Business & Commercial Aviation

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

The NBAA is fighting to preserve Santa Monica (California) Municipal Airport across two separate but related fronts. First, the association has filed an en-blanc petition asking for a rehearing by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia of a recent determination that a January 2017 settlement between the city of Santa Monica and the FAA did not constitute a final action by the agency.

Sheltair Aviation plans to build, lease and manage a new 20-acre hangar complex at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport with fixed-base operator services.

Over the next 10 years, the Latin American business aircraft fleet is expected to slightly contract, moving to 3,765 aircraft in 2027 from 4,525 in 2018.

Aspen Flying Club, located near Bye Aerospace’s facilities at Centennial Airport, Colorado, recently reserved 30 all-electric Sun Flyer 2 airplanes to use as trainers.

London Biggin Hill Airport is celebrating 15 years of its dedicated animal-handling service, SkyPets.

Gogo, one of the biggest providers of highly sought-after inflight connectivity, is struggling to turn that demand into dollars.

A U.S. patent application filed on Jan. 8 may provide clues to Bell’s design for an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.

Low-speed buffet sets a boundary between a safe flight region and a part of the flight envelope in which the airplane may encounter serious control problems.

Gulfstream’s G600 has begun FAA certification field performance testing close on the heels of type certification of its sibling G500.

In a recent study, the NTSB determined that more than 66% of fuel-management accidents occurred on flights when the intended destination was different than the departure airport.

The FAA has granted a two-year authorization to the Northern Plains Unmanned Aircraft Systems test site to fly large drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of the operator.

From March to July 2017, the U.S. and UK banned laptop computers in the cabins of commercial aircraft on flights from 12 countries.

Gulfstream Aerospace’s new G500 twin-engine business jet received type certification and its production certificate from the FAA on July 20.

Selected accidents and incidents from July 2018.

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BCA shares news of the latest products and services for the business aviation industry.

Thermal runaways and resultant fires of lithium-ion batteries powering electronic devices brought on aircraft continue to vex regulatory agencies and operators.

FalconEye was developed in concert with Elbit Systems. It includes the largest field-of-view, brightest and highest resolution HUD yet offered in a Falcon Jet.

According to the FAA, between March 1991, and May 2018, there were 206 thermal runaway incidents involving lithium batteries at airports or onboard aircraft.

Louisa Fisher, cabin safety program manager at FlightSafety International, answers questions on how to deal with lithium-ion battery fires on business aircraft.

The tables show Jet-A and avgas prices from a survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in August 2018.

Rockwell Collins recently signed on as a service provider of Iridium Certus satellite solutions over the Iridium NEXT network. Rockwell will be adding the service to its aircraft connectivity applications, delivering the next-generation L-band broadband solution for commercial, government and ARINCDirect customers. In addition, it will design and produce Iridium Certus service terminals.

Signature Flight Support posted revenue of $926.3 million during the first half of 2018, up 15.4% from the same period a year ago.

Every training flight is followed by an analysis that may take longer than the flight itself. The debrief was a major part of the training sortie.