On June 20-22, Roncevert Almond, Partner at The Wicks Group (TWG), served as Chairman of the Africa Air Cargo Summit 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The conference brought together aviation leaders from across the continent to Addis Ababa including senior representatives from African governments, pr…
Read More »In June 2016, The Wicks Group returned from a multi-week trip to Tokyo, Japan where a team of TWG technical experts and consultants analyzed Japanese approved maintenance organization (AMO) regulations and provided training to Japan Civil Aviation Bureau inspectors on U.S.-equivalent maintenance pr…
Read More »On June 6, 2016, Roncevert Almond, a partner at TWG, was admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. Article III of the U.S. Constitution grants the Court original jurisdiction in “all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party” a…
Read More »Barry Valentine, Senior Advisor to The Wicks Group PLLC, participated last week in the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, Switzerland. EBACE, an annual convention for the European business aviation community, featured more than 450 exhibitors and over 12,000 att…
Read More »On May 11, 2016, the United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued an approval of a modification of a special permit to the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority (VCSFA) for the transport into commerce of hazardous materials in a non-DOT specification cyli…
Read More »On April 27, 2016, Justice Frank Seepersad of the Trinidad and Tobago High Court of Justice dismissed a claim by private helicopter operator PHI Americas Limited which had sought an injunction mandating that the Trinidad and Tobago Civil Aviation Authority (TTCAA) provide temporary authority to ope…
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