TIM ARCHER was appointed senior vice president of Superior Air Parts, Inc. Archer will be responsible for Superior's distribution network, the powerplant systems sales department, and the strategic programs and outsourcing functions. Archer was previously vice president, sales and marketing.
Model DHC-8-200 and -300 series airplanes (Docket No. 2001-NM-25-AD; Amendment 39-12307; AD 2001-13-25) - supersedes an existing AD that currently requires repetitive inspections to detect chafing or arcing damage to the cable/wire and fuel tube assemblies on the right-hand side of each engine, and replacement with new components, if necessary. That AD also provides for an optional terminating action for the repetitive inspections. This amendment requires accomplishment of the previously optional terminating action.
Capt. Rolim Adolfo Amaro, founder and owner of the TAM Brazil group of airlines and one of the great leaders of Latin American commercial aviation, was killed instantly July 8 after the personal helicopter he was piloting crashed near Brazil's border with Paraguay. He was 59. Also killed was the only passenger, Patricia Dos Santos Silva, 30, a TAM manager.
FAA approved the special use airspace data that is available on the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association website. Accessible to AOPA members, the online system is linked to FAA's Special Use Airspace Management System and provides near real-time information on military flight activity in Military Operations Areas, restricted areas, and other special use airspace every six minutes.
RUSSELL BUCKLEY was named manager quality assurance and engineering for Premier Turbines' Neosho, Mo. operation. Buckley will oversee quality and engineering services for the maintenance and repairs on small and midsize engines. Buckley has more than 24 years of engine and airframe experience. Buckley was most recently an engineering consultant with Auburn Aerospace.
Nevada's two U.S. senators joined forces to introduce the "Grand Canyon Quiet Technology Implementation Act," legislation that would credit air tour operators at the Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP) for noise abatement modifications and fleet changes previously adopted and grant those operators relief from new operating restrictions at GCNP.
HARRISON FORD, known for his swashbuckling roles in the movies, played the real life part of resourceful helicopter pilot last week when he flew his Bell 407 to find and rescue a lost Boy Scout in a forest south of Yellowstone National Park. The 13-year-old boy had wandered off a trail Monday evening and got lost. After hearing about the missing boy, Ford and another searcher began flying about 6:30 Tuesday morning. They found the missing Boy Scout - who was wet, cold and hungry but otherwise unharmed - about two hours later.
KEITH L. PARRISH was named customer service manager for corporate aviation at Piedmont Hawthorne. Parrish will be responsible for customer service for corporate aircraft maintenance at Piedmont Hawthorne's Winston-Salem, N.C. facility.
The Senate Appropriations Committee Thursday approved nearly a $13.33 billion budget for FAA in fiscal 2002, providing a significant boost in operations funding from the House passed level. The House approved $6.87 billion for operations, $16 million less than the Bush Administration request with substantial cuts in regulation and certification activity as well as the agency's new hiring requests. The Senate approved almost $6.92 billion.
NEW RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT Chairman and CEO James Schuster implemented a major shakeup of the Wichita manufacturer's executive ranks Thursday, and outlined some new objectives for the troubled operation. The moves come little more than a month after Schuster was installed to get the Wichita operation back in the black. See article below
Raytheon Aircraft Chairman James Schuster shook up the executive ranks of the troubled Wichita-based manufacturer last week, announcing a series of changes that involve the departures of a number of managers and the movement of more executives to new posts.
GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE named James McQueeney vice president and general manager of the company's manufacturing operations in Oklahoma City, Okla. and Mexicali, Mexico. He will be responsible for the operation of both sites, which provide fabrication and electrical sub-assembly and support for the manufacturing and outfitting of the Gulfstream IV-SP and G-V business jets. The two facilities employ more than 1,300 workers. A nine-year veteran of Gulfstream, McQueeney was most recently director of production at the company's aircraft manufacturing facility in Savannah, Ga.
The Federal Aviation Administration has appointed Charlie Keegan to implement, manage and execute the new Operational Evolution Plan (OEP). An experienced FAA manager and former air traffic controller, Keegan has been director of the Free Flight Office since its inception three years ago. Before that, he was acting director of the Air Traffic Systems Requirements Service. He will be replaced as director of the Free Flight Office by Robert Voss, currently deputy director. Keegan will be part of the Administrator's and Deputy Administrator's office.
The Federal Aviation Administration plans a 15-month implementation period for new regulations pertaining to fractional aircraft programs, and the agency indicated that nearly all the regulatory proposals developed by the 27-member industry panel Fractional Ownership Aviation Rulemaking Committee (FOARC) will be adopted with little change. The principal exception concerns flight and duty times for pilots, where FAA said it is considering several alternatives.
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, which accepted substantially all of the recommendations of the Fractional Ownership Aviation Rulemaking Committee (FOARC) in drafting its own fractional proposal, hopes to build on the success of the FOARC by creating similar committees for other rulemaking issues.The latest such committee is one chartered to study the need for expanded hypoxia awareness training, including the use of altitude chambers. This committee will consider whether such training should be mandatory, which pilots must undergo hypoxia training and at what frequency.
Docket No.: FAA-2201-9445 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Aurora Aviation to operate certain aircraft under Part 135 without a TSO-C112 (Mode S) transponder installed in the aircraft. Grant, 06/12/2001, Exemption No. 7544
ANGELA KIM, a recent graduate of the University of Maryland's Gemstone interdisciplinary program who also was a staffer on the school's award-winning Diamondback newspaper, has joined The Weekly of Business Aviation as assistant editor. In addition to reporting on industry, regulatory and legislative affairs for The Weekly, Ms. Kim also will work closely with BA Managing Editor Kerry Lynch on the Business Aviation channel of AviationNow.com.
PRATT&WHITNEY CANADA sold 20 PW207K engines to Kazan Helicopters for installation on the new Light-Twin engine ANSAT helicopters. The terms were not disclosed. The six-to-eight-passenger ANSAT is scheduled to receive certification from Russian regulatory authorities in the second half of 2002 and is designed to meet FAR-29 international standards.
Docket No.: FAA-2001-8745 Section 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit Caribou to operate certain aircraft under Part 135 without a TSO-C112 (Mode S) transponder installed in the aircraft. Grant, April 26, 2001, Exemption No. 7518
Docket No.: FAA-2001-9437 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit QAI to operate certain aircraft under Part 135 without a TSO-C112 (Mode S) transponder installed in the aircraft. Grant, May 24, 2001, Exemption No. 7531
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D) released a $6.3 billion plan to expand Chicago O'Hare Airport that includes one new runway and the relocation of three others, a move to improve airfield efficiency and cut delays. The plan is one runway short of the number American and United, O'Hare's dominant carriers, wanted. But the airlines said they welcomed the move, which would give the airport a total of eight runways, some of which will be extended.
Docket No.: FAA-2001-9463 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 135.143(c)(2) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit FSL to operate certain aircraft under Part 135 without a TSO-C112 (Mode S) transponder installed in the aircraft. Grant, 06/12/2001, Exemption No. 7542
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling that validates widely used standards for determining how companies can deduct the costs associated with personal use of a company owned aircraft.
Docket No.: 30169 Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 61.51(f)(2) Description of Relief Sought/Disposition: To permit CCAC pilots to log second-in-command flight time for cargo flights in certain multi-engine aircraft when more than one pilot is not required by either the aircraft type certificate or the regulations under which the flight is conducted. Denial, May 25, 2001, Exemption No. 7537
PAUL HAWTHORNE was appointed director of quality assurance at AirLiance Materials, a jointly owned company formed by United Airlines, Air Canada and Lufthansa Technik. Hawthorne will be responsible for the integrity of the inventory as well as ensuring proper documentation, traceability of the inventory, process improvement, and maintaining the company's ISO 9002 certification.
