Business & Commercial Aviation

William Garvey, Editor-in-Chief of Business & Commercial Aviation, speaks to Lance Toland of Associates Aviation Insurance about current trends in aviation insurance, especially with single pilot aircraft.

The tables show Jet-A and avgas prices from a survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in November 2019.

While there was plenty of substantial news emanating from the NBAA's annual gathering in Las Vegas this past October, what struck me as a notable change of focus was the emphasis on themes with global significance to business aviation going forward.

Toland was hooked by aviation as a grade schooler. He later earned degrees in business and law and demonstrated a special affection for aviation insurance.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

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

Cause & Circumstance has appeared on these pages for over 30 years and, of course, will continue to be right here every month.

Oct. 23 at the National Business Aviation Association's annual convention. The Fund an Angel event at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel drew more than 600 people.

Dassault's steady expansion of maintenance capability continues, convincing Luxaviation Group to sell it ExecuJet's global maintenance activities.

The rest and duty rules for Part 135 are complex in part because a pilot cannot rely on the regulations alone.

In response to the growing demand for more qualified IT experts in the business aviation sector, Satcom Direct is strengthening its training program.

XTI Aircraft says it has signed an initial agreement with a potential lead investor in its $25 million Series B funding round.

Long in coming, the Epic turboprop finally earns its type certificate.

BCA business aviation product and service previews.

The built-for-comfort, not-for-speed C90 King Air underwent a major upgrade in 2005 when Raytheon Aircraft swapped out the pair of anemic PT6A-21 turboprops for a brace of PT6A-135As.

Years in development, the all-new Extra NG aerobatic single has received in new type certificate from the EASA.

Lateral separations between aircraft flying in North Atlantic airspace have been reduced with space-based ADS-B for near real-time aircraft monitoring.

If your aircraft has wing-mounted propellers, you might wonder if the airflow behind them has any influence on the wing's aerodynamics. The simple answer is yes, most definitely.

A professional pilot must know an aircraft’s aerodynamic limitations in all phases of flight and be familiar with conditions that cause instruments to display misleading information.

Boeing reports a single, unidentified customer has ordered two long-range BBJ 787-9 Dreamliners worth $564 million, bringing the number of VIP Dreamliner orders to 16.

If you fly an aircraft with TKS, be aware that replacement of the system's panels after maintenance requires extreme care.

An early initiation for most pilots includes the humor of poorly written maintenance write-ups, or "squawks." We all laugh about the nonsensical pilot entries made on the left side of an aircraft's maintenance log destined to be corrected by a funnier mechanic's entry on the right.

A wing's true angle of attack is unknown; it can only be estimated by a measuring device on the airplane that has inherent errors that must be addressed.

There were times when having that internet connection would have saved me a last-minute divert or could have rescued us from an hours-long ATC delay.