The Weekly of Business Aviation

A coalition of international aviation associations is hosting an event called Business Jets Fuel Green:

Titan Aviation, an aircraft management, sales and charter operation, has opened a U.S. headquarters inside Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey.

BRS Aerospace has named five additional Cessna Parachute System Authorized Installation Centers in North America and South Africa.

FAI Rent-a-Jet AG, has added its first Challenger 850.

Pilatus has opened a 118,000 sq. ft. completions facility in Broomfield, Colorado, for PC-12 NG turboprop and PC-24 business jet.

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Textron Aviation has established Textron Aviation Canada to expand its service network.

Baldwin has developed a “Safety Monitor” to quantify safety performance based on a safety management system, which includes measurements of safety policy, risk management, safety assurance and promotion

Sonya Adams has been named Air BP managing director for Northern, Central and Western Europe.

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The global market for 3D printing for aerospace and defense is expected to grow from $1.56 billion to $5.90 billion by 2026, at a compound annual growth rate of about 16%, according to Market Forecast.

The M500 and M600 are part of Piper Aircraft’s M-Class line of airframes that are based on the company’s PA-46 type.

NASA has rolled out its Grand Challenge plan to help guide, foster and enable the coming generation of urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles.

Aircraft utilization in business aviation rose 5.7% in the third quarter compared to a year ago, averaging more than 30.3 hr., according to Jet Support Services’ Business Aviation Index.

Qatar Airways plans to grow its fleet of for-charter business jets to 35 from the current 14 and replace the seven Bombardier Global 5000s and 6000s that it now operates with Gulfstream G500s, Group CEO Akbar Al Baker says.

For more than nine years ending in April 2016, U.S. Part 121 operators went without a fatal accident.

Six general aviation-related organizations have partnered to form best business practices for fixed-base operators, calling on FBOs to publish an online list of pricing, fees and other charges.

Embraer is seeing an improving market for business aircraft, with increasing sales activity, better pricing and reductions in used inventory.

The assets of once-high-flying drone startup company Airware are being bought by another drone-based services upstart called Delair.

SESAR, Europe’s public-private partnership for airspace technology research, has launched a series of demonstrations.

Two companies have won contracts to test the feasibility of delivering vaccines by drone to remote islands in Vanuatu in the South Pacific.

The FAA has referred an enforcement action case involving alleged illegal charter activity to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to the National Air Transportation Association.

Jet Aviation is expanding and renovating its fixed base operations at its Van Nuys, California, Teterboro, New Jersey, and Dallas locations.

Hawthorne Global Aviation Services is adding additional corporate hangar and office space at Chicago Executive Airport to meet customer demand.

The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2017-20-06 for certain Honeywell AS907-1-1A turbofan engines.