Hawker Beechcraft Global Customer Support (GCS) has chosen the base locations for its Mobile Technical Support team’s fleet of ground support vehicles. These vehicles, in addition to a support aircraft, are equipped to provide quick response to unexpected customer aircraft service issues, according to company officials. A ground support unit is positioned on the West […]
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eBooks now available in SAE library
SAE International’s Digital Library now includes eBooks to bolster its already collection of more than 175,000 technical papers, standards, and related publications from SAE International and other organizations. SAE International’s portfolio of eBooks in the SAE Digital Library includes 117 titles. In addition, SAE International offers bundled sets of eBooks on the following topics: Engine […]
New Gleim Inspection Authorization Training Course debuts
Gleim has expanded its training curriculum for aviation maintenance with the addition of a new Inspection Authorization Training Course (IATC). The course is designed to provide Aviation Maintenance Technicians a concise guide to one of the most difficult tests in aviation: the Inspection Authorization Knowledge Test, according to company officials. The course guides AMTs through the […]
Aircraft Spruce stocks PropPastie
Now at Aircraft Spruce is the PropPastie, a new style spinner cover, designed to minimize snow, ice, and water from lying on your propeller hub and bearings and freezing inside your spinner. PropPastie fits all light aircraft. The proper way to position a propeller in the winter is to have a blade vertical on the bottom to […]
Hawker 800XPR certified
Hawker Beechcraft Global Customer Support (GCS) has received FAA approval and supplemental type certification of the Hawker 800XPR powered by the Honeywell TFE731-50R engines. The upgrade package, available exclusively through factory-owned Hawker Beechcraft Services (HBS) facilities, offers performance and capability improvements by replacing the aircraft’s original engines with new technology TFE731-50R powerplants and improved aerodynamics […]
Vaughn College taps Kaplan for new initiative
Vaughn College in Flushing, N.Y., has appointed Ken Kaplan to head its newly created Aviation Outreach Initiative. A pilot since age 16, Kaplan has been a publisher and trade show producer, chief executive of three businesses and most recently an executive with King Schools, a leader in aviation distance learning. In his new position, he […]
Camp returns to Elliott Aviation
Andrew Camp has re-joined Elliott Aviation as regional sales manager, based in Grand Rapids, Mich. Camp, who served as regional sales manager for Elliott Aviation from the company’s Omaha, Neb., facility from 2009 to 2010, has more than 21 years’ experience in the aviation industry. He most recently worked as a regional sales manager for […]
Mountain High supports civilian, military pilots
Mountain High Oxygen and Supply has built its 3,000th two-person O2D2 Pulse-Demand Oxygen Unit. I spoke with Mountain High’s Robert Jamieson who confirmed the first unit was shipped in 2008, and they’ve delivered about 1,000 units per year since. In fact, about the time the O2D2 came out, Jamieson mentioned that the Department of Defense […]
LoPresti ‘NeverFlat’ tire debuts
During the annual Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) convention, representatives of LoPresti Aviation Engineering unveiled the “NeverFlat Lifesaver” aircraft tire. “We named it the NeverFlat because that’s what it does — it never goes flat,” Rj Siegel, LoPresti’s CEO said. “It’s the first aviation tire with a wound carbon fiber band embedded in the […]