Business & Commercial Aviation

More Business & Commercial Aviation News From January 1968

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.

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.

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.

Questions for BCA Safety Editor Dick Aarons, a 50-year member of the staff.

Selected accidents and incidents in November 2017.

Many of the runways used by business aircraft lack the surface features (grooves, crowning, PFC) that lessen the effects of runway contamination.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

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.

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

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.

Fast Five with Neil Book, President and CEO of Jet Support Services, Inc.

Esterline CMC Electronics and NovAtel have formed a partnership to extend their collaboration in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning technology.

Most pilots have experienced a black-hole approach or departure—a nighttime phenomenon that, if gone unrecognized, can lead to disaster.

Selected accidents and incidents in October 2017. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

Questions for Neil Book, president and CEO of Jet Support Services Inc. of Chicago.

How often are you required to do something so quickly in your cockpit that you have no time to read your checklist, consult the crew or think? During my years as a U.S. Air Force pilot, I was fed a steady dose of what we called "bold-print" items in our checklists that had to be committed to memory.

Action on the air-to-ground connectivity front continues unabated.

Mercy Flight, a nonprofit provider of air and ground medical transport services, has signed a purchase agreement for an additional three Bell 429 light twin-engine helicopters.

Airbus has sold its Vector Aerospace subsidiary, best known for its rotary-wing repair and overhaul work, to StandardAero.

​Business jet takeoffs and landings in North America rose 3.5% in September, Vertical Research Partners reports, using FAA figures. The figure is in line with a year-to-date average increase of 3.5%, although it is lower than the 6% reported in August.

ARGUS International has introduced an automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) integration into its aircraft activity analysis and market intelligence tool TRAQPak FBO.

FedEx Corp. plans to add Apparel Systems' Vision 1000, an FAA-certified cockpit recording device, to its fleet of 240 Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster aircraft.

Astronautics Corp. of America is undertaking the next phase of a contract with the FAA focused on developing and validating the methodologies for cybersecurity on core avionics systems.

According to Forecast International, business jet production is expected to total 12,282 aircraft valued at $354 billion from now through 2031. It believes annual unit production will increase to 799 in 2020 from 647 aircraft this year. That figure is projected to slightly decline in 2021 and 2022 due to cyclical economic factors, followed by a quick rebound in 2023. Annual output is then expected to rise steadily to 957 business jets by the year 2030, it said.