The Weekly of Business Aviation

West Star’s facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has been named an authorized service center for Embraer’s Lineage 1000 and 1000E.

Million Air White Plains has opened a new fixed base operator facility at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York in a $70 million project.

Baldwin Aviation has launched a Safety Performance Monitoring System to help operators achieve and maintain Stage 3 IS-BAO/IS-BAH registration.

Jet Aviation has completed the rebranding of its six Hawker Pacific fixed base operators in Australia, the company said.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Dassault Aviation Model Falcon 7X airplanes.

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Colin Miller has been promoted to senior vice president of Innovation, Engineering and Flight at Gulfstream Aerospace.

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StandardAero has been selected by Ghana-based carrier PassionAir to provide a tailored package of engine services for its fleet of Q400 regional turboprop aircraft.

FlightSafety has increased its support to veterans with a range of courses approved by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, it says.

Bombardier’s Global 7500 has set a record for the longest mission ever flown by a purpose-built business jet in a nonstop flight spanning 8,152 nm, the company said.

The company is predicting growth in the law-enforcement market and increased fleet utilization from oil-and-gas crew change operators.

The European Commission has set out recommendations to improve social standards in European aviation, a sector that directly employs 2 million people and supports 9.4 million jobs overall, in a report published Mar. 1.

Safran is planning to develop a turbogenerator system for future hybrid-electric vertical take-off-and-landing air vehicles.

Comlux Completion says it is “raising the bar for maintenance services” of large VIP aircraft, such as the Airbus Corporate Jet and Boeing Business Jet.

New five-blade rotor comes from Airbus’ Bluecopter technology demonstrator.

Aerospace propulsion and equipment manufacturer Safran is pressing on with the Zodiac Aerospace integration, targeting product offering consolidation after successful synergies in procurement and overhead costs, Safran CEO Philippe Petitcolin said.

Safran may bid for becoming a supplier on a future civil supersonic aircraft program, according to CEO Philippe Petitcolin.

Leonardo Helicopters has developed a new training concept for pilots and engineers preparing for its AW609 commercial tiltrotor.

Thai startup Kom Airlines has confirmed an order for six SSJ100 regional jets from Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC).

The nascent favorable trend for new business jet sales is under threat from uncertain economic growth prospects in the U.S., slower-than-hoped sales in China and a stagnating secondhand global market, Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier says.

Chinese orders for business aircraft this year are doubtful following a slump in contracts that began in mid-2018, Dassault Falcon says.

George Tsopeis became president of Montreal-based ZenithJet in 2016, a business aviation services firm specializing in completions oversight consulting.