Business & Commercial Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Flamingo Air in Cincinnati is establishing agreements with partner companies in Japan to offer drone training and maintenance and repair courses there.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Canadian corporate business aviation users, on average, outperformed non-users by 43% in top-line revenue growth, according to a study by NEXA Advisors.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
At the end of World War II, Leroy Grumman, co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., espoused the radical idea of building an aircraft designed expressly for the conveyance of small teams of business executives.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
Selected accidents and incidents in November 2017.
Business Aviation

The investigators' factual information on the loss of a Cessna Citation 525 contains lessons for all pilots flying aircraft with modern, complex flight management/information systems.
Business Aviation

By David Esler
Brad Mottier says the philosophy behind the conception of General Electric's Passport turbofan was to conceive an entirely new engine to power large long-range business jets at high speeds and altitudes with unprecedented fuel economy.
Business Aviation

By David Esler
GE Vice President and General Manager Brad Mottier wants the Passport turbofan to provide operators with a different product support experience.
Business Aviation

By James Albright
There are a variety of contributing factors that result in wrong-airport landings and a few common threads we can look out for to avoid being on the nightly news.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
Potential divert airports are organized by the specific services they offer, such as FBO line support and fuel, aircraft maintenance, passenger accommodations and amenities, and availability of airline service.
Business Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
Many of the runways used by business aircraft lack the surface features (grooves, crowning, PFC) that lessen the effects of runway contamination.
Business Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
The field of safety science has developed a hierarchy of steps to reducing accidents.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey
With this issue, Business & Commercial Aviation begins its 60th year of publishing in service to the business aviation community.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
More Business & Commercial Aviation News From January 1968
Business Aviation

By William Garvey
Questions for BCA Safety Editor Dick Aarons, a 50-year member of the staff.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
Business & Commercial Aviation News From January 1968
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Two years out from its mandate for aircraft to equip for ADS-B Out position reporting, the FAA is grappling with a significant level of misinstalled avionics.
Connected Aerospace

Jan. 1, 2020, seems like a long way off, but if you remember previous FAA mandates, the industry experienced huge backlogs because there simply was not enough hangar space.
Connected Aerospace

By Fred George
The Nextant G90XT's Regency flight deck is powered by Garmin G1000 avionics. It features 10.4-in. left- and right-side PFDs and a central 15-in. MFD that displays engine parameters, fuel quantity, flap position, oxygen quantity, and cabin altitude and pressure differential. Regency also clusters all annunciator lights in a new glareshield panel, rather than splitting them between top and bottom panels as with a stock King Air G1000 retrofit panel.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
At first glance, H-series engines look a lot like the Walter/Motorlet M601 powerplants from which they are derived. All engines in this family are two-shaft, reverse flow designs.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno, William Garvey
Readers comment on recent articles in BCA.
Business Aviation

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

By Fred George
Bombardier has delivered more than 200 Challenger 350 super-midsize jets since its introduction into service in mid-2014.
Business Aviation

BCA editors and our business aviation colleagues from the Aviation Week Network have hand picked the stories we published in 2017 that you won’t want to miss.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey
Fast Five with Neil Book, President and CEO of Jet Support Services, Inc.
Business Aviation