GALAXY AEROSPACE developed a new support program for the Galaxy business jet. Under the program, called GSTAT (Galaxy Spares&Technical Assistance Team), Galaxy will assign a team to remain with a new Galaxy operator for two weeks to provide technical support for both pilots and maintenance staff. The team, including a pilot, regional field service representative and a maintenance technician, will review warranty, operating and maintenance procedures, including Galaxy's electronic maintenance planning program.
BOMBARDIER AEROSPACE designated Marshall Aerospace of Cambridge, England the first independently managed authorized service facility in Europe for the Global Express business jet. Marshall has been in the aviation business since 1929 and has performed corporate and regional aircraft maintenance for more than 30 years. Marshall Aerospace is a subsidiary of Marshall Holdings, which also owns and operates Cambridge Airport. The service facilities include more than 1.2 million square feet of production and hangar space.
John D. Odegard, 57, a flight training visionary who founded the University of North Dakota's aviation program, died Sept. 27 after a three-year battle with cancer. Odegard established the university's Aviation Department in 1968 and steered the program from a two-plane operation to a fleet of 80 aircraft, 14 simulators and 1,500 students. The program, which was granted status as a college at UND in 1984, was renamed the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Science in February (BA, Feb. 16/79).
DAVE BOSS joined AAR Cargo Systems as director-sales and marketing. Boss has 17 years of sales and marketing experience with Westinghouse Electric Corp., most recently as marketing manager for steam turbine generator maintenance hardware.
STANDARD AERO, an independent gas turbine engine and accessory repair and overhaul company, announced several new managers. Mike Watkins, former director of maintenance for Mid-Atlantic Freight, Inc./Atlantic Aero, Inc. in Greensboro, N.C., was named PT6A sales manager. He will oversee Southern region states for Standard Aero. Mark Larsen, a founding member of the former Alliance Engines acquired by Standard Aero, will be sales manager, Great Lakes region, based in the company's Tennessee facility.
BRITISH AEROSPACE Jetstream Model 4101 airplanes (Docket No. 98-NM-168-AD) - proposes to require replacement of the existing load limitation labels located within the main baggage compartment with new reduced load limitation labels. This proposal also provides for optional modification of the internal access door of the main baggage compartment, which, if accomplished, would terminate the requirement for reduced load limitations. This proposal is prompted by issuance of mandatory continuing airworthiness information by a foreign civil airworthiness authority.
GERARD LAVIEC was elected by the CFM International board of directors to a second three-year term as the company's president and chief executive officer. The engine manufacturer is a 50/50 joint company owned by Snecma of France and General Electric of the U.S.
THE PROPOSAL, however, will be issued with a minority position pursued by the French government and supported by that country's aerospace industry. The dissenting view would require commercial operators to prove certain reliability standards before being permitted to fly beyond 120 minutes over water with a twin-engine aircraft. Swanda said the standards, which may be statistically impossible for smaller aircraft to achieve, effectively would bar all nonstop commercial business jet flights across the North Atlantic. U.S.
RON WOODARD, 55, former president of Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, will retire from the company Nov. 1. Woodard was replaced as president of the unit by Alan Mulally, 53, the former president of the Information, Space&Defense Systems.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE AVIATION OFFICIALS urged House and Senate leaders to increase the state apportionment of Airport Improvement Program funds from 18.5 percent to 20 percent. The increase was endorsed by the National Governors' Association, the Southern Governors' Association and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, NASAO told legislators in a letter last month.
BRITISH AEROSPACE ASSET MANAGEMENT appointed David Singleton as its managing director. Singleton, previously head of group strategy and planning for British Aerospace, succeeds Tony Rice, who became group managing director-commercial aircraft.
SPORTY'S PILOT SHOP is marketing an Altitude Deviation Annunciator for use in non-pressurized aircraft. The ADA is the size of a match box and can be attached to a clipboard, yoke or glare shield. The pilot selects whether he wants to be alerted at either a 100-foot or 200-foot deviation in altitude and then locks in the current altitude. Reacting to changes in air pressure, the ADA then detects altitude changes and alerts the pilot with a warning light. The ADA is priced at $199. For more information, call (513) 735-9100.
AlliedSignal Aerospace Canada opened a major new facility in Mississauga, Ontario Thursday, a 330,000-square-foot plant that replaces six separate buildings the company had been using in Etobicoke. The Mississauga facility, which will house 1,200 employees, will incorporate the latest aerospace manufacturing techniques, AlliedSignal said, and will produce a range of aerospace products including aircraft environmental control systems and power generation systems.
RMI Titanium Company, Niles, Ohio, said 504 of its production and clerical workers went on strike following the Sept. 30 expiration of a labor agreement with Local 2155 of the United Steelworkers of America. A spokeswoman said the 504 workers on strike represent about two-thirds of the normal work force at the Niles plant. RMI manufactures and distributes titanium and specialty metal mill products and forgings for aerospace and other applications.
EXECUTIVE JET purchased three more Gulfstream IV-SP aircraft for its Gulfstream Shares fractional ownership program last month. The latest order will bring the total number of Gulfstream aircraft sold to the Shares program to 32, including 30 G-IV-SPs and two Gulfstream Vs. EJI also holds options for two additional G-IV-SPs. The newly acquired aircraft will replace three "core fleet" Gulfstream IV aircraft that had been supplied by Gulfstream.
National Air Transportation Association, which in late July petitioned all 50 states for relief from the Jan. 1, 1999 deadline for fuel truck ticket printer installation, has secured relief from those requirements from 20 states and continues to lobby the remainder. NATA petitioned the states after the National Conference on Weights and Measures failed to provide relief from the requirements at its annual meeting in July (BA, Aug. 3/49).
The 1998 General Aviation Awards Program selected Gary Schandl as the Aviation Maintenance Technician of the Year and John Charles (J.C.) Boylls as the Certified Flight Instructor of the Year. The awards will be presented to the recipients during the National Business Aviation Association's 51st Annual Meeting and Convention Oct. 19-21 in Las Vegas, Nev. Schandl, a 19-year Midcoast Aviation veteran, has been involved with general aviation for 25 years. Currently manager of quality assurance, he oversees maintenance quality at Midcoast's facilities at Lambert-St.
DASSAULT AVIATION and Flight Dynamics completed development testing of the Head-Up Guidance System (HGS) on the Falcon 900EX. Dassault said the system is on schedule for FAA certification in the first quarter. The initial certification will allow Falcon 900EX operators to use HGS for approach in Category II weather with Category III certification expected in the third quarter 1999.
BOB DORRAN was appointed PT6A sales manager for Standard Aero, responsible for customers in Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. He joined Standard Aero in 1993 as a PT6 technician.
HOUSE AND SENATE aviation staff met last week to work out differences between FAA reauthorization bills passed by their respective chambers, but, as of Friday, a formal House/Senate conference had not been scheduled (BA, Sept. 28/139). Airport Improvement Program spending authorization, meanwhile, lapsed Sept. 30, preventing further FAA funding of airport projects. Congress, which plans to recess by the end of the week, also must pass transportation appropriations legislation for fiscal 1999, which began Oct. 1.
LOCKHEED Model L-188A and L-188C series airplanes (Docket No. 98-NM-84-AD) - proposes to require revising the airplane flight manual to provide the flightcrew with modified procedures and limitations for operating in icing conditions. This proposal is prompted by incidents and accidents involving turboprop airplanes that experienced tailplane stall due to ice accretion on the horizontal stabilizer of the airplane.
STRUCTURING AND FINANCING Fractional Ownership Programs for Corporate Aircraft, a conference organized by World Research Group, will be held Jan. 14-15 at The Buttes Hotel in Tempe, Ariz. The two-day event will cover: assembling the required documentation; assessing whether fractional ownership is the best option; dealing with financial issues for core fleet and used aircraft; negotiating insurance coverage; and complying with federal regulations. For more information, call (800) 647-7600.
CINCINNATI MILACRON'S Machine Tool Group will receive the Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award this week from The Product Development&Management Association during PDMA's convention in Atlanta. The company said the award is presented to companies that demonstrate: sustained success in launching new products over a five-year time frame; significant company growth from new product success; a defined new product development process; and distinctive innovative characteristics and intangibles.
