Fri, Feb 03, 2012
New Directors Bring Extensive Aviation, EAA And Business
Backgrounds
Three directors have been added to the Experimental Aircraft
Association board, which governs the 176,000-member aviation
organization. The three new directors ... Jack Pelton, Stuart
Auerbach and Darren Pleasance ... bring extensive aviation and
business background to the board, in addition to longtime EAA
involvement and thousands of hours of flight time.
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Fri, Feb 03, 2012
Members Asked To Lend Their Voices In Fight To Preserve Vital
Technology
The NBAA replied Wednesday to a petition by the FCC asking for
public comment ahead of its final decision on whether embattled
telecommunications company LightSquared may deploy a nationwide 4G
wireless broadband network, despite repeated test results
demonstrating signals from that network would cause catastrophic
interference with global positioning system (GPS) signals and
receivers.
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Fri, Feb 03, 2012
Fifteen Regional Controller Recognized At Eighth Annual Archie
League Medal Of Safety Awards
Ten remarkable flights assists were honored at the National Air
Traffic Controllers Association's (NATCA) eighth annual Archie
League Medal of Safety Awards banquet, part of NATCA's annual
safety conference.
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Fri, Feb 03, 2012
Flight School Also Celebrates 25 Years In Business
The Chamber of Commerce for the City of Santa Paula, CA recently
named CP Aviation, Inc. its 2011 Business of the Year. Presented
annually since 1983, CP Aviation is only the second airport
business in Santa Paula to receive such recognition. The flight
school will be honored at an awards luncheon on February 7,
2012.
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Fri, Feb 03, 2012
Flight Design Offers Loyalty Upgrade Program
Recognizing the loyalty that carries a customer from a starting
model to a larger airplane, Flight Design has announced a strong
incentive program to present-day buyers of its CTLS Light-Sport
Aircraft. Buyers who participate in the program can gain a delivery
position for the German company’s coming four seater, the C4,
plus an additional discount.
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Fri, Feb 03, 2012
AD NUMBER: 71-13-01R1
PRODUCT: Lycoming Engines model TIO-540-A series reciprocating
engines.
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Thu, Feb 02, 2012
Sprint Nextel Has Given The Company Another Six Week
Extension
LightSquared has until mid-March to resolve its issues with the
FCC over its proposed 4G broadband network under an extension of
its deal with Sprint Nextel. The move comes after a 30 day
extension was granted to the company at the end of 2011. Approval
of the service from the FCC is a condition of a 15 year agreement
between the wireless provider and the start up broadband
company.
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Thu, Feb 02, 2012
Coyne Warns GA Threatened In California
At a time when deficit spending and a business exodus in
California threatens the state with a fiscal crisis next month,
aviation business advocates are warning a lawsuit against the
leaded avgas supply chain could devastate the aviation business in
the state.
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Thu, Feb 02, 2012
Agreement Is For As Many As 26 Of The Aircraft
Flight Training Adelaide (FTA) has contracted with Diamond
Aircraft, in conjunction with their Australian distributor Hawker
Pacific, for the purchase of up to 26 DA40 aircraft, to be based at
Parafield, Australia. The first four of eight 2012 deliveries will
be made midyear, with options for 18 additional aircraft scheduled
for 2013 and 2014 delivery.
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Thu, Feb 02, 2012
Letter Sent To EASA Board Of Management "Expressing Concern"
Over GA Fee Structure
The entire aviation world has mounted a concerted challenge to
EASA over its scale of fees and charges, which are characterised as
inexplicably high and are acting as a major drag on the aviation
industry in Europe. IAOPA has joined organizations representing
every facet of regulated aviation on the EASA Advisory Body in
writing to the Chairman of the EASA Board of Management expressing
concern at the damaging effect of EASA’s fees.
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