FlightSafety International has selected Aeroglobo to provide Pratt & Whitney Canada Engine training in Brazil, the company said. Training will be offered at Aeroglobo’s facility in Botucatu, Brazil, for P&WC PT6T, PT6A, PT6B, PW100-Series, PW200-Series and PW500 engines. The facility will be equipped with training engines and FlightSafety’s Graphical FlightDeck and desktop simulators, and instructors will provide classroom and hands-on instruction.
AIE, based in Murrieta, California, has completed the first installation of the L-3 Modular Airborne Data Recorder/Acquisition System Single-LRU in the DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, the company said. The FA5300 series records up to 2,048 words-per-second for a minimum of 25 hr. and has the capability of recording four channels of high-quality audio for up to 2. hr.
Aug. 22-23—Shoreham Airshow, Brighton City (Shoreham) Airport, West Sussex, www.shorehamairshow.co.uk/ Aug. 25—9th Asia-Pacific Congress of Aerospace Medicine, Beijing, China, www.apfama.org/2014 Aug. 25—10th Chinese Conference of Aerospace Mediciner, www.apfama.org/2014
The Office of Inspector General is initiating an audit of the FAA’s oversight of Suspected Unapproved Parts for the aviation industry. The audit follows a request in March from the ranking members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Subcommittee on Aviation. The members are concerned about the risks the unapproved parts present to aviation safety.
FAA has pledged to improve internal guidance and training of foreign civil aviation authority inspectors in response to a U.S. Transportation Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) report that expresses concern about the shift in oversight of foreign repair station compliance with U.S. regulations.
Flight testing continues on Enstrom Helicopter Corp.’s new TH180 aircraft, designed for ab-initio flight training and the light commercial and private owner markets, the company says.
July and August are difficult times to gauge demand trends for the sale of business aircraft, Doug Wilburne, Textron vice president of investment relations, told analysts at a Jefferies 2015 Global Industrials Conference.
In agreeing to pay $37.2 billion for specialty metals and parts supplier Precision Castparts, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett signals his confidence that demand for large commercial jets will continue to outpace global economic growth.
Fractional ownership company Flexjet is stepping up deliveries of Gulfstream G450 aircraft because of heavy market demand for international private jet travel, the company said.
Pilots have reported seeing unmanned aircraft more than 650 times so far this year, the FAA says, a dramatic increase over the 238 sightings reported in all of 2014.
Several securities law firms say they are investigating claims on behalf of investors in Precision Castparts Corp. about the company’s acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway.
Honda Aircraft said it received multiple orders for its HondaJet light jet at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A federal report cites a faulty carburetor that led to the loss of engine power as the probable cause of the crash of Harrison Ford’s vintage aircraft, which sent the movie actor to the hospital with serious injuries.
Pilatus Aircraft has appointed Pilatus Centre Southern Africa as its authorized PC-6 sales and service center for sub-Saharan Africa. The distributor will be responsible for all future sales and maintenance activities of the Pilatus Porter PC-6 within the territory. Pilatus Centre Southern Africa is an independent partner of Pilatus and serves as the sales and service center for the PC-12 in the same region.
Aviation Partners, based in Seattle, has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for retrofitting its Split-Scimitar Winglet on BBJ aircraft, the company said. The approval was granted to Aviation Partners Boeing (APB), a joint venture between API and Boeing. The supplemental type certificate follows FAA STC approvals issued earlier this year. The Split-Scimitar Winglet is now standard equipment on new 737NG BBJ aircraft.
According to the Office of Inspector General, Jeffrey Krantz was charged and pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court, Hartford, Connecticut, to wire fraud for his role in the sale of counterfeit aircraft parts. Among other things, Krantz allegedly bought and sold obsolete electronic parts for use by commercial buyers and the U.S. military.
