Business & Commercial Aviation

Pilots like to tell stories about things that happened as a way of entertaining friends, showing bravery and, perhaps, helping fellow pilots to avoid similar situations.

Many, if not most, business aircraft travelers ardently resist undergoing basic cabin safety training, so must fend for themselves in the event of mishaps.

Questions For Craig Sincock, president and CEO of the Avfuel Corp.

FAA type certification of the Bombardier Global 5500 and Global 6500 follows Transport Canada and European Union Aviation Safety Agency approvals.

The explosion that rocked Textron Aviation’s Plant 3 in Wichita appears to have caused no harm to the company’s Cessna 408 SkyCourier turboprop program.

Cirrus Aircraft begins delivering 2020 G6 SR Series piston aircraft with improvements.

Leonardo Helicopters completes the first flight of the fourth prototype AW609 commercial tiltrotor.

ExecuJet MRO Services Malaysia earns FAA certification to perform line and heavy maintenance on Dassault business jets.

Bombardier celebrates delivery of the first Global 6500 to HK Bella-wings Jet Ltd. of Hong Kong, a business jet management company.

Gulfstream Aerospace has delivered its 600th G550.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Michael Graham and Thomas Chapman to serve on the NTSB.

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association is planning three 2020 Fly-ins.

Duncan Aviation delivers a Gulfstream 150 and Bombardier Challenger 300 with interior elements produced with hydrographic printing.

W.K. Kellogg Airport in Battle Creek, Michigan, has changed its name to Battle Creek Executive Airport at Kellogg Field.

The FAA has sent a letter to Blackbird Air, which created a web-based application to connect passengers with pilots, emphasizing the agency’s regulations regarding pilots who transport paying passengers.

Fractional ownership company NetJets has launched a subsidiary offering an international network of safety experts to provide travel security and personal protection to high-profile travelers.

Gulfstream Aerospace opens its second MRO facility in Southern California with a new service center at Van Nuys Airport.

The National Air Transportation Association's Loss of License Insurance Program now has more than 1,000 pilots enrolled.

HondaJet operator WiJet reportedly has shuttered its French subsidiary and is conducting flights through subsidiaries in Luxembourg and Belgium where operations have grown.

Latecoere is acquiring Bombardier’s electrical wiring interconnection system assets and assuming its related workforce in Mexico.

Employees of financially troubled Mooney International were sent home from the Kerrville, Texas, facility Jan. 6 — their second furlough in about a

Embraer delivered the first Praetor 500 midsize business jet to its launch customer, fractional travel provider Flexjet.

Piper Aircraft has begun the application process for its 2020 Apprenticeship Program, which is designed to qualify participants as a journeyman in aircraft assembly.

Innovative Solutions & Support has received FAA approval for an autothrottle system that helps protect against one-engine inoperative catastrophic loss-of-control accidents.

Safran joins supersonic jet developer Aerion as a “major partner” for its 12-seat AS2 Mach 1.4 corporate transport.