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Boeing Business Jet expands MedAire program

MedAire has expanded its long-standing partnership with Boeing Business Jets (BBJ). MedAire’s comprehensive travel risk management solution will now be part of the standard equipment on-board every aircraft built. Due to the changing mission profile and overall higher level of travel ris...

Bombardier delivers first Hong Kong Government Flying Service Challenger

Bombardier has delivered a Challenger 605 to the Hong Kong Government Flying Service. The special missions aircraft is the first to be delivered from an order of two that was placed in October 2011. The aircraft will be used for search and rescue, VIP transportation and medical airlift duties....

MAC Air adds two jets to growing charter fleet

MAC Air Group, based in Portland, Maine has added two business jets to their existing charter fleet: a Cessna Citation CJ3 and a Bombardier Learjet 60. Based in Teterboro, New Jersey, the seven passenger Cessna Citation CJ3 offers a white and black interior which was completely refurbished earlier this year, along with custom navy blue and white exterior paint. It is fully Wi-Fi equipped...

West Star completes first 8C inspection on global express at GJT location

West Star Aviation announced they have their first 8C inspection on a Bombardier Global Express aircraft in the works at their Grand Junction, CO location. 8C is an intense 120-month interval inspection that requires specialized tooling to perform. They will also perform a landing gear (restoration) inspection, the 1C/2C/4C inspection and other hourly inspections. Additionally, t...

Turkish Light Utility Helicopter to purchase CTS800 turboshaft engines for light helicopters

Turkish Aerospace Industries and the Light Helicopter Turbine Engine Company, a 50-50 partnership between Honeywell International Inc. and Rolls-Royce, have signed an agreement to supply CTS800 turboshaft engines for the Turkish Light Utility Helicopter, a program of the Undersecretary for Defense Industry since September 2013. The agreement, which confirms a memorandum of understanding signed...

Chinese Firm Orders Four Ka-32 Fire-Fighting Helicopters

China's Jiangsu Baoli has ordered four Ka-32A11BC fire-fighting helicopters from Russian Helicopter, a subsidiary of the Russian state technology company Rostec. The helicopters will be delivered between 2016 and 2017, the Russian manufacturer said in a statement in late November. The Ka-32A11BC helicopter is designed for search and rescue operations, firefighting missions and providing...

Report Finds Funding Uncertainty Hampers FAA's Ops

The chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee reiterated his call for reform of theU.S. FAA after a government watchdog found that funding uncertainty over the past eight years has hampered the agency’s ability to perform its mission. “This [Government Accountability Office] report further highlights the need for Congress to take...

Have Simulator, Will Travel

You are sitting in the comforts of the spacious business jet cabin when all of a sudden there’s a bang and a vibration and a wisp of smoke wafts up from the floor. The pilot comes on the cabin intercom and announces that the aircraft has lost an engine, while the flight attendant begins preparing for an emergency landing. As smoke begins to billow into the cabin, you brace for the worst...

Traffic Slides Again in Europe

Business aviation traffic in Europe has begun to slide again, erasing the slight gains in activity in early summer, according to the latest WingX Business Aviation Monitor. In November, the 56,200 business aviation departures in Europe represented a decline of 2.5 percent from a year ago. Through the first 11 months of the year, business aviation activity is down 0.8 percent from the same per...

Apogee opens Tashkent FBO facilities

Apogee has opened a new office at Tashkent Yuzhny Airport. The company is now offering flight support services in the city. Apogee is able to offer services in all major airports in Uzbekistan, these services are all provided from the International Airport headquarters in Tashkent. The Tashkent headquarters is an very important location as it covers all of the CIS countries. “We foc...

EMS contract extension for Australian Helicopters in SA

Australian Helicopters has been awarded a three-year contract extension to continue operating South Australia’s State Rescue Helicopter Service (SRHS) shared by the state’s ambulance, police and fire services. “Australian Helicopters has successfully delivered a reliable rescue helicopter operation for the South Australian community for over 10 years and we are extremely pleas...

Bizav Groups Voice Opposition to Privatized U.S. ATC

Business aviation groups are stepping up their opposition to a proposal to create a user-funded independent organization to run the U.S. air traffic control system. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) intends to make such a proposal the centerpiece of his comprehensive FAAreauthorization bill that is expected to be released early...

Canada Developing Child-safety Measures for Aircraft

Transport Canada has responded to two recommendations from the country’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) to improve the safety of children traveling on commercial aircraft, including on-demand and air-taxi operations using business aircraft. The first recommendation requires operators to report on a routine basis the number of infants (under two years old) and young children (two to 1...

Etihad Airways in new partnership with Victor

Etihad Airways has announced a new partnership with Victor to complement and promote its exclusive The Residence and First Apartment cabins, both available on the airline's Airbus A380 fleet. The partnership also allows customers the ultimate convenience of chartering a seamless private aircraft connection to or from their international A380 flights. Etihad Airways is the first sch...

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