Cirrus Aircraft has received FAA approval and has begun delivery of new aircraft equipped with its latest safety and pilot assistance features: Perspective Electronic Stability and Protection (Perspective ESP) and Hypoxia Recognition and Automatic Descent Mode. “Just as the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System brought the equivalent benefit of automotive airbags to general aviation, Perspective ESP […]
Products
FlightBOX app launches
iApps has released FlightBOX, a free all-in-one flight bag app created for iPhone and iPad that features a customizable logbook for flight data entry. “We found a gap in this niche market; there was a need for an mobile application for pilots that would be useful from training and continue with them through their career,” […]
Soloy expands filter distribution
Soloy Aviation Solutions and Aerospace Filtration Systems, Inc. (now branded as Donaldson), recently agreed to expand Soloy’s distributor agreement to include Donaldson Inlet Barrier Filter (IBF) products. This product line distributor expansion allows Soloy to offer inlet barrier filters to operators of aircraft currently approved with Donaldson IBF products. “Now Soloy can offer its support […]
Lear’s last airplane focus of test pilot’s lecture
On Jan. 1 at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, test pilot Dennis Newton will lecture about the development of entrepreneur Bill Lear’s last project — the radical, Lear Fan 2100 Futura. Newton is the former Chief Test Pilot of Lear Fan Corp., and was at the controls of the Lear Fan prototype during its […]
Wilson to build new FBO at CHA
Wilson Air Centers will partner with the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Authority to manage a new FBO in Chattanooga. The facilities will include a fueling center; a 9,000-square-foot general aviation terminal, including an office complex for pilot accommodations and business resources; and a 12,000-square-foot state-of-the-art hangar facility, with room for expansion as needed, company officials said. […]
Greenwich AeroGroup forms MRO Product Management team
Greenwich AeroGroup has formed a Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) Product Management team. The new team is made up of prominent aviation specialists with diverse backgrounds, whose cumulative aviation experience is more than 70 years. Team members include: Mark Fischer, Director MRO Avionics Products, who has more than 25 years of avionics experience, with companies […]
1,000 RV-7s
Terry Small, of Prescott, Ariz., has become the 1,000th customer to complete and fly an RV-7. His first flight brought the total number of RVs complete and flown to 7,088. About 10 years of off/on construction were interrupted by a year in Afghanistan and five moves. But Small stuck with it and on Dec. 5 […]
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquires Aviation Insurance Holdings
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Aviation Insurance Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Established in 1977, Aviation Insurance Holdings, trading as Aviation Insurance Services (AIS), is a retail insurance broker offering aviation and aerospace insurance and related risk management services for their clients around the […]
FlightSafety’s Falcon 7x sim qualified by FAA
FlightSafety International’s new Dassault Falcon 7X full flight simulator has been qualified to Level D by the FAA, the General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia, and the European Aviation Safety Agency. Training will begin in January 2011 at FlightSafety’s Dallas/Fort Worth Learning Center. The simulator features the advanced systems of the Falcon 7X […]