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December 27, 2022

ANN Wishes Our Readers, Listeners And Viewers A VERY Happy Christmas Holiday

Yes... We Will Be On A Holiday Schedule For The Rest Of Week

As the Aero-News staff observes the worldwide holiday of Christmas this weekend, we wanted to let our readers know that ANN will still be on the job, reporting breaking news in the aviation and aerospace fields as it happens -- in Real Time -- just like always. Aero-News will be publishing at a slightly reduced level on December 23rd, 24th, 25th and 26th, as our staffers spend some time with their families... some of whom may not recognize them away from their computers.

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Canadian Court Fines Drone Pilot $10,000

The Weight of the Maple Leaf

Rajwinder Singh has until 08 June 2023 to pay a ten-thousand-dollar fine levied against him for operating a drone during September 2022’s Chetamon wildfire—a blaze touched-off by lightning in the mountains of Alberta, Canada’s Jasper National Park. The fine is the largest ever issued for illegal drone operation on Canadian parkland.

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Avionics Services International Modernizes GA Cockpits

Of Debonair Beech 35-C33s and Piping-Hot Pipers

On 22 December 2022, San Antonio-based Avionics Services International (ASI) announced the completion of instrument panel upgrades on a Beech Debonair and a Piper Malibu Meridian. The updated panels are intended to better optimize subject aircrafts’ capabilities, reduce pilot workload, and minimize maintenance costs.

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A Huge Loss... Mourning N458BJ

In Memoriam …

Twenty-five-nautical-miles northwest of Tucson, in the arid desolation of the vast and vicious Sonoran Desert, a stately 747-8—gleaming white after the fashion of the world’s most improbable iceberg—waits with the eternal patience peculiar to abandoned machines for eternity to make its passage ...

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Leonardo to Upgrade Canadian CH-149 Helicopters

Preening the Cormorant

Leonardo, the once-American now Italian defense contractor, was awarded a $737-million ($1-billion CAN) contract to perform mid-life upgrades on 13 AgustaWestland CH-149 Cormorant Search And Rescue (SAR) helicopters in service with Canada’s Department of National Defense. The deal will also see three further aircraft added to the department’s fleet.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (12.27.22)

Aero Linx:  United Flying Octogenarians (UFO) Over 1,800 pilots now count themselves as members of one of the world's most distinguished pilot organizations, the United Flying Octogenarians (UFO). Each of its members has held an airman’s flight certificate in a fixed or rotary wing, sport, balloon, or glider aircraft and exercised the privilege of pilot in command after reaching the age of eighty (80).

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (12.27.22): Outer Fix

Outer Fix An adapted fix along the converted route of flight, prior to the meter fix, for which crossing times are calculated and displayed in the metering position list.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (12.27.22)

“Convention attendance was up more than 16% as compared to 2021. And they were an enthusiastic crowd, eager to do business and prepare for the 2023 air show season.” Source: ICAS President John Cudahy, discussing the recently concluded 2022 ICAS Convention in Las Vegas....

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