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By Kirby Harrison
​Hartzell Propeller has delivered more than 150 of its advanced high-performance swept airfoil five-blade propellers for DaherBM 700/850/900 turboprop singles in the 18 months since receiving FAA type certificate approval.
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By Kirby Harrison
Kimberly-Clark has long been known for Kleenex facial tissue, Huggies diapers and Scott paper towels, but its industrial division has a long history in business aviation.
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By Kirby Harrison
Embraer’s Lineage 1000E was showing off its range capability last Saturday, flying nonstop from New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport to Las Vegas, departing with a reduced fuel load to meet the Teterboro weight restriction of 100,000 lb.
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By Kirby Harrison
ACJ sees an important market for the ACJneo business jets in North America, “where private jets are widely used as business tools by companies, billionaires and governments, helping them to be more productive.”
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By Rich Piellisch
Citing increasing vulnerability behind an increasing desire for connectivity on a wider range of devices, Astronautics Corporation of America is promoting a new architecture designed to prevent hacking of an aircraft’s data.
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Robert W. Moorman
Million Air continues to grow its FBO network through acquisitions and makeovers of existing properties despite the lackluster economic recovery.
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By Fred George
Lots of heads turned when Ryan Mohr, chief pilot for Phillippi Equipment Co. of Eagan, Minnesota, landed Lady of the Night, one of the firm's Howard 500 heavy twins at Henderson Airport on Saturday evening
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By Paul Jackson
With the caveat that the year is by no means over yet, Boeing Business Jets presented its near end-of-term sales and delivery figures as the convention opened.
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By John Morris
Comlux America, the Indianapolis-based completion and services center of the Comlux Group, is expanding its capabilities as a strategy to weather a slowdown in the VVIP single-aisle-aircraft-completions market.
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Emphasizing safety, especially on approach, Sandel Avionics has introduced Avilon as an easy-to-install retrofit King Air cockpit that can replace legacy equipment for a guaranteed fly-away price of $175,000.
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By John Morris
Having developed the 867-shp PT6-140 turboprop engine for the Cessna Caravan, Pratt & Whitney Canada has unveiled a Dash A version with a twin, bifurcated exhaust that will suit it to many other potential applications.
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The FAA has certified Blackhawk Modifications Inc.’s XP140 engine upgrade for Cessna 208A and 208B Caravans.
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By Paul Jackson
True Blue Power announced that Burt Rutan has selected its new lithium-ion battery modules, developed in partnership with Regan Designs, for its recent project the SkiGull.
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By Paul Jackson
Making its first convention showing is ONE Aviation, a “new-old” firm that formed six months ago to unify the well-established products of the Eclipse and Kestrel companies.
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By Rich Piellisch
SyberJet Aircraft is showing new SJ30i cabin interior at Static Space 300 at Henderson and wants customer input to help complete the design.
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Honeywell has agreed to acquire Copenhagen-based Satcom1, positioning it to offer operators “a seamless experience with an all-in-one connectivity solution

Astronics AeroSat and Panasonic Avionics announced a partnership to bring high-speed connectivity services and global live television programming to the business and VVIP aviation market.
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By Kirby Harrison
Airbus Corporate Jet customers and operators can now benefit from a wider range of computerized maintenance planning services, following an agreement concluded here with CAMP.
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By Fred George
The $43.5 million G500, Gulfstream’s long-awaited replacement for the $41 million G450, is making its NBAA debut only six months after its first flight.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America is launching two new safety-focused programs in the first quarter of 2016 – the next version of the MU-2 icing video and certification of a new angle-of-attack system for the turboprop twin.
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By John Morris
Is there a new Gulfstream in the works, even as the company works full speed ahead to bring the 500 and 600 to fruition? Yes, says Jetcraft, a leading consultancy in international business aircraft sales, marketing and ownership strategies. It describes a void in a market segment where Gulfstream previously offered the G350 (a scaled-down Gulfstream 450) that likely points to an incoming new model.
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By Rich Piellisch
Commuter Air Technology is taking orders – and offering show discounts – for its new CAT 350ME, a maximum-endurance King Air that can travel coast-to-coast or across the Atlantic nonstop with enhanced payload capabilities to boot.
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By Rich Piellisch
A new Hartzell Propeller five-blade, carbon-fiber, swept-tip prop will maximize performance of the 1,300-strong Pilatus PC-12 fleet and provide the foundation for a more far-reaching upgrade announced on the eve of this year’s show.
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By Rich Piellisch
Aerion Corporation has added new sales strength and some of the partners its needs to make its AS2, and hence supersonic business aviation, a commercial reality.
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By John Morris
While Western observers believe the Chinese market for business aviation has all but collapsed under the weight of the government’s anti-corruption campaign, there is another side to the picture: Flying activity there might be at record levels.
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