Business & Commercial Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Embraer Executive Jets is expanding its customer support network in Europe with the appointment of JF Service as its authorized service center for Legacy 450 and Legacy 500 business jets in Moscow.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Bombardier is now offering Ka-band high-speed internet on new Challenger 650s and as a retrofit on in-service Challenger 604, 605 and 650 jets through its service network.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
Selected accidents and incidents in May 2017. The following NTSB information is preliminary.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The Russian business aviation charter market grew 7% in the first five months of 2017 compared to a year ago and is expected to continue to expand during the summer, said analysts with the Aim of Emperor, which operates a group of Russian business aviation companies.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Aerion has selected GE Aviation to study engine development for its AS2 supersonic trijet.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
West Star Aviation has received FAA Part 145 repair station certification for its Denver satellite location at Centennial Airport, which opened in 2014.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The first production Citation Longitude rolled off the Textron Aviation line in Wichita in mid-June. The super-midsize, $24 million jet is to join the company's demonstration fleet this summer and travel the world to showcase the clean-sheet design.
Business Aviation

By James Albright
The Pointing-and-Calling method used by Japanese train engineers combines looking at something, pointing at it, calling out the observation and listening to your own voice.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
TAG Aviation's Farnborough Maintenance Services has been approved as the first UK-based Rolls-Royce authorized service center. It will support Rolls BR710 engines on Bombardier Global Express aircraft.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Nextant Aerospace has launched an upgrade program for Bombardier Challenger 604 business jet, but fitting the flight deck with Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion integrated avionics.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Bombardier said it used biofuels supplied by AEG Fuels to fly its Learjet 75, Challenger 350 and 650, and Global 6000 jets to the European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition in Geneva.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Using data from its proprietary customer database, the FAA and other industry sources, Duncan Aviation reports that as of March 31, roughly 10,000 U.S. registered business jets—73% of the fleet—have not yet been made compliant with the FAA's ADS-B Out mandate.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
News of promotions, appointments and honors involving professionals within the business aviation community.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
PrivateJetCardComparisons.com is a new service launched so consumers can compare more than 80 private jet card programs before they buy, said Doug Gollan, the company's founder.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
VistaJet reports it has eliminated ferry-flight fees for new program customers, a potential savings of $10,000 or more per flight.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Czech Republic-based airline Travel Service has become Textron Aviation's first European customer for the Citation Longitude super-midsize business jet, the company said. The aircraft will be used for business-aircraft charter services.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Jet Aviation has redelivered a ACJ330 and ACJ319 to its customer in the Middle East after extensive renovations. Work was completed in Basel, Switzerland.
Business Aviation

Drones are easy to fly and have numerous safety and fail-safe features such as a programmable return-to-home capability.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Textron Aircraft has delivered the 2,000th Cessna Citation CJ light jet, a Citation CJ3+. The CJ family of aircraft, which currently includes the Citation M2, Citation CJ3+ and Citation CJ4, has reached nearly 5 million flight hours.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Flexjet reports that strong growth is prompting it to hire more pilots. The fractional operation said new business is up 50% during the first five months of this year compared to a year ago, and that is on top of 20% growth in new business last year.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Germany-based charter operator Air Hamburg is the launch customer for Embraer's Legacy 650E large business jet, and will expand its fleet with an additional order for three new Legacy 650Es.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Innovative Solutions & Support has received the FAA’s Supplemental Type Certification for its non-FADEC turboprop autothrottle for retrofit in the Pilatus PC-12.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey
For reasons expected and not, my summer has been absent those lazy, hazy days. Rather, it's been a period of propulsion, speedy and otherwise, along highways, railways, airways and seaways.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Airbus Helicopters reports construction is underway for its H135 Final Assembly Line in Qingdao, China. The work is expected to be completed by 2018.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Here are some statistics from the European Business Aviation Convention Exhibition held in Geneva May 22-24: 13,000 attendees from nearly 40 countries; more than 400 exhibitors in the Palexpo halls; 56 aircraft on static display.
Business Aviation