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News & Press Releases
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Certificate Issued by State of Montana Insurance Department
Download the official AAIRRG Certificate of Authority
issued on June 18, 2010. |
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Cheaper Insurance for Shops?
Article by Henry Canaday posted on Aviation Week (March 10, 2010) |
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Photos of Southwest Flight 2294
On Monday, July 13, 2009, a Southwest Airlines 737 aircraft made an emergency landing in West Virginia after the passenger cabin became depressurized after a
hole appeared in the fuselage. |
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Capital Call Begins
On March 24, 2009, the AAIRRG board of directors authorized the start of the company’s capital call. It is anticipated that the $1.125M in capital
necessary for licensure will be raised by May 31, 2009. |
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Photos of US Airways Airbus 320 Salvage Operation
Check out the photos of the salvage operation that took place in January 2009 when US Airways Flight 1549 was recovered from the Hudson River.
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Dallas Information Seminar a Huge Success
The Dallas informational seminar took place on September 24th at the law office of Rose Walker, LLP. The meeting included a great list of attendees and one
attendee committed the very next day! We have several more who are in the process of getting non-binding indications and are very interested in becoming
committed members. |
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Seattle Kicks Off the First of Many Regional Information Seminars
We started our regional information seminars in Seattle on June 17th. Attendance was strong and the presentation was well-received. AAIRRG gained
several committed members who attended and even more prospective members who are in the process of receiving and/or evaluating non-binding indications. |
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New insurance option for ARSA
members gets first government go-ahead
March 13, 2008
Alexandria, VA – Repair stations are one step closer to having a more affordable insurance option.
On March 6, the Aviation Alliance Insurance Risk Retention Group, Inc. (AAIRRG) received a provisional certificate of authority from the State of Montana. This
opens the door for AAIRRG to begin its capitalization process and continue its effort to bring cost-effective liability insurance to certificated repair
stations. |
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American Airlines aims to cut 13,000 jobs
The parent of
American Airlines wants to eliminate about 13,000 jobs — 15 percent of its workforce — as the
nation's third-biggest airline remakes itself under bankruptcy protection... |
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When Stupid is
Criminal
This afternoon, 57-year old Steven Fay will appear in court in Massachusetts to face
criminal charges for being supremely stupid, recklessly stupid, deadly stupid. In what some aviation
attorneys say is extremely unusual, a private pilot has been indicted for involuntary manslaughter
for unintentionally crashing his airplane and killing his daughter... |
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Airbus Superjumbo Wing Checks Will Affect Almost One-Third of A380 Fleet
Airlines operating
Airbus SAS (EAD)’s A380 superjumbo must ground 20 planes or almost one-third of the world fleet
within the next six weeks to check for wing cracks... |
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Boeing Departure Shakes Wichita’s Identity as Airplane Capital
The crowd gathered at the local headquarters for Boeing was euphoric. The company had just won one
of the largest military contracts in history. Thousands of the resulting jobs, Boeing had promised,
would be headed here, to the sprawling manufacturing complex where residents have been building
airplanes for generations... |
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AirTran Ordered to Rehire Pilot Fired Over Safety Reporting
AirTran Airways (AAI), a unit of
Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV), was ordered by the U.S. to rehire and pay more than $1 million in back
wages to a pilot fired in 2007 after he reported mechanical flaws... |
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Cost
of Job-Related Illnesses Exceeds Costs of All Cancers, Diabetes and Strokes
A new
NIOSH-funded study from J. Paul Leigh, a professor of public health sciences at the University of
California – Davis, determined that the cost of job-related injuries and illnesses is $250 billion,
which is $31 billion more than the cost of all cancers and $76 billion more than the cost of
diabetes... |
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Safety is My
Co-Priority
If you are operating under the impression that air show megastar Sean Tucker
confines his fancy maneuvers to his airplane, I'm here to tell you, he does not... |
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ARSA Congratulates Aviation Industry on Safest Decade
Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) Executive Vice President Christian Klein released the
following statement commending the aviation industry on its stellar safety record as outlined in a
recent Associated Press (AP) analysis... |
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Whooping
Cranes Grounded By FAA
Just before Christmas, Operation Migration and its flock of whooping
cranes were grounded on an attempt to migrate south for the winter... |
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Officials move ahead with plans
for Reno air races
The head of the Reno Air Races Association said Wednesday officials are
moving ahead with plans for this fall's competition despite a tragic crash at September's event that
killed 11 and injured more than 70... |
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Man charged in $630K fraud
involving FAA certifications
A 57-year-old Cartersville man has been charged with defrauding
a Dubai government agency of hundreds of thousands of dollars by delivering bogus FAA approvals for
aircraft modifications, federal prosecutors said Tuesday... |
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American carriers see safest decade ever
US-based airlines have just completed the country’s
safest ever decade for air travel. According to a recent study conducted by the Associated
Press, 153 people died in commercial aviation accidents over the last ten years, which amounts to
two lives for every 100 million passengers flown... |
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