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Sounds Air Travel & Tourism Ltd. has purchased another Cessna C208 Caravan, ZK-TZR. The aircraft will operate between Wellington and Picton, Nelson, Blenheim and Kaikoura in conjunction with Sounds Air’s two existing Cessna Caravans. The latest Sounds Air Caravan was built in 2002 and imported into New Zealand by Izard Pacific Aviation, based at Springhill Airfield, Wellsford. It had only completed ...

America’s Transportation Security Administration is in the process of writing some rules that it says “will increase the security of general aviation”. General aviation covers everything that isn’t a military or scheduled commercial flight. If adopted, the new rules would apply to all general aviation aircraft over 12,500 pounds, a category that, by some estimates, includes more than 10,000 aircraft ...

NASA is working with Gulfstream to test a “fly-by-cam” system in which the pilot of a supersonic business jet would be able to land an aircraft using a video feed from a high definition camera. According to The Register, the system is aimed at solving one of the vexing issues facing development of supersonic bizjets in that their design almost ...

TracPlus USA Inc. and DAC International, Inc. have announced a worldwide distribution agreement that will see DAC International distribute TracPlus’s next generation tracking, messaging and data service. DAC International, which is an operating subsidiary of The Fairchild Corporation, has been operating since 1981. It is an avionics sales and distribution company that specialises in the sale and distribution of sophisticated avionics ...

The largest airship in the world, the Airship Ventures Zeppelin, recently completed a trans-oceanic crossing from Hamburg, Germany, to Beaumont, Texas, aboard a container ship. It has since completed a flight under its own power from Texas to its new home—the former naval air station at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, which is about 64 km south of San ...

The 25th of October marked the first year of airline service for the Airbus A380. The first production A380 was handed over to Singapore Airlines on 15th October 2007 and made its first operational flight for the airline 10 days later with a special charity flight between Singapore and Sydney. Since then, the A380 has also entered service with Emirates Airline ...

Palmerston North-based satellite tracking solutions company spidertracks announced at the end of September that it has reached an agreement with the Cessna Aircraft Company to have its new product distributed through Cessna’s global aircraft support network. Spidertracks uses GPS coordinates and the Iridium satellite network to track aircraft or other vehicles in real-time, enabling the whereabouts of an aircraft or vessel ...

Hawker Pacific has been appointed as the distributor for the all-composite range of Diamond Aircraft throughout Australia and New Zealand. The agreement covers the twin engine DA42, the single engine DA40 and DA20, and the soon to be released DA 50 Magnum. The DA42 is available with either TDI (diesel) or Avgas engines, and features the fully integrated Garmin G1000 glass flight ...

In the recent TUANZ (Telecommunication Users Association of New Zealand) Awards, TracPlus Global Ltd won the Telecommunication Innovation of the Year Award for the most innovative product, service or initiative overall developed in New Zealand and delivered electronically to New Zealanders. TracPlus was also awarded winner of the Initiative of the Year category for a product, service or application facilitated or ...

As Lynn Tilton, MD Helicopters’ CEO, has promised ever since she took over the company in 2005, MD Helicopters has consistently been improving its service and delivery performance to customers. Ms Tilton has always said that it would be the company’s priority to first focus on spares for the global MD fleet, and that airframe deliveries would increase once the ...