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Magazine Issue

Business & Commercial Aviation, December 2018

Viewpoint

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Voting Well: Delivered In An Unexpected Way

Nov 20, 2018
It was politics the old-fashioned way — personal, respectful and solicitous.

Readers' Feedback

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Readers' Feedback

Nov 20, 2018
Readers comment on past articles.

Intelligence

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Jet-A And Avgas Per-Gallon Fuel Prices: November 2018

Nov 20, 2018
The tables show Jet-A and avgas prices from a survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in November 2018.
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Bombardier To Sell Q400 And Training Programs And Cut 5,000 Jobs

Nov 20, 2018
Bombardier surprised many last month when it announced it was shedding the Q400 regional turboprop program, the last of its de Havilland products.
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FAA Refers Illegal Charter Case To U.S. Attorney’s Office

Nov 20, 2018
The FAA in October reportedly referred an enforcement action case involving alleged illegal charter activity to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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Aerion Launches Preliminary Design Phase For AS2 Trijet

Nov 20, 2018
Aerion launches preliminary design of its 12-seat, Mach 1.4 AS2 business trijet and says it hopes to develop bigger and faster follow-ons.
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Diamond Aircraft Flies First Multiengine Hybrid-Electric Aircraft

Nov 20, 2018
Diamond Aircraft Industries has flown the first multiengine hybrid-electric aircraft, a demonstrator developed with electric motor supplier Siemens.
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Qatar Airways To Expand Business Jet Charter Fleet

Nov 20, 2018
Qatar Airways plans to grow its business jet charter fleet to 35 aircraft from 14 and replace its seven Bombardier Global 5000s and 6000s with Gulfstream G500s.
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Icon Aircraft Names New President And COO

Nov 20, 2018
Icon Aircraft says CEO and founder Kirk Hawkins is “stepping back” from his leadership role.
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Vanuatu Awards Contracts For Vaccine Delivery By Drone

Nov 20, 2018
Two companies have won contracts to test the feasibility of delivering vaccines by drone to remote islands in Vanuatu in the South Pacific.
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Safran Plans Silvercrest Compressor Testing In June 2019

Nov 20, 2018
The Cessna Citation Hemisphere engine program is progressing toward testing a new axial high-pressure compressor in June 2019.
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Egan Airships Looks For Plimp Airship Buyers

Nov 20, 2018
Early prospective customers are being sought for a hybrid passenger airship that the developers claim will offer unprecedented safety.
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Piedmont Triad Airport To Build New ATC Tower

Nov 20, 2018
The FAA is investing $40.9 million in a new 180-ft.-tall air traffic control tower and 15,650-sq.-ft. base building at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Reach Air To Add Five Airbus Helicopters

Nov 20, 2018
Reach Air Medical Services will acquire five Airbus helicopters for use in emergency medical service operations.
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FAA Administrator Calls For Agency Funding Reform

Nov 20, 2018
The acting FAA administrator wants to see funding reform from Congress, saying appropriating through continuing resolutions complicates planning and budgeting.
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Bell And Yamato Partner For Unmanned eVTOL Package Delivery

Nov 20, 2018
Bell is to collaborate with Japanese package-delivery company Yamato on aerial logistics using unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
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SF Express To Use Unmanned Avic Y-5B For Freight Deliveries

Nov 20, 2018
SF Express, a Chinese freight company, plans to use pilotless Avic Y-5B aircraft for carriage beginning in 2023.
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Planet Nine Adds Third Falcon 7X To Charter Fleet

Nov 20, 2018
Ultra-long-haul charter specialist Planet Nine Private Air introduced its third VIP 16-seat Dassault Falcon 7X business jet into service last month.
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Executive AirShare Rebrands As Airshare

Nov 20, 2018
Executive AirShare, a fractional ownership and charter company, has deleted “Executive” from its name and now calls itself Airshare.
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Textron, King Ranch Launch Special Edition King Air 350i

Nov 20, 2018
Textron has joined with King Ranch, the largest ranch in Texas and one of the largest in the world, to launch a special edition Beechcraft King Air 350i.
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October Sees Rise In Business Aviation Operations

Nov 20, 2018
Business jet and turboprop flight activity in North America rose 0.9% in October compared to a year ago and 8.9% compared to September activity.
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Terrafugia Receives Letters Of Intent For 10 Transition Flying Cars

Nov 20, 2018
Terrafugia, the developer of the Transition flying car, reported in late October that it has received letters of intent for 10 vehicles, each accompanied by a $50,000 deposit.
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Big Game Air Launches Two Subsidiaries

Nov 20, 2018
Big Game Air, a provider of luxury game day travel experiences for sports fans, has launched two subsidiaries, Triumph Jets and Next Level Tix.
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Dassault Wins Contract For Maritime Falcon 2000

Nov 20, 2018
Dassault Aviation has won a contract to conduct a detailed study for a future maritime surveillance aircraft based on its Falcon 2000LXS business jet.
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Tacoma Narrows Aviation Opens New Facility

Nov 20, 2018
Tacoma Narrows Aviation has completed its new executive terminal facility that includes 30,000 sq. ft. of heated hangar space, 2,500 sq. ft. of…
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GA Groups Release Best Practices For FBOs

Nov 20, 2018
Six general aviation-related organizations have partnered to form best business practices for FBOs, calling on them to publish an online list of charges.
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Meridian Hayward Voted CAA Preferred FBO

Nov 20, 2018
Meridian announced that its West Coast FBO, Meridian Hayward, was voted the Corporate Aircraft Association’s (CAA) Preferred FBO.
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Air BP Expands Network In Brazil

Nov 20, 2018
Air BP has added to its network in Brazil with the addition of Salvador International Airport. Operations at the airport will be managed by Air BP…
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Signature Teams With ATP For Flight Support

Nov 20, 2018
Signature Flight Support has signed an agreement with ATP Flight School for a nationwide, full-service flight support agreement.

Fast Five

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Questions For Triple Tree Aerodrome's Robb Williams

Nov 20, 2018
A former airline pilot and school teacher, Robb Williams was executive director of the Aerospace Center of Excellence in Lakeland, Florida.

Safety

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Premeditated Stupidity: A Planned Mistake Is Something Worse

Dec 06, 2018
It seems we pilots never run out of ways to be stupid. I think the best way to avoid that is to examine the actions of others who clearly did not.

Cause & Circumstance

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A Near Catastrophe: Within Feet Of Becoming The Worst Air Disaster

Nov 26, 2018
An Air Canada A320 came within seconds of landing atop a line of four airliners waiting on a parallel taxiway to take off from Runway 28R at San Francisco.
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NTSB Advises On Expectation Bias And New Avionics

Nov 20, 2018
NTSB calls out the dangers of “expectation bias” and urges better training for pilots to understand this phenomenon.
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Accidents In Brief: Selected Accidents And Incidents

Nov 20, 2018
Selected accidents and incidents from October 2018. The NTSB information is preliminary.

Technology

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Rolls-Royce’s Cultured Pearl: Engine Maker’s Latest Bizav Entry

Nov 20, 2018
There has never been a time in business aviation when the manufacturers of intercontinental business jets have had so many high-performance engine options.
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Rolls Praises Pearl 15's Engine Health Monitoring System

Nov 20, 2018
Engines that are “contextually aware,” can “think for themselves” and are “comprehending” are described in a Rolls white paper on the new Pearl 15 turbofan.

Pilot Report

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Embraer's Prætor 500 And 600: No-Excuses Transcontinental Range

Nov 20, 2018
The two newly anointed Brazilian aviation “magistrates” are, once again, raising price-versus-performance expectations in their respective segments.

Cabin Connectivity

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2018 Cabin Electronics: What's New From Satcom Providers

Nov 20, 2018
Satcom providers are offering new high-bandwidth, business aviation-only services as avionics manufacturers ready smaller, faster systems to exploit them.

Personal Perspective

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Down Under: Rethinking Flying Well Below FL 450

Nov 20, 2018
There are other down-under aviators like me who question the plethora of restricted airspaces and areas. This VFR pilot is keen to see what results.

Retrospective: Greenhouse Patter

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The Early Days

Nov 20, 2018
Reprint remembers flying in the Northeast U.S. after World War !.

Point of Law

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‘Increasing Charter Air Transportation Options’: Reviewing New Broker Regs

Nov 20, 2018
Fourteen years after calling for regulations of air charter brokers, the U.S. Transportation Department has finally published a new set of regulations.

20/Twenty

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The Ultimate Narrowbody Citation 560: Encore+

Dec 17, 2018
The Model 560 Citation family is the fastest and farthest flying group of light jets built by Cessna under the original Citation 500 type certificate.

NextGen Files

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Blue Ridge Fusion: Technology Helps Remove High-Terrain Blind Spots

Nov 20, 2018
NextGen ultimately will affect almost all aircraft movement — on the ground as well as in the air.

On Duty

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News Of Business Aviation Promotions, Appointments And Honors

Nov 20, 2018
News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

Product & Services Previews

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BCA Business Aviation Product And Service Previews

Nov 20, 2018
BCA business aviation product and service previews

BCA 50 Years Ago

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Business & Commercial Aviation News From December 1968

Nov 20, 2018
Business & Commercial Aviation news from December 1968.​