Business & Commercial Aviation

Questions for longtime aviation professionals Jim Cannon and John Sheehan.

Australian Transport Safety Bureau notes incidents in which pilots became distracted or confused while attempting to manage flight guidance systems in high-workload environments.

Naval aviator Lt. Cmdr. Anthony "Pampers" Kochanski is emblematic of military pilots who are lured away by the airlines because of pay and benefits.

Whichever finance “product” appeals to you, don’t rely on a “term sheet” to make your decision. Insist on reading all of the documents.

Qatar Airways has taken a minority stake in U.S. private aviation company JetSuite and indirectly in its sister company, JetSuiteX.

Great Lakes Airlines ceased operations in March, a decision it says resulted from the inability to hire enough pilots after the FAA's 2013 increase in minimum qualifications for first officers.

Jet Midwest has acquired the first of four Gulfstream GIV aircraft with Rolls-Royce Tay 611-8 engines as its first commitment to a Gulfstream product.

The aircraft salvage business can be the shortest, most direct path to lower operating costs and continued service of your aging, but still useful, aircraft.

AP Completion Services of Montreal has delivered a Gulfstream 650ER, its 100th business jet. Since its founding in November 2009, AP has delivered 135 aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force has allocated $250 million in its fiscal 2019 budget to equip 20 aircraft types for ADS-B Out position reporting.

Frugal and Gulfstream are in deep harmony at a high-energy business that is keeping legacy members of one of the best-known purpose-built business jet series alive and humming.

Electric airplanes' software, computer boards and augmented controls will be used for much more than propulsion, and will do so with precision, immediacy, efficiency and endurance unknown in mechanical systems, says GAMA executive Greg Bowles.

Zipline, which has been operating 15 drones to deliver blood, plasma and platelets to 21 hospitals in Rwanda since October 2016, has accelerated its delivery service and soon will expand operations to clinics in Tanzania.

Business aircraft flight activity rose 3.5% in February in North America compared to a year ago but fell slightly when compared to January figures, according to Argus International data.

Mission Aviation Fellowship International recently ordered five Cessna Caravan 208 turboprops for its operations in Papua New Guinea, with the option for an additional two aircraft.

Jet Aviation has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Hawker Pacific, a provider of integrated aviation solutions across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, for $250 million.

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

Israel's Elbit Systems Ltd. has finalized its $120 million acquisition of Universal Avionics Systems Corp., which will lead Elbit's commercial aviation sales in North America.

Flying into airports in Istanbul; Athens, Greece; Bucharest, Romania; and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

Bye Aerospace's battery-powered Sun Flyer 2 took flight for the first time April 10 at Denver's Centennial Airport.

Gulfstream Aerospace passed a major milestone in April when it delivered the 300th G650, slightly more than five years since its premier model entered service.

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

Tamarack Aerospace Group received additional EASA and FAA approvals for its active winglets on the Cessna Citation business jet line, with new supplemental type certificate (STC) authorizations for the C525A series including the CJ2 and CJ2+ aircraft. Tamarack already has approvals on the C525 and C525B CJ series.

Daher introduced the latest features and functionality on the Garmin G3000 all-glass integrated flight deck configuration for the TBM 930 — the high-end model in Daher’s turboprop aircraft family.