jet and also was an avionics technician with the U.S. Marine Corps.
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS told the Federal Aviation Administration that its oversight of industry workers is inadequate and proposed changes to protect workers from hazards. At an FAA hearing this month, the machinists, representing 130,000 U.S. transport workers, said aviation employees are "entitled to the same protections provided by federal health and regulations as are afforded to other American workers. The existing regulatory 'no-man's land'...is unjust, unsafe jurisdiction and unacceptable." FAA held the Dec.
EILEEN COLLINS, an astronaut and Space Shuttle commander, is slated to be the keynote speaker for the 11th annual International Women in Aviation Conference March 9-11 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tenn. Other invited speakers include Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater, NASA Chief Scientist Kathie Olsen, FedEx CEO Dave Bronzek, SR-71 pilot Marta Bohn-Meyer, Northwest Airlines Vice President Fay Beauchine, former U.S.
