Business & Commercial Aviation

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.

The concept of thrust, power, and even horsepower can get messy, and perhaps a bit of a history lesson can start to clean things up.

“If you meet the ADS-B mandate standards, our receivers can pick up the signals.”

The BFU found that the cause of the incident was ATC issuing a clearance on the basis of inadequate situational awareness.

“In a normal year, which is to say, prior to March of this year,” Doug Dillon, Gander Center’s general manager, told BCA, “we were processing 550,000

Selected accidents and incidents in September 2020. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

“ADS-B has built into it a figure of merit that tells you the performance of the GPS information imbedded in the ADS-B message.”

The performance of the crew was completely routine, yet beautiful in its professionalism.

Vista Global has partnered with Ferrari to provide private jet transportation to all Ferrari drivers competing in the international GT races and Prancing Horse monobrand championships.

Signature Flight Support and fuel supplier Neste have partnered to offer permanent supplies of sustainable aviation fuel to operators at San Francisco International and London Luton airports.

328 Support Services GmbH, a divi­sion of the Sierra Nevada Corp., has opened a simulator facility for the Dornier 328 turboprop.

Business aircraft manufacturers worldwide are projected to deliver 7,404 new business jets and 2,590 new turboprops from 2021 to 2030, valued at a

Jet Aviation’s Completions Center has completed the upgrade and redelivery of its first ACJ319neo.

FlightSafety International is now offering training for the Gulfstream G280 at its Learning Center in Wilmington, Delaware.

Embraer has received approval by the FAA and Agencia Nacional de Aviacao Civil of Brazil for the Synthetic Vision Guidance System for its Praetor 500 and 600 jets.

IATA is now forecasting a slower-than-expected recovery of air travel for this year and into 2021,

As has been the case with so many other aviation events this year, The Middle East Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) has postponed its annual

Aviation startup ZeroAvia completes the first flight of its hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered Piper M350 test aircraft.

Daher recently rolled out the 1,000th TBM turboprop from its final assembly line.

Wheels Up has formed Wheels Up Aircraft Management, which was created after its integration of recent acquisitions Delta Private Jets and Gama Aviation Signature,

The FAA has announced its policy for approving drone designs as a special class of aircraft.

Flight services provider DroneUp has announced a pilot program with Walmart and Quest Diagnostics to deliver COVID-19 test sample collection kits by drone.