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15 May 2015

Air Astana is celebrating its 13th Birthday!!

Today marks Air Astana's 13th Birthday with another remarkably successful year.

Air Astana remains the only carrier from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Eastern Europe to be awarded the prestigious 4-Star Skytrax rating and named the Best Airline in Central Asia and India consecutively for the three years running.

This year they also received the ATW Airline Market Leader Award and the CIS Business Leader awards for 2015.

Their fleet is one of the youngest in the world with 21 brand new aircraft added to the fleet since 2011.

We wish them all the best and look forward to watching this already amazing airliner improve and grow!

13 May 2015

Somon Air appoints new CEO | Mr. Eugenio Jaime Manzano

Eugenio Jaime Manzano was designated as CEO of Somon Air airline replacing Lloyd Paxton on this position.

49-years old E.J. Manzano is a well-known international professional manager in aviation field. The board of management of Somon Air decided that Eugenio Jaime Manzano could work the following company development program.

E.J. Manzano has two higher education degrees: airline management of Iberia and Executive Master of Business Administration #1080 of Johannes Gutenberg University. His professional career Eugenio Jaime Manzano has started in 1986 as management trainee in Iberia. Since 1989 till 2003 Eugenio Jaime Manzano was workimg in Garuda Indonesia first in the position of manager of marketing and sales, then as deputy of General Director. In the beginning of 2004, E.J. Manzano got the job offer from ArcanaVia Touristik Company and worked as Managing Director of this company around 2 years. Since 2004 until 2010, Eugenio Jaime Manzano was working as Area Manager of Qatar Airways in Germany, Country Manager of Kingfisher airline in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Commercial Director of OLT Express Company. Last five years he was working on the position of Vice-President Commercial Operations Europe Somon Air, and was a Managing Director of Global GSRM GmbH.

Eugenio Jaime Manzano fluently speaks Spanish, English and German.

Somon Air successfully operates the regular flight from Tajikistan to Germany, UAE, Turkey, China, Russia and Kazakhstan. Somon Air has in its fleet Boeing 737-300, -800 and -900.

Congratulation to Mr. Eugenio Jaime Manzano and we look forward to working with him and the rest of the Somon Air Team!

30 Apr 2015

Welcoming FINESSE EXECUTIVE LTD. as the new operator of P4-SAT!

FINESSE EXECUTIVE LTD. will be the new operator of P4-SAT! At the registry we are all looking forward to working with the Finesse Executive Team!

29 Apr 2015

G650 registered under Global Jet Luxembourg as P4-LSM

Operator Global Jet Luxembourg is registering a G650 under the registration marks P4-LSM.

The aircraft will be operate privately and based in Macau.

The delivery is scheduled for August 2015.

29 Apr 2015

Bestfly Worlodwide Registers a Falcon 900B P4-FFF

Operator Bestfly Worldwide is registering their first Falcon 900B under the registration marks P4-FFF.

The home and base of operation for the aircraft will be Luanda, Angola. We welcome this Falcon to our registry.

21 Apr 2015

Aruba Airlines Nonstop Route to Miami

Aruba Airlines plans to launch nonstop service between Miami and Oranjestad on 02 July 2015 with A320.

04 Mar 2015

Nomination of New Manager of Airworthiness and Registration for Aruba DCA

We would like to congratulate Mr. ing. Glenn G.A. Kelly on becoming the New Manager of the Airworthiness and Registration department for the DCA of Aruba. His position will be effective March 1, 2015. We look forward to many more years of great service from Mr. Kelly and the whole DCA of Aruba team.

09 Feb 2015

EC225 | Super Puma Helicopter | New Registation

The Registry of Aruba is proud to register, 3 New Airbus Super Puma Helicopters for a storage-between-leases. The Super Puma's will be stored at Airbus Helicopters Deutschland GmbH (AHD), in Kassel-Calden, Germany. The Helicopters will be registered under marks: P4-MAC, P4-MBL, P4-MRL.

09 Feb 2015

Appointment of New Director at the DCA of Aruba

The Registry of Aruba is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. ing. Edwin F. Kelly as the new Director of the DCA of Aruba, the appointment was made official on the 1st of December 2014; assuming his position effective immediately.

Mr. ing. Edwin F. Kelly earned his Aeronautical Engineering degree in 1993 in The Netherlands. He continued his studies and earned a degree in Aircraft Operations Science. Furthermore he successfully completed the module "Aviation law" at the Leiden University and the module "Air Transportation Science" at the Technical University of Delft. In 2005 he graduated from the Aruban Pedagogical Academy, earning his qualifications as teacher at the high school level.,and recently has obtained his Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Aruba.

Mr. ing. Edwin F. Kelly worked for 6 months at the Rijksluchtvaartdienst (Dutch CAA) and has worked for over 20 years at the Department of Civil Aviation of Aruba, whereby he started as Airworthiness Inspector. After that he becoming the Manager of the Airworthiness & Registration Department and later on formed part of the Management Team, which would then lead to his succession as the Director of the DCA of Aruba.

He was part of the start up of the foreign aircraft registration project in 1995 and one of the drivers of the recent re-branding and re-launching of the Aruban aircraft registry early 2014.Moreover,Mr.ing.Edwin F. Kelly was part of the team that succeeded in obtaining FAA Category 1 rating for Aruba in 1996, and was part of different ICAO article 83bis negotiations.

18 Dec 2014

SCM Aruba A.V.V registers another aircraft

SCM Aruba A.V.V registers it's 4th aircraft with Aruba. This time a Falcon 7X under registration marks P4-SCM.

The aircrafts base of operations will be Kyiv, Ukraine and will be flying under private registration.

We welcome P4-SCM into our registry!

18 Dec 2014

Warm Welcome to P4-MCO

Existing operator Prime Aviation registers a Bombardier DHC 8-315 in Aruba, under registration marks P4-MCO.

The aircraft's Base of Operations will be Almaty, Kazakhstan and will be flying commercially. We welcome P4-MCO into our registry and look forward to many successful flights!

10 Dec 2014

Aruba Introduces Automated Passport Control Kiosks: Enhancing Travel to US

On December 8, 2014 the Aruba airport introduced a new automated passport system. With the new passport control kiosk Aruba leads the Caribbean into automated passenger processing. The Automated Passport Control Kiosks (APC kiosks) are installed and passengers traveling to the United States are able to use it. Aruba is the only airport in the Caribbean with the APC system. The system is available for passengers traveling to the United States for U.S. and Canadian passport holders. Passengers residing in countries that do not require a U.S. entry visa and applied for a Visa Waiver with ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) can also use the kiosks. Adding additional services is beneficial for Aruba as an international tourism and business destination. The United States is Aruba’s main tourism market. U.S. pre-clearance and Automated Passport Control Kiosks make traveling to the United States via Aruba more attractive. This is also beneficial for business travelers.

30 Sep 2014

Aruba Registers G550 P4-BFY

The Registry of Aruba is proud to announce the registration of G550 P4-BFY; this aircraft prior to its registration was Gulfstream's demonstration aircraft. The aircraft will be flying to its home-base, Luanda, Angola, operated by Best Fly Worldwide.

15 Aug 2014

DCA Accepts More Type Certificate Embraer Products

As of August 15, 2014 the DCA of Aruba accepts more type certificate Embraer products. In accordance with the Aruban Airworthiness Regulations the following Embraer products that are now accepted by Aruba:

Embraer - EMB 500 and Embraer - EMB 505

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