This April 2009 accident report is provided by the National Transportation Safety Board. Published as an educational tool, it is intended to help pilots learn from the misfortunes of others. Aircraft: Curtiss Wright P-40N. Injuries: 1 Fatal. Location: Mastic Beach, N.Y. Aircraft damage: Destroyed. What...
Last Saturday afternoon a Town Hall Meeting was held on the Sun ’n Fun grounds, hosted by Congressman Sam Graves (R.-Mo.), who is undoubtedly GA’s biggest supporter on Capitol Hill. Read more... ===> Posted on April 6, 2011 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2011
Designs that may make airplanes greener and quieter for future generations are one step closer to reality with recent NASA contract awards. Four industry and academic teams will split $16.5 million for additional research into ideas for aircraft that could be in the marketplace between 2030 and 2035...
Light Sport Aircraft maker ICON Aircraft is considering several cities around Atlanta for its manufacturing plant, according to a report at CovNews.com, which notes the company is planning to build at minimum a 100,000-square-foot facility to produce its two-person, A5 sport aircraft, which sells for...
The Coalition to Save Our GPS has asked the Obama administration to ensure that the Global Positioning System (GPS) is not “sacrificed” in the continued efforts to expand broadband coverage throughout the country. Read more... ===> Posted on April 6, 2011 by Janice Wood. No comments. ©...
Just a few months after celebrating its 65th anniversary, Narco Avionics has closed its doors. Read more... ===> Posted on April 6, 2011 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2011
Pilotvids.com is an aviation website that was built to provide two distinct services. The first is purely for entertainment, as users can browse hundreds of aviation related videos, images and audio files. The second was to allow manufacturers a place to showcase their products to a targeted market...
On October 29, the Greenville Downtown Airport (GMU) will host the Southeast Aviation Show, sponsored by the South Carolina Aviation Association (SCAA). Read more... ===> Posted on April 6, 2011 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2011
Alan Klapmeier will be the featured speaker at the ACONE awards and business meeting luncheon Friday, April 15, at the Somerset Club in Boston. Read more... ===> Posted on April 6, 2011 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2011
Despite overwhelming concern for fuel supply and costs, most airlines surveyed by a joint CIT/Forbes study indicated that they are likely to take a wait-and-see approach to how the next generation aircraft perform before making a commitment.
AerCap shares jumped 7.1% on Friday, after a day of unusually heavy trading. FBR Capital Markets upgraded AerCap from "Market Perform" to "Outperform". The analysts believe that concerns over the impact of fuel prices on the lessors customers had pushed AerCap stock to an unrealistically low level.
Wesco Aircraft - a major supplier of commercial and military aerospace components - has filed with the US Securities Exchange Commission for an IPO aimed at raising up to USD300 million. The company plans to apply for listing under the code "WAIR". Revenue in 2010 was USD656 million, with Boeing the...
TNT announced it has revised its expectations for its express unit for FY2011 as performance has been "somewhat short of expectations" thanks to issues related to higher fuel costs, underutilisation of its fleet and continuing integration problems in Brazil. The unit is EUR25 million behind its 2010...
North and South American airline stocks suffered another day of heavy falls, led by Hawaiian Airlines, which dropped 6.1%, and United Continental, which was down 5.8%. The AMEX Airline Index dropped 2.6%, as crude oil climbed above USD112 for the first time since Sep-2008.
LCC stock prices were weaker on Friday, with the most significant falls at JetBlue Airways (-4.2%), SpiceJet (-3.8%), Skymark Airlines (-3.8%) and easyJet (-2.6%). Indian carrier SpiceJet has announced that Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport will be the first base for its foray into turboprop...
In this exclusive CAPA interview, Lease Corporation International CEO Crispin Maunder shares his views on emerging markets, how the B747-8 will fare against the A380, and how the A321neo shapes up as a replacement for B757.
China’s major airports were again a strong profit centre in the Chinese aviation market in 2010, but the push is on to make them even more profitable by extracting more revenues from commercial sources, such as duty free and retailing.
“An LSA with headroom and plenty of room for two full-sized adults!” That’s how Jan Pjatak, president of Tomark Aero, describes the Viper SD-4. Read more... ===> Posted on April 10, 2011 by Meg Godlewski. No comments. © GAN 2011
Mexican airport operator OMA reported its Mar-2011 traffic fell in all areas, down 7.2% overall. International traffic dropped 16.5% year-on-year, while domestic traffic was down 4.7%, falling at nine of OMA’s 13 airports. The Easter holiday travel period occurred in March in 2010 and will take place...
Air France-KLM's March traffic was marked by the earthquake/tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis in Japan, as well as political unrest in the Middle East and Africa. Passenger traffic (RPKs) rose 1%, while capacity rose 3.5%, leading to a 1.9 ppts fall in passenger load factor to 78.6%.
By BRIAN D’AMBROSIO, For General Aviation News Cromwell Dixon awoke Oct. 1, 1911, as the talk and toast of the aviation world after the child prodigy turned aviator became the first pilot to fly across the Continental Divide, in his aeroplane “The Little Hummingbird.” Read more... ===> Posted...
It’s been a long road for the Seawind amphibian, but company officials say the project is alive and well and progressing through certification with two important milestones now behind them. Read more... ===> Posted on April 10, 2011 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2011
US Department of Justice cleared Google’s USD700 million acquisition of ITA Software, subject to certain concessions and conditions, which Google has reportedly agreed to. ITA provides software to several travel search providers, including Expedia, Kayak and Travelocity.
Munich Airport is setting a cracking pace in terms of traffic in 2011, topping the 8 million mark for the first three months of a calendar year for the first time. Traffic is up 12% year-on-year. Munich, which reports its monthly traffic before its bigger rival, has just completed its busiest March...
Recent polling conducted on behalf of the Aerospace Industries Association shows considerable public support for fully funding the FAA and the Next Generation Air Transportation System. Read more... ===> Posted on April 10, 2011 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2011
Taiwan's two largest carriers have reported minor year-on-year increases in revenue in Mar-2011. EVA Air reported a 1.6% increase for the month and a 4.5% increase for 1Q2011. China Airlines reported a 1.7% increase for Mar-2011 and a first quarter increase of 1.1%.
Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, which celebrated its third anniversary of operations on 23-Mar-2011, stated it has developed a three-pronged strategy to improve its revenues in the wake of a decline in the real estate market.
During a recent corporate jet finance conference, officials at Hawker Beechcraft Corp. said they have seen the overall cost of aircraft financing decrease throughout the past 24 months compared to prices seen during the economic downturn, with buyers seeing greater access to aviation financing. Read...
In the fourth in our series on the world's busiest airport, we review an airport that has been more consistently in the news than any other; London Heathrow. For decades the world’s premier international connecting point, virtually every flag carrier on earth has wanted to serve it. For many years...
Soloy Aviation Solutions has delivered its 85th Cessna 206/207 Mark I turbine conversion to JAARS, the non-profit organization that provides technical support services such as aviation, information technology, and local language media to advance Bible translation and language community development worldwide...
