The Weekly of Business Aviation

Air Partner, a global aviation services group, has announced that its Air Evacuation division has partnered with Northcott Global Solutions (NGS).

Flight Safety Foundation has announced its lineup of featured speakers for the 72nd Annual International Air Safety Summit.

Jet Aviation has announced the opening of its new 40,000-sq.-ft. hangar and renovated fixed base operation in Teterboro, New Jersey.

Red Aircraft, a German provider of aviation services, plans to introduce a new high-performance engine to the U.S. agricultural sector.

Daher’s TBM Owners and Pilots Association’s annual convention at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Denver attracted 345 participants and 102 TBM turboprops

In September, the number of U.S. turbine-powered business aircraft meeting the FAA’s Jan. 1, 2020, mandate for ADS-B compliance totaled 83% of the fleet,

The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2018-10-07 for Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Sikorsky) Model S-76C helicopters.

According to ASI Executive Director Richard McSpadden, the reduction in general aviation fatal accidents -- preliminary figures for 2017 suggest the decline is continuing -- appeared to support the effectiveness of numerous industry initiatives to reduce those mishaps.

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British aerospace trade association ADS has written to senior government ministers in a bid to urgently clarify post-Brexit trading agreements.

Triumph Group’s continued breakup to the benefit of TECT Aerospace rolled on Oct. 10 with a deal over Triumph’s Nashville, Tennessee, assembly operations.

J.J. Frigge joined Hartzell Propeller, based in Piqua, Ohio, in 2011 as the company’s controller. In 2013, Frigge took over the day-to-day operations of the business in addition to marketing and brand building. He assumed his current position in March. Previously, Frigge was finance manager at Proctor & Gamble.

Stillwater Flight Center, a fixed base operator at Stillwater Regional Airport in Oklahoma, has expanded.

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation is hoping to sign up new customers for its SpaceJet aircraft family program by year’s end, as it pushes ahead with type certification testing for the aircraft.

Oklahoma State University (OSU) and Vigilant Aerospace Systems conducted an autonomous, long-distance flight of a small fixed-wing drone using Vigilant’s unmanned traffic management (UTM) and active detect-and-avoid system to monitor the aircraft.

Porsche has become the latest carmaker to embrace urban air mobility (UAM), signing a memorandum of understanding with Boeing to study product development for the premium market for personal air vehicles.

Sustainable energy company Velocys says it will be able to produce “negative-emissions” fuels, after striking a deal to capture and store the carbon dioxide that will be generated by the biomass-to-fuel plant it is planning to build in Mississippi.

Aero Engine Corp. of China (AECC) has begun testing major components for a turboshaft engine of at least 1,000 kW (1,300 hp) takeoff power for a future civil helicopter.

China’s Ehang has delivered a second batch of autonomous air taxis to customers.

Embraer has demonstrated autonomous taxiing using a Legacy 500 business jet at its base in Gaviao Peixoto, Brazil.

Compact avionics manufacturer uAvionix announced Oct. 8 that it has acquired startup display company AeroVonics, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, a move that diversifies its product line.

Bombardier unveiled the new six-seat Learjet 75 Liberty this past summer and customer interest is strong, the company said.

Biofuel supplier SkyNRG has introduced a program enabling corporations to reduce emissions from their business air travel by contributing to development of a production facility for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to be built in the Netherlands.

The FAA said the last two of 155 planned airports now receive and display aircraft targets by automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), completing its final implementation goal for the program.

Seaplane operator Harbour Air has installed a 540-kw (750-hp) electric motor in a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, with first flight expected by the end of November.