Business & Commercial Aviation

Clay Lacy Aviation has opened a new round-the-clock aircraft MRO facility for its FAR Part 145 repair station at Van Nuys Airport outside Los Angeles.

The NTSB's biennial "Most Wanted List" of safety improvements includes a recommendation to hold FAR Part 135 ops to the same requirements as scheduled airlines.

Boeing reports having made a significant investment in supersonic business-jet developer Aerion to accelerate development of its Mach 1.4 AS2.

The introduction of the Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet has prompted the FAA to propose a change in regulations for obtaining an initial transport pilot certificate.

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Bombardier's Global 7500 has earned European Aviation Safety Agency certification, which follows approvals from Transport Canada and the FAA.

Honeywell Aerospace is closing its longtime office at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport and moving repair and overhaul operations 170 mi. northeast to Olathe, Kansas.

Israel Aerospace Industries reportedly has approved the development of an advanced model of the Gulfstream Aerospace G280, which it manufactures under license.

According to the head of Embraer Executive Aircraft, a potential Boeing-Embraer partnership would benefit his division, which would become Embraer's largest.

State Farm has received a long-term FAA waiver to fly drones beyond the operator's visual line of sight and over people, activities that have been restricted.

Lynx FBO Network has acquired the FBO assets of World Jet Inc. at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (KFXE) in Florida.

Avfuel has added Blue Heron Aviation in the Turks and Caicos Islands to its network of independent FBOs.

The Bell 407GXi light single helicopter has received type certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

British unmanned aircraft developer Blue Bear Systems Research has begun flights along a corridor established in the UK for beyond-visual-line-of-sight testing.

Orlando-Melbourne (Florida) International Airport officials are seeking developers to build an upscale hotel with airfield access.

With the battle against ATC privatization behind it, the NBAA is focusing on the industry's pressing shortage of pilots, mechanics and other professions.

Jetex Flight Support is one of the world's fastest-growing FBO chains with 29 facilities and more to come, but its Jetex Dubai facility remains its showpiece.

EASA has approved a Rolls-Royce request to transfer design authorization to Germany from Britain as a precaution against a possible no-deal Brexit.

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

The FAA and numerous industry documents have compiled lists of typical student errors during autorotation training.

BCA visited nine flight schools in Florida (1), California (1), Hawaii (2), Montana (1) and Utah (4) to sample autorotation training in helicopters.

A total of 61 helicopter accident investigation reports involving an autorotation are contained in the NTSB's accident database for 2016 and 2017.

An Embraer business jet was damaged when it stalled during the flare phase of a final approach, impacted the ground and came to a stop at an edge of the runway.

The BFU took note of the December 2014 accident at Gaithersburg, Maryland, involving an EMB-500 in which the airplane stalled in icing conditions.

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