Business & Commercial Aviation

Dean Rush, a pilot and former corporate CEO turned pastor, tells BCA how lessons from his business career shaped his current goal.

BCA breaks down mission costs — direct costs, fuel expenses and per-mile costs — as well as flight times for turboprops heavier than 12,500 lb. and jets lighter than 20,000 lb.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a way of reinforcing composites using tiny carbon nanotubes (CNT) that testing has shown can increase strength by 30%.

Jet-A And Avgas Per-Gallon Fuel Prices August 2016

It’s reasonable to ask just how reliable are FANS and its constituent parts.

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

Despite some storms at midweek, the Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA) AirVenture, held July 24-30, drew more attendees, exhibitors and show planes than last year, prompting CEO and Chairman Jack Pelton to declare it a magical week.

Thrush Aircraft is using a dual-seat 510G to help promote the agricultural aviation industry in an Ag Aviation—Feeding the World campaign.

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.

The Philippines Civil Aviation Authority has given approval to Jet Aviation to support Falcon 900-series aircraft registered there at the company's maintenance, refurbishment and overhaul facility in Basel, Switzerland.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Desert Jet Center, based at Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in Riverside County, California, has opened its FBO.

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.

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.