Textron Aviation announced it has strengthened its 1Call support to further meet the unique needs of its European customers. Now with increased capabilities during peak hours in Europe, the 1Call team has enhanced its multi-lingual support for customers who speak English, German, French and Spanish. Beechcraft King Air, Hawker and Cessna Citation customers around the…
Epic Fuels and Signature Flight Support have launched the Signature Flight Support Multi Service Aviation co-branded aviation card. It will be accepted at 8,000 locations worldwide, including all Signature locations in the U.S. and Canada, as well as at all Epic and UVair FBO Network branded facilities. New cards will be sent to existing customers…
Issued: February 2017 ATA 00 – General Introduction Beechcraft and Hawker customers will notice a change in the formatting and document numbering of Model Communiqués. In an effort to streamline the brands, Textron Aviation is changing the airplane specific Model Communiqués to a broader grouping. For example, the previous King Air Model Communiqués are now…
Wichita businessmen, friends share ownership of King Air 200 A regular reader of King Air magazine, Tim Buchanan always enjoys the columns written by Edward H. Phillips. “I find them very interesting and full of great historical facts and people,” Buchanan said. “I appreciate having this globally distributed magazine tell the history of my hometown.”…
I have a customer that had a cabin door problem for two-and-a-half years. He kept receiving the cabin door warning light on the annunciator panel when he was in flight, but never on the ground. When the light came on, it was never at the same altitude and happened at various times throughout the flight…
Now that Old Man Winter is holding much of the country in his icy grasp, I thought it would be an appropriate time to review how to warm up the cabin most effectively after engine start. Operators of the King Air model 90, A90 and B90 have only two choices: Either select auto or manual…
After years of intense development, PWC’s small gas turbine faced an uphill battle for the financial and market resources required to achieve certification and acceptance by prospective customers Early in January 1959, Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) management recognized that with the PT6 program it had entered the highly competitive arena of engine manufacture, but…
The premier King Air Gathering (KAG) announced by Tom Clements in his “Ask the Expert” column in the January 2017 King Air magazine has been positively received by King Air owners and pilots. The KAG being held April 21-22 in Las Vegas, Nevada (KHND) will focus on saving time and money while managing your King…
Garmin International Inc. announced in early January its successor to the ever-popular G1000 integrated flight deck, the G1000 NXi. Boasting a modernized flight display design with significant performance enhancements, the G1000 NXi incorporates innovative capabilities into a state-of-the-art avionics platform. Features such as wireless cockpit connectivity, including wireless aviation database updates using Garmin Flight Stream,…
Astronics Max-Viz announced that its low cost Max-Viz 1200 Enhanced Vision System (EVS) for fixed and rotor wing aircraft has been certified to DO-160G standards by the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA). DO-160G is the industry standard for the environmental testing of avionics hardware and is recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)…