The Weekly of Business Aviation

Grischa Schmidt has been appointed Jet Aviation senior director of its Design Studio, based in Basel, Switzerland.

Sky Trek Aviation at Modesto City County Airport has new ownership and a new name. Its new name, Modesto Jet Center, became effective Aug. 1.

Signature Flight Support has agreed to purchase IAM Jet Center and its affiliated companies.

Nuno Pereira signed for the company’s first two ATR-72-600 regional aircraft at a ceremony at Toulouse-Francazal Airport, France, at ATL headquarters on Aug. 2.

Sept. 21-24—Aviation Week World Routes 2019, Adelaide, Australia, https://events.aviationweek.com/en/home.html

Textron Inc. is reviewing its strategic alternatives for its Kautex business unit, which produces fuel systems and other functional components.

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Airbus Helicopters has opened a new regional helicopter completion and delivery center at its Subang facility in Malaysia.

Tecnam Aircraft has partnered with XtraPower to form a Tecnam EU Leasing Program, a dry leasing program.

Nextant Aerospace reports that it has seven Nextant 604XT Pro Line Fusion cockpit upgrades in progress simultaneously.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH Model DA 42 NG and Model DA 42 M-NG airplanes.

A new corporate review may indicate that Textron could be looking to become an aerospace and defense-focused company similar to other large rivals, according to analysts.

Produced by combustion, fine particles emitted by engines can impact human health and the climate

Monitoring data indicates that 70%-75% of European Union (EU)-registered large aircraft will comply with Europe’s automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) Out equipage deadline of June 2020, according to the agency charged with coordinating the effort.

The French inventor of a jet-powered personal vertical takeoff and landing system has successfully flown across the English Channel.

The end is near for Wesco Aircraft’s turnaround plan as the aerospace fasteners and machined parts provider announced Aug. 9 it has struck a deal to be acquired by new private equity investors for almost $2 billion.

Turkish company Baykar Makina has revealed it is working on an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle.

Blackhawk Aerospace has earned a Supplemental Type Certificate from the FAA that it says will transform the Beechcraft King Air 300 into “the fastest King Air in the world.”

Delivery comes a month after the aircraft earned FAA type and production certification. The unnamed U.S. customer took delivery at the company’s headquarters in Savannah, Georgia.

The four-seat, single-engine general aviation aircraft, under development by Shanghai-based Guanyi General Aviation, flew for the first time at a height of 3,000 m during its 50th test flight on Aug. 7.

Online retailer Amazon is seeking exemptions from the FAA to operate its Prime Air drone delivery service as an air carrier under the agency’s Part 135 regulation.

Working from the ground up to identify early opportunities and project demand for urban air mobility in 74 cities worldwide, a new report forecasts a 20-year market value of $318 billion across operators, vehicle manufacturers and infrastructure providers.

RUAG MRO International has developed what it calls a “straightforward and economical solution for Controller/Pilot Data Link Communications over the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network.”

The demonstrator is being considered under JAXA’s proposed S4 program (for System integration of Silent SuperSonic airplane technologies). If funded, the S4TD technology demonstrator could fly by around 2026.

The Latin American Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (LABACE) may move from Congonhas Airport in São Paulo next year, possibly to another city airport.