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Bombardier posted a $79 million profit in the first quarter, up from $24 million last year with corresponding revenues up from $3.5 billion to $4 billion. Aircraft orders clocked in at 174 versus 52 for the same period one year ago. Bombardier Aerospace’s backlog now stands at $15.4 billion and earnings have jumped from a […]

Gulfstream Aerospace is following on the heels of a nearly one million square foot expansion, which included the addition of sales, service, manufacturing facilities, plus roughly 1,100 new jobs, with another expansion. “We now expect the total investment and job creation to be far in excess of what was originally promised,” Gulfstream senior vice president […]

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Authorities in Washington State appear to be at least testing the theory that the disappearance of a Cessna 177B in the mountains of Washington was no accident. Although an aerial and ground search of the area where George Trupps plane dropped off radar near Yakima is continuing, the Yakima Herald Republic says the Civil Air […]

Its now up to a judge to decide whether American pilots Joe Lepore and Jan Paladino will face criminal charges in the collision of their Embraer Legacy 600 bizjet with a GOL Airlines Boeing 737 last September. The Associated Press says a Brazilian prosecutor has recommended charges of placing a vessel or aircraft in jeopardy […]

The Professional Airways Systems Specialists (PASS) union says a telephone line glitch that shut down the data link between OHares radar and the control center on Thursday is a symptom of a flawed contract with a private contractor that isnt qualified to do the work. In a news release, PASS said the problem was traced […]

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EAA is predicting that the final form of the FAAs reauthorization bill will be hammered out in contentious conference committee meetings this summer because the House is contemplating a package that differs fundamentally from the direction the Senate appears to be leaning on the user-fee issue. Last week, the Senate Commerce Committee defeated, by a […]

A bill tabled by Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, and Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., would put a moratorium on the consolidation of air traffic control facilities pending a review of the process by which the consolidations are undertaken. The bill comes following a high-profile spat over folding the Palm Springs radar facility into the Southern California […]

British pilot adventurers Jennifer Murray and Colin Bodill completed a 36,000-mile polar circumnavigation flight on Thursday at the Bell Helicopter facility in Fort Worth, Texas. The pair started Polar Firstfrom Fort Worth Dec. 5, heading south to catch Antarctica at its best before heading up the other side of the earth toward the North Pole […]