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GE Aviation’s Passport, the engine selected by Bombardier for its Global 7000 and Global 8000, received FAA type certification on April 29.

Bombardier confirmed yesterday that Flexjet is the previously undisclosed customer that purchased 20 Challenger 350 jets.

Gulfstream elected not to sidetrack one of its four G500 flight test aircraft to make a debut at EBACE 2016 to keep the program on schedule.

NetJets Europe unveiled its first Cessna Citation Latitude at EBACE.

Across will buy a mixed fleet of 23 Embraer business aircraft comprising eight Legacy 500s, eight Phenom 300s and seven Phenom 100E jets.

Cessna has mated the wing and fuselage of the first Citation Longitude. The milestone was passed just six months after the new aircraft was revealed at last year’s NBAA convention.

Going head-to-head here for the first time anywhere are the VVIP Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus’s A350 XWB, both considered an ultimate in billionaire or head-of-state travel.

German completions center Lufthansa Technik is unveiling here its luxurious and innovative concepts for the ACJ350 XWB.

Steven Higgins, section manager for high-performance aircraft and turboprops for EASA, presented the founding president and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company, with a new EASA type certificate for the HA-420 HondaJet.

BBGA has so impressed UK authorities, that it is now one of only three aviation trade bodies to meet with the CEOs of the CAA and DfT on four occasions per year.

Don’t you just love the guy who can’t decide whether he’s in the fast lane or the slow lane? Or the one who seems to be broken down by the roadside, then fixes his problem and shoots straight across into the outside lane? The following survey examines newcomers to the business aircraft market, but contains so many stop-go, fast-slow projects that it could be a treatise on weekend driving.

Delays in development of Safran’s Silvercrest engine cost the company a one-time EUR654 million charge in 2015, helping drive operating profit for the year down more than 12% to EUR1.7 billion.

U.S.-based Flexjet will launch into Europe as a private jet travel and charter operator later this year, the fractional jet ownership company announced at EBACE.

Recent certification of the Diamond DA62 and Nextant G90XT sees these twins depart at full throttle, while the ONE Aviation (Kestrel) K350 is pushed to the back of the hangar until more funding materializes.

Three projects are detailed, none of them much advanced since this time last year. The Cirrus is flying and has made some progress since 2014 but, tellingly, there are no newcomers to this sector.

The HondaJet departed these annals on December 8 upon FAA certification, leaving Pilatus pushing ahead and SyberJet taking a more laid-back route to resumed production.

Reiteration of the old designer’s adage, “Never put a new engine in a new airframe,” might be timely.

Troubles beget more troubles. Bombardier sees Dassault steal a march on its latest business jets as the consequence of program delays.

Private funding of an avant garde project is laudable, but Aerion has progressed to the next rung of the ladder.

“Asia Pacific is the biggest growth region for us on the planet, and has grown to 10% of our revenues from 5% in 2010,” says avionics company Rockwell Collins. “That’s a direct result of the strategies we set in place over the last 50 years.”

Saab wants to re-energize its attempt to join the small club of companies that produce antisubmarine warfare aircraft.

GKN Aerospace is trumpeting “a milestone first agreement” with AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engine Company.

Jet Aviation is scheduled to go operational with its business jet MRO at Macau International Airport in the second quarter of this year.

"Vast natural resources and the magnitude of its territory” make Indonesia a promising market for business aviation

Rolls-Royce has unveiled plans to develop an Enhanced Performance upgraded version of the Airbus A350-900’s Trent XWB-84 engine, with Singapore Airlines as launch customer.