All General aviation articles – Page 221
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FAA and EASA certification for King Air 350i
Hawker Beechcraft has received US Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency type certifications for its new Beechcraft King Air...
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FAA extends ground stop to Port au Prince
The US FAA has extended a ground stop through 18:00EST for all air traffic headed for Haiti's Toussaint L'Ouverture airport. The traffic stoppage is...
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US regulators to probe industry on automation
US FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt says he will bring together airlines and human factors experts in April or possibly sooner to discuss the consequences...
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'Laser blinding' becomes specific criminal offence in UK
New UK laws specifically criminalising the aiming of lasers at aircraft have come into force this month, as Civil Aviation Authority statistics show there...
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Business aviation in brief
US air taxi company and training provider Linear Air has teamed with High Performance Aircraft Training - provider of unusual attitude...
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Permagard 'Bio Coatings' polymer to reduce water use
A polymer layer that protects livery paintwork and could reduce the need for washing aircraft is being employed by Etihad Airways and Virgin Blue. Developed...
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Working Week: The aircraft as a work of art
Having designed light aircraft for leisure and for racing, including the record-setting Monex, and with new models on the horizon, owner of Sonex Aircraft John Monnett is not ready yet to fly off into the sunset
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NewsStalled airline safety needs new action to advance
Airlines have exhausted the advances offered by safety management strategies developed during the 1990s and will not improve their safety performance without...
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Clean avgas substitute aims for summer approval
A test fuel specification for SwiftFuel , a biofuel designed to replace leaded avgas, could...
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Lights to guide Piper's way
Czech tie-up would propel airframer back into the market for entry-level flying
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Opinion
Comment: Do you feel in danger?
Airline safety and security have advanced dramatically but are not getting any better, and if improvement is to come then mindsets - not just procedures and technology - need to change
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NewsEASA: Thumbs-up for Oma Sud SkyCar
Italian general aviation manufacturer Oma Sud has received European Aviation Safety Agency certification for its twin-engine piston-powered SkyCar pusher
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NewsJetstar Pacific execs held in Vietnam following fuel hedging losses
Vietnamese authorities have detained the former CEO of Jetstar Pacific and stopped the airline's chief operating officer and chief financial officer from...
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Hainan completes purchase of leasing firm Allco
HNA Group completed the purchase of Allco Finance Group's aviation business yesterday, eight months after the contracts for the transaction were signed.
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NewsAirAsia and Jetstar ink wide-ranging cooperation agreement
Low-cost carriers Jetstar and AirAsia have formed a new alliance that will allow them to study the joint purchase of new aircraft, cooperate in ground and...
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NewsForecasts 2010: Safety and security
Can safety get better? Indications are that the steady improvement seen in recent years may have now levelled out
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Worn steering cable blamed for Airlink J41 runway excursion
South African investigators have determined that slippage of a worn nose-gear steering cable led to an Airlink British Aerospace Jetstream 41's veering off...
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This Week briefing
A second flight of the first A400M test aircraft, MSN1, succeeded in clearing "the entire...