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Flying Colours Awarded Bermuda DCA Maintenance Approval

Flying Colours Corp. Peterborough, the Canadian MRO, completions, and refurbishment company has received approval from the Bermuda Department of Civil Aviation to carry out maintenance work on business aircraft listed on the popular Bermudan registry. The approval, which was awarded in late May,...

Jet Aviation receives Gold Safety of Flight Award from EBAA

Jet Aviation’s outstanding flight safety record was commended by the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) during the EBACE Convention in Geneva, where EBAA presented Jet Aviation the 2016 EBAA Gold Safety of Flight Award. The European Business Aviation Association (...

Riga from a helicopter

Last Wednesday "Riga Passenger Terminal" and "Baltic helicopter” opened the first certified heliport in Riga passenger port. During the opening event there were presented several «Bell» helicopters, as an example A class "Bell 429". "Bell Helicopter» representative Jakub Hoda explained that modern helicopters are used fo...

Start-Ups Selling Seats on Private Jets Don’t Always Make It

Dannel Schwartz was agonizing over his wife’s 60th birthday gift when she proposed an idea herself. “She said, ‘You know, I don’t want to wait on another T.S.A. line. I want a private plane,’” said Mr. Schwartz, a retired rabbi who splits time between Florida and Maine. “We laughed. Then comes this email about how it would cost $4 a flight.” In...

Success Aviation Services expands in Africa

International trip support company Success Aviation Services recently made an announcement that it has added, and will now provide supervisory ground handling services throughout Guinea-Conakry. Wael Marjeh, chief operations officer at Success Aviation Services, said” “We have recently recognised the enormous business aviation potential in Africa, along with the current operational...

Bell 505 Jet Ranger X makes Japan debut

Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company, announced the unveiling of the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday, June 7, 2016. This is the first time the Bell 505 has been on display in Japan and marks the beginning of a four-month demonstration tour across the region. Bell Helicopter leadership was available onsite at the unveiling to discuss the aircraft and it...

BGS to distribute WARTER aviation fuel in 6 European countries

BGS, an international provider of ground handling and aircraft fuelling services, has announced signing a new cooperation agreement with one of the biggest brands in the aviation fuel market – WARTER aviation. In accordance with terms of the partnership, BGS will represent the Polish company in 6 countries across Central and Eastern Europe. Having signed the latest cooperation agreement,...

Chinese consortium acquires 100 H135s from Airbus Helicopters

A Chinese consortium made up of China Aviation Supplies Holding Company (CAS), Qingdao United General Aviation Industrial Development Company (Qingdao United) and CITIC Offshore Helicopter Co. Ltd (COHC) has ordered 100 H135 light-twin helicopters, becoming China’s first customer to form an industrial partnership to launch a H135 final assembly line (FAL) in Qingdao, Shandong province. This...

Erickson wins contracts with US Navy

Erickson has been awarded two five year term agreements with one firm-fixed year and four follow on annual option years, to provide vertical replenishment and other rotary-wing logistic services to Military Sealift Command for support of the United States Navy’s 5th and 7th Fleets. Both contracts were awarded in February 2016, but Erickson chose to delay announcement until res...

President plans to spend €22k on Government jet flights to Euros

President Michael D Higgins will travel to Euro 2016 in France at huge expense to the taxpayer after he was given clearance to use the Government jet for two separate trips to the games. The Sunday Independent has learned Mr Higgins will fly into Paris tomorrow on the Government's Lear jet ahead of Ireland's opening match against Sweden. The President and his entourage will then use...

Titan Airways acquires brand new Phenom 300

Titan Airways has added a brand new Phenom 300 to its fleet. The executive jet, which seats 9 passengers in ultimate comfort, was delivered to our London Stansted base on 27th May direct from the manufacturer in Fort Lauderdale, USA. The Phenom 300, the world’s most delivered business jet for the past three years, offers top-tier speed, climb and field performance, next-generat...

Signature Flight Support to take over world class FBO facility at London Biggin Hil

Signature Flight Support, a BBA Aviation company, announced today that it has signed an agreement with London Biggin Hill Airport (BQH/EGKB) to expand and operate from the former RizonJet FBO facility. This stunning facility rivals any in the business aviation world in its elegantly appointed private lounge areas and four floors comprising over 20,000 sq. ft. A boardroom and multiple conference...

CHC helicopter makes unscheduled landing on oil platform off Norway

A CHC-operated Sikorsky S-92 helicopter with 16 people onboard was forced to make an unscheduled landing on an oil platform off Norway on Friday, a rescue official said. The incident comes just over a month after an Airbus H225 Super Puma helicopter operated by the same company crashed, killing all 13 people on board as the main rotor blades separated from the aircraft. Norway's Civil Av...

Avidyne receives European certification of IFD540 and IFD440 GPS FMS systems

Avidyne’s innovative IFD-Series FMS systems approved for installation in European-registered aircraft; IFD-Series offers easy-to-use hybrid touch GPS navigation, powerful VHF communication and full color mapping. Avidyne Corporation announced today that they have received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approval of their IFD540 and IFD440 GPS-based Flight Management Systems. &ld...

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