Stakeholders including airports, chambers of commerce, businesses, and community organizations throughout the United States have united for purpose of giving rise to the Coalition to Protect America’s Regional Airports (CPARA)—a nationwide coalition dedicated to the protection and preservation of America’s regional airports and the critical role played by such in connecting U.S. communities, creating American jobs, and supporting U.S. regional economies. CPARA, by charter, strongly opposes changes to Reagan National Airport’s (DCA) High Density (slot) and perimeter rules.
Mermoz Academy Opts for Domestic Trainer Plane for Future Euro Pilots
Elixir Aircraft has completed another sale to a local European flight school, issuing half a dozen new aircraft to Mermoz Academy. The school, established in 1997, The new aircraft are intended to provide Mermoz with an attractive, modern aircraft suited to flight training in today’s market. While Elixir is always happy to point to “reduced carbon emissions and operating costs” for its new light aircraft, many French flight schools in the region probably make their way into the company’s base of clientele for a much simpler reason: They want to support a wholly domestic manufacturer.
Approval Granted for the Airbus H145 D-2 and D-3 Models
With an impressive line-up of over 1,500 STC's and five-thousand products, Montreal-based DART Aerospace offers a comprehensive portfolio of aftermarket products, aeronautical accessories, spare parts, and services for civil and military operators, all major rotorcraft OEMs, completion centers, and MRO facilities. On 30 May 2023, Dart announced its FAA STC for the Model 311 GII Fire Attack System (FAS) has been amended to include installation on Airbus’s H145 (MBB BK-117) D-2 and D-3 helicopter models as well as the previously approved C-2 model.
Speaking to the subject of a Sunday, 28 May 2023 call received by Washington County, Utah’s Enterprise Fire and EMS, Deputy Chief Jeff Germain stated: “They [onlookers] witnessed the aircraft come over them and lose altitude, and then crash over the side of the mountain.”
Airplane Impacted Cedar Trees And Terrain About 1,300 Feet Southwest Of The Center Of The Runway
On May 6, 2023, at 1522 central daylight time, a Cessna 310D, N6798T, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident in Ennis, Texas. The pilot and front seat passenger were seriously injured, and the backseat passenger was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight.Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) data revealed that the airplane departed David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH), Houston, Texas, at 1424 and proceeded to Ennis Municipal Airport (F41) and arrived at 1522.
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