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What do you call a Beech Model 58 Baron when it’s carrying a Garmin G1000 integrated avionics system? If you’re Raytheon, you call it a G58 Baron, the new prefix letter complying with the company’s recent name change to its venerable 36-series Bonanza, the G36. Raytheon last week announced it had obtained FAA type certification […]

Delta AirElite, Delta Air Line’s private jet charter and aircraft management service, said last week it had added a Bombardier Challenger 300 and Learjet 45XR to its charter fleet. Both aircraft are newly delivered 2005 models; the Challenger 300 is based in Stockton, Calif., while the Learjet’s home will be College Station, Texas. Adding the […]

Western Aircraft, the top-selling Pilatus distributor, this month celebrated delivering their 100th PC-12 aircraft, to operator Butler Machinery Company. This PC-12 was Butlers third example, and brought the worldwide fleet of PC-12s in operation up to 583 total aircraft. The type was first certificated in 1994 and Pilatus says that, for the past two years […]

With last month’s ratification by its pilots of a tentative labor agreement initially signed on Oct. 8, 2005, NetJets Aviation concluded contract negotiations with both its flight crews and cabin crews. The pilots’ agreement, which the company says was endorsed by 84 percent of its cockpit crews, calls for improved wages, job security and increased […]

Billing it as the “ultimate personal aircraft,” EADS Socata this month announced the newest member of its TBM family: the six-seat TBM 850 pressurized turbine single. Taking square aim at the coming VLJs, the company said its newest model builds on the success of the TBM 700 while offering owners and pilots a maximum cruise […]

Bombardier earlier this month said the first example of its newest bizjet, the Global Express XRS, was placed into service. The proud new owner is European customer Transneft, an oil transportation management company. Bombardier launched the Global Express XRS in October 2003, with an expected delivery date of early 2006; the company obviously beat that […]

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Three new acquisitions in California in recent weeks have brought the Signature Flight Support FBO chain to a total of 66 wholly owned facilities worldwide. The newest additions — Long Beach Million Air Inc., at Long Beach Airport / Daugherty Field and at the Oxnard Airport near Santa Barbara, plus Million Air La Quinta at […]

Meanwhile, ATC services provider NavCanada this month formally notified operators and the public of its proposed new and revised service charges for air navigation services. NavCanada said its new fee structure would become effective on March 1, 2006, and results from a review of its rate stabilization account and aeronautical publications plus the charging and […]