Business & Commercial Aviation

FAR Part 135 charters today offer a complex variety of buying options that seem to cross over into scheduled operations.

BCA business aviation product and service previews.

dynamic remotely operated navigation equipment.

Wheels Up has acquired wholesale light-jet charter operator Travel Management Co., which operates 26 Hawker 400XPs.

We have entered the age of the drones, any aircraft operated without a human pilot aboard.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

To keep up with customer demand, PrivateFly has added summer routes to its schedule with fixed prices on a 13-seat Embraer Legacy 600.

The pre-owned business jet market will be worth $61 billion over the next five years, nearly two-thirds the value of new aircraft delivered, says Jetcraft.

Selected accidents and incidents from May 2019. The NTSB information is preliminary.

NTSB determines the probable cause was “the pilot’s loss of control due to spatial disorientation during takeoff in instrument meteorological conditions.

Swiss helicopter developer Kopter Group is flight-testing its SH09 single-engine helicopter in Sicily and hopes to earn EASA certification next year.

There are few technical barriers to replacing circling approaches with RNP procedures at many general aviation airports.

Serious pilots have to monitor the performance of doctors and computers in exam rooms as carefully as they do with other pilots and computers in the cockpit.

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has launched its annual survey of those who have taken flight training within the last year.

The FAA and EASA grounding of Cessna Citation 525, 525A and 525B business jets with Atlas active winglets forced Tamarack Aerospace into bankruptcy in June.

Frank Robinson became fascinated with helicopters at age 9 when he saw a news photo of Igor Sikorsky hovering his VS300 prototype.

Meller Optics has introduced custom-fabricated large sapphire windows for use protecting electronics in aircraft and drones that fly in demanding environments.

Daher, the producer of TBM single-engine, pressurized turboprops, has acquired Quest Aircraft Co., manufacturer of the PT6-powered Kodiak 100 bush plane.

(1) Air Canada Flight 797, June 2, 1983, cabin fire, NTSB AAR-86/02. (2) Air Cargo Carriers Flight 1260, May 5, 2017, complacency, NTSB DCA17FA109 (3) Air France Flight 296, June 26, 1988, complacency, Bureau Enquetes et Analyses (BEA) published April 1990.

David Coleal, president of Bombardier Aviation, said it will continue to support Learjet and the light business jet segment.

The de Havilland name has returned to aircraft manufacturing with the $300 million Dash 8 program sale by Bombardier to Canada's Longview Aircraft Capital.

Like most people my age, I can recall where I was when I heard that the space shuttle Challenger had exploded and broken apart, killing all seven crewmembers.

Boeing has launched a new Boeing Business Jet services bundle and signed its first multi-year agreement with business jet services provider Metrojet.

HK Bellawings, a Hong Kong-based aircraft management company, recently signed a letter of intent for five new Bombardier Global 7500 business jets.

A Passenger Air Vehicle, an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing prototype developed by Aurora Flight Sciences, crashed during unmanned flight testing in June.