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Honeywell last week announced it has entered into an agreement with Airservices Australia to develop and certify a ground-based augmentation system (GBAS) and a ground-based regional augmentation system (GRAS) designed to enhance precision of GPS-based aircraft navigation for all phases of flight. Looking a lot like the FAA’s wide-area augmentation system (WAAS) and local-area augmentation […]

Eurocopter this month said it officially opened its new Moscow-based subsidiary, Eurocopter Vostok, which it created to market Eurocopter products and services in Russia as well as monitor the company’s products operated in Russia. The new subsidiary’s creation was accompanied by a network of regional maintenance centers in Saint Petersburg, Tyumen, and Sakhalin, as well […]

Signature Flight Support this month said it has won a competition to operate a new FBO at the Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield (RHADS), in England. The airport, located on the site of the former RAF Finningley airbase, serves central and northern England. Signature said its facility at the airport will be RHADS’s first business […]

US Helicopter, billed as the only certified scheduled helicopter service in the U.S., launched its inaugural flights on March 27, serving JFK International Airport (JFK) and the Downtown Manhattan Heliport (JRB), at Wall Street, with Sikorsky S-76Bs. The operator has a dedicated gate at JFK, in the new American Airlines Terminal 9, and plans to […]

French airframer EADS Socata last week announced it promoted two of its executives to worldwide responsibilities. The company named Nicolas Chabbert as vice president of sales and marketing, reporting directly to EADS Socatas Chairman and CEO, Stphane Mayer, while Raphal Matre, previously deputy vice president of customer service, was promoted to the position of vice […]

Adam Aircraft last week named Rob Penrod as its vice president of manufacturing, as it continues to add staff and resources in efforts to bring its two main designs — the A500 piston twin and the A700 AdamJet — to full certification and market. Penrod joins the Adam Aircraft team from Bell Helicopter where, as […]

Piaggio Aero Industries S.p.A., manufacturer of the Avanti and Avanti II twin pusher turboprops, last week announced that Mubadala Development, a principal investment company wholly owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi, has acquired 35 percent of the Italian airframer’s equity. According to Piaggio, the transaction is based on the two companies’ “shared belief … […]

Saying it will add some 300 engineers to its design team, Embraer last week announced it has begun what it terms the “joint definition phase” (JDP) of its efforts to bring the Phenom 300 light business jet to market. The Phenom 300 is the first clean-sheet design of its category in over two decades, said […]

Just when you thought it was safe and secure to fly your bizjet, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week decided to let the air out of your tires. According to the TSA — which only rarely has been associated with false alarms — “On April 13, 2006, a message posted in Arabic on a […]

One of the business aviation industry’s most anticipated new-service launches in recent memory edged closer to becoming a reality this week. DayJet, the start-up “per-seat, on-demand” operation based on what many believe will be the coming horde of very light jets (VLJs), announced Monday its first regional service area would encompass Florida and the southeast […]