London Oxford Airport is to become Gama Aviation’s business jet MRO hub. Gama completed its reverse takeover of Oxford-based Hangar8 plc in January 2015.
Air BP Biojet fuel is becoming more available for business aviation, but with today’s low oil prices it costs considerably more than traditional jet fuel.
France’s Nice Airport, which handles many large widebody VVIP aircraft such as B747s, B777s and A350s, completed its new departure area to handle them last November.
BLR Aerospace is working with the Federal Aviation Administration to amend its supplemental type certificate that will expand the approved performance envelope for Beechcraft King Air 90s equipped with BLR Winglet Systems.
Satcom Direct is launching its SD Pro fully integrated flight operations management platform, which gathers information from multiple sources that a flight department is already using into a Web-based display, so that every member of the team can access it from his or her desktop, tablet or mobile device.
The first run of GE Aviation’s 2,000-hp-class advanced turboprop series, internally known as GE93, is on track for the fourth quarter of 2017, says business and general aviation and integrated systems VP Brad Mottier.
It’s unique for our ShowNews Top Ten feature to include someone from business aviation’s world of marketing, public relations and events. But Antonia Lukacinova, founder and CEO of Prague-based Media Tribune, is here because the brand-new Sapphire Pegasus Business Aviation Awards are her brainchild. They are designed not only to celebrate the best, but also to encourage business development between Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia.
President and CEO of Continental Motors Group Rhett Ross discusses Continental's Technify absence at EBACE and the cause of airframers attitude toward adopting diesel.
Little did Pilatus Aircraft realize the revolution it would cause when it first flew the single-turboprop Pilatus PC-12 in 1991, bringing a true utility capability to general aviation. Since then it has delivered over 1,350 of them around the world. Now it’s about to do it again with the PC-24 Super Versatile Jet.
The PC-24 is making its public debut here at EBACE. The program is on track, with deliveries slated for the second half of 2017, says Pilatus chairman Oscar Schwenk. The first aircraft, P01, is appearing at the show before flying to Spain for high-speed testing, while P02 has flown to the U.S. There it will undergo autopilot trials with Honeywell in Phoenix, and cold-soak tests in the chamber at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. It will return to Switzerland toward the end of the year.
Vertis is a little bit of a hybrid company. It is not an aircraft operator, it’s more a broker, and has in place an exclusive marketing agreement with a small group of AOC holders, says COO Neil Turnbull.
Perhaps the “AW169” designation of the helicopter making its first EBACE appearance will serve as a reminder that Leonardo Helicopters originated with what we used to know as the AgustaWestland division of Finmeccanica.
Leonardo Helicopters is expanding the flight envelope of the AW169 intermediate twin, with flight tests planned in Leadville, Colorado, to determine single-engine Category A performance in hot-and-high conditions.
The first Global 7000, FTV1, was moved this month from the production bay to its dedicated pre-flight bay in Toronto, where preparations for first flight will take place.
Jetnet iQ, a joint venture of Jetnet and Rolland Vincent Associates, LLC, predicts that 681 turbofan business aircraft will be delivered in 2016, a 4% drop from 2015.
The Luxaviation Group is now the second-largest operator of corporate aircraft in the world, with a fleet of 250 business jets under management and 1,500 employees.
More regulations are coming to aviation as a whole, and it will be EBAA’s mission in the months ahead to ensure these are “equitable, proportionate and fair.”
