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News and information about crew, passenger, aircraft and airport security issues.

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Banner-tow ban could set perilous precedent

A ban by the coastal California city of Huntington Beach on all aerial advertising flights in its airspace is believed to be the first of its kind in the U
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Secure Show Bristles with New Generation Security Hardware

As an ostentatious display of western military might, Farnborough 2002 was viewed as a high-profile terrorist target.
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Aero-cops ponder 9/11 rescue lessons learned

Last September 10, the New York City Police aviation unit had a detailed disaster response and high-rise rescue plan in place.
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Bill would revise training security rules

Legislation has been introduced that would exempt foreign-national commercial pilots from the current 45-day background check requirement to obtain flight
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TSA okays NATA to conduct fingerprinting

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has delegated the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) to train and certify individuals who can
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Challenger 300 (née Continental) Gets Secure Locks

Aircraft Security & Alert Systems of Dallas has been selected to provide an advanced locking mechanism as standard equipment for Bombardier’s new Chall
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12-5/95K Compliance Extended to December 1

The Transportation Security Administration delayed the compliance deadline on its separate and controversial rules regarding stringent new security require
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TSA pledges flexibility to keep genav safe and secure

In the past month the nation and the aviation industry have successfully navigated the first-year anniversary of September 11, the first Code Orange alert
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Million Air Cleveland installs new level of high-tech security

Million Air Cleveland has installed a new security system at its Burke Lakefront Airport (BKL) facility that it hopes will become the prototype for other F
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September 11: Bizav one year later

One year ago, civil airplanes were the weapon used to end the lives of more than 3,000 people on American soil.
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NBAA warns of coming GA security tidal wave

With general aviation access to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in an indefinite holding pattern, NBAA has decided to re-target its monthly
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Twelve Trying Months: September 11, One Year Later

One year after September 11, corporate aviation is still seeking assurances that its business aircraft will be able to operate on par with the commercial a
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Genav and helos were slowest to recover

When the call went out in those early, panicky hours of the crisis that’s collectively come to be called “9/11,” some 4,500 aircraft were airborne in U.S.
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TSA unclear on general aviation security issues

“In the next 60 to 90 days, you’re going to see security in the United States like you’ve never seen before,” said retired U.S.
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Seminar focuses on realistic security threat

“Know your enemy,” Dr.
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Port Authority pilot speaks out on 9/11

I was till recently the chief pilot of the Port Authority police helicopter operation.
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Olympics ‘security’ was major trial for bizav ops

Not a single person interviewed by AIN expressed the opinion that the business aviation security requirements to fly to the Winter Olympics either made sen
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New security regs take shape

Under the first major rulemaking of the DOT’s newly created Transportation Security Administration, scheduled for publication February 22, charter operatio
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Colombian Dash 8 hijack ends with kidnapping

Marxist rebels on February 20 abducted a Colombian senator after hijacking an Aires Colombia de Havilland Dash 8 flying a domestic service from the souther
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More NBAA security-training sessions added for this month

NBAA announced at its convention in Orlando, Fla., last month that additional dates have been scheduled for its new “Security Training for Part 91 Operator
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Learjet with Lost Com Escorted by Fighters

After a Learjet 55 on an IFR flight from Syracuse, N.Y., on February 26 lost voice and transponder communications over Holston Mountain, Tenn., ATC notifie
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Operation Liberty Shield yields notams and TFRs

In what has been the biggest flurry of notams, TFR issuances and general uncertainty since 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation
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TSA bizav security plans being put to the test at TEB

While the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and NBAA continue to work on a security protocol demonstration at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport–whi
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Hallett’s Parting Shots

Like many a “Washington hand” leaving a position, the Air Transport Association’s Carol Hallett was more forthcoming in her comments to the Washington Aero
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Bizav groups optimistic about TSA/DHS interface

Although the new Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is among the 22 separate government agencies that will become part of the new Department of H
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GA security slowly taken up a notch

Although general aviation access to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) continues to be an elusive and possibly unattainable goal, the Transpor
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Do SAMs pose a real threat to civil aviation?

What is the realistic likelihood of your aircraft being targeted by a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile (SAM) in the hands of a terrorist? After an