Business & Commercial Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The Tecnam P2012 Traveller, a high-wing piston twin-engine multi-role aircraft, flew for the first time July 21.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
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.
Business 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 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
Selected accidents and incidents in June 2016. The following NTSB information is preliminary.
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 Jessica A. Salerno
News of promotions, appointments and honors involving professionals within the business aviation community
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 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
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
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
On Oct. 1, FAA will make the transition from its traditional domestic IFR flight plan (Form 7233-1) to the International Civil Aviation Organization IFR flight plan (Form 7233-4) for domestic flights.
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
“Understanding International Medevac,” a feature published in the January 2016 edition of Business & Commercial Aviation was named the Best Business Aviation submission.
Business Aviation