Business & Commercial Aviation

The Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet only has been in production for 15 months and the planemaker already is announcing a Generation 2 version.

Bye Aerospace, which is developing a family of electric aircraft, received a major investment by the Subaru-SBI Innovation Fund.

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

Ajwa Aviation Services, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, plans to construct a number of hangars on a secure site at Riyadh Airport as the number of customers grows.

Cirrus Aircraft cofounder and CEO Dale Klapmeier plans to relinquish his chief executive post and transition into a senior advisory role during the first half of this year.

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

Nancy Leveson, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, has been on a 30-plus-year quest to engineer out hazards that can lead to aircraft accidents.

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

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

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

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.

London Biggin Hill Airport reports its traffic grew by 12% in 2018, while it says there was a 1% decline in business aviation activity at other London airports.

How can you tell if it’s genuine leather? Touch it. Depending on the quality, the real McCoy can feel coarse or smooth, or anywhere in between.

Tecnam, the Italian aircraft manufacturer, recently received full type certification for the P2012 Traveller from the European Aviation Safety Agency.

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

As far as I can see, we pilots fit into two groups. Half of us are compelled to double-check things that have already been checked.

When performing a preflight, it is important to review the temperature compensation chart next to the oxygen cylinder to ensure you have a full supply.

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Leather grades can seem cryptic at first but basically they differ only by their handling and the chemical procedures applied to the material.

The Cessna Citation Sovereign has earned a reputation for rock-solid reliability, plus it has the largest cabin of any midsize jet of its vintage.

Buenos Aires and Cordoba are the magnet destinations of the majority of business aviation flights to Argentina, while a lesser number head to the huge country’s many scenic wonders.

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

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

Genuine leather remains the preferred product for aircraft seating upholstery, while textiles are usually specified for headliners and sidewalls.

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