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Pia Bergqvist

Cuba Handling Helps Pilots Stay Legal

Now that the restrictions on visits to Cuba have eased, you may want to take your airplane to experience this beautiful Caribbean country. A new company called Cuba Handling can help make sure you stay on the legal side of this new adventure. Cuba Handling is an offshoot of a company called Cultural Contrast, which […]

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Santa Monica FBOs Remain Open … For Now

Santa Monica city officials will allow local FBOs Atlantic Aviation and American Flyers to continue their operations. At least for now. The interim agreement stretches to November 4, a week and a half after an October 25 city council meeting in which the city will discuss a pending agreement with the FAA, the Los Angeles […]

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Germans Dominate Red Bull Air Race Season

The final races of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship’s 2016 season took place over the weekend in Las Vegas. With strong winds preventing the inflatable pylons from remaining erect, there was no change in the scores accumulated in Indianapolis earlier this month. For first-place finisher Matthias Dolderer of Germany it wouldn’t have made […]

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Dassault’s FalconEye Combined Vision System Achieves Certification

Coming on the heels of the certification of the Falcon 8X, Dassault Aviation has achieved both EASA and FAA certification for its FalconEye Combined Vision System. The FalconEye certification currently includes installation in the Falcon 2000S and LHX bizjets and is expected to be approved for a dual HUD installation in the 8X in 2018. […]

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Dassault Delivers First Falcon 8X

(function(d, s, id) { if (d.getElementById(id)) return; var js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = ‘//cdn4.wibbitz.com/static.js’; d.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].appendChild(js); }(document, ‘script’, ‘wibbitz-static-embed’)); French business jet maker Dassault has delivered the first Falcon 8X, the company’s latest ultra-long-range flagship. The trijet was delivered to Amjet Executive, an operator based in Athens, Greece, which offers fleet management, charter, […]

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AOPA Smashes Record at Prescott Fly-In

Good weather and a beautiful setting in Arizona at the Ernest A. Love Field in Prescott, where the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has one of two main campuses, became the perfect recipe for a record-breaking AOPA Fly-In this weekend. This was the final fly-in for the year, the third year AOPA has done its regional shows. […]

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FAA Moves Swiftly to Halt Santa Monica Airport Evictions

After months of relentless mistreatment toward airport tenants, including evictions of aviation-related businesses, the city of Santa Monica is under investigation by the FAA, which is seeking to ensure the city is complying with its obligations with regard to the operation of the Santa Monica Airport. An FAA notice was issued only days after the […]

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Boeing to Give $6 Million for Education

Boeing announced that it is issuing a series of grants totaling $6 million to educational institutions in Washington state. While the donation is generous, there is a strategy behind the company’s benevolence. Boeing is preparing for a major retirement wave in its Washington-based facilities and is therefore getting involved to ensure that there will be […]

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The New Face of the National Championship Air Races

In the past few years there has been much speculation about the future of the National Championship Air Races, held this year for the 53rd year in the desert outside Reno, Nevada, at the Reno-Stead Airport. There has been a significant drop in the number of Unlimited-Class air race airplanes that enter each year. These […]

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Manny the Mooney Gets a Panel Upgrade

A few years back, my parents bought a beautiful tiled wood stove for their home. The first year, they bought a light truckload of wood. But Dad found buying wood to be a pricey way to feed the stove. Being retired with spare time on his hands and the desire for physical work, he decided […]

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