Operations Guide: Istanbul, Athens, Bucharest and Sarajevo

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Supplement your understanding of operating to the four Balkan cities David Esler covered in Business & Commercial Aviation last month with AC-U-KWIK's clearance overviews. AC-U-KWIK editors update various categories of know-before-you-go information, including currency exchange rates, visa requirements, contact information for local civil aviation authorities and information required on permit applications.
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Quick Clicks: Cirrus SF50 Personal Jet and a New Way to Snap a Selfie

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Check out recommended reading from the Aviation Week Network and beyond, including a Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet pilot report, a news report about retired professional baseball player Roy Halladay's fatal accident in an Icon A5 and how you can snap a selfie on a private jet without paying to charter a flight.
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Arnold Palmer, Golfer, Pilot, Friend of Business Aviation, Dies at 87

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Arnold Palmer, golf great, pilot and business aviation advocate, died Sunday at age 87. We looked through the BCA and Aviation Week archives to remember Palmer's impact on business aviation.
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BLUEBOOK PERSPECTIVES

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Thumps & Bumps in the Pre-Owned Market

Vol. 26, No. 2 | June 6, 2012 | Go to Charts
by Carl Janssens, ASA | Aircraft Bluebook — Price Digest

Optimists see the silver lining behind the cloud while the pessimist only sees the cloud. Optimism continues to be the silver lining in the pre-owned aircraft market. However, reality of the dark cloud dictates an awareness and calculated approach.
Such are the conditions in the current ever-evolving pre-owned market. For the most part, the glory days of aircraft values being treated as premium investment opportunities are now nothing more than a faded memory. Knowledgeable buyers and sellers are keenly aware of this. Change of ownership continues at a slow to steady pace while values for the most part show continued depreciation. The exceptions are late model long range executive business jets.

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DOT Bars BARR Program

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The FAA will block aircraft registration numbers "only after the operators certify that they have a valid security concern," the Department on Transportation announced in a press release on Friday.

This change essentially ends the Block Aircraft Registration Request (BARR) program.

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NATA Concerned with Environmental Group's Legal Action Against Avgas

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When the California-based Center for Environmental Health announced last week it was initiating legal action against oil companies and FBOs in California for distributing leaded aviation gasoline, the National Air Transportation Association (NATA) responded with concern.
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