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Jet Aviation completes first Honeywell Primus ELITE DU-875 Upgrade in Geneva

Jet Aviation celebrates another milestone in Geneva, where its maintenance center has recently completed its first Honeywell DU-875 ELITE cockpit display upgrade in combination with a 120-month heavy check on a Global Express XRS. Jet Aviation’s MRO facility in Geneva recent...

Satcom Direct is the Official Sponsor of the ‘Wings of Business’ Award

Satcom Direct, the leading provider of aviation and global communication technology services and solutions, announced its sponsorship of the ‘Wings of Business’ Awards, Russia’s national award in the field of business aviation that will take place in Moscow on February 17, 2017....

AOPA Statement on the Release of the Final Third Class Medical Reform Rule and Effective Date

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) issued the following after the FAA released its final rule for third class medical reform which the agency has named BasicMed: Teams of AOPA experts are now examining the regulations, which at first look appear to closely mirror the legislation signed into law on July 15, 2016. Pilots should note that BasicMed will not be effective until May 1,...

Bell Helicopter and TRU Simulation + Training meet milestones marking BTA-Valencia completion

Bell Helicopter and TRU Simulation + Training Inc., both Textron Inc. companies, announced that the Bell Helicopter Training Academy (BTA) in Valencia, Spain, along with its Bell 429 full flight simulator (FFS), have been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). These certification milestones mark the official completion of the training facility. BTA-Valencia was designed to ser...

Dubai HeliConference debuting in 2017 to address challenges of Middle East's helicopter industry

The inaugural Dubai HeliConference is set to take place from April 17 to 18, 2017 at the Al Maktoum International Airport, planned to be the world's largest airport located in Dubai World Central, the venue for the World Expo 2020. The new symposium is supported by the Dubai Helishow, the biennial Helicopter Technology and Operations Exhibition held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed...

Gulfstream G650ER Continues Record Streak

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announced the company's flagship Gulfstream G650ER recently claimed two more city-pair records. The achievements highlight the aircraft's superior performance and the company's commitment to providing customers with high-speed travel options. The G650ER took off from Ohio's John Glenn Columbus International Airport and landed at Sha...

Bizav Flying Up in North America, but Part 91 Lags

Business aircraft activity inched up 1.4 percent year-over-year last month in North America, but was hampered by an unexpected downturn in Part 91 flying, according to TraqPak data released on Friday by Argus International. This also fell short of the company’s projected 4.1 percent uptick for December, though Argus analysts remain cautiously optimistic about this month, estimating a 2.7 per...

Babcock to provide helicopter support to world's biggest offshore wind farm

Babcock Mission Critical Services (MCS) Onshore has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by DONG Energy to provide specialist helicopter support to the new Walney Extension offshore wind farm. The windfarm will be the largest in the world when it becomes operational in 2018, with 87 turbines providing clean electricity to around half a million UK homes. The helicopter support contract...

RUAG names new Dornier 228 Authorised Service Centre in Bern-Belp, Switzerland

Dornier 228 aircraft are now able to take advantage of full Authorised Service Centre (ASC) services and capabilities at the RUAG Aviation location in Bern-Belp, Switzerland. The announcement, by original equipment manufacturer (OEM) RUAG Aviation, confirms the availability of full services in support of Dornier 228 aircraft owners and operators and their requirements for maintenance, repair and o...

First soviet business jet celebrates 50 years

October 21, 2016 marked exactly 50 years since the first Yak-40 flight! The world's first jet plane of local airlines, the first airliner of Yakovlev Design Bureau, the first Soviet aircraft, which received a Certificate of Airworthiness in the West ... and later it became the first and only business jet in the USSR! Yak-40 in the amount of 1011 pieces actively went off the as...

Passenger Airplane Transformed Into A Private Paradise

For the first time in history, passenger airliner Boeing 787 Dreamliner was transformed into a private jet, with the interior like 5 – stars hotel. The price of this aircraft is $ 324 million. The plane collect 335 passenger, today is a private plane who collect 40 people. Luxurious master suite, conference tables, restaurants, cinema, greate place for living room and 16 beds for sleeping....

Air Partner to attend WCA conferences in February 2017 to build on freight forwarder relationships

Air Partner, the global aviation services group, will be attending the 19th WCA First Conference and the 9th WCA World Conference, which are being held on 7-10 February and 9-13 February respectively. Both conferences are taking place in Singapore for the first time, at the state-of-the-art Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, and are expected to attract thousands of...

Robinson’s R66 Turbine Marine receives EASA final approval

On December 20, 2016 EASA issued final approval for the R66 Turbine Marine pop-out float installation. After tests conducted in July demonstrated the pop-out float installation meets Sea State 4 requirements, EASA officially approved the Marine to be used in emergency situations and for commercial operations. Sea State refers to the height, period, and character of waves on the surface...

Western Aircraft Partners With Gogo Business Aviation To Develop STCs For Gogo 4G Service

As Gogo Business Aviation continues toward its scheduled launch of its 4G service in the first half of 2017, Western Aircraft, a Greenwich AeroGroup company is currently developing Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) for the new system. Western Aircraft is an authorized full-service maintenance, repair and overhaul Gogo dealer. It will develop STCs for Gogo’s 4G system for Dassault Falc...

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