The Week in Business Aviation - Jan.10
January 10, 2020
Colorado Special Mission Aircraft Finds No Rogue Drones
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 Unveils Upgraded 2020 G6 SR Series Aircraft With New App
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 Teams Up With Unmanned Cargo Aircraft Startup Elroy
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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Mooney Employees Furloughed For Second Time
Employees of financially troubled Mooney International were sent home from work Jan. 6—their second furlough in about a month.
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Dassault’s Falcon Sales Decline Again, Rafale Deliveries Surge
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 Preparing Third Prototype T625 For Flight Test
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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Hyundai Partners With Uber To Field Its Own EVTOL Air Taxi
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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Ukraine Border Guards Receive H125 Helicopters
Terrafugia Co-Founder Unveils First-Responder EVTOL Venture
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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SkyCourier Program Work Resuming, Textron Aviation Says
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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What’s Ahead For 2020? Business Aviation Leaders Weigh In (Part 2)
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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SmartSky Secures Additional Investment For Connectivity Network
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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Improvements to Cirrus’ G6 SR Series aircraft, EmbraerX teams up with startup Elroy, Mooney employees furloughed again, declining sales again for Dassault’s Falcon and more. A weekly roundup of Business Aviation.