Business & Commercial Aviation

Carlo Logli, the CEO of Italy's Piaggio Aerospace, resigned in late August, just weeks after masterminding the company's restructuring.

SpeedNews plans to explore the major issues facing the business aircraft industry at its 21st annual Business and General Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference Oct. 4-5 in Los Angeles.

Icon Aircraft is shifting production of major components for its A5 sport amphibian from subcontractor Cirrus Design to its own 300,000-sq.-ft. facility in Tijuana, Mexico, that will be up and running by November.

The Quest Kodiak recently received type certification in Chile, its 23rd such approval. The company reports several additional certifications are imminent.

There's a new campaign underway to fully restore the Burgess-Wright Model F Aircraft that landed on the White House lawn a century ago and put it on permanent display at Reagan National Airport’s Historic Terminal A. Designed by the Wright Brothers and manufactured under license by Starling Burgess, the Model F landed on the South Lawn of the White House on July 14, 1911.

Bombardier celebrated 40 years of operations in Tucson, Arizona, where it occupies nearly 1 million sq. ft. of hangar space. The Tucson Air Center is the largest of Bombardier’s nine service centers and employs more than 900 engineers, technicians and staff. The site opened in 1976 at the Tucson International Airport, where it is one of the largest tenants. The facility provides services for Learjet, Challenger and Global business aircraft and CRJ Series regional jets and Q400 turboprops.

I realized I was falling into an all-too-common, part-time, contract copilot trap. I could put everyone on the aircraft at risk if I blindly assumed that my basic FAR Part 61.55 legal compliance truly prepared me to belt into the right seat.

In August 2016, Teterboro Airport again was the business aviation airport viewed more than any other by acukwik.com users, according to site traffic data. Dig into the data to spot more trends.

As the value leader in the single-engine turboprop class, the M600 has potential to carve out a considerably larger share of this market segment for Piper.

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

At the end of a remarkable chain of inaccurate weather forecasts and missed communications opportunities, two Boeing 737-800s operated by different Australian airlines had to bust minimums within minutes of each other to prevent really bad outcomes.

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.

Unless an engine exhibits gross damage or erosion, you may want to hire a qualified inspector from an approved service provider to pull an engine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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