Business & Commercial Aviation

According to market intelligence firm Tractica, global commercial UAS services revenue is expected to grow from $170 million in 2015 to $8.7 billion by 2025.

ARG/US International has purchased the Unmanned Safety Institute. The privately held company conducts unmanned aircraft system safety training, certification and management.

The FAA has expanded its efforts to prevent UAVs from flying too close to airports by signing cooperative research agreements with an additional three suppliers of counter-UAV systems.

Jetex is adding a new fixed-base operator location in Marseille,France, continuing the company's expansion in the region. The location offers VIP travelers easy access to the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region.

BNSF Railway will test low-level surveillance methods necessary for beyond-visual line-of-sight operations for small unmanned aircraft systems.

Robinson Helicopter's two-place R44 Cadet won its FAA certification last month. Robinson says the aircraft's modest price will appeal to the training market as well as operators who want the economy of a small helicopter with the comfort, power, and performance of a larger one.

Lufthansa Technik is extending its presence in the Asian market and is expanding its range of products, some of which are already being installed in aircraft.

Jet Aviation expects this quarter to open a business jet maintenance center at Macau International Airport that it is being established partly in response to space limits in Hong Kong.

Leonardo-Finmeccanica Helicopters has taken the first steps in restarting the flight-test campaign of its AgustaWestland AW609 commercial tiltrotor following the fatal crash of the second prototype last October.

VistaJet celebrated the delivery of its 100th aircraft since the company's founding in 2004. The company's fleet has grown to more than 60 Bombardier Global and Challenger aircraft with a market value of more than $1.8 billion.

The warnings are dire and getting considerable attention in both the trade and general media. The danger? A shortage of pilots.

Universal Avionics says its UniLink UL-800/801 Communications Management Unit (CMU) Software Control Number (SCN) 31.X is expected to receive technical standard order (TSO) approval by midyear.

RUAG Aviation is the first company in Europe to fully repaint a Bombardier Challenger 350.

According to the latest annual 10-year forecast by Bombardier Business Aircraft, the industry will deliver 8,300 business jets valued at $250 billion through 2025.

Gulfstream Aerospace has received FAA approval for a synthetic vision upgrade to GIV-SP aircraft equipped with PlaneDeck.

ABS Jets, a Prague-based business jet operator, is working with Honeywell to further enhance its inflight weather awareness application, known as Weather Information Service.

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Executive Air Fleet founder Matt Weisman, along with Bruce Parks and Parimal Kopardekar recently received NASA's 2015 ARMD Associate Administrator Award for their planning and leadership of the NASA/Silicon Valley Chapter AUVSI Unmanned Air Traffic 2015 convention.

A series of technology features stories published by Business & Commercial Aviation last year were judged the best in the business byAmerican Business Media, an association of business information providers.

Bombardier Business Aircraft President David Coleal says the company's top-of-the-line, and long-delayed Global 7000 will finally fly this year and "we're very focused on that right now."

European Business Aviation Association, the National Business Aviation Association, Geneva's Palexpo exhibit center and Geneva Airport officials have signed an agreement to continue to hold the annual European Business Aviation Convention at Palexpo through 2021.

Paris Le Bourget Airport was the top airport in Europe for business aviation between May 2015 and April 2016, according to an analysis of acukwik.com usage. Five airports serving London ranked among the top 50. Germany placed eight airports on the list of the top 50.

There are at least three strategies for dealing with airport departure obstacles, each valid in its own way but each with limitations that must be understood to maximize safety margins.

London Luton Airport and Nice Cote d'Azur International airports were the most requested European airports for charter departures and arrivals in the last 12 months, according to an analysis of Air Charter Guide Worldwide Trip Builder data.

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