Business & Commercial Aviation

The business aviation community has mostly focused on what the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 does not contain: ATC privatization.

Baker Aviation has begun construction of two new hangars at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport, with plans to centralize and expand its operations there.

Textron Aviation is enhancing the electronics on its Cessna and Beechcraft piston aircraft as part of Garmin’s G1000 NXi flight deck.

Textron Aviation is upgrading flight-deck capabilities with new-production Cessna Caravan and Grand Caravan EX turboprops.

Selected accidents and incidents from December and November 2018. The NTSB information is preliminary.

Pilots found themselves impaired visibility as they peered through scratched and degraded oxygen masks while shooting a CAT II approach.

Bombardier Aerospace delivered its first flagship Global 7500 long-range business jet Dec. 20 at a ceremony at its Montreal headquarters.

New aviation rollup iAero Group has signed a definitive agreement to purchase nearby Swift Air, an independent U.S. airline charter business.

Textron Aviation's flagship $26.9 million Citation Longitude super-midsize business jet was granted provisional type certification by the FAA on Dec. 19.

Business jet deliveries to the Middle East are expected to total nearly 200 aircraft over the next decade, with 12 deliveries in 2019 rising to 20 in 2028.

American Aero at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport has earned International Standard for Business Aircraft Handling Stage 3 certification.

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A flight crew’s timely response to a loss of cabin pressurization or to smoke or fumes is critical and certainly not the time to discover that your supplemental oxygen system isn’t working.

Oxygen flow to each individual mask is controlled by a regulator mounted on the mask. Masks commonly have two regulator switches.

Bell unveiled major configuration details of its Nexus on-demand urban air mobility concept at the recent Consumer Technology Association's CES 2019 show.

ASTM International has launched a certification program for business jet cabin crews by affiliate National Center for Aerospace and Transportation Technologies.

The most common oxygen mask components that fail are around valves, fittings, and connections involving rubber seals, tubing and hoses.

William "Bill" Juvonen, a former U.S. Marine Corps pilot and business aviation executive, died at home in Stamford, Connecticut, on Dec. 22, 2018, after a long illness. He was 81.

TAG Aviation has launched its first Asia-Pacific FBO. Located in Macau, the new facility represents the fourth FBO for TAG Aviation globally.

Yingling Aviation has announced a 73,000-sq.-ft. expansion to its facilities at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport.

Collins Aerospace is teaming with Inmarsat to offer Jet ConneX high-speed internet service to business aircraft operators.

A check ride is more of an evaluation of the training program than of the student. If the trainers did a good job, the student will pass.

William Garvey speaks with Rolland “Rollie” Vincent, President, Rolland Vincent Associates and JetNet iQ Creator/Director of Plano, Texas.

Nearly 150 BBJ, BBJ2 and BBJ3 aircraft have entered service since 1999, triple the number forecast by Borge Boeskov, first president of Boeing Business Jets.

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.