Business & Commercial Aviation

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

Questions for First Aviation Services Chairman/CEO Aaron Hollander.

This year’s EBACE gathering drew something like 12,000+ attendees from 100 countries, 450 exhibiting companies and 54 show aircraft on the static line next door at Geneva International Airport.

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

Pilatus is on schedule to deliver its 1,600th PC-12 aircraft this year, by far the largest number of single-engine pres- surized turboprops in the business aircraft fleet.

The continuing expansion of feeder-level airlines has given impetus to the rapid development of a generation of bantam liners.

Avflight Corp. opened its new 5,000-sq.-ft. FBO in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in May.

Elliott Aviation has announced its addition to the Tamarack Aerospace Group’s dealer network authorizing its to install Tamarack Active Winglets at three of its facilities.

Is it possible to hack into an aircraft in flight, worm into the higher avionics functions, and take over control of the plane?

The International Transport Forum says: "Experts from the transport policy community outside of aviation will also need to be engaged in the policy debate on drones.”

Listen in as William Garvey, Editor-in-Chief of Business & Commercial Aviation interviews Steve McCaughey, Executive Director of Seaplane Pilots Association.

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

Citation X program officials recall favorite moments, including increasing maximum speed rating and record-setting flight.

Million Air celebrated its grand opening at Westchester County Airport, New York, in May. The 52,000-sq.-ft. hangar is part of Million Air's $80 million expansion and upgrade at the airport. The two-story hangar features 28-ft.-high doors, radiant heated floors, eight customizable offices with storage space and 7.25 acres of ramp space.

Gulfstream Aerospace plans to build a $55 million, 202,000-sq.-ft. service center at its Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport campus in Georgia, and employ an additional 200 people there.

The Town of East Hampton, New York, cannot divert airport revenue to pay for legal fees resulting from its unsuccessful effort to restrict access at East Hampton Airport, according to an appeal to the FAA filed by the National Business Aviation Association.

J.A. Air Center in Sugar Grove, Illinois, has joined the Air Elite Network. Based at Aurora Municipal Airport, the FBO has a 11,000-sq.-ft. terminal facility, 100,000 sq. ft. of heated hangar space and a 20,000-sq.-ft. arrival canopy.

Clay Lacy Aviation has opened a 65,000-sq.-ft. aircraft maintenance facility at Waterbury Oxford Airport in Oxford, Connecticut.

Aero Star Aviation has received FAA Part 145 repair station certification for its Dallas Love Field operation. The facility provides maintenance for Embraer Phenom 100s and 300s and capabilities on Cessna Citation 500s and 600s.

Fractional aircraft operator Flexjet plans to move its Richardson, Texas, operations to the Braniff Center at Dallas Love Field. A private terminal and 60,000-sq.-ft. maintenance hangar are scheduled to open in mid-2019.

Fred Schrameck, the former CEO of Epic Air of Bend, Oregon, recently pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for a scheme involving his consumer aviation company, Aircraft Completion Services.

Business Jet Center at Dallas Love Field is returning to the Paragon Network. It is the only award-winning FBO at Love Field and continues to place at the top of operator surveys.

There were smiles all around in Stans, Switzerland, because Pilatus delivered 115 aircraft in 2017, grossed sales worth $987 million and closed out the year certifying and delivering the first PC-24 twinjet.

Textron Aviation recently chalked up orders for 52 Cessna 172 Skyhawks from two Cessna-authorized sales and service representatives in China, with deliveries expected to be completed this year.

Berry Aviation in San Marcos, Texas, has begun a $2.7 million expansion of its headquarters, breaking ground on a 31,000-sq.-ft. facility at San Marcos Regional Airport.