Business & Commercial Aviation

That jet you reserved for charter isn’t sitting in a hangar, polished and waiting for you. Instead, it’s crisscrossing the skies, battling inclement weather, ferrying families with kids and pets, and serving passengers who don’t treat it like their own.

Cirrus has delivered four of seven SR20 G7+ airplanes with Garmin Autoland to Texas Southern University (TSU).

A former U.S. Navy Seal gives advice on the critical strategies and tools business professionals should use when traveling in high-risk areas abroad.

Gulfstream on Sept. 30 unveiled a new G300 super midsize business jet.

The BCA 20/Twenty pre-owned market feature aircraft for September is the Cessna Citation CJ2+.

The total flight hours for corporate operators totaled more than 950,000 hr. during the June to August time period, up 5% from a year ago.

Engineered Materials Arresting System surfaces help mitigate the impact of runway excursions.

Lawsuits allege that the city of Mesa, Arizona, did not maintain an adequate runway safety area.

Aircraft utilization by the largest business aviation operators grew in the period from June to August, Aviation Week data shows.

Michaela Renee Johnson has taken a unique approach to promoting the publication of her new book.

Runway safety areas serve as the primary safety mitigation for runway excursions. But some airports lack sufficient space.

A coalition is calling on the U.S. Defense and Transportation departments to take action to address the growing threat of GPS signal jamming and spoofing.

Dassault Falcon Jet has received FAA supplemental type certification (STC) approval for installation of the Gogo Galileo HDX satellite communications terminal.

Pre-flight and post-fight inspections should include grounding and bonding straps that protect the aircraft from lightning strikes.

Nearly half of the flight crews observed no significant adverse weather on the weather radar at the time of the lightning strike.

Fractional operator Flexjet's focus on luxury is leading to big investments.

In September, the cost of a gallon of Jet-A averaged $6.53. All eight FAA regions recorded a price decrease, with the largest monthly decrease found in the Northwest Mountain and Western Pacific regions, which were both down 13 cents from August.

Most aircraft lightning strikes occur in weather that flight crews do not detect as a threat.

Global Medical Response has signed a purchase agreement for seven Bell 429s with an option to acquire eight additional helicopters, Bell Textron said.

Nav Canada has started construction of a first, temporary, digital tower at Kingston Airport in Ontario.

Listen in as Air Charter Association CEO Glenn Hogben, George J. Priester Aviation's Viviana Kozin and Molly McMillin discuss the changing charter industry.

CAE has officially opened a new training center for business aviation in Vienna, its first such facility in central Europe.

Business aviation in Africa is emerging as a critical engine for development, industry leader Dawit Lemma says.

Standards organization ASTM International has approved a production specification for Swift Fuels’ 100R unleaded aviation gasoline.

Today’s Certified Flight Instructors (CFIs) and pilots understand that social media can be a powerful tool for training and for connecting with students and with one another. They also understand that social media can play a significant part in transforming flight instruction and flight careers for the better.