All General aviation articles – Page 646
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Relative safety
Europe is joining the USA in pressing less-powerful nations to put aviation safety at the top of their national-budget priorities. David Learmount/LONDON THE EUROPEAN UNION decision to join the USA in invoking its own aviation-safety assessment rules will raise the pressure for the less- powerful nations of ...
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Wingtip zip
LoPresti Speed Merchants, of Vero Beach, Florida has certificated drag-reducing composite Zip Tip replacement wingtips for Piper Seneca, Lance and PA-28/ 28R-series light aircraft. Source: Flight International
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Aviation sales grows
US spares-reseller Aviation Sales, based in Miami, Florida, has acquired the assets of Dixie Bearings' aviation-distribution division, which handles aircraft bearings, power-transmission components and accessories. Source: Flight International
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Caravan sites
Cessna has appointed Aero Trans International, of Englewood, Colorado; J A Aero, of West Chicago, Illinois; and Modern Aero, of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, to sell the Caravan utility turboprop in the US northern Mid-West. Source: Flight International
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Air London
Ian McQuade is appointed to the newly created position of manager for IT sales in the commercial-aircraft division of UK charter broker Air London International, of Crawley, Sussex. He has previously worked for Monarch Airlines and, more recently, Excalibur Airways. David Macdonald becomes senior analyst at the executive-aircraft division. He ...
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Cessna
Cessna Aircraft has made seven new appointments in its Single-Engine Sales and Marketing group. Domestic sales team leaders, are Doug Beary, formerly director of original-equipment-manufacturer sales for Deltec Electronics, who will cover the eastern division; Bret Chilcott, who will cover the western division (including western Canada) and who formerly owned ...
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Cessna starts to build Model 172 Skyhawks
Graham Warwick/INDEPENDENCE CESSNA HAS BEGUN assembly of the first Model 172 Skyhawks at its new piston-aircraft plant at Independence, Kansas. Six aircraft are already in assembly, and the first will be completed by mid-November. The first aircraft will undergo US Federal Aviation Administration flight-testing in December ...
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Cirrus confirms SR20 performance
CIRRUS DESIGN has announced definitive performance figures for the SR20 light aircraft and begun converting delivery-position options into firm orders. US Part 23 certification has been scheduled for the third quarter of 1997, with customer deliveries to begin later that year. Cirrus is offering the SR20 to current ...
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Astra SPX business jet enters USA
PAINT MANUFACTURER Sherwin-Williams has become the first US operator of the Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) Astra SPX business jet. The Mach 0.87 SPX has joined an Astra SP, based at the company's flight department and is expected to be flown for 400-500h a year. The Cleveland, Ohio-based paint ...
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Samsung holds talks in last-ditch bid to rescue Fokker-
Paul Lewis/SEOUL SOUTH KOREAN conglomerate Samsung has re-opened detailed negotiations with Dutch Government receivers to take over bankrupt aerospace manufacturer Fokker Aircraft. The aim of the talks is to have a deal in place within two months, as time runs out for the Dutch manufacturer. ...
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ILS opens free-access stolen-parts database
INVENTORY LOCATOR Service (ILS) is to provide free access, via the Internet, to its database of stolen aircraft-parts. Previously, the database was available only to customers using the company's "electronic marketplace" to buy and sell aircraft parts. ILS created the database after a 1989 industry conference estimated that ...
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Stevens launches Orenda engine
STEVENS AVIATION has placed a $20 million launch order for 140 Orenda Aerospace Vee-8 piston aero engines, which it plans to retrofit to Raytheon Beech King Air C90 twin turboprops. Stevens plans to re-engine the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-powered King Airs with the Orenda 600 piston engines ...
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The phase-out rules in Europe and the USA
NON-STAGE 3 aircraft will be banned from operating in European Union member states from 1 April, 2002, unless specific waivers are granted for up to an additional three years. Any Stage 2 aircraft, which reaches 25 years of age before the final cut-off date, must be removed from service immediately. ...
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USA and Venezuela fight over safety
AIR SERVICES BETWEEN the USA and Venezuela stopped on 7 August, with both countries grounding each other's aircraft. US Federal Aviation Administration officials in Miami had grounded two Venezuelan airliners for safety reasons. Venezuelan inspectors in Caracas then grounded two American Airlines aircraft. Services have been resumed following talks in ...
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Skyhigh healthcare
Airlines are finally considering fitting telemedicine equipment. Patrick Hook/LONDON DESPITE THE HUGE costs involved every time a scheduled service is diverted from its route to off-load a sick passenger, airlines have always demonstrated a reluctance to fit their aircraft with telemedicine equipment which might improve ...
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A storming Oshkosh
Bad weather may have cut public attendance, but it did not dampen the enthusiasm of exhibitors at this year's convention and fly-in at Oshkosh David Higdon/OSHKOSH AVIATORS BY THE tens of thousands renewed their love affair with aviation during the 44th annual Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) ...
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The politics of safety
Tony Broderick talks on politics, safety and the need for a new funding regime. Paul Phelan/CAIRNS TONY BRODERICK understands better than most the perils which political intervention can put in the path of effective aviation-safety oversight. After nearly two decades at the US Federal Aviation ...
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Firefighting crash
A Canadair CL-215 fire fighting amphibian of Italy's civil-protection service crashed on 30 July while scooping water from a lake in Sicily, killing one crewmember and injuring the other. Source: Flight International
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US Customs opens Canadian GATE to GA
US AND CANADIAN general-aviation pilots flying into the USA from Canada, will be able to circumvent US Customs procedures, by making telephone reports of their entries under a new scheme, unveiled at the Experimental Aircraft Association convention at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The General Aviation Telephonic Entry (GATE) programme is ...
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Charter house
Air London is the one of the largest business air-charter brokers. Max Kingsley-Jones/LONDON AIR LONDON INTERNATIONAL, the UK-based aircraft-charter broker, has grown from modest beginnings at Gatwick over 35 years ago, to become a leading player in the arrangement and management of corporate-aircraft charters. In ...