Business & Commercial Aviation

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Selected accidents and incidents from December and November 2018. The NTSB information is preliminary.

ASTM International has launched a certification program for business jet cabin crews by affiliate National Center for Aerospace and Transportation Technologies.

The Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet only has been in production for 15 months and the planemaker already is announcing a Generation 2 version.

Japanese startup Euglena has completed construction of the country's first demonstration plant for producing renewable jet and diesel fuel.

Business & Commercial Aviation news from February 1969.​

As far as I can see, we pilots fit into two groups. Half of us are compelled to double-check things that have already been checked.

Textron Aviation is enhancing the electronics on its Cessna and Beechcraft piston aircraft as part of Garmin’s G1000 NXi flight deck.

Nancy Leveson, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, has been on a 30-plus-year quest to engineer out hazards that can lead to aircraft accidents.

Lee Aerospace has announced the expansion of its FAR Part 145 capabilities and its presence across the U.S.

Questions for Sheryl Barden, president and CEO of Aviation Personnel International (API) in San Francisco.

A flight crew’s timely response to a loss of cabin pressurization or to smoke or fumes is critical and certainly not the time to discover that your supplemental oxygen system isn’t working.

London Biggin Hill Airport reports its traffic grew by 12% in 2018, while it says there was a 1% decline in business aviation activity at other London airports.

The Cessna Citation Sovereign has earned a reputation for rock-solid reliability, plus it has the largest cabin of any midsize jet of its vintage.

TAG Aviation Farnborough Maintenance Services has marked its 15th year of maintenance services operations from its base at TAG Farnborough Airport.

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

Oxygen flow to each individual mask is controlled by a regulator mounted on the mask. Masks commonly have two regulator switches.

Gulfstream Aerospace set a world speed record in a G650ER on a flight from Teterboro, New Jersey, to Dubai, a distance of 6,142 nm, in 11 hr., 2 min.

The business aviation community has mostly focused on what the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 does not contain: ATC privatization.

The sole full-service FBO at Naples Airport in Florida has announced a name change to Naples Aviation from Naples Airport Authority.

A check ride is more of an evaluation of the training program than of the student. If the trainers did a good job, the student will pass.

William Garvey speaks with Rolland “Rollie” Vincent, President, Rolland Vincent Associates and JetNet iQ Creator/Director of Plano, Texas.

Nearly 150 BBJ, BBJ2 and BBJ3 aircraft have entered service since 1999, triple the number forecast by Borge Boeskov, first president of Boeing Business Jets.

Airbus and Aerkomm signed a new agreement regarding the Aerkomm K++ inflight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) system on Airbus Corporate Jets.

Walk up to a Series II Kodiak and you will be hard-pressed to notice differences between it and the original model unless you have logged hundreds of hours in the type.