There have been many articles written on how to buy an aircraft but this not an article that you read that claims to give you enough knowledge to buy your own aircraft. Quite frankly you cannot acquire enough knowledge to buy an aircraft by reading a few of these articles. A Read more…
Eurocopter EC 145 is a twin-engine light utility helicopter manufactured by Eurocopter. Originally referred to as the BK 117 C2, the EC 145 is based upon the BK 117, which became a part of the Eurocopter line-up in 1992 when the company was formed through the merger of the Messerschmitt-Bölkow Read more…
Sorry for the poor Quality of the video it takes some time to get the DVD from the station. This is just one segment: there are others on YouTube
Integral Aviation Solutions is pleased to announce a marketing agreement with Airbatch Consulting. Due to a downturn in the airline industry there are many former airliners available for sale. Corporations and private individuals can now have an aircraft without waiting years for a new one. Boeing, Airbus and Bombardier CRJ Read more…
Greetings, Today I visited Bombardier’s Fort Lauderdale service center at FLL. I was very warmly welcomed by Murtaza “Murt” Hassan the Operation manager of the Challenger/Global program at FLL. The FLL facilities are much smaller than the Tucson AZ facility which we are much more familiar with. We were quite Read more…
Another wonderful design of Bill Lear the Challengers original name was the Learstar. Bomdardier renamed it the Challenger prior to the first delivery of the 600 series aircraft. The 604 started deliveries in 1996 when it replaced the Challenger 601 in the lineup. The Challenger 604 is a Super Mid Sized Read more…
Well now that the media blitz has calmed I’ll have a few moments to comment about US Airways flight 1549. My first thoughts as I expressed on ABS news were that the odds are against two engines being taken out by a bird strike. Living in south Florida we see Read more…
The development of the LJ45 was announced by Bombardier in September, 1992, and first flight of the prototype aircraft took place in 1995, with the first customer aircraft subsequently delivered in January, 1998. The cockpit is equipped with a four-screen Honeywell Primus 1000 EFIS avionics system. The aircraft is powered Read more…
Aerospatiale Super Puma first flown in1978 has proved immensely successful, chosen by 37 military forces around the world, 1,000 civil operators and many “Heads of State”. The Super Puma has proved especially well-suited to the oil industry, where it is used to ferry personnel and equipment to and from oil platforms. In Read more…
Designed in the early 1990’s and first flown in 1998 Sikorsky finally put enough horsepower into a civil aircraft for my liking. The S-92A is the civilian variant and is available in a number of versions. The civil transport version has an airliner-type interior which comfortably seats 19 passengers in Read more…