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Arcapita Bank BSC, the private equity company and former majority shareholder in Cirrus Aircraft, filed for bankruptcy on Monday, saying it couldn’t reach a deal with creditors on debt repayment. The company, which describes itself as a “manager of Islamic compliant investments” that manages $7 billion, says it now has only $3.06 billion in assets […]

Aveos Fleet Performance, Canada’s largest maintenance, repair and overhaul company, is closing permanently, it says, because its largest customer (and former owner) Air Canada cut back on the amount of work it was having done there. Aveos was the former maintenance department of the airline but it was hived off in 2004. Air Canada remained […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Jarno Smeets, a mechanical engineer from the Netherlands, has posted a video at his blog showing what he says is a successful test flight that took place in a park in the Hague […]

GE’s H80 turboprop engine, which has been in development for several years in the Czech Republic, is now certified by the FAA, the company said last week. The engine was certified by EASA in December. The engine’s launch customer is the Thrush 510G agricultural aircraft. According to GE, the engine “combines the elegant, robust design […]

The FAA says it may liberalize rules governing the use of personal electronics (not cellphones) on airliners after it tests the latest and greatest tablets and other devices. Tech blogger Nick Bilton accidentally broke the story last week when he called the FAA to complain about what he considers an antiquated rule. Instead of brushing […]

Airlines worked Sunday to clear a backlog at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport after an impressive coincidence of things that could go wrong went wrong on the busy closing weekend of Spring Break. An electrical fire late Saturday closed one of the five runways and affected runway lights and directional signs on the rest. That prompted […]

Owners whose aircraft were damaged in last year’s Sun ‘n Fun tornado will not be stuck with any of the cleanup costs after all. In a statement, Sun ‘n Fun President Lites Leenhouts said the organization has paid all outstanding invoices and will not be billing individuals for the costs. Last October Sun ‘n Fun […]

The Aero show in Friedrichshafen, Germany next month promises to be a busy one for Diamond Aircraft. Company CEO Christian Dries told AVweb that two new airplanes will be shown there, both twins based on the Austro Jet-A-burning four-cylinder powerplant. The DA42 V1 is a much improved follow-up to the DA42NG, the first model that […]

Small private aircraft almost disappeared from Russia during the turmoil of the 1990s but,due to recent changes,they may now be making a very modest comeback in the world’s largest country. Russia’s borders contain nearly 6.6 million square miles, including thousands of villages not accessible by paved roads. That makes it a potentially active general aviation […]

Researchers at MIT and Stanford say they have advanced the idea of German engineer Adolf Busemann, who in the 1950s proposed that a biplane design could be more efficient and quiet in supersonic flight. Busemann’s calculations found that a biplane’s two wings could be positioned to cancel out shock waves, but there were problems with […]