NOTAM Number: FDC 7/9522
Issue Date: April 27, 2007 at 2027 UTC
Location: Tampa, Florida
Beginning Date and Time: May 01, 2007 at 1545 UTC
Ending Date and Time: May 01, 2007 at 2140 UTC
Reason for NOTAM: Temporary flight restrictions for VIP (Very
Important Person) Movement
Type: VIP
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The General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) announced
Friday that shipments and billings of general aviation airplanes
achieved a solid first quarter for 2007 following last year's
strong numbers.
Expansion Proposal Dashed Over Concerns About Nearby
Development
Eight years of hopes and plans to expand the Myrtle Beach International
Airport's seven-gate terminal were dashed Thursday,
when a volunteer city review board rejected those plans by a
unanimous vote.
Modified 747SP Will Explore Universe... From FL400
NASA told ANN this week the space agency successfully completed
the first of several planned checkout test flights of the
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) aircraft,
a modified Boeing 747SP designed to study the universe in the
infrared spectrum.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has sent a
letter to the FAA urging a delay in the agency's plan to combine
the Palm Springs radar functions with the San Diego facility until
public hearings can be conducted.
Geneva Aviation, provider of electronic consoles and audio and
video systems and equipment for law enforcement and electronic news
gathering helicopters, tells ANN the company is nearing completion
of a new center for development, engineering and prototyping of
newer, more advanced systems for these markets.
Sim Will Sport Actual Entegra Panel, CAPS Simulation
Frasca International told ANN this week the Urbana, IL company
recently sold a Cirrus SR22 Flight Training Device (FTD) to
Independence Aviation in Englewood, CO. The FTD will feature actual
Avidyne Entegra avionics, CAPS (Cirrus Airframe Parachute System)
simulation, TruVision visual system and more.
All sorts of blogs, including 2FLYTV, producers of high-end
aviation videos and television programs distributed across the
video on demand services of Comcast and Cablevision, general
aviation blogs, aviation news, and a blog of a 1974 Cessna Cardinal
FG owner.
"The first quarter shows that we are sustaining the
delivery rates of last year and are maintaining announced
production schedules. Our industry is working hard to ensure that
this momentum is maintained and that general aviation continues to
shine as a bright spot of the manufacturing
community."
Source: Pete Bunce, President and CEO of the
General Aviation Manufacturers Association. GAMA reports shipments
of general aviation airplanes for the first three months of this
year totaled 842 units -- in line with last year's 847 airplanes --
while industry-wide billings were $4.5 billion, up an impressive
11.3 percent.