Business & Commercial Aviation

We asked our business aviation brain trust of corporate and charter pilots if their operations had committed to installing ATN B1 CPDLC avionics. Three of them responded, and all frequently operate in European airspace.

While a replacement pilot may be qualified according to FAR Part 61.55, he/she may not actually be ready to serve as an effective crewmember.

Great connectivity relies on more than reliable high-speed networks and data systems. It requires the expertise of thousands of people who turn the capability into practical and meaningful activities.

Part 135 needs enforceable, science-based rest and duty regulations.

These satcom services are three flourishing, competitive technologies used in IFC offerings to business aviation.

When the wing becomes coated with ice, the airfoil is changed. In other words, the pilot can wind up flying Wing B while trying to use the familiar engineering parameters of Wing A as it came from the factory.

Business flows uninterrupted in both directions across the Atlantic, but certainly has been slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless the routes remain intact and accessible by business jet.

Aviation has been in the sights of environmental activists for some time and particularly in Europe, where aviation has become a target for “shaming” as a source of atmospheric pollution.

Reflecting on many years of publishing the leading business aviation magazine and changes as the industry and technology advanced.

The AOPA Air Safety Institute notes a continued decrease in overall accident rates for noncommercial and commercial fixed-wing operations, noncommercial and commercial helicopter operations, and sport/experimental operations.

Obituary for international procedures expert Guy Gribble/

TRAXXALL has launched TRAXXALL 360, a cloud-based maintenance tracking system that streamlines workflows with an intuitive user interface.

Five Questions For Walt Fricke, founder of Veterans Airlift Command.

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

A Cessna 337 Skymaster whose forward gas engine was swapped out with an electric motor, completed a 297-nm flight from Camarillo to Hayward

Italy’s Tecnam has partnered with Rolls-Royce to develop the 9-passnger P-Volt, an all-electric version of the airframer’s P2012 Traveller regional aircraft.

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

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.

The CEO of Italy’s Leonardo has been sentenced to six years in prison for crimes committed in a previous role. Alessandro Profumo was recently found

The FAA has issued an airworthiness directive requiring repetitive inspections of 14,653 U.S. registered single-engine Cessna 172, 182, 206, 207 and

Although FAA’s years-long search for a lead-free replacement to 100LL avgas has had no success as yet, Avfuel Chairman Craig Sincock believes one will be found.

Bombardier Aviation is developing a new service center at Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne, Australia.

Pyka believes it an accelerate fielding of two of the hottest technologies in aviation: autonomy and electric propulsion.

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

Vanderbilt LifeFlight recently was named the Air Medical Program of the Year by the Association of Air Medical Services.