The Weekly of Business Aviation

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

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

Mar. 14—Aviation Week Laureates Awards, The National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., laureates.aviationweek.com

View the Helicopter Forecasts 2019-2028 chart in PDF format.

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By Kirby Harrison
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.
Business Aviation

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

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

By Helen Massy-Beresford
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.
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By Tony Osborne
Safran is planning to develop a turbogenerator system for future hybrid-electric vertical take-off-and-landing air vehicles.
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By Kirby Harrison
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.
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By Tony Osborne
New five-blade rotor comes from Airbus’ Bluecopter technology demonstrator.
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By Thierry Dubois
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.
Business Aviation

By Thierry Dubois
Safran may bid for becoming a supplier on a future civil supersonic aircraft program, according to CEO Philippe Petitcolin.
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By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters has developed a new training concept for pilots and engineers preparing for its AW609 commercial tiltrotor.
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By Alan Dron
Thai startup Kom Airlines has confirmed an order for six SSJ100 regional jets from Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC).
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By Thierry Dubois
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.
Business Aviation

By Bradley Perrett
Chinese orders for business aircraft this year are doubtful following a slump in contracts that began in mid-2018, Dassault Falcon says.
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By Molly McMillin
George Tsopeis became president of Montreal-based ZenithJet in 2016, a business aviation services firm specializing in completions oversight consulting.
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By Molly McMillin
AeroEx has introduced a toolkit to help European operators, pilots and compliance managers adhere to the EU’s new Electronic Flight Bag regulations before the July 9 deadline.
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By Molly McMillin
Charter operator Jet Edge International has raised $60 million in equity and debt that will be used to fund a number of initiatives.
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By Angus Batey
With a month to go before the UK reaches its self-imposed deadline to leave the European Union, negotiations on the terms of the exit remain deadlocked.
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By Kirby Harrison
In its effort to “simplify private flight in the Western U.S.,” CB SkyShare has acquired the fixed base operator at Gross Airport in Marin County, California, and completed a first phase of a remodel.
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By Bill Carey
Wing—the drone delivery subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet—was selected by FAA to participate in the agency’s unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM) pilot program, the company announced Feb. 25.
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