Business & Commercial Aviation

The Cessna Pilot Center network grew substantially in 2016, adding 24 flight centers as partners. Those include five international flight schools in Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Germany and Poland.

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Duncan Aviation and Gogo Business Aviation are developing STCs for Gogo’s new 4G service and Wi-Fi equipment.

Jet Support Service, Inc. and Constant Aviation are offering owners and operators an ADS-B upgrade program that will help JSSI clients meet the FAA’s Jan. 1, 2020, deadline for equipage.

Conklin & de Decker Life Cycle Cost Release 17.1 includes five new aircraft and expanded engine costs which include the details of internal engine components that are cycle and time limited for fixed-wing engines.

Lightspeed Aviation launched the Zulu 3 ANR headset that builds on the performance and features of the original Zulu and Zulu.2.

The second-generation system has dual core processors, 250 times more nonvolatile memory, better graphics refresh rates and less lag for zooming and panning.

Teterboro Airport and Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport remained the top two airports ranked by acukwik.com user traffic for the third consecutive month in January 2017, according to site metrics. The top six airports were stable.

Talaat Captan is founder and CEO of Air Hollywood, an aviation-themed movie studio that has everything found at an airport—except planes that fly.

The Beech King Air B100 is a versatile big-cabin turboprop for operators on a tight budget.

328 Support Services GmbH and Duncan Aviation have partnered to deliver and certify a full cabin completion on a Bombardier Challenger 604.

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has delivered its first CRJ200 Special Freighter to Gulf & Caribbean Cargo, its launch customer. The jets are converted from the passenger version by Aeronautical Engineers of Miami.

In December, FAA issued its final rule on the new Part 23 which is intended to reduce the time and cost to certificate aircraft under 19,000 lb.

UK-based BBA Aviation and Gama Aviation have joined their U.S. aircraft management and charter businesses, with a combined fleet of 200 aircraft.

AirFlyte has changed its name to Rectrix MRO. The rebranding stems from the 2013 acquisition of AirFlyte by Rectrix and reflects the company's corporate MRO services and presents a united brand.

Italian helicopter maker Leonardo-Finmeccanica is finding eager buyers among the Chinese. The company reports that it has sold more than 180 helicopters of various types to operators there.

LifePort, a Sikorsky company, has received FAA airworthiness certification for its Patient Loading Utility System for Pilatus PC-12/47 and PC-12/47E aircraft.

Air Methods Corp. has acquired three Airbus H145 helicopters for hospital-based air medical transport, to replace older aircraft now in service.

Executive AirShare, the Lenexa, Kansas-based fractional aircraft provider, has moved into hangar and office space at Col. James Jabara Airport in northeast Wichita from Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in west Wichita.

Indicative of the community's growing importance to China, business aircraft operators have joined to form the Beijing Business Aviation Association.

The FAA has issued new rules that make it easier and cheaper for certain recreational general aviation pilots to gain required medical certifications to fly.

JetSuiteX has begun selling seats for charter service to and from Santa Monica, California. Flights begin Feb. 6 to Las Vegas, San Jose and San Diego County airports.

FlightServ, an independent fixed-base operation, opened Jan. 1 at the Trenton-Mercer Airport in New Jersey. The FBO was founded by a team from its sister company, Aviation Charters.

Cirrus Aircraft has launched the G6, the latest upgrade of its SR series of single-engine piston aircraft. The new models feature Garmin's Cirrus Perspective+ flight deck.

Piper Aircraft has taken a firm order for 50 Piper Archer single-engine aircraft from China Air Shuttle. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2017.