Magazine Issue

NBAA 2019 Day 2

October 22, 2019

NBAA 2019

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AP Completions to Deliver First Global 7500

Oct 22, 2019
The founder of AP Completion Services is looking forward to celebrating his firm’s 10th anniversary in the coming weeks when it makes its first deliveries of Bombardier Global 7500s to customers.
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SyberJet Plans Skyward Trajectory

Oct 22, 2019
Central to the bid to restore Ed Swearingen’s twinjet to production are an all-new cockpit, based around the Honeywell Epic 2.0 avionics suite, new ergonomic enhancements, electronic standby attitude/heading display and much more.
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Business Aviation In Climate-Change Crosshairs

Oct 22, 2019
Efforts to further reduce emissions and continued efficiencies gained through better flight planning and navigation may not convince the critics.
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Bolen: The Fight-Back Starts Here

Oct 22, 2019
NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen accepts that his industry is never going to win over its harshest critics. But he believes that the sector can at very least prove that it means what it says when it talks about sustainability and environmental responsibility.
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Fixed-Price Bizjet Travel Starts to Take Off

Oct 22, 2019
In May, PrivateFly founder and CEO Adam Twidell told ShowNews he hoped his company’s competitors followed him into offering fixed-price private flying. His rationale was that any initiative that makes the sector more accessible would help improve business for everyone.
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Gulfstream Launches Offset Program for Customers

Oct 22, 2019
Gulfstream’s contribution to environmentally sustainable flight operations has moved up a gear at NBAA-BACE, with the company announcing a new scheme to assist customers in offsetting their emissions and making its first carbon-neutral flights when it brought five airplanes to Nevada for the event.
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Acquisitions and Initiatives Come Thick and Fast at Wheels Up

Oct 22, 2019
High-flying plans for its high-flying fleet, as acquisitions and initiatives come thick and fast at Wheels Up.
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Piaggio Edging Closer to Sale

Oct 22, 2019
It has been almost a year since Piaggio entered insolvency, but the lawyer charged with turning the airframer around can see light at the end of the tunnel.
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Fast Five: David Horton, President of Schweizer RSG

Oct 22, 2019
Leaving Schweizer prior to its closure in 2010, he took the top executive slot at Uniflight and then a vice presidency at Safran Helicopter Engines until he began working on the Schweizer acquisition from Lockheed Martin in 2017. His private goal? Earning a rotary wing rating.
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Jet Aviation Invests $25 Million at Teterboro

Oct 22, 2019
Jet Aviation comes to NBAA-BACE having just opened its new 40,000-sq.-ft. hangar and completely renovated FBO at Teterboro, N.J. – fruit of a $25 million-plus investment. A pre-opening celebration was held at the hangar in August 2019, and Jet now has final operating approval.
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Qatar Executive Is Launch Customer For Gulfstream's $75 Million G700

Oct 22, 2019
Gulfstream Aerospace unveiled a full-size mockup of its flagship G700 in rock-concert style with a laser light show as it announced two fleet orders for the ultra-long-range jet.
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A Banner Year For Entry-Into-Service Of New Models

Oct 23, 2019
Not yet 10 months in, and there has already been a bumper crop of business airplanes coming to maturity this year. Not all have made it to Las Vegas this week, but most have been seen at previous NBAA conventions, discretely carrying EXPERIMENTAL titles. Now they are carrying customers.
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Flying Colours Celebrates 30 Years

Oct 22, 2019
Flying Colours has touched “thousands” of airplanes since it began business in Peterborough, Ontario, 30 years ago. Now it is one of the world’s leading independent providers of maintenance, modifications and completions of large-cabin business jets.
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Million Air Austin Celebrate Grand Opening of Spacious Terminal and Hangars

Oct 22, 2019
The fourth Million Air FBO in Texas and the 31st facility in the parent company’s network includes a 14,500-sq.-ft. FBO terminal as well as seven free-standing hangars totaling 100,000 sq. ft. and capable of accommodating aircraft as large as the Gulfstream G650ER.
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Universal Readying Costa Rica’s First GA Terminal

Oct 22, 2019
Universal Weather and Aviation pledged last week to open Costa Rica’s first-ever GAT (general aviation terminal) in time for the busy holiday season.
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Signature Expands to Six More Italy Locations

Oct 22, 2019
Orlando, Fla.-headquartered Signature Flight Support – the world’s largest FBO chain with upward of 200 locations – has expanded in Italy with the addition of six airports, while service at Milan-Malpensa has been significantly enhanced with a first-ever terminal.
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CAN Continues Its Good Work

Oct 22, 2019
The Corporate Angel Network arranges free flights for patients traveling to treatment by utilizing empty seats on corporate aircraft. Aviation Week Network made another major donation to CAN at NBAA-BACE.
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Air Charter Guide Partners With Tuvoli

Oct 22, 2019
The company’s customers will provide Air Charter Guide users access to the Tuvoli platform, while Tuvoli customers will have access to charter market intelligence.
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Boeing’s Faster Future

Oct 22, 2019
Look closely and tucked away behind most of the eVTOL and other futuristic concepts in the North Hall’s urban air mobility/unmanned air systems innovation display area, Boeing is quietly making a statement about where its future ambitions lie in high-speed flight.
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Turboprop Aircraft Continue to Become Safer, More Efficient Than Analog Ancestors

Oct 22, 2019
From autothrottle to FADEC, automation is reigning in new era for these trusted aircraft.
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Traveling Light: BACE Debut for New Commuter

Oct 22, 2019
Designed, styled and built in Italy, the P2012 Traveller is a nine-passenger, piston twin with which Cape Air will re-equip most of its fleet, providing links to 35 destinations across the Northeast, Cape Cod and the islands, the Midwest, eastern Montana, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.
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Leonardo Reaches 1,000th AW139 Delivery Milestone

Oct 22, 2019
Not many commercial helicopters reach 1,000 deliveries, yet Leonardo’s AW139 has achieved this feat in just 15 years.
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Bolen: The Fight Back Starts Here

Oct 23, 2019
NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen accepts that his industry is never going to win over its harshest critics. But he believes that the sector can at very least prove that it means what it says when it talks about sustainability and environmental responsibility.
article

Fixed-Price Bizjet Travel Starts To Take Off

Oct 22, 2019
In May, PrivateFly founder and CEO Adam Twidell told ShowNews he hoped his company’s competitors followed him into offering fixed-price private flying. His rationale was that any initiative that makes the sector more accessible would help improve business for everyone.