Business & Commercial Aviation

City-owned Santa Monica Airport (SMO) in southern California now offers Swift Fuels UL94 unleaded avgas as an alternative to 100LL low-lead fuel for piston-engine aircraft, the project manager announced.

Critical Brooks Range terrain information is now available to pilots.

Dubai-based Vista Global Holding has entered into an agreement to acquire fast-growing U.S. charter operator Jet Edge.

Learning to predict a snow surface and other practical instruction.

More human factors lessons learned on the Matterhorn.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has released design guidance for vertiports serving future urban air mobility (UAM) aircraft.

Inmarsat has named a third equipment supplier for its Jet ConneX inflight broadband service for business aviation.

As he visits Wichita to see the final Learjet in production, the founder of Clay Lacy Aviation tells BCA about his own history with the aircraft and reflects on its legacy.

Slodowitz founded Craft Charter in 2020, after graduating from USC’s Marshall School of Business.

Can we create an effective, low-risk learning medium to enhance the training of important human factors?

When Gulfstream revealed its new G800 before the 2021 NBAA-BACE conference, the manufacturer acknowledged plans to eventually sunset production of the G650ER.

Gulfstream Aerospace President Mark Burns spoke with Business & Commercial Aviation during a visit to the Gulfstream facility in Farnborough, UK.

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Not surprisingly, most North Atlantic flight procedures haven’t changed, which represents some good news. The bad news is that there are issues that have not disappeared.

Some aspects of the operational use of business jet tires can lessen their overall life. Daily pressure checks are difficult to perform when an

Honeywell is teaming up with Universal Weather and Aviation, an international trip provider, to integrate flight planning and trip support data into Honeywell Forge for business aviation.

The FAA and tire manufacturers recommend checking that a tire’s pressure is within limits before the first flight of each day.

The U.S. Commerce Department has singled out Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s Gulfstream G650ER business jet and 99 airliners for apparently violating export controls the department imposed following Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.

Industry groups have started meeting to develop a “blanket replacement” for leaded aviation fuel (avgas) used in piston-engine aircraft by 2030, the goal of an FAA-led initiative unveiled in February.

GPS jamming by the U.S. military has the potential to cause serious disruptions among civil aviation operations where GPS signals will become unreliable or even unusable for navigation, experts note.

A post published by UK NATS announced structural changes to the North Atlantic (NAT) Organized Track System (OTS). Though the change may seem small, the eventual impact could be significant.

Proper adherence to maintenance and operational recommendations are vital to prevent undesirable tire wear and high-speed tire failures.

New Jersey authorities are seeking proposals from companies interested in developing a 400-acre parcel at Atlantic City International Airport for aviation facilities.

Advanced air mobility vehicle developer Joby Aviation said March 15 that it is nearing completion of the application process to obtain an FAA Part 135 air carrier certificate.

Fast-growing Cutter Aviation broke ground March 11 on a new $12 million hangar complex at Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (DVT) in Arizona.