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Raytheon Aircraft Services (RAS) last week announced it has obtained an FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) providing a Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) solution for the Beechjet 400 and the MU-300 aircraft. The Raytheon STC upgrades existing height-keeping equipment to digital altimeters with data-acquisition units to meet RVSM requirements. Aircraft flying above 29,000 feet must […]

In our last edition of AVweb‘s BizAVflash, we told you about the then-upcoming meeting between the Transportation Security Administration’s acting head, David M. Stone, and the various organizations comprising the General Aviation Coalition. That meeting, held last Friday, was the latest in a series of more-or-less regular meetings between the security agency and industry. As […]

It’s the latest prognostication that business aviation — and business aircraft manufacturers in particular — are poised for greatness. “It” is a forecast from a Washington-based think tank/consulting firm, the Teal Group, which predicts substantial growth in demand for business aircraft through the next decade. But that’s nothing new. Everyone from individual manufacturers, to the […]

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David M. Stone, the TSA’s acting administrator, plans to meet May 7 with the General Aviation Coalition (GAC), a loosely defined collection of all the GA trade associations from the largest to the smallest. The meeting, the latest in a series of ongoing dialogues between the agency and the “problem child” GA community, probably won’t […]

What goes down, can come up, according to Cessna. Earlier this year, the manufacturer revised its sales projection downward after fractional operator NetJets aborted a large order for the companys Citations. Now, however, Cessna says new orders it has received so far in 2004 will allow it to recoup those losses, and then some. Instead […]

Theyre perhaps not the traditional business aircraft operation but, these days, anyone who hangs out around aircraft is suspect. “They” are crop-dusters — er, aerial applicators, or agricultural operators — and, according to an article in The Wichita Eagle, have been subject to new scrutiny by the FBI in recent months. The newspaper reports that […]

Its not the first of its type to enter service, but its the first to go to a private operator. “It” is a new Bombardier Challenger 300 bizjet, delivered to Dean Phillips Inc. on April 15, and is the fifth Challenger 300 to enter into service to date. The first four examples have been operating […]

Meanwhile, the rest of the industry went about its business. Bombardier hooked up with CAMP Systems in a move designed to allow CAMP to assume responsibility for providing maintenance-tracking services for Bombardier business jets. CAMP will provide service for more than 700 Bombardier business aircraft currently enrolled in Bombardiers in-house Computer Integrated Maintenance Management System […]

Since the April 18 Olcott letter, things have been much quieter on the NBAA front. Although the past few weeks events have clearly put a strain on things, no new eruptions have been noticed, either at the NBAA or from among its recent departures. One can almost hear the sigh of relief — kind of […]