ATLANTIC AVIATION FLIGHT SERVICES added two more aircraft to its charter fleet, a Falcon 50 and a Gulfstream IISP. The Gulfstream II, the fifth Gulfstream in Atlantic's fleet, is based in Wilmington, Del. and can accommodate up to 13 passengers. The Falcon 50, the second in the fleet, will be based in Farmingdale, N.Y.
TIM ANNIS was named installations manager of Duncan Aviation's Van Nuys, Calif. satellite avionics shop. Annis has served with Duncan for 10 years at its Lincoln, Neb. headquarters and at the company's Teterboro, N.J. satellite shop.
ALLIEDSIGNAL, INC. said its new suite of avionics was successfully flight tested in the new Boeing 717-200 (formerly MD-95) airliner. The AlliedSignal package includes the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS), RDR-4B weather radar with forward looking windshear detection, traffic alert and collision avoidance system, solid-state flight data and cockpit voice recorders, and Quantum Line communication and navigation equipment, including the multi-mode receiver and VHF data radio.
LUFTHANSA TECHNIK, selected as a completion center for both the Boeing 737-700 Business Jet and Airbus A319 Corporate Jet, last month unveiled a new XXL Class customized interior for the executive jets. Swiss VIP charter carrier PrivatAir and Atlas Air Chairman Michael Chowdry selected XXL interiors for their BBJs. PrivatAir ordered two BBJs and Chowdry will take delivery of one for business and private use.
DUNCAN AVIATION named Skip Madsen executive vice president and chief operating officer of Kal-Aero, the Battle Creek, Mich. facility Duncan acquired earlier this year (BA, Feb. 16/76). Madsen, an 18-year Duncan veteran who most recently was vice president of aircraft and customer services, will oversee day-to-day operations of the Battle Creek facility. Duncan tapped Rich Baeder, a 16-year employee, to succeed Madsen.
FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL'S training center at LaGuardia Airport in New York received French Direction General de l'Aviation Civile (DGAC) approval for its Shorts 360 flight simulator. The simulator, which is already FAA Level C certified, will train Air Calypso pilots. Air Calypso, which operates throughout the French Antilles, is adding a Shorts turboprop to expand its Caribbean destinations.
ROCKWELL COLLINS won a contract valued at $12 million from the Naval Air Systems Command to provide AN/ARC-210 hardware for the U.S. Air Force's C-5 Galaxy cargo aircraft. Equipment deliveries are slated for completion in February. The contract includes equipping each Galaxy aircraft with two Collins RT-1794(C)/ARC-210 VHF/UHF radios, which provide line-of-sight secure and non-secure voice and 8.33 KHz channel spacing for European air traffic control operations.
Flight Services Group, Inc., Stratford, Conn., recently added five more aircraft to its fleet of managed airplanes, pushing the total to 43. The new additions to FSG's Part 135 charter certificate include a Falcon 20F and Falcon 100, both based in Stratford; a Citation Bravo and Challenger 604 based in West Palm Beach, Fla.; and a CitationJet based in Denver, Colo. FSG began operations in 1984 and its fleet now ranges in size from King Airs to a BAC 1-11 operating from 14 bases around the U.S.
Showalter Flying Service (SFS), the fixed-base operation at Orlando's Downtown Executive Airport (ORL), will move out of its current facility this week, the first step in a transition to construction of a new terminal building.
The Aero Club of Washington will host the 51st annual Wright Memorial Dinner Dec. 11 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in northwest Washington, D.C. The National Aeronautic Association will present the Wright Memorial Trophy to Edward W. Stimpson, long-time president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, who is currently vice chairman of that organization and chairman of the national BE A PILOT learn-to-fly program.
AEROSPATIALE Model ATR 42-200 and -300 series airplanes (Docket No. 97-NM-266-AD; Amdt. 39-10818; AD 98-21-10) - requires repetitive inspections for cracking of the lower skin panels of the outer wings and repair, if necessary. This amendment also requires modification of the panels and a follow-on inspection to detect cracking of the modified areas. This modification constitutes terminating action for the repetitive inspections. This amendment is prompted by the issuance of mandatory continuing airworthiness information by a foreign civil airworthiness authority.
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY appointed Leon Flancher vice president of its Extended Campus. Most recently associate vice president and chief operating officer of the Extended Campus, Flancher has more than 30 years of experience in higher education. He has served with Embry-Riddle for 12 years and, before that, was dean at Regis University and Metropolitan State College, both in Denver, Colo. Embry-Riddle's Extended Campus provides course instruction to some 15,000 aviation and aerospace professionals annually.
BILL NUGENT was promoted to executive director-government contracts for FlightSafety International. Nugent formerly was director-marketing administration and director-government contracts and training for FlightSafety.
The single-engine aircraft industry has formed an alliance headed by former U.S. Federal Aviation Administrator Langhorne Bond, to push for European adoption of rules allowing single-engine commercial instrument flights (SEIFR) with passengers.
Concerned about inaccurate estimates of nonscheduled Part 135 activity, the National Transportation Safety Board called on the Department of Transportation to collect activity data from on-demand operators similar to that reported by the major airlines. In comments on DOT's advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on aviation data requirements, NTSB noted FAA derives estimates for nonscheduled operations from its annual survey of general aviation and avionics activity.
BRITISH AEROSPACE Jetstream Model 4101 airplanes (Docket No. 98-NM-168-AD; Amdt. 39-19811; AD 98-21-03) - requires replacement of the existing load limitation labels located in the main baggage compartment with reduced load limitation labels. This amendment also provides for an optional modification of the internal access door of the main baggage compartment, which would terminate the requirement for reduced load limitations. This amendment is prompted by mandatory continuing airworthiness information issued by a foreign civil airworthiness authority.
TRANSPORT CANADA issued a certificate of airworthiness for the Global Express business jet to Bombardier Nov. 9 and FAA certification of the airplane is anticipated soon. Transport Canada issued a type certification for the Global Express this past summer (BA, Aug. 10/64).
FRASCA INTERNATIONAL received an order from Western Michigan University for a Boeing 737-400 flight navigation procedures trainer and a Model 142 flight training device. The 737-400 trainer will include three-axis motion, three channel, four-wind collimated display, a phototextured visual system, electronic flight instrument system, flight management system and electronic control loading. Western Michigan also uses two Frasca Model 242 Seneca trainers and a Model 142P.
DAN MOLSBERRY was appointed manager of Duncan Aviation's Santa Ana, Calif. satellite shop. Molsberry, a seven-year Duncan employee, most recently was manager of the Denver, Colo. satellite facility.
PAUL COCO was appointed sector vice president-program operations for Northrop Grumman. Coco, who will oversee operations of the company's new Integrated Systems and Aerostructures sector, has more than 30 years of aerospace and defense engineering, program management and general management experience.
TWO LEARJETS were scheduled to leave Denver's Centenntial Airport Saturday morning carrying relief supplies to survivors of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. The mercy mission was organized by members of the corporate aviation community in the Denver area who pitched in with donations and offers to pilot the aircraft. See article below.
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS Model 369D, 369E, 369FF, 500N, AH-6 and MH-6 helicopters (Docket No. 97-SW-47-AD; Amdt. 39-1820; AD 98-21-12) - requires visual inspections of the overrunning clutch retainer, carrier, housing and pin for wear of the bearing due to outer race spinning. This amendment is prompted by a report of inflight vibrations and subsequent investigations of three other overrunning clutches, which indicated wear of the bearing carrier due to bearing outer race spinning.
Airbus and Boeing are said to be in a real dog fight in the marketplace over the A318 and 717, with prices being quoted as "under" $18 million for the 100-seaters. That being the case, they could have a major impact on the new 90-seat offerings by Bombardier, Fairchild Aerospace and potentially ATR - which are expected to come to market in the $22 million-$25 million range. Northwest, which is expected to replace its aging fleet of DC-9s, is the immediate target of the two large-aircraft manufacturers, which count on a major buy as the key to their programs.
RTS REWORK, Fort Worth, Texas, won FAA certification of a new polishing process for Pratt&Whitney Canada JT15D low-pressure turbine fan blades and spinners and a surface finish restoration technique developed for the blades on Allison 250 engines.
ASHISH SEN was confirmed as director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Sen, nominated for the position by President Clinton this fall, formerly was the director of the statistics and evaluation laboratory at the Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
