Textron Aviation’s deal with NetJets for options on 325 Citation Longitude and Hemisphere business jets includes pricing that is better than the deal the company negotiated with NetJets for Citation Latitudes, Textron’s top executive said Oct. 18.
Piper Aircraft, based in Vero Beach, Florida, recorded its best aircraft sales and delivery results in 10 years in the third quarter of 2018, the company announced.
Gulfstream Aerospace announced that its production fleet of business jets has FAA approval for the “visual advantage” credit using an enhanced vision system (EVS), which allows operators to dispatch and begin instrument approaches in low-visibility conditions.
Flight tracking data provider FlightAware has added space-based surveillance coverage to its ground network of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) receivers and announced Rockwell Collins ARINCDirect as its first partner for the enhanced offering to business aviation.
Will rising trade tariffs between China and the U.S., or the recent indictment of an alleged Chinese spy misappropriating GE Aviation knowhow, damage the Western aerospace industry’s access and opportunities inside the world’s soon-to-be largest aviation sector?
Bombardier’s new Global 5500 and Global 6500 long-range business jets have completed 70% of their flight testing and are on track for delivery in 2019.
The company operates a global fleet of 72 business jets it makes available to customers under a pay-by-the-hour membership plan, and its chief commercial officer, Ian Moore, says an uptick in customer numbers and aircraft use in North America is driving global growth.
MRO experts Flying Colours is adding 148,000 sq. ft. of new facilities in North America to meet demand for new and refurbished large-cabin business jets.
Textron Aviation kicked off the National Business Aviation Association Conference & Exhibition with the announcement of an order option for the Citation Hemisphere business jet from fractional ownership company NetJets. Once firm, the order will be the launch order for the aircraft.
New business jets entering service will help drive robust short- and medium-term growth in the industry, which is also seeing a tightening market for used jets, Honeywell Aerospace finds in its annual Global Business Aviation Outlook.
Singapore-based fuel-cell producer HES Energy Systems has unveiled its concept for a hydrogen-electric four-seat regional aircraft, building on its experience developing hydrogen propulsion systems for unmanned aircraft.
Bell is to collaborate with Japanese package-delivery company Yamato on aerial logistics using electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) unmanned aircraft.
A new Aviation Week Intelligence Network forecast predicts worldwide deliveries of 8,683 business jets and 2,877 turboprops from 2019-2028, exhibiting a 1.4% annual growth rate.
The collective exhaling of relief last week when Luton Airport’s summer night-closure program came to an end was almost loud enough to drown out the roar of all those business jets that the airfield north of London is once again able to welcome after dark.
Garmin International is expanding the availability of its G1000 NXi integrated flight deck for upgrades on aircraft equipped with its G1000 flight deck.
