Business & Commercial Aviation

Surf Air, the California-based air travel operator that offers all-you-can-fly private air travel, plans to launch operations in Europe beginning next month.

The few seconds it takes to run a full checklist are well worth investing, not only after maintenance but every time.

Alexandre Couvelaire, former owner of Mooney and creator of the TBM700, believes the electrically powered Sun Flyer, being developed by Aero Electric Aircraft Corp. in concert with Denver's Bye Aerospace, is emblematic of next-generation basic general aviation training aircraft and has backed up that by signing for three.

The challenging economic times are impacting Embraer. The Brazilian airframer has revised its business jet forecast downward due to a market that is more difficult than expected.

Geneva-based Tag Aviation has joined Stratagem's booking platform, to give Tag Aviation customers access to Stratajet customers as part of their booking options.

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

ONE Aviation has unveiled an upgraded Eclipse that will be able to fly a pilot and two passengers 1,400 nm at high-speed cruise and land with 100-nm NBAA IFR reserves.

Dean Rush, pastor and executive director, of faith breakthroughs, Kingsland Baptist Church, Katy, Texas.

The Civil Air Patrol recently ordered 17 Cessna Skylane 182Ts and two Turbo Stationair HD T206Hs.

While the advantages of ADS-C/CPDLC (or FANS 1/A) are legion, the datalink component is not without its pitfalls that can confuse the inattentive flight crew or one grown complacent due to the automation that characterizes the 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.

Honeywell International has sold its government-focused engineering and operations services business unit to a private equity giant KBR for roughly $300 million, the companies said.

Futuristic jet fuel that can change from liquid to jelly quickly is now being tested in simulated accident conditions by the FAA, reported BCA in September 1966.

Graphs are designed to illustrate the performance of Piper M600 [PA-46-600TP] under a variety of range, payload, speed and density altitude conditions. Do not use these data for flight planning because they are gross approximations of actual aircraft performance.

The number of U.S.-registered business turbine-aircraft accidents fell by five during the first six months of 2016, although fatalities were up by four, according to data from Robert E. Breiling Associates.

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

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

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

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.

What crews should know about the Future Air Navigation System

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

Oscar Garcia, chairman and CEO of InterFlight Global Corp., is scheduled to address market potential and obstacles to supersonic business aircraft at the SpeedNews annual Business and General Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference, Oct. 4-5 , in Los Angeles.

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.

Cruising with autothrottles set for a certain angle-of-attack can save enough Jet-A to avoid a refueling stop.

Gulfstream likely will achieve its goal of keeping earnings flat in 2016 with 2015, and 2017 earnings could be near flat as well, Jefferies analyst Howard Rubel says.