Airlines not only want the aircraft, they want it fast—around two-thirds would ideally like to take delivery by 2021, years before the earliest realistic entry-into-service dates the manufacturers can offer.
The world’s most “printed engine,” GE’s new Advanced Turboprop in which additive manufacturing replaces 855 normally made parts with just 12 “printed” components, is on track to run for the first time this year. It will power Cessna’s new Denali aircraft.
AfBAA, the African Business Aviation Association, has signed training MoUs with AATO, the Association of African Aviation Training Organizations, and with JAATO, the Joint Aviation Authorities Training Organization, which has facilities in Europe, Turkey and the UAE.
Brignais (Lyon)-based Vision’s electronically dimmable windows “offer a sleek, elegant design adapted to the VIP style of business aviation,” the company says
Operators say they’re reluctant to trade up because they don’t need more capable aircraft, the gap between new aircraft prices and residual values of their aircraft is too great, and they’re unsure about the economy or regulatory environment, among other factors.
The helicopter industry in Europe is facing many of the same issues that proponents are battling in the U.S. It would make sense for industry and user groups to work more closely on both sides of the Atlantic to counter the threats and unfriendly perceptions that are combining to limit the functionality of the helicopter.
Associated Air Center, a Dallas, Texas-based cabin completion and refurbishment center, is sharing an exhibit at EBACE with parent company StandardAero. AAC is here to announce two recent narrowbody VIP maintenance and upgrade projects, both delivered in April.
A principal with Global Jet Capital at its launch in 2014, Shawn Vick was named CEO in 2016. He regularly commutes in his well-equipped Cessna 182 from his home in New York's Thousand Islands region to the company's main operations center in Danbury, Connecticut.
For the first time in 16 years, Robert H. Wells, isn’t at EBACE. Two years ago, he retired as the high-profile head of TAG Aviation, his employer for 16 years, and also resigned as an EBAA board director, a position he held for 8 years. Rob and wife Edie uprooted from Geneva and transplanted to Seattle, hoping to cultivate old connections in the Pacific Northwest. Then, in January, he was named CEO of Quest Aircraft, which manufactures the rugged Kodiak bush plane.
Inmarsat’s Jet ConneX Ka-band satcom service is soaring, with this week’s announcements by Bombardier, Dassault and Embraer about equipping their aircraft with the high-speed satcom systems.
DC Aviation reported earlier this month that it successfully installed a Gogo Business Aviation Aviator 300 SwiftBroadband system and a Gogo UCS 5000 file server in a Bombardier Challenger 604, marking the first time worldwide that the two connectivity components were integrated into a currently existing cabin of the type, with an EASA STC.
Claude Vuichard has an idea that he is convinced will save lives and dramatically improve safety for helicopter users: the problem is, he has to convince the world to reject 70 years of received wisdom.
Promoting itself as “a key gateway to London,” TAG Farnborough Airport (Booth W36) has the numbers to prove it: a 3.2% increase in air traffic movements (ATMs) in the first four months of this year and a 5.5% rise in large aircraft movements (ACJs, BBJs and their like) during 2016.
Associated Air Center, a Dallas, Texas-based cabin completion and refurbishment center, is sharing an exhibit at EBACE with parent company StandardAero.
Boeing Business Jets is showing a $200,000 model of the new BBJ Max 7 at EBACE. Paris-based Cabinet Alberto Pinto’s design takes full advantage of the extra 6 ft 4 in length of the Max 7 compared to the original BBJ.
Victor, the London-based international internet jet charter marketplace, has been named Europe’s fastest-growing aviation business in the FT1000, a new Financial Times poll of the continent’s most dynamic, fast-moving businesses.
Hahn Air Lines is quite an unusual winner of the ShowNews Top Ten European Business Aviation Leaders accolade. Revenue generated from its business jet operation is only a tiny fraction of this German company’s core business – the firm has a jet fleet consisting of just three aircraft: two Citation Sovereigns and a Citation CJ4.
Extensive flight testing indicates that the twin-engine Pilatus PC-24 Super Versatile Jet will beat the performance figures originally announced by the Swiss manufacturer.
A new Swiss company, Valcora (Booth K57), is planning a quick rise to the top. The firm believes its founders’ quarter-century of experience in aviation fuel, and bespoke ordering software, will help it take a leading place in the private-aviation sector.
Deliveries of new turbofan business aircraft will continue to be in a “lull” until 2019, according to the JetnetIQ forecast report created by aviation consultant Rolland Vincent.
