Business & Commercial Aviation

Getting up to speed with the latest Gulfstream is a matter of adapting old philosophies with new. It has a flight deck for the iPhone generation.

High engine thrust during maintenance activity can cause considerable damage to airplanes and other elements on an airport.

The following is an excerpt from a certified transcript of the ground communications during the jet-blast event.

Barrington Irving has been named to receive the NBAA's 2019 American Spirit Award

High-ticket catering doesn’t fit every business aircraft operator’s budget. If fine cuisine is expected, expect that to be reflected in the final tab.

Skeptics, myself included, have long been involved in the negatives of helicopter operations in metropolitan settings.

Alexandre Couvelaire is inextricably connected with the elevation of Le Bourget into Europe’s premier business aviation airport.

BCA business aviation product and service previews.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

With more and more business aircraft pilots joining the scheduled carriers, the importance and appeal of temporary contract pilots is gaining attention.

Jet blast is created by turbine aircraft engines and can be powerful enough to cause large upsets to aircraft on the ground or close to the ground.

Signature Flight Support has agreed to purchase IAM Jet Center and its affiliated companies, complementing Signature's existing FBOs in the Caribbean.

Communities tend to tolerate public safety flights because they are infrequent and have clear community value. However, communities historically oppose other uses due to noise.

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.

Business & Commercial Aviation news from August 1969.​

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.

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

In an example of how drones can assist in disaster recovery, Duke Energy sent over 200 volunteer workers to Puerto Rico to assist in restoring power.

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.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

A number of companies offer solutions in the form of mattress packages designed to convert cabin seats into comfortable sleeping platforms within minutes.

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

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