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April 12, 2023

Airborne 04.12.23: Cornwall Update, VARMA Initiative, Florida v UAVs

Also: Nolen's Future, Swift Fuels Extension, FAA Tests & PHAK, Spirit of Flight Museum

This breaks our hearts... The U.K.’s Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre (CAHC) has been confronted with the very outcome it has battled mightily to circumvent. The Cornwall Council—the governing body of England’s Cornwall County and steward of the Cornwall Airport Newquay (NQY) upon which the CAHC’s museum has operated since 2015—has set forth that subject museum must vacate its current premises immediately. The FAA has unveiled a new program for the use of off-the-shelf parts in type-certificated aircraft. The approval is the first granted under the new Vintage Aircraft Replacement and Modification Article (VARMA)

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Lisa Atherton Named Bell Helicopter President & CEO

Bell Rings In New Boss

On 11 April 2023, Textron Inc.—the Rhode Island-based parent company of Beechcraft, Cessna, Hawker (formerly), Bell Helicopter, Pipistrel, Lycoming Engines, Arctic Cat Snowmobiles, Jacobsen, Kautex, E-Z-GO, and Textron Systems—announced that Lisa Atherton has been named president and CEO of the company’s Bell subsidiary, effective 28 April 2023.