Troubled Bombardier late Monday announced that Eric Martel, president of its Business Aircraft division, will leave the company to pursue other opportunities. He will be replaced by former Learjet chief David Coleal, who is currently executive vice president at Spirit Aerosystems. Coleal ran Learjet from 2008-2011. “We’ve got a great product line. Now we must focus on execution,” he told ShowNews yesterday.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Alpha Star Aviation Services has contracted Jet Aviation to complete an ACJ A319 and an ACJ A330. The aircraft will be delivered to Jet’s Basel Completions Center in the fourth quarter of this year. Alpha Star CEO Salem Abaid Al Muzaini, seen here (left) celebrating the deal with Jet Aviation Group president Rob Smith said, “Jet Aviation has an excellent reputation for the quality of its cabin interiors, which is backed by comprehensive capabilities and a willingness to invest in cutting edge technology.
At EBACE yesterday Wheels Up exercised its option to purchase the next 35 King Air 350i turboprops from its order placed in 2013 for up to 105 aircraft. It was the largest order in history for general aviation turboprop aircraft. To date, Wheels Up has taken delivery of 31 of that initial order of 35, and also received 10 factory-refurbished Citation Excel/XLSs.
Mercedes-Benz Style and Lufthansa Technik will jointly develop an innovative, luxurious cabin concept for short- and medium-haul VIP and VVIP aircraft.
Harrods Aviation is doing some of the footwork for you in equipping its staff with the latest Fitbit technology to find out how far they walk in the course of the three-day show.
An inordinately long market downturn is followed by first signs of recovery – but hopeful aircraft are still falling by the wayside, even when they emanate from apparently blue chip companies. Other aerospace stalwarts call a pause in development to reconsider if they have really, really adopted the right formula for their new project.
Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare has announced plans to slow production of the Global 5000/6000 from its current rate of around 80 aircraft a year because of softness in the business aviation market
After expanding its aircraft sales activity seven months ago, EAN Aviation, the Lagos, Nigeria-based business aviation services company, has completed three sales and acquisitions.
At home, it’s easy to wish that a stack of dirty dishes in the kitchen would just fly away. Lufthansa Technik and Jet Aviation Basel now have ways to do that in flight.
Textron Aviation hopes to achieve FAA certification of its midsized $16.25 million Citation Latitude this month, CEO Scott Ernest said during a press conference Monday.
The big get bigger and smaller operators rethink their future as a wave of consolidation breaks across Europe’s business jet management and operating industry.
While business aviation sales have slowed generally in China, according to many aircraft manufacturers, the pace of flight operations at Shanghai continues to increase.
Flying Colours Corp., the North American-based maintenance, repair and overhaul, completion and refurbishment specialist, has won an order for the completion of three new Bombardier Challenger 650s.
Aviation Week recently sampled the new touch-screen Pro Line Fusion cockpit in Rockwell Collins’ King Air 250 demonstrator on a flight from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Rockford, Illinois.
