Gallery: The Week In Business Aviation Apr. 18-22, 2022

All eight FAA regions posted monthly price increases for Avgas in April, the third consecutive month for an increase. Credit: Aeroplex Group Partners

High-performance airfoils behave differently. Credit: Pete Reynolds, “Learjet Stall Development,” Learjet Corp., 1990

Eclipse Aviation, a startup company back in 2001, had designed the six-seat Eclipse 500 and we reported on the aircraft's design changes by engineers. They wanted to make a series of internal and external changes to the twin-engine jet to ease manufacturing and reduce aerodynamic drag.

Real-world flight conditions worsen stall behavior. Credit: Mike Fuchslocher/Alamy Stock Photo

A look at some of the technology in Honeywell's Advance Air Mobility Lab in Phoenix. Credit: Honeywell

Dassault wanted to "upstage the smaller competition with an aircraft that has considerably more cabin volume, better runway performance and a larger tanks-full payload."

Schedaero, a division of Avinode Group, has introduced new features to its platform that assists Part 135 charter operators with flight scheduling, aircraft management and crew monitoring. Credit: Bruno Talledo / Getty Images

Advanced air mobility (AAM) aircraft present a new market opportunity for 105-year-old Hartzell Propeller. Credit: Bill Carey

Our pilot and author David M. North took the long-range Global Express for a test flight and produced a pilot report as manufacturer Bombardier was to start delivering to corporate operators. He suggested that customers "should be pleased at the demonstrated performance they signed up for when the program was launched in December 1993".

Our writer and pilot Edward H. Phillips took the controls of a Beechcraft Premier 1A and said: "Raytheon has made the Premier IA a better airplane. The Collins Pro Line 21 Integrated Flight Information System (IFIS) capabilities coupled with a new, more appealing and functional cabin interior should serve to keep the jet at the forefront of the highly competitive entry-level market segment."

Bombardier unveiled the Global 5500 and its sibling, the Global 6500, at the EBACE conference in Geneva in May 2018. The large-cabin, long-range jets, variants of the legacy Global family, offered 500 nm and 600 nm of additional range, respectively, over the Global 5000 and 6000, plus a fuel burn advantage of up to 13%, the manufacturer said. Credit: Nigel Prevett/Aviation Week

Bombardier announced April 19 that it has designated its Wichita facility as its new U.S. headquarters. The news follows the end of Learjet production and delivery of the final Learjet, a Learjet 75, in March. Bombardier also renamed its Wichita-based Specialized Aircraft division to Bombardier Defense. The company continues to operate a busy flight test center and a growing service center at the West Wichita site. Bombardier employs 1,100 in Wichita with plans to hire nearly 200 more.