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March 02, 2006

Special Notice TFR: UFN

NOTAM Number: FDC 6/2708 Issue Date: March 02, 2006 at 20:59 UTC Location: United States Beginning Date and Time: Effective Immediately Ending Date and Time: Until further notice Reason for NOTAM: Temporary flight restrictions for national security Type: Special Replaced NOTAM(s): N/A

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Special Notice TFR: UFN

NOTAM Number: FDC 6/2710 Issue Date: March 02, 2006 at 21:20 UTC Location: United States Beginning Date and Time: Effective Immediately Ending Date and Time: Until further notice Reason for NOTAM: Temporary flight restrictions for national security Type: Special Replaced NOTAM(s): N/A

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Special Notice TFR: UFN

NOTAM Number: FDC 6/2706 Issue Date: March 02, 2006 at 20:56 UTC Location: United States Beginning Date and Time: Effective Immediately Ending Date and Time: Until further notice Reason for NOTAM: Temporary flight restrictions for national security Type: Special Replaced NOTAM(s): N/A

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Special Notice TFR: UFN

NOTAM Number: FDC 6/2707 Issue Date: March 02, 2006 at 20:59 UTC Location: United States Beginning Date and Time: Effective Immediately Ending Date and Time: Until further notice Reason for NOTAM: Temporary flight restrictions for national security Type: Special Replaced NOTAM(s): N/A

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Special Notice TFR: UFN

NOTAM Number: FDC 6/2709 Issue Date: March 02, 2006 at 21:13 UTC Location: United States Beginning Date and Time: Effective Immediately Ending Date and Time: Until further notice Reason for NOTAM: Temporary flight restrictions for national security Type: Special Replaced NOTAM(s): N/A

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Boeing Puts Team Together On Post-737 Airliner

Project Could Launch In Next Two Years

Earlier this week, Boeing formally named an initial planning team tasked with a perhaps unenviable task, akin to reinventing the wheel. They are the team that will lead development on a replacement for the venerable 737.

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Air Force Receives Its First Combat-Spec Osprey

First Marine Deployment Begins Friday

Air Force leaders Wednesday accepted delivery of the first combat-configured CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor during a ceremony at the Bell manufacturing facility in Amarillo, TX.

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FAA's Martin Clears Air On ATA User Fee Issue

Editor's Note: Our lead story yesterday concerned reports of an agreement between the FAA and the Air Transport Association on a user-fee system to fund the national airspace. We have new information today... that sets the record straight. Greg Martin speaks for the FAA.

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Northwest, Delta Pilots Union Talks Fail To Reach Deals

Earlier Strike Threats May Now Become Reality

As the Wednesday deadline passed with no deals reached between Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines, and their respective pilots unions, the possibility of pilots strikes now looms large over those proceedings.

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'American Barnstormers' Tour Coming To EAA AirVenture 2006

Celebrates The Best Of Early Aviation

The dazzling aircraft and the dashing men and women representing the era dubbed "The Golden Age of Aviation" will be in Oshkosh this summer, as the American Barnstormers Tour concludes their nine-city schedule at EAA AirVenture 2006.

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Dassault Falcon's Teterboro Flight Ops Office Receives IS-BAO Certification

Business-Av Variant Of ISO-9000 Standard

Dassault Falcon’s Teterboro Flight Operations Department was recently awarded the International Standard for Business Aviation Operations (IS-BAO) Registration. IS-BAO is the accepted standard of aviation flight departments worldwide as the benchmark for safety and efficiency in business aircraft.

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FAA Considers Route Changes Over Northeast

Aiming To Reduce Delays -- But Noise Is The Tradeoff

The Federal Aviation Administration is currently accepting public comment on proposed changes to air traffic patterns over New York, New Jersey and the Philadelphia region. Those changes are designed to reduce delays at some of the most congested airports in the country -- but area residents say if the new routes increase noise over their homes, they want no part of it.

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Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Thursday 03.02.06

Fly A Helicopter From Your Living Room?

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 03.02.06 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program) ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 03.02.06 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program) ANN Special Feature -- Aero Simulators: 03.02.06 (ANN's Feature News Program, with Aero Simulator's Shawn Coyle.)

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NASA Aims For May 10 Discovery Launch, Three Missions In 2006

Stresses That Testing Will Not Be Hurried

Barring a major technical problem, the next space shuttle mission could launch as soon as May 10. That's the word from shuttle program manager Wayne Hale, who in the next breath said NASA engineers will face a "somewhat aggressive schedule" to meet that launch window.

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C182 Stolen From Tucson-Area Airport

May Have Been Flown To Mexico

Police are searching for any information they can find regarding the apparent theft Tuesday of a 1966 Cessna 182J Skylane from the Marana Regional Airport in Tucson, AZ.

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Eclipse Begins Production On First Customer Eclipse 500

Customer Lends A Hand "Building" His Jet

Earlier this week Eclipse Aviation celebrated a major milestone as it began building the first Eclipse 500 jet that will be delivered to a customer.

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ATG Javelin's Test Envelope Expands

Pulls Gear Up, Modifications Put To The Test

Aviation Technology Group, Inc. told Aero-News Thursday the company continues to make progress with its flight test program. On Tuesday, ATG celebrated the completion of the Javelin’s first gear-up flight, out of Denver's Centennial Airport (APA).

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Ballistic Parachute Systems Sign Two International Distribution Agreements

Will Provide 'Chutes For Indus LSAs And Indian Aircraft; European Repack Facility

Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc. announced this week they have entered into a non-exclusive Distribution and Development Agreement with Indus Aviation, Inc. of Dallas, TX to install parachute recovery systems on their US delivered Light Sport Aircraft models -- the T-211 Thorpedo and T-11 Sky Skooter.

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C-12s Prove To Be Valuable Assets To Maritime Security Operations

Military King Airs Offer Short Notice Transport Of Crews, Cargo

The C-12 airplanes operating out of Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain’s aviation depot are currently serving as valuable assets to maritime security operations (MSO), particularly logistics support, in the US 5th Fleet area of operations, according Lt. Patrick Brown, Coalition Task Force (CTF) 53 routing officer.

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Heli-One Selects CMC Electronics’ FMS And GPS For VIP Helicopter Upgrade Program

Aero-News has learned CMC Electronics Inc. has been selected by Norway's Heli-One to provide its CMA-9000 Flight Management System (FMS), as well as its 24-channel CMA-3024 Global Positioning System (GPS) Sensor for a military VIP Puma operator.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Tips (03.02.06): Minimum Altitudes

Aero-Tips!

Professional airshow performers are required to obtain special certification to perform low-altitude aerobatics for a reason... it’s a rare and demanding skill.  For the rest of us (aerobatic or not) flying under Part 91 (including Sport Pilot) there’s FAR 91.119, Minimum Safe Altitudes.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (03.02.06)

Aero-Linx!

With the weather starting to warm up, it can mean only one thing to aviation enthusiasts, Air Show Season.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (03.02.06): Blue Moon

Blue Moon The second full moon in a calendar month.

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Aero-News Quote Of The Day (03.02.06)

"We took it as a threat because it was flown into Mexico."

Source: Marana (AZ) Police Department Sgt. Jose Alvarez, on the apparent theft Tuesday of a Cessna 182J Skylane from the city's airport.

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OK TFR: UFN

NOTAM Number: FDC 6/2642 Issue Date: March 01, 2006 at 21:30 UTC Location: Duncan, Oklahoma near DUNCAN VOR/DME (DUC) Beginning Date and Time: Effective Immediately Ending Date and Time: Until further notice Reason for NOTAM: To provide a safe environment for fire fighting Type: Hazards Replaced NOTAM(s): N/A Pilots May Contact: Fort Worth (ZFW) Center, 817-858-7503

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AD: Rolls-Royce

AD NUMBER: 2006-05-01 MANUFACTURER: Rolls Royce SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2006-05-01 SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Rolls-Royce plc (RR) RB211 Trent 500, 700, and 800 series turbo fan engines.

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