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Rockwell Collins and ARINC said yesterday they have entered into an agreement to reintroduce the former’s eXchange broadband connectivity service using ARINC’s SKYLink satellite network. Rockwell’s eXchange provides real time, two-way broadband connectivity of up to 3.5 Mbps to the aircraft and, when coupled with the SKYLink satellite service, customers aboard equipped aircraft will have […]

United Arab Emirates-based Falcon Aviation Services (FAS) last week said it inked an exclusive agreement with Eurocopter to make it the sole regional provider of helicopter maintenance services for the helicopter manufacturer. The agreement includes the launch of a Eurocopter Maintenance Center at FASs Al Bateen airbase to provide full maintenance services for Eurocopter helicopters […]

Echoing EBAA and NBAA about EBACE2007’s success, Cessna last week announced it took in commitments for 40 new Citation business jets at last month’s event in Geneva. The commitments for 40 new airframes include an order for 25 Citation business jets received from JetAlliance, announced on May 24; Cessna expects deposits to firm all 40 […]

Time for a quick quiz: What has 11,267 attendees, 354 exhibitors, 1,423 booth spaces and 61 business aircraft on display? If you answered, “the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE2007),” held late last month in Geneva, you’d be correct. The event’s sponsors — the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) and the National Business Aviation […]

If Honda Aircraft Co. Inc. doesn’t set up a plant to manufacture its forthcoming jet engines in Burlington, N.C., city fathers may have a local politician to blame. Last Friday, state Representative Cary Allred let it slip that North Carolina transportation department officials told him Honda and Burlington would announce a deal to locate the […]

The aftermath of last September’s midair collision between a Gol Airlines Boeing 737-800 and a brand-new Embraer Legacy 600 bizjet operated by U.S.-based ExcelAire has become more complicated in recent days. Last week, a Brazilian federal judge indicted the two Legacy pilots, Joseph Lepore, 42, and Jan Paul Paladino, 34, who prosecutors say accidentally turned […]

Monday afternoon’s crash into Lake Michigan of a Cessna Citation Bravo engaged in transporting human organs for transplant killed all six aboard the flight, including the two crew and four medical team members. The jet, N550BP, had just launched from Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport (KMKE), headed for the Willow Run Airport (KYPS) near Detroit, […]

“The bottom line is pilots can continue using their IFR GPS units like before,” according to Randy Kenagy, AOPA’s senior director of strategic planning. Background: When the FAA revised policies that instruct pilots on how to use GPS units under instrument flight rules, AOPA saw in those changes reason to question IFR use for many […]

Lancair’s calling it “an aircraft that will be faster and safer than any other single engine aircraft in existence today.” And when we spoke Monday with Lancair CEO Joe Bartels, he sounded excited and only slightly less vague than his company’s press release. He did say, however, that “it’s not a jet; it’s a turboprop,” […]

A Cessna Citation 550 twinjet that was carrying donated organs and a medical transplant team crashed in Lake Michigan late Monday afternoon, killing all six people aboard the airplane. The crew had reported an emergency less than five minutes after taking off from Milwaukee and requested a return to the airport, FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro […]