The Week in Business Aviation - Jan.10

A special mission Pilatus PC-12 turboprop operated by the Colorado Department of Public Safety (CDPS) detected no suspicious aircraft while supporting the investigation into a rash of unexplained drone sightings.

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Cirrus Aircraft has unveiled improvements to its new 2020 G6 SR Series piston aircraft, including a new mobile app, upgraded interior and exterior and optional four-blade Hartzell propeller. 

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EmbraerX, the innovation arm of the Brazilian manufacturer, is entering the unmanned cargo aircraft market through a collaboration with U.S. startup Elroy Air.

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Employees of financially troubled Mooney International were sent home from work Jan. 6—their second furlough in about a month.

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Deliveries of Dassault’s Falcon business jets have hit a new bottom, at 40 in 2019, while export contracts for the Rafale fighter have materialized into a record 26 deliveries, according to numbers released by the manufacturer on Jan. 7.

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Turkish Aerospace has rolled out the third prototype of its T625 Gokbey twin-engine medium helicopter as it begins to accelerate the aircraft’s flight-test program.

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Carmaker Hyundai has announced an urban air mobility (UAM) partnership with Uber and unveiled a full-scale mockup of its S-A1 electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft at the CES consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.

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A new venture to develop an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle specifically for first responders has been unveiled by Carl Dietrich, co-founder of flying car developer Terrafugia. 

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WICHITA—Some Textron Aviation employees began reporting back to work on Jan. 6 inside the company’s east Wichita Plant 3, including employees assigned to the new Cessna SkyCourier development program, following an explosion last month, a company spokeswoman said. 

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The Weekly of Business Aviation polled leaders in the general and business aviation industry about what they think lies ahead in 2020 and the challenges they face. Below is Part 2 of the two-part series. (For Part 1, please see the Jan. 6, 2020, edition of BAV.)

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Air-to-ground network developer SmartSky Networks said Jan. 6 that it has received $25 million in additional funding from investment manager BlackRock after deploying its ground system nationwide.

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