Business & Commercial Aviation

Aircraft manufacturers are taking a greater in-house role in the design, development and production of the executive seats that go into their jets and turboprops.

Honda Aircraft delivered the first two HondaJet Elites to Hawaii on June 27. Wing Spirit, a new commercial outfit, will operate the pair on inter-island charters.

Game Composites has received FAA type and production certificates for its GB1 Gamebird, a two-place composite aerobatic and training aircraft.

H55, a technology spinoff from the Solar Impulse around-the-world solar-powered aircraft team, has flown a two-seat electric aircraft aimed at the pilot-training market.

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The Italian government hopes a federal money transfusion will help bring ailing Piaggio Aerospace back to financial health, or at least extend its life.

Bombardier Aerospace has delivered its 300th Challenger 350 business jet, the company said. The delivery comes five years after its entry into service.

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Electric motor developer MagniX has teamed up with certification specialist AeroTEC to convert the Cessna 208B Caravan to electric propulsion.

The FAA has issued multiple waivers allowing operators to fly parachute-equipped drones over people—flights normally banned because of the risk to bystanders.

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Turkish Aerospace carried out the first flight of the complete prototype of its T625 Gokbey utility helicopter on June 29.

Questions for Shelly Simi, President and CEO, National Association of State Aviation Officials, Washington.

FAR Part 135 charters today offer a complex variety of buying options that seem to cross over into scheduled operations.

Canada's Viking Air has announced the sale of six new CL-515 water bombers along with a CL-415 upgraded from a piston CL-215 to Indonesia's Ministry of Defense.

Maintaining effective flight control of an airborne airplane is probably the most critical consideration in aviation.

Learjet 75 has been in production since November 2013 and flies higher, faster and farther than competitive light jets.

Textron Aviation delivered its 300th Cessna Citation CJ4 in June to McNeilus Steel of Dodge Center, Minnesota.

Aircraft accidents and incidents are useful in one, and only one, aspect. That is to help us learn.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

Rolls-Royce recently announced its plan to acquire Siemens' electric and hybrid electric aerospace propulsion unit.

Selected accidents and incidents, June and July 2019. The NTSB information is preliminary.

The U.S. Air Force wants to purchase up to five new Bombardier Global 6000s, designated as E-11s, according to a document requesting information.

Can this airplane land itself? That is a frequent question from the flying public when first viewing a high-tech cockpit.

Aero Club-France is the biennial venue for the Aerospace Media Dinner that is convened to celebrate the previous 12 months’ best from the industry’s media.