The Florida-based Valiant Air Command has received an F-86 Sabre on a long-term loan from its owner. The famous fighter now is based at the organization’s Titusville warbird museum. This particular F-86 was built in 1953 and served in the United States Air Force before being transferred to Argentina, where it served from 1960 until […]
NBAA challenges AP’s image of business aviation
NBAA has “forcefully challenged” the mischaracterizations in a December 21 Associated Press article about companies that rely on business aviation. In a letter to the story’s writer, NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen said that the article “completely misses the reality that tens of thousands of well-managed and cost-conscious U.S. companies” use business aviation to […]
Careers in Aviation scholarship awarded
Careers in Aviation has announced that the recipient of the 2008 Flightline Group Scholarship is Saul Meza from Chicago, IL. The $2,500 scholarship was open to students expressing a financial need and with an aspiration toward undertaking flight training or education in the pursuit of a career in aviation. Meza is an Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University […]
Wig-wag lights standard on Sting S3
Wig-wag recognition lights are now standard equipment on the Sting S3 Light Sport Aircraft. The wig-wag system, controlled by a switch on the instrument panel, alternately flashes the landing and taxi lights in the airplane’s wingtips, according to officials at SportairUSA, the North Little Rock-based company that distributes the LSA in the U.S. “Increasing the […]
NavMonster expands to celebrates first anniversary
Celebrating its one-year anniversary since going live last November, NavMonster.com recently unveiled a new look and added some customer requested features to its flight planning web site. Additional features include: FDC and local/distant route NOTAMS, ETE at various altitudes to account for winds aloft, Support for the new 24-hour TAF format, and 6, 12, and […]
Global Jet’s e-learning takes off
Global Jet Services, a maintenance training provider, has launched its first online training course for maintenance technicians. The course teaches technicians the fundamentals of pitot-static systems and how to use Barfield’s 450 pitot-static test equipment to conduct static/altimeter system tests, according to company officials. It also demonstrates how to set up test equipment based on […]
URS designs Bell 407 panel
United Rotorcraft Solutions (URS) has designed and fabricated an extended instrument panel for the Bell 407. The panel can be built to any customer’s specifications, according to company officials. URS will cut, paint and silk screen the panel so it goes out as a finished product. The only thing left to the customer is installation […]
Flight School Cooperation Program launched
Training Crue Graphics Inc., a global provider of aviation training products, has launched a cooperation program with various flight schools to produce customized cockpit training posters for pilots-in-training, in addition to large format versions for reference purposes to be used by the training facilities. Customer-specific Computer-Based Training (CBT) applications also will become available once the […]
Pro-Star named Pilatus PC-12 service center
Pilatus Aircraft has appointed Pro-Star Aviation of Londonderry, N.H., a sales representative and service center for its PC-12NG. The company will be responsible for New Hampshire, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts and Michigan. For more information: ProStarAviation.com or Pilatus-Aircraft.com.