Business & Commercial Aviation

Textron Aviation has delivered its first fully configured Hawker 400XPR. The aircraft, which is owned by a Seattle-based company, was upgraded at Textron's Wichita Service Center with new winglets, Williams International FJ-44 engines, a refurbished interior and a new paint scheme.

The TAG Aviation Maintenance Service Center in Geneva has expanded its on-site aircraft refurbishment services by adding an off-the-shelf cabin wood revarnishing process for aircraft cabin interiors.

Bombardier Aerospace and its largest union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, have reached a new collective labor agreement at its Wichita facility.

Jetcraft, the international aircraft sales, marketing and ownership strategies consultancy, forecasts that—excepting at least four potential supersonic business aircraft already announced—as many as 19 new or updated aircraft will enter service from next year through 2023.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court in California has approved Zetta Jet's request to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee and the U.S. Trustee's Office was expected to act accordingly and quickly.

Italy's Leonardo has moved another step toward bringing its AW609 tiltrotor to market with the certification of the aircraft's Pratt & Whitney Canada powerplant.

The TrueNorth Avionics brand will be transitioning to Satcom Direct in the coming months, reflecting the integration of the two companies.

Wheels Up, the private membership lift provider, reports it closed an equity-based fund raising round of $117.5 million and increased its enterprise value to $1 billion—making it akin to a so-called unicorn in start-up investment circles.

Duncan Aviation's satellite avionics shops will offer flat-rate installations of LoPresti's BoomBeam High Intensity Discharge lighting systems on a variety of business aircraft.

Companies that use business aviation to further their success outperform those that do not, according to a new Nexa Advisors study of S&P 500 companies.

Raisbeck Engineering has earned an FAA Supplemental Type Certificate for Hartnzell Propeller's new 106-in.-dia., five-blade composite propeller designed for the Beechraft King Air 350.

Embraer has begun delivering the initial Legacy 500 jets assembled at its Melbourne, Florida, facility. The first was handed over to an undisclosed customer in the U.S.

Jet Support Services Inc. (JSSI) and Hong Kong-based Metrojet, a business aircraft services provider, have signed an airframe maintenance agreement to offer customers on JSSI maintenance programs the ability to access airframe maintenance service at a Metrojet facility.

Flying Colours Corp. is working on three 120-month maintenance inspections for three Bombardier Global aircraft at its Peterborough, Ontario, facility.

Boeing is acquiring Aurora Flight Sciences and bringing in-house one of the most diverse and innovative portfolios of research programs in aerospace.

Bombardier Aerospace's fourth Global 7000 arrived at its Flight Test Center in Wichita on Sept. 30 to join the first three flight test aircraft currently in evaluation.

Honeywell has updated its MyAerospace e-commerce portal to simplify online ordering and tracking processes. It cuts the steps required by more than 20% and improves turnaround time by 50%, the company said.

Embraer's new Phenom 300E inherits the company's DNA design, first introduced on Embraer Executive Jets 450 and 500.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. has a program called Aircraft Ownership Service, a suite of aircraft maintenance and flight operations services that allow aircraft owners, flight departments and management companies to customize to their needs, the company said.

AMSTAT has launched its Aircraft Valuation Tool to help evaluate business aircraft through a partnership with Vangas, a joint venture of Van Buren Advisors and General Aviation Services.

Garmin Introduces G1000 NXi for the Citation Mustang.

CHC Helicopter, along with Leonardo and SkyTrac, have completed testing of a real-time health and usage monitoring system and cockpit electronic flight bag for the AW139.

The European Aviation Safety Agency, the FAA and Transport Canada Civil Aviation have signed new bilateral aviation safety procedure agreements expected to reduce cost and delivery times for exports.

Textron Aviation is opening the order book for its new large-cabin Citation Hemisphere. The company says it has received interest in the $35 million aircraft, its largest to date, from large fleet operators, corporate operators and individuals.

Authorities estimate some 100,000 pets have been displaced by the hurricanes that devastated Puerto Rico in September, and aviation in the form of Wings of Rescue is leading the relief effort.