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Company Ponders Selling Beech, Hawker… The rumors about Beechcraft and Hawker being up for sale just might be true. Raytheon’s new CEO William Swanson recently told Bloomberg News he’d consider selling the aircraft division after fixing what ails it. “As soon as the market wakes up and people realize there is a rationalization that needs […]

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan will join business aviation legend Harry B. Combs in presenting the first annual Combs Award to photographer Dan Patterson during the Opening General Session of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) 56th Annual Meeting & Convention on Tuesday, October 7 in Orlando, FL. This award, sponsored by the National […]

The business aviation event of the year is nearly upon us and organizers are putting the final touches for this year’s show. The NBAA’s 2003 and 56th Annual Meeting & Convention, to be held October 7 to 9, 2003, at the Orlando/Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, will feature close to 30,000 Attendees, more […]

To help operators fully understand the implications of this new rule, a new regulatory seminar sponsored by NBAA and facilitated by the industrys leading regulatory experts is being offered at several locations nationwide: December 2003 – New York, NYJanuary 2004 – Los Angeles, CAFebruary 2004 – Dallas, TXJune 2004 – Chicago, IL (with an NBAA […]

NBAA welcomed the release of the FAAs final rule by stating “By updating and revising its regulations governing operations of aircraft in fractional ownership programs, the FAA recognizes the demonstrated safety record of this important segment of business aviation.” “We applaud the FAA’s effort on the creation of Subpart K and we look forward to […]

The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) hailed the new rule on fractional ownership as “an important milestone in the evolution of business aviation.” According to organization, the most positive aspect of the new rule is that it recognizes fractional programs as private rather than commercial operations. The association also praised the new rule for clearly […]

Fractional Ownership Rules Set… It’s been 18 years since Executive Jet revolutionized business-jet ownership and now the FAA has caught up to the fractional ownership industry with a set of specific regulations designed to maintain some uniformity. The agency recently published a final rule titled Regulation of Fractional Aircraft Ownership Programs and On-Demand Operations in […]

There’s nothing new about FADEC itself. Tiarks said that about the only jet aircraft still in the air today without it is the notoriously demanding Concorde and it will be out of service in a month. With respect to power adjustment, the Liberty will be something like a jet. The Teledyne Continental (TCM) PowerLink system […]

First With FADEC… Aircraft certifications are rare enough in this day and age, not to mention those that incorporate a major technological shift. Liberty Aerospace entered the history books earlier this week as the first manufacturer in the world to gain a Type Inspection Authorization (TIA) for their Liberty XL2 two-place piston single with Full […]

What has always made the privatization legislation unusual is that it exempted two VFR towers in Alaska. Fingers immediately pointed at Rep. Don Young, who, as a representative of that state, is also the chairman of the powerful Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, which incorporates the Aviation Subcommittee. Young did little to dispel accusations that […]