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Opens New Flight Ops Center … Just a week after celebrating the groundbreaking of their new, 46,000-sqaure-foot paint hangar in Little Rock, Dassault Falcon is breaking ground again — this time in Teterboro, N.J. A new 32,200-square-foot building complex will be constructed directly across from Dassault Falcon’s headquarters providing much-needed space for the Flight Operations […]

OurPLANE Expands Amidst A Slow Market Adds Two Aircraft to Fleet … OurPLANE Inc., a four-year-old company targeting the owner-flown fractional aircraft ownership market, has added two new aircraft to its fleet in North America. A new Cirrus SR22 has been positioned at John Wayne Airport (KSNA) in Orange County, Calif., while a new Cessna […]

The 300-plus private and state-owned companies that comprise Russia’s struggling civilian aircraft industry must merge into a single entity that can compete with Boeing and Airbus, Vice-Premier Boris Alyoshin said last week in Moscow. The industry will draw up a plan this year to detail how it will achieve that goal, Alyoshin told the Associated […]

GA Security In Practice Pilot Crashes After ATC Denies Access… A pilot who said he ran out of fuel while circling outside the Washington, D.C., ADIZ, waiting for ATC to find his flight plan and clear him to enter, crashed four miles short of the runway on Sunday. The pilot and his two passengers suffered […]

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Fans Enjoy The Spectacle… The Paris Air Show opened over the weekend at Le Bourget, delighting crowds of spectators with fighter planes zooming overhead, and bringing a bout of nostalgia as an Air France Concorde made its last landing, destined for the airport’s aviation museum. Unmanned aerial vehicles, many of them freshly tested in warfare […]

Proposed Bill Eases GA Regs DCA Access, Banner Towers And More… The alphabets are cheering (and taking some credit for) a legislative package that would, among other things, restore charter operations to downtown Washington, get banner towers back in business over outdoor gatherings, smooth foreign flight student regulations and allow third-party appeals of security-related airman […]

A Russian jet fighter company will float a $100 million initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange next year. Sukhoi jet maker Irkut said the initial offering will be done to establish a credit history. The Moscow Times said Irkut is one of a few aviation companies not controlled by the government, although the […]

Why They Come … LAKELAND – Walking up the flag lined gate of this year’s Sun ‘n Fun entrance, it’s not hard to feel the energy of the largest southeastern U.S. fly-in of the spring — and this year, something special is in the air. You’ll hear it in the voice of the woman in […]

Why They Come … LAKELAND – Walking up the flag lined gate of this year’s Sun ‘n Fun entrance, it’s not hard to feel the energy of the largest southeastern U.S. fly-in of the spring – and this year, something special is in the air. You’ll hear it in the voice of the woman in […]