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Two passengers noticed last week at a security checkpoint at Port Columbus that an airline pilot they passed nearby smelled strongly of alcohol, so they told a TSA agent … but they didn’t stop there. According to the Columbus Dispatch,as the men proceeded beyond the checkpoint, they noticed that the pilot was heading toward their […]

In a letter obtained by Dow Jones Newswire, aviation groups are seeking funds to launch NextGen and equip aircraft with ADS-B equipment. The letter outlines how a $4 billion cash infusion could be used to ignite NextGen air traffic control infrastructure modernization and create 77,000 jobs while obliterating previous completion date estimates. “Significant benefits that […]

Six cadets from China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines last month completed work at Boeing’s training arm, Alteon, in Brisbane, in a Multi-Crew Pilot licensing program (MPL) that aims to revolutionize and streamline airline cockpit crew training to answer the forecast demand for pilots. Boeing and Airbus together currently have a backlog of more than […]

AVwebBiz Wednesday reported that following a December announcement that Cessna would cut 500 workers, Cessna CEO Jack Pelton rang in the New Year with a Jan. 6 e-mail to employees that announced the possibility of still more layoffs. The number of jobs affected is yet to be determined. “As soon as we finalize our revised […]

It has nothing to do with the economy, according to 70-something-year-old owner Armand Rivard, it’s just “time to go fishing.” The company, which once employed about 200 people in Maine and Fort Pierce, Fla., and reached peak production of about 100 aircraft per year in the mid 1980’s, now retains four people in Kissimmee and […]

Superior Air Parts, which has filed motions for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, now expects to obtain court approval of the bidding process by Jan. 15 as Avco (a subsidiary of Textron) sits poised to compete with offers above its own $11.5 million cash bid for “substantially all of Superior’s assets.” That bid is free of all […]

Boeing announced Friday that it will layoff 4500 workers from its commercial aircraft division, beginning with 60-day layoff notices to be issued on Feb. 20 and amid reports that it would lose both the orders and deliveries race to Airbus in 2008. The eight-week-long machinists strike suffered by Boeing did affect the number of aircraft […]

Users of Garmin’s portable datalink receivers-the GPSmap 396, 496 and 696-got their weatherlink back in service by mid-morning on Wednesday, Garmin told AVweb. An undetermined number of users lost access to weather data after New Year’s due to technical issues, which Garmin and XM declined to explain in detail. Evidently, the outage affected only users […]

Embraer announced on Wednesday that it has received the type certificate from the FAA for its ultra-large Lineage 1000 executive jet. The aircraft, aimed at the high-end luxury business jet segment, is based on the Embraer 190 commercial jet, which was certified in 2005. It can carry up to 19 passengers in a roomy interior […]

Despite last year’s insolvency and a subsequent drop in production, Thielert Aircraft Engines is now in the black and working to capacity, according to Bruno M. Kubler, the company’s insolvency administrator. Kubler also said in a news release on Wednesday that all employees still have their jobs. “The fact that TAE was able to make […]