The FAA has issues a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin
(SAIB) directed to owners and operators of Enstrom Helicopter
Corporation-manufactured (Enstrom) 280 FX helicopters of a false
fuel quantity indication with subsequent risk exposure to fuel
exhaustion during flight. At this time, the FAA feels this
airworthiness concern is not an unsafe condition that would warrant
an AD.
In its fourth-best year for deliveries since 1990, Daher-Socata
announced Monday that 38 TBM 850s were delivered in 2011, bringing
to 260 the total number of its latest very fast turboprop aircraft
received by customers since being introduced in 2006. The company's
600th aircraft rolled out of the factory last October.
Spirit AeroSystems Awards GD $23 Million For Component
Assembly
A contract valued at $23 million has been awarded by Spirit
AeroSystems to General Dynamics and Technical Products to produce
winglets for commercial business-jet aircraft.
Savoy, Illinois -based Flightstar recently purchased the assets
of Bloomington Avionics Inc. of Bloomington, IL. The transfer was
completed Dec. 29, 2011. The staff at Bloomington Avionics, as well
as its complete line of overhead and services, will transfer and
now operate from Flightstar’s fixed base operator facility at
Champaign-Urbana’s University of Illinois-Willard Airport
(KCMI).
Helo To Be Tasked With Medical Services Missions In Southern
Japan
Kagoshima International Aviation of Japan has taken delivery of
an AgustaWestland GrandNew light twin helicopter, according to a
news release from the helicopter manufacturer and aircraft leasing
agent Kaigai Aviotech Corporation. This aircraft will be used to
perform emergency medical service missions in the Kagoshima
Prefecture, southern Japan.
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