Business & Commercial Aviation

Ruag MRO International has delivered a 19-passenger Dornier 228 to New Central Airservice in Japan, which operates between the mainland and Izu Islands.

Vista Global, owner of charter providers VistaJet and XOJet, plans to acquire JetSmarter, an online jet sharing provider and digital technology developer.

Italian aircraft maker Tecnam reports taking orders for 51 aircraft during the recent Aero Friedrichshafen show in Germany.

A pair of Bombardier Global 6000s have been delivered to Turkey to be prepared for a conversion process that will turn them into standoff jammer platforms.

Bombardier has concluded the sale of its flight training and technical activities to CAE in a transaction valued at $645 million.

The accurate display of airspeed information at high altitude is vital because the margins between the low-speed and high-speed buffet margins can be thin.

Dassault Aviation says it plans to acquire ExecuJet's MRO business at Subang Airport in Malaysia as it strengthens its aftermarket support in Southeast Asia.

Icon Aircraft, maker of the amphibious Icon A5, has opened its first sales and demonstration center, at Santa Monica Municipal Airport in California.

The NTSB recently issued its 2019-20 Most Wanted List, and prominent among the top 10 is "Improve the Safety of Part 135 Aircraft Flight Operations."

Eccelsa Aviation is an FBO in Sardinia and for most of the year, it's a relatively quiet place. But each June, that changes and there are few busier FBOs.

Although transport aircraft have three independent speed-sensing systems, environmental factors such as high-altitude ice crystals have the potential to remove this redundancy and create simultaneous failures.

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

FBW systems present a special challenge in the event of inaccurate airspeed indications caused by reversion to laws/modes that alter flight envelope protection.

World Fuel Services is now supplying Gateway Aviation Services at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.

In January 1999, we did some European and South American trips and flew once a year to Asia, but basically, we were a domestic operation.

The financial pressures affecting helicopter operators supporting the oil and gas industry are cited as Petroleum Helicopters files for bankruptcy protection.

By the 1920s, it was apparent that with larger aircraft carrying growing numbers of people, there a cabin crewmember was needed to take care of passengers.

Jetex has opened its third location in Japan—at Kansai International Airport. It adds to the existing Jetex portfolio of 56 locations in 26 countries.

The Corporate School of Etiquette was launched by a former corporate flight attendant to focus on the finer areas of service skills and culinary arts training.

L3 Commercial Aviation has placed an order for up to 240 new Piper aircraft to expand and modernize the training fleet at its airline academies.

Whenever I witness a transport airplane cross a runway threshold by a few feet, I think back to all the accidents in which aiming for “brick one” ended badly.

Harbour Air, North America's largest seaplane airline, has partnered with motor developer magniX to convert its fleet to electric propulsion.

Questions for William Korner, chairman and CEO of Flight Research Inc. and The International Flight Test Institute, Mojave Air & Space Port, Mojave, California.

Business aircraft travel to Moscow in the last two years has fallen by 50% and is continuing at that level the year, says security expert Charlie Leblanc.

It seemed nothing would go right for Ameristar Charters Flight 9363 until the captain averted tragedy by aborting the takeoff after accelerating through V1.