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One of the bidders, Onex Corp., is no stranger to Wichita. The Canadian company bought Boeings Wichita commercial operations last year and formed Spirit AeroSytems Holding. The new company is doing well building Boeing 737 fuselages and parts for the 787 Dreamliner, and analysts say the Raytheon acquisition would be a good fit. As a […]

A rejuvenated Raytheon Aircraft could have new owners in the next month, according to The Wichita Eagle. The newspaper reported Friday that the Carlyle Group of Washington, D.C., Cerberus Capital Management of New York and Onex Corp of Toronto are the three finalists in the bidding contest for the planemaker, which builds Hawker and Beechcraft […]

Podcast Index |How to Listen |Subscribe Via RSS Honda Aircraft opened the doors to its Greensboro, North Carolina headquarters on Monday, and AVweb was there. Company vice-president Jeffrey Smith went on record, explaining the progress of the HondaJet and its sales and marketing plans. Click here to listen.

On the sales front, the HondaJet backlog stands at more than 100 aircraft, even though first deliveries of the $3.65 million twinjet won’t start until 2010. However, Honda Aircraft GM of Sales and Marketing Doug Danuser told AVweb that this count includes only individual orders and that there is significant interest (and most likely some […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page. If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. On Monday, Honda Aircraft for the first time hosted a group of outsiders — in this case about 25 journalists — at its Greensboro (N.C.) Piedmont Triad Airport facility, where the company […]

U.S. airline pilot groups and the Flight Safety Foundation recently began calling for the release of the two American pilots, Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino, flying the Embraer Legacy that was involved in the Brazilian midair accident. Now the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and National Business Aviation Association have joined in that chorus. On […]

The NTSB reports very detailed information about the interactions between both flight crews and ATC throughout the flight. In the last two-way communication, the Legacy crew reported that it was at FL370. ATC acknowledged and instructed the crew to “ident.” Radar indicates that the ident was observed. After that, radar contact was sporadic and both […]

The NTSB yesterday released “factual information” on the progress of the Brazilian government’s investigation into the Sept. 29 midair collision between a Boeing 737-800 operated by Gol Airlines of Brazil and an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet owned by Excelaire of New York. The report says flight data recorder information from the Legacy jet confirms […]

DOT Inspector General Scovell is also recommending that the potential impact of construction work on airport systems be considered when new projects are planned. At least part of the problem with LAXs ILS and AMASS system was traced to the construction activity on one of the airports four runways. The ILS suffered five failures in […]

The FAA needs to spend up to $100 million, and fast, to make sure the lights, computers and consoles stay on at its most important air traffic control facilities, according to a report by the Department of Transportations Office of Inspector General (OIG). The OIG was responding to a request from Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., […]