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Eclipse Aviation beat Father Time again — even if just by a hair. On New Year’s Eve two years ago, the redesigned Eclipse 500 with Pratt & Whitney Canada PW610F turbofans flew as promised by the end of 2004. This time it was the promised delivery of an Eclipse 500 to a customer before the […]

After word spread on Web forums about the Kansas situation, at least one other instance of a similar policy was reported in a chain of FBOs that operates in the Southwest. The firm, said to be Cutter Aviation on the Malibu Mirage Owners and Pilots Association online message board, hasnt returned telephone or e-mail message […]

Aircraft owners in Kansas and parts of the Southwest are worried about a policy adopted by one and possibly two aircraft maintenance providers to refuse to work on aircraft that are 18 years or older. A customer of Kansas City Aviation Center in Olathe, Kan., who asked not to be identified, told AVweb that officials […]

The weather system brought at least two confirmed F2 tornadoes to the region, according to the Weather Channel. On the Fujita Tornado Damage Scale, an F2 tornado packs winds of 113 to 157 mph, and can do considerable damage, including tearing roofs off frame houses, demolishing mobile homes, overturning boxcars, snapping or uprooting large trees, […]

Some of the airplanes were flipped over, some had wings torn off, and some were thrown against a building, ERAU Director of Communications Jim Hampton told Central Florida News 13. Two or three airplanes were inside the maintenance hangar when it collapsed. A piece from an airplane that tore through the wall of a building […]

About 60 airplanes were damaged or destroyed when tornadoes tore through the Daytona Beach, Fla., campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University on Christmas Day. Two tornadoes with winds of about 120 mph tore a 100-foot-wide swath through the center of campus as a line of violent thunderstorms passed across the region. “The maintenance hangar was destroyed […]

Raytheon Aircraft CEO Jim Schuster said he believes Onex and GS Capital are committed to ensuring that Raytheon Aircraft builds the best aircraft and expands its product line. On this note, Teal Group Vice President of Analysis Richard Aboulafia told AVweb, “Raytheon Aircraft really needs to diversify its product line, and the move to split […]

Raytheon Aircraft is not the first aerospace company that Onex has acquired, and it probably won’t be the last. In June 2005, the Canadian buyout firm purchased Boeing’s structural components business in Wichita for $1.2 billion, forming Spirit AeroSystems. Last month, it did an initial public offering for Spirit AeroSystems, raking in some $1.4 billion […]

Onex Corp. announced on Thursday morning that it is joining with GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs, to acquire Wichita-based Raytheon Aircraft Company for $3.3 billion. The deal will be completed by Hawker Beechcraft Corp., a newly formed joint venture between Onex and GS Capital Partners. The equity investment of approximately $1.06 billion […]

Operators of aircraft weighing less than 75,000 pounds that don’t yet meet Stage 3 noise standards would have just three years to upgrade, if legislation introduced by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., passes next year. The Aircraft Noise Reduction Act of 2006, introduced on Dec. 7, sends “an important message to airports, aircraft owners and airport […]