Business & Commercial Aviation

An investigation is underway to determine all the factors behind the July 6 crash of FTV1, the first prototype Bell Model 525 super-medium helicopter.

Daher announced that 208 Aviation, a private company, has been appointed as a TBM service center for southern Africa.

Pilatus Aviation recently delivered its 1,400th PC-12, to an undisclosed customer in the Southwest U.S.

Items missing from the legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress to keep the FAA operating into 2017 are variously the subjects of praise and disappointment.

On the opening day of last month's Farnborough Airshow, Qatar Executive, the business jet charter arm of Qatar Airways, announced a firm order for three Gulfstream G650ER aircraft, adding to the three now in service. With the additional aircraft, expected to be delivered in 2017, Qatar Executive will become the largest operator of the type.

Pratt and Whitney Canada last month agreed to provide Antonov’s An-132 multipurpose aircraft program with a new version of the PW150A turboprop.

NetJets' first Latitude—the 7,000th Citation delivered by Cessna since it entered the business jet market in 1972—has begun service and will soon be joined by others, apparently many others

“Understanding International Medevac,” a feature published in the January 2016 edition of Business & Commercial Aviation was named the Best Business Aviation submission.

Switzerland’s business aviation sector is poised for further growth, as long as capacity and regulatory issues do not stifle potential, according to industry players gathered for the first Business Aviation National Forum in Switzerland.

Piper Aircraft in mid-June received FAA type certification for its M600 single-engine turboprop, which is a higher-performing version of its Meridian.

Bombardier Business Aircraft plans to soon open a wholly owned service center at London Biggin Hill Airport.

The process of creating a safe, fuel-efficient and regulatory-compliant oceanic flight plan actually begins with the compilation of a comprehensive international operations manual based on standardized procedures and best practices.

The Aviation Week Network, of which Business & Commercial Aviation is a member, is celebrating a major milestone this month. “Aviation and Aeronautical Engineering,” the progenitor of what ultimately became Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine first appeared 100 years ago, Aug. 1, 1916.

It's a bona fide buyers' market for the IAI Galaxy/G200 in mid-2016. According to Informa's (formally Penton's) Aircraft Bluebook, selling prices for early 2001 models are approaching $3 million and late model 2011 aircraft are going for less than $8 million.

BCA's editor-in-chief William Garvey talks with Joe Moeggenberg, President & CEO ARGUS International, Inc.

Seven articles and four writers published in Business & Commercial Aviation are finalists for 2016 Aerospace Media Awards to be presented in London on July 10. The nominees are: Best Safety, Training and Simulation Submission

Somewhere in the G280 family tree, there is a decades-old Israel Aircraft Industries Astra IV ancestor, the first super-midsize jet.

Looking for a new oceanic flight plan format? Mark McIntyre of Mente LLC advises: "A lot of people aren't aware that international trip planners have a variety of trip flight plan formats. You might want to request a handful of different formats and find one that suits your operation."

Since a lost wrench can produce catastrophic results, a careful accounting is imperative.

Crews must become more self-aware of dangers and their vulnerability during their time away from the airport while on trips, and that includes their commutes to and from airports.

"We are starting to move into the paperless way of doing things," international Capt. Nat Iyengar observed.

Mitch Launius of Air Training International is waging a campaign against what he terms "predictable errors," especially in North Atlantic operations.

The purpose of the Automatic Identification System is to keep all that floating tonnage from smacking into each other on some dark and stormy night.

FAA last month awarded an FAR Part 33 type certificate for Williams International’s new FJ33-5A engine.

Officials at Bob Hope Airport (BUR) voted in early May to change the facility’s name to Hollywood Burbank Airport.