Jet Aviation has signed a preferred fixed base operation service agreement with Excellent Air, a German-based charter service operating what it says is Europe’s largest fleet of Cessna Citation CJ2 aircraft, along with several Citation XLSs. The aircraft are based in Memmingen, Germany.
Tubreaux Aviation Services, based in Shreveport, Louisiana, has joined the Avfuel branded fixed-base operator network, including Avuel Contract Fuel and AvTrip rewards.
Walk up to a Series II Kodiak and you will be hard-pressed to notice differences between it and the original model unless you have logged hundreds of hours in the type.
The assessment of a $3.3 million fine against a business aircraft operator for performing hundreds of bogus charters has put U.S. aviation communities on notice.
Operated by the Air Charter Safety Foundation, the Illegal Charter Reporting Hotline is open to employees or agents of FAR Part 135 on-demand certificate holders and the general public to file reports of suspected illegal commercial flights.
The NBAA and National Air Transportation Association have published consumer guides to explain the ins and outs of air charter and how to evaluate providers.
Honeywell plans to move its corporate headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina, from Morris Plains, New Jersey, and also move its Safety and Productivity Solutions business group there from Fort Mill, South Carolina.
While anti-icing fluids negate the serious effects of wing icing, recent research has determined the fluids themselves extract a significant penalty from the wing's aerodynamic capabilities.
Too often we see an NTSB finding that states: "The probable cause(s) of this accident [involving a highly experienced airman] is determined to be the pilot's decision to initiate and continue flight into known adverse weather conditions, which resulted in spatial disorientation, a loss of airplane control and a subsequent inflight breakup."
Questions for Rolland Vincent, president of Rolland Vincent Associates, JetNet iQ creator/director and former executive at Textron, Bombardier and ICAO.
At this point, business and general aviation constitute a pretty staid, predictable and, critics might say, unexciting industry. And by some measures, that's absolutely true.
The NTSB concluded that Fleming “likely experienced some level of spatial disorientation” and he also perhaps thought the autopilot was engaged when it was not.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) President and CEO Nimrod Shefer says his company is reviewing all of its operations, including its business jet activity.
Amprius, the provider of the batteries for Airbus’ record-breaking Zephyr solar-powered stratospheric unmanned aircraft says it is working with electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) developers on applications for its high energy-density lithium-ion cells.Where conventional lithium-ion batteries have graphite anodes and an energy density of 300-320 Wh/kg at best, Amprius’ cells use a silicon nanowire anode and have a specific energy of 435 Wh/kg.
