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Landmark Aviation last week announced its FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval for installing Rockwell Collins’ Pro Line 21 Integrated Display System (IDS) aboard Dassault Falcon 50 aircraft. The Pro Line 21 IDS upgrade for the Falcon 50 can be configured with three or four 8-inch-by-10-inch active matrix liquid crystal displays and includes Rockwell Collins’ […]

Dassault Falcons Little Rock Completion Center last week welcomed its first Falcon 7X (s/n 05) for completion, the company said this week, accompanied by a Falcon 2000EX EASy. Dassault’s latest tri-jet offering — the company expects to obtain FAA and EASA certification in early 2007 — is billed as “the worlds first purpose built fly […]

One of the airline industry’s most colorful and successful players this week said what many expect will be a coming onslaught of very light jets (VLJs) won’t have an impact on scheduled carriers. Former American Airlines Chairman and CEO Robert Crandall yesterday said during a conference call with investors that the “per-seat, on-demand” transportation made […]

Despite what was billed as a weekend-long series of negotiations designed to reach a final agreement, there was no official word late Tuesday on whether an investor group comprising Onex Corp. and Goldman Sachs would buy Raytheon Aircraft. Reports late last week indicated the two sides were near an agreement as part of their exclusive […]

Pay scales for corporate and charter pilots are all over the map — literally — these days, and last week’s announcement by NetJets Europe of its 2007 salary package may see a few U.S. pilots jumping ship — and the pond. The company last week today announced its new employment package for pilots and flight […]

Jet fuel prices are going nowhere but up, according to conventional wisdom, but there may be an unconventional alternative in the near future. The U.S. Air Force (USAF) last week flew an eight-engined Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber on a five-plus-hour flight, powered only by a synthetic jet fuel. The flight was dubbed a success both […]

Founder of Safe Flight Instrument Corp., inventor of the stall warning indicator in 1946, co-founder of the Corporate Angel Network, test pilot and engineer, Leonard Greene, died last Thursday of cancer at the age of 88. Greene’s Safe Flight Instrument Corp. sold more than half a million stall warning indicators and other flight safety devices, […]

Friday, the FAA released a long-anticipated proposal “to amend the regulations for repair stations by revising the system of ratings and requiring repair stations to establish a quality program.” The agency would require a repair station to maintain a capability list, designate a chief inspector, and provide permanent housing for its facilities, equipment, materials, and […]

Starting today, Dec. 6, pilots and dispatchers will now have available improved and cockpit-accessible graphical hourly updates on in-flight icing. The National Weather Service will operate the service creatively called the “Current Icing Product,” or CIP, which incorporates more detailed observations and more advanced prediction models than its previous version (FAA approved in 2002). The […]

Nearly 700 pilots and flight attendants working for NetJets Europe will see their compensation packages improve next year after the company this year lost close to 50 employees to airlines and other suitors, according to a report by Flight International. For starting captains, the new deal will translate to a salary boost pushing dollars from […]