Blue Sky Network, a global provider of satellite tracking and communication solutions for aviation, land, and marine, announces its partnership with S4A (Solutions For Aviation), a supplier of aviation equipment and services located in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), Spain.

Members of the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) recently elected representatives to its board of directors during a membership-wide vote.

On April 25, Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) senior vice president Gary Fortner, vice president of Quality Control at Fortner Engineering in Glendale, CA, testified at a House Aviation Subcommittee hearing about the excellent work repair stations across the country and around the w

All Metal MS announces that American Eurocopter has asked it to design custom maintenance stands for its manufacturing facility in Texas.

In aviation, project management skills and techniques are often not formally used in daily aircraft operations. However, large MROs, manufacturers and repair stations often have formal project managers.

As we all know, FAA personnel do not always interpret the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) consistently, or for that matter, correctly. Interpretations may vary between individual inspectors or between Flight Standards District Offices (FSDOs).

This was iterated by Walter Brennan in the Humphrey Bogart movie “To Have or Have Not.” I don’t remember what he was getting at in the movie, but I mention it here because it appears that the things that we regard as inconsequential and won’t harm us wind up biting us in the rear.

In a position of leadership in any FAA 145 repair station and as an independent A&P mechanic, you should include instructions for continued airworthiness (ICA) as part of your training and assure that you and your technicians have complete knowledge in this area.

The U.S.-based global positioning system (GPS) is used internationally, but is facing a slew of competitors which are looking to take away some of its market share.

Let’s face it — the whims of the aircraft owner are rather interesting, if not comical. On one hand, aircraft owners think nothing on spending untold sums of money for new avionics.