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(SMART SUMMARY) Bombardier formally announced expansion plans for its Wichita facilities Tuesday, saying it will add about 450 jobs as it ramps up for production of the Learjet 85.

(SMART SUMMARY) Hawker Beechcraft CEO Bill Boisture vowed the company will fight vigorously to overturn an Air Force decision to exclude its AT-6B from the bidding for a light air support platform.

(SMART SUMMARY) Bill McleodBill Mcleod is Gulfstream's new vice president for the central division of North American sales at Gulfstream.

(SMART SUMMARY) Boeing has confirmed it has called a mandatory meeting for employees of its Wichita operations for Wednesday amid concerns the company will close its plants there.

(SMART SUMMARY) The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) and Avemco have teamed up for an insurance program that targets the specific needs of instructors.

(SMART SUMMARY) A report from Florida suggests Hawker Beechcraft was out-politicked in its failed bid for a $1 billion contract to supply the Air Force with light attack aircraft.

(SMART SUMMARY) An Austin, Texas software firm says it's taken a lot of the work out of hiring pilots with an algorithm that sorts through the resumes of thousands of pilots to find those suited to specific jobs being offered.

(SMART SUMMARY) Embraer's latest business jet, the Legacy 500 saw daylight on Dec. 23 and the Brazilian planemaker is pinning a lot of its future in the business jet market on the clean-sheet Legacy 500 and its follow-on, the Legacy 450.

(SMART SUMMARY) LightSquared has thrown down a potentially tricky legal gauntlet and challenged the Federal Communications Commission to clarify its right to use the sliver of radio spectrum it owns for a ground-based broadband network.

(SMART SUMMARY) The past few years have been tough on the light jet sector, with several programs being put on hold or abandoned but the slow, but sure development of the HondaJet has been seemingly unaffected by the economic turbulence of late.

(SMART SUMMARY) She has worked in various roles in sales administration at Piper.

(SMART SUMMARY) Hawker Beechcraft is looking for a break from the holders of a $182 million revolving line of credit as it grapples with the rough economy.

(SMART SUMMARY) LightSquared has offered to give up control of part of the frequency spectrum it owns in exchange for unconditional use of another part of the L-band frequency for its controversial proposed broadband network.

(SMART SUMMARY) Compared with existing Chinese airport regulations, these standards are less strict and offer greater flexibility, therefore allowing unprecedented room for GA infrastructure growth.