NOTAM: 5/8948
Issued: 09/30/2005 08:00
Effective: Immediately - Until Further Notice
State: CA
Facility: ZLA - LOS ANGELES (ARTCC)PALMDALE, CA.
Type: HAZARDS
Description: CHATSWORTH CA.
NOTAM: 5/8950
Issued: 09/30/2005 08:00
Effective: Immediately - Until Further Notice
State: CA
Facility: ZLA - LOS ANGELES (ARTCC)PALMDALE, CA.
Type: HAZARDS
Description: YUCIAPA CA.
The U.S. Army and Boeing signed a $192.5 million contract for 13
new AH-64D Apache Longbow multi-role combat helicopters for the U.
S. Army on Friday, September 23.
City of Chicago Can Begin Work to Improve Airport Safety and
Capacity
The FAA has issued its Record of Decision (ROD) that determines
the City of Chicago’s O’Hare Modernization Program and
Airport Layout Plan is the best alternative to improve safety,
increase capacity and reduce delays with the least environmental
impact.
Senate Continues To Move Ahead With Reform Legislation
As the US Senate moves forward with comprehensive pension
reform, the three unions at American Airlines urged Congress to
ensure companies that continue to fulfill their pension funding
obligations are not disadvantaged by the final legislation.
Congress has been considering a special airline-specific provision
that would permit carriers that have frozen their defined-benefit
plans to extend the amortization period for full funding to 14
years, and it also includes the ability to use a "reasonable
interest rate" while doing so.
Will File for Protection Under Section 7 of the US Bankruptcy
Code
TransMeridian Airlines has announced the shut down of all flight
operations effective immediately. The Atlanta based supplemental
carrier was unsuccessful in negotiations to restructure its
debt.
An ebullient George Bye has confirmed to ANN that Aviation
Technology Group's Javelin prototype has successfully
completed its maiden flight at the Centennial Airport in Englewood,
Colorado just a few hours ago.
AD NUMBER: 2005-19-06
MANUFACTURER: Boeing (CORRECTION)
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-19-06
SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness
directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 747-100, 747-100B, 747-100B
SUD, 747-200B, 747-200C, 747-200F, 747-300, 747SR, and 747SP series
airplanes.
AD NUMBER: 2005-19-05
MANUFACTURER: Aerospatiale (CORRECTION)
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-19-05
SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness
directive (AD) for certain Aerospatiale Model ATR42-500
airplanes.
AD NUMBER: 2005-19-03
MANUFACTURER: BAE Systems (CORRECTION)
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-19-03
SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing
airworthiness directive (AD), which applies to all BAe Systems
(Operations) Limited Model ATP airplanes.
AD NUMBER: 2005-19-04
MANUFACTURER: Airbus (CORRECTION)
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-19-04
SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness
directive (AD) for certain Airbus Model A340-200 and -300 series
airplanes. This AD requires revising the airplane flight manual to
incorporate new procedures for the flightcrew to follow to correct
miscalculation of the takeoff and accelerating or stopping distance
of the airplane during a ferry flight under certain conditions.
What do you do when your best sensor is on a UAV, but the area
you need to cover isn't really all that great, and any threat is
neutralized? Why, you mount the UAV on a post on top of a tall
building.
Mechanics Find Ungreased Jackscrew On Alaska Airlines
MD-83
It was an eerily familiar discovery. Six years after Alaska
Airlines Flight 261 crashed into the Pacific -- a crash blamed on
the failure to properly lubricate the MD-83's horizontal stabilizer
jackscrew, maintenance crews in Seattle found another unlubricated
jackscrew on another Alaska Air MD-83.
The FAA has awarded a $13.1 million contract to the Carmon
Construction Co. of Albertville, AL to construct a new 246-foot
tall air traffic control tower at Huntsville International Airport
in Alabama.
Airports in Texas and Louisiana damaged by Hurricane Rita will
receive federal help to make repairs so flights that are crucial to
the local economy can begin soon...
An Indian cabinet committee Thursday approved Indian Airlines'
purchase of 43 Airbus aircraft -- a mix of A319s, A320s and A321s.
The first of the deliveries will come in the second half of next
year, according to news reports from New Delhi.
A memorial service was held aboard Naval Air Station (NAS)
Jacksonville Sept. 27 in memory of two naval officers from Sea
Control Squadron (VS) 32 who died Sept. 21 in an S-3B Viking jet
crash.
The Philippines is about to decommission the last of its US-made
F-5 fighters on Saturday, a move that will leave the Pacific nation
without any credible air defense.
"This report should be a wake-up call for the quality-assurance
department of Alaska Airlines that they need to step up the
surveillance of their outsourced maintenance."
Source: Former NTSB member John Goglia, in an
interview with the Seattle Times after mechanics at Alaska Airlines
found two instances of unlubricated horizontal stabilizer
jackscrews on board separate MD-83s. The discovery is
bone-chilling, considering the NTSB's finding that an unlubricated
jackscrew caused the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 off the
coast of California almost six years ago. The FAA is investigating
these latest discoveries.