Business & Commercial Aviation

Lufthansa Technik has introduced a laser-based system for use when equipping VIP aircraft cabins in the framework of its research and innovation projects.

Ultimately you're going to have to upgrade to ADS-C and CPDLC to operate above FL 280 in most oceanic airspace anyway (e.g., by Jan. 1, 2020, in the North Atlantic), but here's what you're missing out on now in the North Atlantic Track System.

Janice K. Barden, founder of Aviation Personnel International, a San Francisco-based aviation recruiting firm specializing in business aviation, an industry in which she was a major figure, died July 31.

Astronautics Corp. of America is planning to build a first-of-its-kind, cockpit-based cybersecurity research laboratory at its Milwaukee facility.

With each new generation of aircraft, we are treated to levels of automation unparalleled in performance and reliability.

A Cessna Citation CJ3 equipped with a Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics upgrade made its first flight Aug. 2.

Market research provider ReportsnReports.com forecasts the global aviation fuel market to grow at a compound annual rate of 3.13% through 2020.

Tired of climbing into a cramped cockpit and contending with cumulonimbus and demanding passengers? Why not instead don a pair of fuzzy slippers, settle into a recliner and become a remote pilot in command?

Designers attempt to give exceptional capabilities in all areas, including price, but the laws of physics, thermodynamics and aerodynamics do not allow one aircraft to do all missions with equal efficiency. Tradeoffs are a reality of aircraft design.

BCA breaks down mission costs — direct costs, fuel expenses and per-mile costs — as well as flight times for heavy jets built by Dassault, Embraer, Bombardier, Gulfstream and Airbus.

The breath of offerings and technologies keeps expanding on the light end and beyond.

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Cirrus Aircraft reports FAA certification of its new Vision Jet SF50 single-engine jet is imminent.

Airbus Group Innovations has flown its E-Fan proof-of-concept electric aircraft with hybrid propulsion, adding an internal-combustion engine as a range extender.

The Tecnam P2012 Traveller, a high-wing piston twin-engine multi-role aircraft, flew for the first time July 21.

West Star Aviation has received a supplemental type certificate for Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast Out. The STC is applicable to CL-601-3A, CL-601-3R, Falcon 900B and Falcon 900EX aircraft with Honeywell GNSSU Global Position Sensors and Rockwell Collins TDR-94D transponders.

Quest Aircraft Co. recently completed a 27,000-sq.-ft. expansion of its Sandpoint, Idaho, production facility giving it a total of 110,000 sq. ft. under roof.

In a short preliminary report posted on Aug. 4, the National Transportation Safety Board says the Bell 525 that crashed in a flight test a month earlier broke up in flight.

The Lineage 1000E is a substantially upgraded and more capable version of the Embraer Corporate Jet.

BCA's editor-in-chief William Garvey interviews Elliot Seguin, Experimental Test Pilot, Mooney Aircraft & Wasabi Air Racing.

BCA breaks down mission costs — direct costs, fuel expenses and per-mile costs — as well as flight times for the Bombardier Learjet 70, Learjet 75, Cessna Citation XLS+ and Gulfstream 150 in the 2016 Operations Planning Guide.

In July 2016, Teterboro Airport was the business aviation airport viewed the most by acukwik.com users, according to a review of site metrics. As the temperatures in the United States increased, interest in certain warm weather destinations decreased. In Europe, a general trend toward resort travel was evident as well.

Selected accidents and incidents in June 2016. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

Elliot Sequin, experimental test pilot, Mooney Aircraft; founder/pilot Wasabi Air Racing, Mojave Air & Space Port, Mojave, California; [email protected]

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