The Weekly of Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Hybrid-electric aircraft developer Electra.aero says its EL-2 Goldfinch technology demonstrator has completed off-runway test flights.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation delivered 42 business jets during the second quarter of 2024, down from 44 during the same period a year ago.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Graham Warwick
Startup Dovetail Electric Aviation is testing a prototype hydrogen-electric powerplant at its facility in Seville, Spain.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein, Alan Dron
Saudia Group has firmed an order for 50 Lilium Jets and taken options for 50 more.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Organizers of EAA AirVenture 2024 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, are planning for about 670,000 attendees.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Austrian startup FlyNow Aviation sees huge potential for urban air mobility to change how people commute through dense cities.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Lilium has pushed back the planned start of manned flight tests with its full-scale electric Lilium Jet to early 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The state of California has granted Archer Aviation a tax exclusion for the expansion of its battery and electric motor production facility in San Jose.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Business jet manufacturers delivered 185 business jets and 91 turboprops during the second quarter (Q2) of 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
Concerted effort and broad-based collaboration is required if business aviation is to maintain its social license to operate.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
In a milestone for electric aircraft, Electric Power Systems (EPS) has submitted the first application for FAA approval of a lithium propulsion battery system.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Airshare, an Overland Park, Kansas-based provider of aircraft management, fractional ownership, jet cards and charter services, has a new majority owner.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus UpNext has begun to heavily modify a Cessna Citation VII business jet as the demonstrator for a high-aspect ratio, morphing wing.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
The facility in Chelveston, England, is planned to be operational by 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Alan Dron
Airline pilots have reported a worsening of the GPS spoofing problem, as a new “hotspot” has appeared around the southern Russian port city of Novorossiysk.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Leona Qi became president of VistaJet U.S. in 2018 after serving as president of VistaJet Asia-Pacific.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Pivotal says it has delayed customer deliveries of its Helix personal electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Angus Batey
The British Business and General Aviation Association has launched a social-media campaign to educate the public about the realities of business aviation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jeremy Kariuki
The first six months of 2024 saw a substantial increase in the supply of preowned single-engine helicopters as compared to the second quarter of 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jeremy Kariuki
Gulfstream Aerospace announced the opening of its newly expanded customer support service center at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Ben Goldstein
Archer Aviation and Southwest Airlines have partnered to evaluate the integration of Midnight air taxis into the carrier’s operations across California.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
The NTSB is leading the investigation of the crash of an amphibious air tanker that killed a veteran agricultural aviation pilot and native of Brazil.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
The study was conducted by Lufthansa Innovation Hub alongside Roland Berger, V2AIR and Unisphere.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Landing gear specialist Héroux-Devtek of Quebec, Canada, has agreed to be acquired and taken private by a U.S. private equity firm for about $1.35 billion.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Ben Goldstein
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Ottobrun near Munich, ERC Systems is seeking to launch services later this decade.
Advanced Air Mobility