Business aviation in brief



SAFETY ENDORSEMENT

FlightSafety International has completed the qualification of 40 full-flight simulators under the European Aviation Safety Agency's flight simulator training device "catch-up process", developed as a means of qualifying simulators outside EASA's jurisdiction so that they can continue to be used to train European-licensed flightcrews to EASA standards.  

The 40 simulators cover Bell Helicopter, Bombardier, Cessna, Dassault, Gulfstream, Hawker Beechcraft and Sikorsky types.  

SPOT CHECKING

Egyptian aviation services company Spot Air plans to acquire a Hawker 800 later this year for its wholly owned air taxi start-up EU Air.  

Spot Air chief executive Mohammed Hamed says Cairo-based EU Air is looking to take the business jet from a US lessor and may look for a second Ha

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