This year marks the 20th year of business for East Texas-based completion center Aerosmith Aviation. The repair station, owned by Wayne Smith and Scott Moore, services a wide variety of business jets and general aviation aircraft. “We’ve come a long way since 1989,” says Sales and Marketing Director Joy Haugh. “Aerosmith’s paint and interior completions […]
Hartzell Aerospace debuts
Tailwind Technologies Inc. of Piqua, Ohio, has formed Hartzell Aerospace, which will serve as the consolidating platform for the aerospace companies Tailwind owns along with its general aviation business, Hartzell Propeller Inc. Tailwind has acquired a variety of aerospace-related companies, including Industrial Tube Company, Electrofilm Manufacturing Company and AcousticFab. These companies make engineered products for […]
Master today’s sophisticated cockpits
The new FAA Advanced Avionics Handbook provides general aviation users with comprehensive information on the advanced avionics equipment available in technically advanced aircraft (TAA). VFR and IFR operations in aircraft with the latest integrated glass cockpit instrumentation are covered, helping pilots understand which advanced avionics systems to use and when. Readers will learn the “knob-ology” […]
Pearl Harbor vet, 99, honored by sailors, Marines
In one of those wonderfully honorable gestures we don’t hear about very much, these days, a group of Navy and Marine Corps aviation ordnancemen held a ceremony at the U. S. naval base in Bahrain, June 21, honoring a Pearl Harbor veteran who is the oldest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, the nation’s […]
Aviat awards dealership to Premier Aircraft Sales
Premier Aircraft Sales has become a dealer for Aviat Aircraft’s Husky A-1C. Premier Aircraft Sales will sell and service the Husky in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia. The company, founded in 2003, has offices in Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Atlanta and Auburn, Alabama. It also represents Diamond and Mooney aircraft […]
Becker Avionics establishes US production line
Germany-based Becker Avionics plans to establish manufacturing capabilities for its Digital Audio and Intercom System DVCS 6100 at its North American Subsidiary, Becker Avionics, Inc. in Miramar, Florida. The DVCS 6100 has been designed for both rotary and fixed-wing applications. More than 300 systems have been placed into service. For more information: BeckerUSA.com or Becker-Avionics.com.
New scheduling app debuts
CharterMatrix LLC has developed a new web app, called www.AirplaneManager.com, that provides charter companies and corporate flight departments with a new flight scheduling option. The new software provides aircraft tracking, pilot tracking, and invoicing. It provides printable pilot trip sheets and passenger itineraries. Trip information can be quickly e-mailed directly to a customer, passenger, or […]
Boeing 40-C’s homecoming
The only flying Boeing 40-C will participate in the annual Jim Wright Memorial Stearman Fly-in at the Cottage Grove, Ore., airport July 31-Aug. 2, hosted by the Oregon Aviation Historical Society (OAHS). Restored and flown by Addison Pemberton of Spokane, Washington, this is the only flying example of this historic line of aircraft that ushered […]
New TV series: The Aviators
A new television series targeting the aviation community will get nationwide US distribution to all 320 Public Broadcasting Stations when it premieres in 2010. “The Aviators is something that the aviation industry really needs right now,” said Executive Producer Anthony Nalli. The series, shot completely in high definition, will feature correspondents from within the aviation […]