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An Ibis Aerospace pilot flew one of the company’s Pratt & Whitney PT-6-powered Ae270 single-engine turboprops, now named Spirit, to the NBAA Convention in Orlando, Florida, from the factory just outside Prague, Czech Republic. The company says it has around 75 orders for the big turboprop single. Ibis plans to build five airplanes in 2004 […]

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Adam Aircraft has announced that it’s taking deposits for a limited time at a preferential price of $1.995 million on its six-seat, twin-engine Williams FJ33-powered A700 AdamJet. An initial deposit of $100,000 will lock in the preferential price and a delivery position. By mid-September the AdamJet prototype, which made its first flight on July 27, […]

A survey that asked corporate pilots how their flight departments have altered security practices since the 9/11 terrorist attacks suggests that, in general, corporate flight department security practices have changed little. The survey, conducted by Aviation Marketing Consultants-a sister company, Aircraft Security and Alert Systems, sells aviation security devices-asked 55 corporate pilots based at 42 […]

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In the past 10 years, the National Transportation Safety Board has used the phrase “inadequate preflight inspection” in the probable causes of 15 fatal accidents. The most common direct cause is fuel contamination, usually with water, which typically leads to power loss after takeoff and a subsequent stall-spin. Other oversights include improperly latched baggage doors; […]

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