A lot has changed at TAG Farnborough Airport – the business-focused airfield to the west of London – since its CEO, Brandon O'Reilly, first joined the team. Yet the biggest difference he has noticed has been in the business aviation industry's perception.
The FAA has granted Textron Aviation a temporary exemption to meeting fuel tank flammability requirements that would allow Citation Longitude deliveries to begin but require a retrofit of delivered aircraft by Jan. 31, 2020.
On the day the companies had long expected to be their first day as one corporation, the U.S. Justice Department – in cooperation with European and Canadian competition authorities – instead filed a lawsuit and outlined spinoff demands before United Technologies would be allowed to acquire Rockwell Collins.
Jet Aviation’s FBO in San Juan is the first in Puerto Rico to qualify for Stage 1 registration to the International Business Aviation Council’s IS-BAH standard, “ensuring that all customers receive the maximum level of safe and secure ground-handling services.”
As BACA, The Air Charter Association prepares to mark its 70th anniversary in 2019, the UK organization is flexing new muscles. Last year it became a company limited by guarantee, and appointed its first CEO, Dave Edwards.
First-half worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales climbed 15.5% year over year, to $1.322 billion, according to the Aircraft Electronics Association’s (AEA) latest Avionics Market Report. Sales during the second quarter jumped 17.8% from a year ago, to $682.1 million.
Textron Aviation kicked off the National Business Aviation Association Conference & Exhibition with the announcement of an order option for the Citation Hemisphere business jet from fractional ownership company NetJets. Once firm, the order will be the launch order for the aircraft.
Avinode Group, long known as the leading business-to-business platform for buying and selling air charter, is rolling out some significant advancements to its web-based apps for brokers and operators that will benefit their customers, too.
The collective exhaling of relief last week when Luton Airport's summer night-closure program came to an end was almost loud enough to drown out the roar of all those business jets that the airfield north of London is once again able to welcome after dark.
The thundery weather conditions appeared nearly ideal for an evaluation of Dassault’s new FalconEye combined vision system at dusk on the day we flew Dassault’s Falcon 8X flight test aircraft.
We had the opportunity to fly Rockwell Collins’ Challenger 601, fitted with the latest HGS-6605 head-up display that has the CVS upgrade. The flight also enabled us to compare it to Dassault’s FalconEye HUD/CVS gear that we evaluated earlier this year.
Safran's troubled Silvercrest program is progressing towards testing a new axial high-pressure compressor in June 2019 – hoping to help meet Cessna's performance requirements for the Hemisphere business jet.
Plans for an improved version of the Eclipse very light jet may once again be possible after Chinese investors rescued its parent company from Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week.
Private and business aviation customers are expected to make up one-quarter of all Airbus Helicopters’ bookings in North America over the next five years.
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer Executive Jets introduced the new Praetor 500 and Praetor 600 midsize and super-midsize business jets, respectively, Oct. 14 at the National Business Aviation Association Conference and Exhibition.
Amid growing signs of a dramatic resurgence in the fortunes of the air cargo market, Boeing has inked a deal with Volga-Dnepr Group and CargoLogicHolding firming up an order for five 747-8F and covering a letter of intent for 29 777Fs.
The team behind the Ultimate project for breakthrough engine concepts is here exhibiting three-dimensional mockups of the potential innovation its members have studied.
Making its Farnborough debut, Mitsubishi Aircraft’s MRJ90 regional jet is performing a striking air-show routine designed to showcase the all-new aircraft’s sword-inspired design and quiet engine noise.
To reverse the roles for a change, witness the enthusiastic helpers and sponsors of the Aerobility disabled fliers’ charity building their own airplane.
Raytheon has been selected by DARPA to develop and test a Tactical Boost Glideweapon—roughly 500-nm-range unpowered vehicle which can accelerate to hypersonic speed by a rocket booster.
