Acumen Aviation and Blueberry Aviation, both leading Aircraft Asset Managers, have announced a co-operation agreement. This agreement draws from the strength of each party and provides both with a greater combined opportunity to support their growing client base. Services provided will offer cradle to grave asset management from evaluation and sourcing aircraft to managing day
Jet Aviation has received International Standard for Business Aircraft Handling (IS-BAH) Stage 1 Registration from the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) for its Amsterdam and Rotterdam FBOs in The Netherlands. Jet Aviation intends to achieve IS-BAH Stage 2 Registration for both FBOs by December 2021. As a safety management system, IS-BAH establishes criteria to ensure
In a massive and rapid U-turn, the Iranian authorities have now confirmed that its country’s forces mistakenly shot down a Ukraine International Airlines’ Boeing 737-800, flight 752, last Wednesday. The incident occurred shortly after take-off from Imam Khomeini International Airport, Tehran, when the plane was en route to Kyiv, Ukraine. All 176 passengers and crew
NovAtel announced that shipments of next-generation Ground Uplink Station (GUS) Signal Generators have commenced in fulfillment of the contract with the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to support the FAA’s safety of life Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) navigation service. Developed by the FAA for civil aviation, WAAS is a safety-critical navigation aid that provides
11 members of a skeleton crew at the Textron Aviation plant near Wichita, Kansas were injured on Friday, December 27, when a three-inch line carrying liquid nitrogen ruptured, also damaging a storage tank, resulting in nitrogen venting out of the building. County and company officials have advised that the incident may have set back the
It was reported on Friday, December 27, that a Bek Air aircraft – identified as a Fokker-100, a medium-sized, twin-turbofan jet airliner – crashed when it lost altitude just after it had taken off at 7:22 a.m. from Almaty International Airport, in Kazakhstan. Of the 93 passengers and five crew on board, 12 were killed,
BAA Training Vietnam, a brand-new aviation training center in Vietnam, ends the year with the outstanding results of the first quarter of operations as it is about to enter 2020 with 90% utilization of the first Airbus A320 full flight simulator. The branch of BAA Training – a globally recognized aviation training provider and one
ATP Flight School’s newest training center is now open at the Tucson International Airport. Part of a nationwide network of 38 locations, the Tucson facility marks ATP’s third location in Arizona, complementing operations in Mesa and Scottsdale. The strategic location of the new Arizona location makes airline-oriented flight training more accessible in the southwest, addressing
The Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (ver.di) has consolidated its work for the approximately 45,000 flying employees in civil aviation into a new, independent, professional group-specific, international alliance. The Aircrew Alliance organizational unit will, in future, include all flight attendants and pilots of airlines operating in Germany. “Competitive pressure is constantly on the rise. The aviation industry is
With a 17 percent year-on-year growth in demand for lithium batteries, the number of mis-declared or undeclared shipments is also on the increase. As a consequence, the International Air Transportation, in conjunction with the Global Shippers Forum (GSF), the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) and the International Air Cargo Association (TIACA), is stepping
