Business & Commercial Aviation

Maintain high but safe personal minimums or get rigorous initial and recurrent training in low-visibility instrument flight.

U.S. lawmakers lambasted the FAA as well as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and industry July 28 for the nation’s plodding progress toward removing lead from aviation fuel used in piston-engine aircraft, the largest remaining source of lead emissions into the air.

See how air traffic controllers handle the load as tiny Wittman Regional Airport becomes the world's busiest during EAA AirVenture.

AirVenture Team Shares Insights From World’s Most Attended Air ShowBCA editors Molly McMillin, Mike Lavitt and Matt Orloff are reporting from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, during EAA AirVenture, where nearly 5,000 aircraft are on the field, and roughly 600,000 are expected to attend. Join us as we discuss the largest issues facing general and business aviation today and what the future may hold. We’ll look at the complex issues of removing lead from all aviation fuel, the outlook for pilot jobs, the new Daher Kodiak 900, the One Week Wonder project and more.

Pilots need to ensure the data input is accurate and that the output is handled correctly.

Pilots need to arm themselves against navigation data errors. Here are some tips.

Pilots should know how to fly the aircraft if the automation fails.

The business aircraft repainting market is experiencing shifting winds.

Advanced air mobility developer Beta Technologies has secured a 75-year lease at Burlington International Airport (BTV) in Vermont to build a 355,000-ft.² electric aircraft production facility.

Cirrus Aircraft claims to have created its own market with the SF50 Vision Jet

Tire failures can cause serious secondary damage and could lead to fire.

Should a takeoff be continued or rejected after a suspected tire failure?

You only get one chance to make a good first impression.

Check rides: understanding there are no enemies (usually).

Remember that you have more than the airplane to learn when you start a new pilot job.

Winglet Technology, which designs, certifies and markets transitional winglets, is working to bring them to a third Citation aircraft: Textron Aviation’s Cessna Citation Latitude.

While the price of fuel is certainly an important consideration in determining which FBO to select, it can be easy to overlook other issues, which you may be grateful to remember as situations arise.

Under the original classification, an eVTOL aircraft was subject to Part 23 certification rules.

Daher, the French-based maker of TBM turboprops and the Kodiak 100 utility aircraft, closed July 1 on Triumph Group’s 400,000-ft.² metallic and composite aerostructures facility in Stuart, Florida, a move that expands its U.S. industrial presence.

How to motivate the new pilot to excel.

Florida-based jet charter company Verijet announced an expansion of its service to destinations in New York and New England.

Aviation fuels supply chain management company Associated Energy Group (AEG) has launched an online ordering platform for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) serving airlines and business aviation operators.

Private jet travel provider flyExclusive is enhancing its own fleet and scaling up its capability to service third-party aircraft.

Sending the new pilot to school.

After years of running flight schools at one of the busiest general aviation airports in the world, Shane Braddock, managing partner of First Take Aviation, offers his insight on how the flight training industry is rapidly changing due to the looming pilot shortage and current state of the global economy.