Business & Commercial Aviation

Aerostructures giant Spirit AeroSystems struck a 45% cash discount with Bombardier for the latter’s Short Brothers capacity in Northern Ireland, as well as Bombardier Aerospace North Africa and most of a Texas MRO site.

Transport Canada has granted geomatics company MVT Geo-solutions permission to fly drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of an operator, to

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

Dassault Aviation was scheduled to debut its new ultra-wide Falcon 6X business jet Dec. 8.

AML Global Eclipse reached an agreement with One Aviation Corp. in October to buy the assets of Eclipse Aerospace and the Eclipse Aircraft project for a proposed $5.25 million.

Obituary for international procedures expert Guy Gribble/

Jet It, a Greensboro, North Carolina-based fractional operator, has ordered 10 HondaJet Elites with delivery to be completed over the next year.

Garmin International and its Autoland technology were named the recipients of Aviation Week Network’s 2020 Grand Laureate for business aviation

“Legendary” is probably an overused word, but in the case of our transitioning editorial leadership at BCA, it is apropos.

RUAG International is selling production of the 19-seat Dornier 228 twin-turboprop regional aircraft to General Atomics.

Bill Boisture, the former president and/or CEO of Hawker Beechcraft, Gulfstream, NetJets and Butler Aviation, has joined the executive team of Spike Aerospace.

As pilots, we regard aircraft as technological marvels, but infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists see the growing mobility of people via air transport as amplifying the potential for rapid dissemination of disease.

Since officially launching its satellite-borne ADS-B program in 2015, Aireon LLC, has signed 16 customers.

Gulfstream G500 operators live in a 500+ kt. world where few, if any, competitive aircraft can catch them.

The Gulfstream G450, built from 2003 to 2017, is the last of the legacy Gulfstream jets with roots to Grumman’s original Gulfstream I turboprop.

For many years, summer’s arrival for av junkies was signaled not so much by Memorial Day speeches, All-Star games or the season’s first surfside

A number of documents specifically for the air transport industry address the prevention of disease transmission.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

Kent S. Jackson is founder and managing partner of Jetlaw LLC in Washington.

Pilot oxygen masks should be kept clean to reduce the danger of infection and to prolong their lives.

Business & Commercial Aviation News from November 1970

In-Personal Preferred I really enjoyed “Being There” (Viewpoint, October 2020, page 7), and in transitioning the NBAA Business Aviation Convention and

On a private or business aircraft you have direct control over who will ride onboard, allowing you to screen passengers for illness.

If the resulting landing distance or threat of running out of speed is too great, find another place to land.

It took eight launches over two years to put up 66 satellites plus six spares (with nine more stored on the ground), replacing the original Iridium constellation launched in the 1990s.