Business & Commercial Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The FAA has issued multiple waivers allowing operators to fly parachute-equipped drones over people—flights normally banned because of the risk to bystanders.
Business Aviation

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

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Electric motor developer MagniX has teamed up with certification specialist AeroTEC to convert the Cessna 208B Caravan to electric propulsion.
Business Aviation

Maintaining effective flight control of an airborne airplane is probably the most critical consideration in aviation.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The Italian government hopes a federal money transfusion will help bring ailing Piaggio Aerospace back to financial health, or at least extend its life.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Canada's Viking Air has announced the sale of six new CL-515 water bombers along with a CL-415 upgraded from a piston CL-215 to Indonesia's Ministry of Defense.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Rolls-Royce recently announced its plan to acquire Siemens' electric and hybrid electric aerospace propulsion unit.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey
Aero Club-France is the biennial venue for the Aerospace Media Dinner that is convened to celebrate the previous 12 months’ best from the industry’s media.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Gary Burrell, co-founder of the Garmin International maker of GPS devices, died June 1. He was 81. He retired in 2002 and then was co-chairman until 2004.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
As of May, the number of turbine-powered U.S. business aircraft equipped with ADS-B rose to 73% of the fleet, or 13,174 aircraft, according to a report by FlightAware.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Turkish Aerospace carried out the first flight of the complete prototype of its T625 Gokbey utility helicopter on June 29.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The U.S. Air Force wants to purchase up to five new Bombardier Global 6000s, designated as E-11s, according to a document requesting information.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The tables show Jet-A and avgas prices from a survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in July 2019.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation delivered its 300th Cessna Citation CJ4 in June to McNeilus Steel of Dodge Center, Minnesota.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Duncan Aviation's MRO facility in Provo, Utah, has received Stage I accreditation from the International Standard for Business Aircraft Handling.
Business Aviation

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

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
To keep up with customer demand, PrivateFly has added summer routes to its schedule with fixed prices on a 13-seat Embraer Legacy 600.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
A Passenger Air Vehicle, an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing prototype developed by Aurora Flight Sciences, crashed during unmanned flight testing in June.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Swiss helicopter developer Kopter Group is flight-testing its SH09 single-engine helicopter in Sicily and hopes to earn EASA certification next year.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Wheels Up has acquired wholesale light-jet charter operator Travel Management Co., which operates 26 Hawker 400XPs.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
SSI Parts & Leasing, a division of Jet Support Services (JSSI), has signed a new supply-chain services agreement with Contour Aviation.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Daher, the producer of TBM single-engine, pressurized turboprops, has acquired Quest Aircraft Co., manufacturer of the PT6-powered Kodiak 100 bush plane.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Meller Optics has introduced custom-fabricated large sapphire windows for use protecting electronics in aircraft and drones that fly in demanding environments.
Business Aviation