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For those no longer pleased with the engines on their Cessna Citation S/II (CE-S550), Clifford Development has initiated an STC program to re-engine the aircraft with Williams International FJ44-3 engines. According to Clifford, for a mere $2.185 million (that includes a credit for the original engines), the conversion affords a 75-percent reduction in time-to-climb to […]

WSI Corporation Monday announced commercial availability of its new inFlight AV-300 series datalink weather system. The unit has dimensions similar to the AV200 system but paired with the AV-350 receiver offers not only weather content, but radio entertainment as well. The AV-300 series antenna and receivers have each received FAA TSO authorization. The AV-300 receiver […]

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s flight testing, originally scheduled to begin in late August, is now scheduled for October. Boeing has confirmed that a fastener-shortage problem and glitches in the aircraft’s flight control software have impacted the schedule. “A slip of two months is not harmful to the program, and can be made up in reasonable […]

Sales marketing through education about tax depreciation — it’s the angle PlaneSmart! is apparently using to push for sales in shares of its SR22-G3 Turbo aircraft. “If you buy a share of an SR22-G3 Turbo by September 30, you could enjoy depreciation deductions of up to 20 percent on your 2007 income taxes!” And by […]

Vaisala Inc. is now producing its AWOS IV, which includes a freezing rain sensor that provides real-time, fully automated reporting and is the first such AWOS to receive FAA approval. The system is designed to measure both the duration and intensity of freezing rain and adds that to a more standard list of altimeter setting, […]

Universal aims to announce, on Sept. 25 at the NBAA Convention in Atlanta, FAA certification for a new FMS that “marks the very first WAAS-FMS system TSO’d and capable for installation on Part 23 & 25 aircraft.” The new “W” series of Flight Management Systems is certified to TSO-C146b, Class Gamma-3, “the highest possible,” and […]

FAA Administrator Marion Blakey warned the airline industry Tuesday in her final week in office to address scheduling practices that are “out of line with reality,” or be ready “when the government steps in,” according to a report by The Associated Press. Any changes should include international airlines and business jets, too, according to a […]

Two men were killed Tuesday morning when a helicopter crashed into the sea while filming video near Sarasota, Fla. A third person in the helicopter was seriously hurt. The group was working on a project for Powerboat magazine. The boat was also damaged, but the two people on board escaped unhurt, according to The Associated […]

Three people walked away from the emergency landing of a Cessna Cardinal on the roof of a warehouse in Columbia, S.C., on Sunday. And it appears that in this case, hitting power lines actually helped. Pilot Larry Ross and passengers James and Joanne Keisler had just taken off from Owens Field in Columbia when the […]

As a community of aviators, AVweb‘s subscribers have come through again. On Saturday and Sunday, 21,633 people used the links on AVweb‘s home page and e-mail alert to log on to Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk site and take part in the search for Steve Fossett. We didn’t have the numbers from our normal Monday AVwebFlash e-mail […]