Agency Calls For Replacing Shafts In Some 360 and 540
Models
The FAA has issued an airworthiness directive calling for
crankshaft replacement in certain 360 and 540 engines built or with
crankshafts replaced after March 1, 1999. As AOPA first told you in
July, this AD affects some 1,100 aircraft, in models ranging from
Aero Commanders and Aerostars to Socata Trinidads. Many of the
affected aircraft are Robinson helicopters and late-model Cessna
182s.
ATC Contract Spat Continues With Both Sides Apparently Drifting
Apart
The FAA and its unionized air traffic controllers continue to
bicker over a new contract -- but instead of coming closer together
on the fine points, the two sides appear to be drifting farther
apart. Now, the FAA wants daily negotiations, while NATCA demands
arbitrators be brought in to settle things.
Commander Premier Aircraft Corporation To Leave Oklahoma City
By Month End
Commander Premier Aircraft Corporation (CPAC) announced Monday
it will leave the Okalahoma City area by the end of September and
establish new operations to produce Commander aircraft and support
the existing, world-wide Commander fleet at a new, undisclosed
location. CPAC acquired all of the assets of defunct Commander
Aircraft Company (CAC) from its chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee at the
end of June but the assets did not include the right to remain at
CAC's production facility at Wiley Post Airport.
On foot, J. Michael Fay crossed more than 2,000 miles to
document stretches of African wilderness the world had never seen
before. He helped establish 13 national parks in the Gabon region
of Africa, preserving many species found nowhere else in the
world.
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