The Weekly of Business Aviation

Tastefully Yours, one of the largest caterers to bizav operators in the Southeast, will play a major role in this year’s Super Bowl festivities in Atlanta.

Textron Aviation sales jumped 12% in 2018 over the prior year, helping to deliver welcome financial results for the latest year and leaving the business jet, helicopter and UAV provider bullish going into 2019, executives said Jan. 24.

FAA technicians who are not being paid during the U.S. government shutdown maintain the communications, navigation and surveillance equipment that air traffic controllers—also unpaid—rely on to safely separate air traffic.

The partial government shutdown has not yet affected the FAA’s type certification of Textron Aviation’s new Citation Model 700 Longitude super midsize jet.

Airbus CEO Tom Enders says the future of the company’s UK plants is at risk if the country opts for a no-deal exit from the European Union.

Air traffic should not be allowed to grow at London’s Heathrow and City airports, a new report says.

Airbus Helicopters secured 15 orders for its new H160 twin-engine medium helicopter last year, bolstering the company’s order book for 2018.

As the partial federal shutdown drags on, the impacts on the business and general aviation manufacturing and maintenance industries are growing.

United Technologies expects high-single digit organic sales growth at engine-maker Pratt & Whitney this year, and mid-single digits at the new Collins Aerospace.

A recent survey of 600 new and used business jet brokers indicate a decline in market optimism and tone, according to Jefferies.

A top-ranking Senate Democrat has voiced concerns about the legal justification for the FAA’s decision to recall more than 3,000 safety inspectors and engineers to return to work without pay.

AeroVironment’s secretive, high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) program aimed at the 5G market has “generated close to $75 million-plus” worth of orders.

Boeing says it has completed the first flight of an autonomous passenger air vehicle (PAV) prototype developed by subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences.

The board of Israel Aerospace Industries has approved the development of an advanced model of Gulfstream Aerospace’s G280 super midsized business jet.

KlasJet, a European business aviation provider, has added three Boeing 737-500 aircraft to its fleet with plans to purchase four additional Boeing jets in 2019.

Janine Iannarelli is a Houston-based aircraft broker who represents individuals and corporations in the purchase and sale of business aircraft.

Luxaviation Group has signed an agreement to sell ExecuJet’s global maintenance activities to Dassault Aviation.

Lee Aerospace has expanded its Part 145 capabilities and its West Coast presence, it said.

FBO Riga and Jet Flight Service have announced the launch of an Embraer authorized service center at FBO Riga in Riga, Latvia.

View the December 2018 Business Aircraft Activity In The U.S., Canada And The Caribbean chart in PDF format.

JetRead has added a Gulfstream GIVSP aircraft to its charter fleet as it expands its operations globally.

BRS Aerospace named International Aviation & Investment, based in Hong Kong, as a distributor for the People’s Republic of China.

AMAC Aerospace has received a new completion contract for a BBJ MAX 9.

Flightworx Aviation announced that its fuel division, Flightworx Fuel Services, has launched a new fuel portal application.

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’s Air Safety Institute and the Liberty University School of Aeronautics has issued a 16-year study on accidents during flight training called Training Accident Report 2000-2015.