The Weekly of Business Aviation

The FAA this month has issued multiple waivers allowing operators to fly parachute-equipped drones over people.

A new air traffic control training facility has opened in Beirut, Lebanon, to help improve the supply of controllers in the region.

Trade tensions with China remain a high-profile item for the business jet market, but there is little evidence of it affecting demand, J.P. Morgan analyst Seth Seifman said June 25.

Bombardier’s reign as a marquee regional jet builder will end within a year now that the Canadian manufacturer has struck a deal to sell its Canadair Regional Jet program to Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for $550 million and assumption of some debt.

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Under a new contract, Saft, based in France, plans to provide two ULM batteries per aircraft for AVIC MA700 80-seat turboprop regional aircraft.

Wu Zhendong was appointed chairman of AsBAA at its annual general meeting in June.

The Japan National Police Agency has placed an order with Bell and Subaru for a Subaru Bell 412EPX helicopter.

Supersonic airliner developer Boom has slipped first flight of the XB-1 high-speed demonstrator to 2020.

GKN Aerospace’s Indian Joint Venture, Fokker Elmo Sasmos Interconnection Systems in Bangalore, has received a multimillion dollar contract to build electrical wiring interconnection systems for the Pilatus PC-24.

Gardner Aerospace, a European supplier of aerospace detailed parts and subassemblies, has completed a new 45,000-sq.-m manufacturing facility in Chengdu, China.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Cirrus Design Corporation (Cirrus) Model SF50 airplanes.

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Global Jet Capital is raising about $517 million after it closed a BJETS 2019-1 securitization.

Swiss-based H55, a spin-off of the solar-powered Solar Impulse, has successfully completed first flight of a two-seat electric aircraft designed for pilot training.

The request comes nearly two weeks after an Agusta A109E helicopter crashed on the roof of the AXA Equitable Building, killing the pilot and causing a dangerous fire that required the building to be evacuated.

In a June 24 letter to the Security Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, DJI protested testimony delivered by some of the witnesses who appeared at a hearing days earlier.

The June 21 delivery of the A319OH (OH - Offenen Himmel, German for Open Skies) restores a capability lost 22 years ago.

Business aviation flight activity across Europe declined 16% in May compared to a year ago.

This experimental vertiport is to test the components of an urban air mobility service that could be launched for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, to be hosted in Paris.

The company looks to resume operations, having entered extraordinary receivership at the end of last year.

Results by operational category were mixed for the month, with a 7.3% increase in fractional flight activity and a 2.4% increase in Part 91 activity.

The situation presents a risk to civil aviation and the potential for “miscalculation or misidentification,” as evidenced by the surface-to-air missile strike of the Navy aircraft while it was operating over the Gulf of Oman, the agency said.

One Aviation and its debtors are asking the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to approve the bidding and other procedures involving a sale of the company’s assets to Citiking International, the company’s debtor-in-possession lender, or to a higher bidder.