The Board of Directors of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) elected Steve Taylor, President of Boeing Business Jets, as GAMA’s Chairman for 2014.
Jacksonville (IL) Airport Authority Named For Negligence
The Jacksonville, IL Airport Authority has been named in a lawsuit filed in Circuit Court in Morgan, IL stemming from a December, 2010 accident that resulted in the fatal injury of a passenger aboard a Beech Sierra airplane of a ferry flight.
Both Airplanes Had Just Landed At Livermore Municipal Airport In California
The NTSB has released a preliminary report from an accident which occurred on October 20 in Livermore, CA about 1400 PDT in which a Pitts/Aviat S2C, N15TA, substantially damaged a Cessna 172S, N698SP, when it taxied into the Cessna at Livermore Municipal airport (KLVK) after receiving taxi clearance from the air traffic control tower.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Small Airplane Revitalization Act, H.R. 1848, designed to bolster the general aviation manufacturing industry.
Hersman: Proposed Rule Goes Beyond The Board's Recommendations Following Investigations
NTSB Chair Deborah A.P. Hersman has written a letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation saying its NPRM for an AD covering thousands of ECi cylinder assemblies goes well beyond the Board's recommendations for inspecting and replacing the cylinders.
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