NOTAM: 5/3136
Issued: 04/21/2005 23:40
Effective: Immediately - Until Further Notice
State: AZ
Facility: ZAB - ALBUQUERQUE (ARTCC),NM.
Type: HAZARDS
Description: RED ROCK AZ.
Throught thick and thin, good times and bad, New Piper Aircraft
and its workers have muddled through. There was the economic slump.
Then there were the hurricanes (yup, plural). But now, that
solidarity is being put to the test.
Why A Simmering Battle Between GA And The Airlines Could Mean
User Fees
By ANN Senior Editor Pete Combs
Read Part One
If you sense a battle looming between the airlines and
proponents of general aviation, AOPA President Phil Boyer says
you're not wrong.
Zayead Christopher Hajaig Now Considered A Fugitive
A 35-year old flight school student who sparked an international
terror alert while attending a Georgia flight school was indicted
by an Atlanta federal grand jury Wednesday. Zayead Christopher
Hajaig, also known as Barry John Felton, is charged with being an
illegal alien in possession of a firearm.
The engineered-material arresting system has so far been a
success, saving five aircraft from expensive and perhaps even
deadly mishaps. The crushed material at the end of runways is
designed to slow a speeding aircraft to a stop without causing
severe damage, when they might otherwise run off the end of a
runway and into whatever lies beyond.
Company Will Build 25 More Systems For Civilian And Military
Use
The FAA has awarded Raytheon Company a $57 million contract
option for continued deployment of the Standard Terminal Automation
Replacement System (STARS), which is now in service with the FAA
and the Department of Defense (DoD). Contract options include
production and deployment of 14 systems for the FAA and nine for
the DoD, as well as logistics and support activities. This option
completes Phase 1A of the STARS deployment plan.