Aviation Week Network announces new virtual event to take place October 27-29 — MRO TransAtlantic.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. announces promotions within its Sales organization. Wayne Oedewaldt has been promoted to regional senior vice president of international sales for Asia Pacific. Kirsten Krueger has been promoted to regional vice president of sales for California’s central coast, Oedewaldt’s former territory.

South Florida aircraft owners and operators welcome Atlantic Jet Refinishing to the Banyan complex at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. The recently built state-of-the-art, EPA-compliant downdraft paint facility utilizes the latest in equipment and technology as well as dual-bay features.

Aircraft Specialties, Inc. (ASI) of Omaha, NE, launches its new ecommerce website for aircraft parts and products. Clients can now order parts ranging from bearings and seals to featured product lines like HOT-STOP ‘L’ and Real Clean Aviation Products.

Pentastar Aviation announces the launch of its newly redesigned website that offers quick and easy access to information on the company’s aviation products and services. The website has comprehensive sections on its private jet charter, aircraft management, advisory services, aircraft maintenance, aircraft avionics, aircraft interiors, fixed base operations (including private jet catering), company news and private aircraft-safety protocols.

Without flinching, PWI’s Man Van Tran gingerly holds a fluorescent-light cylinder to a blue glowing flame. His fingers numb to the heat, he steadily blows air through a plastic tube on one end, guiding its shape. In his hand, the tube bends to his will as thousands of other fluorescent lights have done since he first started with PWI back in 1983.

Calling for the finest aircraft paint-schemes and exterior finishes in the sky, Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings announces it is accepting submissions for its annual calendar that showcases the best-finished aircraft of the year. Whether  a newly painted business jet, regional jet, commercial airliner or cargo aircraft — single- or twin-engine, kit plane, sport plane, helicopter — classic, custom or military, the company is looking to feature the finest-looking aircraft in its 2021 Aerospace Coatings Calendar.

ECT, the only U.S.-based manufacturer of jet-engine compressor wash, announces the release of its AirCare Hand Sanitizer. ECT’s new product is being released in order to help people affected by the global COVID-19 crisis obtain their much-needed supplies. 

Blackhawk Aerospace announces the FAA’s (Federal Aviation Administration’s) STC (supplemental type certificate) approval of its new XR Upgrade Kit for the King Air 350 Series. The XR Kit optimizes a stock King Air 350 series aircraft by increasing max gross takeoff weight to 16,500 pounds and maintaining a basic aircraft empty weight that is 220 pounds lighter than comparable extended-range aircraft for greater payloads and up to 25% more endurance.

Flying Colours Corp., a North America-headquartered refurbishment, completions and MRO specialist, delivers a reconfigured Falcon 2000LXS for a long-time customer. The aircraft, which is new to the owner, joins a private fleet and represents the twelfth aircraft project the Canadian owner has entrusted to Flying Colours in twenty years. A thirteenth project is already in the pipeline.