Business & Commercial Aviation

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

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.
Business Aviation

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.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
Selected accidents and incidents in June 2016. The following NTSB information is preliminary.
Business Aviation

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

By Jessica A. Salerno
BCA readers share their opinions on articles we published.
Business Aviation

By James Albright
The primary purpose of investigating any aircraft accident is to prevent recurrence. Legal teams may wrestle with "who" when assigning blame, but investigators are focused on the "why" to make sure the "what" never happens again.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
Aircraft operating costs are presented in a format that separates the data into seven areas: Mission Costs, Variable Costs, Fixed Annual Costs, Periodic Costs, Personnel Costs, Training Costs and Facilities Costs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jessica A. Salerno
Jet spacing over the North Atlantic was reinstated to 120 mi. at all altitudes. The FAA cited the complexity of a double standard above and below 29,000 ft., and excessive ATC workload from numerous requests for altitude changes. With this decision, the FAA validated ALPA’s arguments for such reinstatement.
Business Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
Managing an aircraft flight path, along with its energy level, is a basic piloting responsibility. The professional pilot community has been told for decades about the importance of the stabilized approach. It has been a consistent message from aviation safety organizations around the world. And yet the problem of unstabilized approaches continues.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
Despite there being only a handful of the 30-seat regional turboprops still in service, it is such an extraordinary machine that we decided to focus on it for this month’s used aircraft report.
Business Aviation

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

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Jet-A And Avgas Per-Gallon Fuel Prices July 2016
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
NetJets' first Latitude—the 7,000th Citation delivered by Cessna since it entered the business jet market in 1972—has begun service and will soon be joined by others, apparently many others
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
AirSprint, a Canadian-based privately held fractional-aircraft company, has signed an order with Embraer for 12 Legacy 450 midsize business jets.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Bombardier Business Aircraft plans to soon open a wholly owned service center at London Biggin Hill Airport.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Switzerland’s business aviation sector is poised for further growth, as long as capacity and regulatory issues do not stifle potential, according to industry players gathered for the first Business Aviation National Forum in Switzerland.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Ross Aviation is back in the FBO business, having recently acquired six former Landmark Aviation bases.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The 100th Series 400 Twin Otter took flight recently from Viking Air’s production facility in Canada.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Signature BKL’s campus spans four acres with a 6,000-sq.-ft. executive FBO terminal and an 18,750-sq.-ft. hangar featuring high-efficiency lighting.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Pratt and Whitney Canada last month agreed to provide Antonov’s An-132 multipurpose aircraft program with a new version of the PW150A turboprop.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
MAC Air Group of the Maine Aviation Corp., joined the AvFuel Network as it opened its new FBO facility—MAC Jets LLC—in late June.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Daher announced that 208 Aviation, a private company, has been appointed as a TBM service center for southern Africa.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Duncan Aviation has released the Certification Straight Talk Book, which is aimed at making the cumbersome process of certifying work on an aircraft a little clearer and less frustrating for operators.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Executive AirShare, the Kansas-based regional fractional aircraft program, has changed owners and received a hefty investment in the process.
Business Aviation