The Weekly of Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Spanish aerostructures firm Aernnova is planning to purchase GE Aviation’s Hamble, UK-based business.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Boeing and Embraer on Oct. 3 formally acknowledged that they do not expect their commercial aircraft joint venture deal to close until “early 2020” after the European Commission indicated its competition review will extend into a Phase II.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Detecting rogue drones on or near airport property should be a shared responsibility of airports and federal governments, a high-level industry group focused on the threat of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has concluded.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Italian manufacturer Tecnam has delivered the first two of up to 100 nine-passenger P2012 Travellers to U.S. regional carrier Cape Air.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
The expansion by Flir Systems into unmanned aircraft services is rolling on as it acquires the intellectual property and certain operating assets of Aria Insights.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
Customer demand for Boeing Business Jet interior refurbishment at King Aerospace is on the rise.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
Safran Landing Systems is building a new $15.25 million test laboratory in France, called ExceLAB, to test capabilities for new systems, from prototypes to finished products, across a broad range of simulated operating conditions.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Rhett Ross, CEO and president of Continental Aerospace Technologies, an engine manufacturer based in Mobile, Alabama, plans to retire from the position he has held for 12 years.
Business Aviation

By Sean Broderick
Convincing more women to pursue careers as pilots would help ease a supply crunch that could soon threaten even the largest airlines in the U.S., two pilot-workforce experts said.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Whitcraft, a Connecticut-based manufacturer of highly-engineered precision formed, precision machined, and fabricated products for aerospace turbine engine OEMs and Tier I suppliers, said Oct. 1 it acquired Multax of Morton, Illinois, which has roots in programming the first multiple axis machines ever used.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
UPS says its Flight Forward subsidiary has received the first FAA Part 135 Standard certification to use unmanned aircraft systems for package deliveries nationwide.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation has delivered its 500th Cessna Grand Caravan EX utility turboprop, the latest model of the Caravan platform.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Embraer has received FAA and European Aviation Safety Agency approval of its new Praetor 500 midsize business jet.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Rolls-Royce has completed the acquisition of the electric aircraft propulsion activities of German industrial giant Siemens.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Alphabet company Wing is playing down Australian media criticism of noise from its drone delivery operations as it prepares to launch its latest commercial service in Logan, south of Brisbane in Queensland.
Business Aviation

By Mark Carreau
World View Enterprises Inc. has exceeded by more than two days its goal of a 30-day demo Stratollite balloon mission for sustained navigational stratospheric flight.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
ExecuJet, a division of the Luxaviation Group, plans to exit Cambridge City Airport and open a larger fixed base operation at another UK airport.
Business Aviation

Tonit Calaway has been appointed to the board of directors of Astronics Corp.

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By Molly McMillin
Jet Linx celebrated the opening of a 3,000-sq.-ft. dedicated private terminal for members at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey, serving the New York City market.

By Molly McMillin
Avflight has begun construction of a new FBO and hangar on a five-acre leased parcel at Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

By Molly McMillin
Baines Simmons, the consulting and training division of Air Partner, is offering aviation safety training courses in Amsterdam for the first time.

By Molly McMillin
Jet Aviation has partnered with Amira Air, a Vienna, Austria-based aircraft operator, to add a Global Express to its fleet in EMEA.