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EASA Grounds Airbus AS332 L2/EC225 LP Fleet

The European Aviation Safety Agency issued an emergency airworthiness directive (AD) on June 2 to ground the fleet of Airbus Helicopters AS332 L2 Super Puma and EC225 LP (H225) models, after more evidence of a potential unsafe condition in the main rotor assembly w...

Honeywell Looks At Mind and Speech Control for Future Cockpits

Honeywell Aerospace is researching a series of advanced technologies,from use of sensors that can tap into brainwaves to control basic aircraft maneuvers to speech-recognition equipment and synthetic-vision advancements, to create a cockpit environment in which the pilot could use any number o...

Voldirect inaugurates its PC 12

Three years after launching, Voldirect, the first business aviation company in Rennes France, has launched its second plane, the Pilatus PC12. The PC-12 is one of the most comfortable airplanes in its category and the most flexible for small airport accessibility. The Pilatus PC-12's cabin is pressurized and spacious enough to accommodate up to eight passengers and to offer them an ideal sp...

Jet Aviation Basel signs parts consignment agreement with Custom Control Concepts

Jet Aviation Basel has recently signed a parts consignment agreement with Seattle-based Custom Control Concepts (CCC), a leading provider of custom in-flight entertainment equipment, lighting and cabin management systems (CMS) for VIP aircraft. As an Authorized Service Center for Customer Control Concepts (CCC), Jet Aviation Basel regularly supports CCC equipment. This parts consignme...

My Jet - what makes the difference

After two years of research and development, MY JET – a new Swiss-headquartered industry player that specializes in business aviation financial planning, accounting, control and analysis – is now entering the European & CIS market. MY JET promises to revolutionize the private jet ownership through technology and expertise. We have tried to find out what kind of technology stands be...

TAG Aviation to Contribute Industry Expertise at Annual Global Family Office Community Conference

TAG Aviation and TAG Global Training (TGT) are proud to be both sponsoring and participating at this year’s third Global Family Office Community Conference (GFOC) which will take place at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Thursday 9th June. The GFOC Conference annually brings together relevant industry business experts and members from the global community of family offices to provide a...

Enstrom TH180 Resumes Flight Testing

Enstrom Helicopter resumed flight testing of its new TH180 last Thursday, a two-seat model aimed at the training market. A second flight-test vehicle joined the program to restart testing, the company told AIN yesterday. On its first flight, test pilot William Taylor performed hover, forward flight and rigging checks on the new helicopter. The flight-test program h...

Air BP and PBF sign joint venture agreement in Peru

Air BP, the international aviation fuel products and services supplier, has today announced the signing of a 50/50 aviation fuel joint venture in Peru with PBF, the Peruvian energy company. The agreement was signed by David Windle, Chief Operating Officer, Air BP, and Alberto Pinto Rocha, Chief Executive Officer, PBF, in the Peruvian capital Lima. Operating under the name of Air BP PBF, the j...

HNZ GROUP ANNOUNCES RENEWAL OF OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS SUPPORT CONTRACT IN NEW ZEALAND

HNZ Group Inc., an international provider of helicopter transportation and related support services, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, HNZ New Zealand Limited, has entered into an offshore oil and gas helicopter support contract with a consortium of customers which includes Shell Todd Oil Services Limited, AWE Taranaki Limited, OMV New Zealand Limited and Origin Energy Resources (K...

Jet Aviation Basel launches Honeywell Aerospace APU Overhaul Facility

Jet Aviation Basel has received approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to operate its new Honeywell Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) Overhaul Facility for the GTCP36 Series. Honeywell presented their APU Overhaul Facility Certificate to Jet Aviation Basel at the EBACE Convention in Geneva. Jet Aviation Basel was appointed last year by Honeywell to establish an Aux...

Pilot Report: Flying The HondaJet HA-420

Michimasa Fujino, founding president and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company, Inc. (HACI) is understandably proud of the new HondaJet. He has personally guided its progress from initial conception to a fully developed model and certified aircraft, fighting through at least five years of delays in the process. As expected, he is highly protective of this first member of what’s likely to be a fam...

PrivatAir Commences Operations On The Jeddah - Riyadh Route On Behalf Of SPA

PrivatAir is pleased to announce the launch of a new business-class-only airline service between Jeddah (King Abdulaziz International Airport, JED) and Riyadh (King Khalid International Airport, RUH) on behalf of Saudia Airlines (Saudia) and Saudia Private Aviation (SPA). “The new service “Albayraq” comes as part of Saudi Arabian Airlines strategic objective of transportation...

WIKING Helikopter Service GmbH orders two H145s for offshore operations

Airbus Helicopters and WIKING Helikopter Service GmbH signed a contract for two H145s in offshore configuration at the international aerospace exhibition ILA in Berlin, making them the first Airbus Helicopters products to be added to their WIKING Helikopter Service GmbH’s fleet. The delivery of the first H145 is scheduled for the end of the year. Both rotorcrafts will be used for the transfe...

Airbus Helicopters advances Clean Sky 2 high-speed efficient rotorcraft demonstrator

Airbus Helicopters earlier this year passed an important milestone in the development of the high-speed, compound helicopter demonstrator currently being built as part of the Clean Sky 2 European research programme. A mockup of the breakthrough airframe design has just undergone windtunnel testing in an Airbus facility. The tests proved the viability of the chosen design in terms of efficiency, su...

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