The Weekly of Business Aviation

The FAA has rolled out its new taxiway landing alert system at 13 airports and is confident that all 35 facilities getting the enhancement will be up and running by October 2020.

Brian Foley with Brian Foley Associates makes his predictions for bizav manufacturers' next new aircraft.

Aeroflot is to split into several firm contracts its preliminary order for 100 Superjet 100 regional jets.

Boeing and Safran have made a joint investment in Electric Power Systems (EPS), a developer of certifiable battery packs for electrified aircraft propulsion.

There is movement on the FAA’s long-awaited draft rule to require a means of remotely identifying drones from the ground, despite the postponement of its release from September to December.

An unmanned glider has been launched from a stratospheric balloon at 111,434 ft. altitude on a scientific flight to test an airglow monitor (AMON).

The German government is nearing a decision on key measures tackling climate change that include a massive increase in the country’s aviation tax for short-range domestic flights.

Vertis Aviation, based in Zug, Switzerland, has added a Dassault Falcon 900EX to its aircraft charter management program.

FlightSafety International Unmanned Systems Training has added a specialized sUAS Civil/Government Services Remote Pilot Course to assist federal, state and local government agencies to establish a UAS program or increase the effectiveness of existing ones.

AAR and Wichita State University have formed a new aviation maintenance education and training partnership.

AviationManuals has expanded its portfolio with a new Fixed Base Operations Manual designed to help managers and staff improve the professionalism, standards and safety of their operations.

Western Aircraft is now a provider of MRO and parts for air ambulances equipped with LifePort Air Medical Equipment.

SIMCOM Aviation Training has upgraded its TBM 700 simulator with a new Garmin G600 TXi primary flight display and GTN-750 GPS/NAV/COMM/MFD’s.

Metro Aviation, based in Shreveport, Louisiana, has taken delivery of the first Airbus EC145e helicopter produced at the Airbus assembly plant in Columbus, Mississippi.

Aircraft flying at Jackson Hole Aviation in Wyoming Sept. 3-4 flew on Avfuel’s sustainable aviation fuel.

Gulfstream Aerospace has opened a new $55 million maintenance, repair and overhaul facility at its headquarters in Savannah, Georgia

Sept. 17-19—More Electric & Hybrid Aircraft, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), Seattle, Washington.

Anne Devilliers has been appointed Dassault Aviation international sales director for Great Britain, Ireland, the Balkans and Greece.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Bombardier, Inc., Model DHC-8-400 series airplanes.

Infrastructure investment banker Nexa Capital Partners has formed Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Geomatics, a business intelligence entity focused on helping industry to use geospatial data to accelerate investment in the nascent market.

French hybrid-electric aircraft startup VoltAero is developing a power module for use in multiple applications including helicopters.

Swiss company Meteomatics and TruWeather Solutions of the U.S. have formed a partnership to provide “hyperlocal” weather forecasting using data-gathering drones to support commercial drone operations.

German startup Fraundorfer Aeronautics plans to fly a next-generation autogyro demonstrator in 2020, and aims to introduce an initial two-seat production version by 2022 and a six-seat air taxi by 2025.

The push is on for aircraft owners and operators to comply with the required upgrades for automatic dependence surveillance broadcast, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2020.

Over the next decade, the business aviation fleet in the Middle East and Africa is expected to remain constant at nearly 1,200 aircraft, according to the Aviation Week 2019 Business Aviation Fleet & MRO Forecast.