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March 30, 2012

Bombardier's Vision Flight Deck Enters Service

First Installation Is On Niki Lauda's New Global 5000 Jet

Bombardier Aerospace announced today that its Vision Flight Deck entered service on schedule on a Global 5000 jet. The aircraft was delivered to Formula 1 champion Niki Lauda, a longtime Bombardier customer, during a special ceremony at Bombardier's Global Completion Center, in Dorval, Canada.

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Wow... what a week! Despite the lack of news coming from Lakeland and the location of what appears to be one serious dud of a Fly-In, there was plenty of other news going on around the aviation world. The big news, of course, is that Obama has nominated Acting Admin Michael Huerta to officially take over for Babbitt... putting a career bureaucrat and non-pilot in charge of the FAA for five more years. We do have some GOOD news with Diamond Aircraft's intention to certify their ever-efficient birds for alternate fuels, including AutoGas, as well as the rebirth of the Corvalis TTX... a bird we weren't sure we were ever going to see again... an

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NBAA Says ABACE2012 An Outstanding Success

Bolen: Show 'Met All Of Our Estimates And Expectations'

The NBAA said Thursday that, by a host of measurements, the 2012 edition of the Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (ABACE2012) achieved the organizers' vision for the show as the largest and most successful business aviation event in Asia and a catalyst for the industry in China and the broader region.

Skyport Takes Delivery Of A Specially Equipped Piper Seminole To Be Used In Multi-Engine Training Experiment

The Redbird Skyport fleet has expanded with the addition of a new, customized Piper PA-44 Seminole. The proven twin engine trainer will be used as part of a new experiment to test a revolutionary simulator-centric multiengine training curriculum developed by Skyport’s ProFlight Academy.

Steps In As Vice President, CJP Events And Programs

Ralph Lloyd, Executive Director and COO of the Citation Jet Pilots Owner-Pilot Association (CJP) announced Thursday that Tom Poberezny will be joining their leadership team as Vice President, CJP Events and Programs and Chairman of the 2012 CJP Convention in Coeur d’Alene, ID, September 12-16.