As AAM aircraft move closer to deployment, regional airports are discovering that infrastructure readiness depends on coordinated systems, operational data, and community alignment.
Airports are among the most tightly controlled environments. In both commercial and business aviation, much of which is largely invisible to passengers yet is paramount for safe travels.
The number of hours flown by corporate, fractional, charter and private individual operators from March to May 2026 rose when compared to hourly utilization performance during the same period of 2025 and 2019, according to Aviation Week’s Tracked Aircraft Utilization data.
The total number of hours flown by private aviation providers NetJets and Flexjet rose during the March to May 2026 period compared to the same period in 2025, both with an increase of 12%, according to Aviation Week’s Tracked Aircraft Utilization data.
The national average for a gallon of Jet-A fuel in June totaled $8.18, according to a survey of U.S. FBOs by the Aviation Research Group, including taxes and fees.
Now 75, the company trains tens of thousands of pilots, technicians and professionals from business, commercial, military and government aviation every year.
Platoon Aviation has signed a multi-aircraft order with Textron Aviation which will make it the owner of Europe’s largest Cessna Citation Longitude fleet.
Tamarack Aerospace Group developed an inflight connectivity system for Cessna Citation light jets that is intended to access low-Earth-orbit satellite networks.