Dan Burkhart, Founder of NBAA's Regional Program, Retires

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Business aviation veteran Dan Burkhart, who joined the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) in 1998 to create NBAA’s Regional Program, retird from his post as the director of regional representatives for the organization, effective July 6.

“Dan Burkhart has been a dedicated leader in developing and growing NBAA’s Regional Programs to create a recognized national network that works with NBAA to serve the interests of business aviation across the country,” said NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen.
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Garmin® Brings Affordable Doppler-Capable Weather Radar to General Aviation with GWX(TM) 70

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Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN), the global leader in satellite navigation, today announced the GWX 70, a new solid-state weather radar that affordably brings advanced Doppler-enabled features to general aviation aircraft. The GWX 70 combines exceptional range and adjustable scanning profiles with precision target definition for accurate, real-time weather analysis in the cockpit.
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Valair Aviation Joins Phillips 66® Aviation Network

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Valair Aviation at Wiley Post Airport (KPWA) in Oklahoma City has joined the Phillips 66 Aviation network, featuring a full-service maintenance facility ready for modifications, inspections, avionics overhauls and custom makeovers – all backed by a parts inventory worth nearly $1 million.
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Royal Jet Announces New FBO Pricing Packages

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Royal Jet, the Abu Dhabi-based international luxury executive flight services company chaired by His Excellency Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, has announced new pricing packages for its Fixed-Base Operation (FBO) facility in Abu Dhabi that make it one of the most competitive in the region.

The new pricing structure includes an additional two aircraft classes and a reduction of up to 75 per cent on the technical stop rates.

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Atlantic Aviation Upgrades to Higher Performance Wi-Fi at General Aviation Airports Across the United States

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Ruckus Wireless™ today announced that Atlantic Aviation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Company, has selected and deployed its Smart Wi-Fi products and technology at the company's 65 fixed base operations (FBOs) at general aviation airports across the United States. Based in Plano, Texas, Atlantic Aviation operates the largest network of FBOs in the country.

The new Wi-Fi infrastructure was built to provide high-capacity, high-performance Wi-Fi to users of its FBOs, including pilots, private aircraft users and visitors.
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Jetex Announces VAT Exemption Program

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Jetex Flight Support announced their new VAT program – a program established solely for the purpose of providing their clients with VAT exempted fuel.

Starting from July 10th, 2012, operators receiving fuel uplifts from Jetex Fueling Services Limited in the following eight countries will be eligible for participation in Jetex Fueling Services Limited VAT exemption program – Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, and Switzerland. More countries will be added in due course.
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Mid-Point 2012 FBO Gut Check … It’s Wheels-Up for Remainder of Year

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By John L. Enticknap

“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” - Calvin Coolidge

We’re halfway through 2012, so let’s do a gut check to see how the FBO industry faired for the first six months of the year. Then, let’s take a look at what we can do to help our bottom line for the remainder of the year.



At the beginning of 2012, we wrote three blog posts that I encourage you to review.

Part 1: 2012 Business Outlook for FBOs

Part 2: Decreasing FBO Costs in 2012

Part 3: Improving FBO Productivity in 2012

To summarize our 2012 FBO economic forecast, in January we said if your FBO has a five percent growth for 2012, your firm will be a star! That is still very true. We thought for a while that the growth rate may be greater in the first quarter of the year, but growth was a meager 1.9 percent. There was a slight up-tick for the second quarter that may push us past 2 percent. However, our overall prediction for the year of a 2.2 percent growth rate will most likely be the norm.

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Pentastar Develops iPad EFB Yoke-Mount Bracket for Business Jet Cockpits, Other GA Aircraft

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Pentastar Aviation, a fixed-base operator (FBO) and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO)specialist in Waterford, Mich., has developed an articulating yoke mount for business jets and othergeneral aviation cockpits that accommodates the Apple iPadelectronic flight bag (EFB).
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NBAA: Pilots Need to Prepare for Procedural Changes on Standard Instrument Departures

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Significant changes are on the horizon that will affect pilots flying instrument departures and arrivals, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) reported. Pilots unfamiliar with the changes could be faced with separation losses, pilot deviations and potentially tense moments in the cockpit.
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