The Weekly of Business Aviation

Dassault has issued a “clarification” to confirm that Rafale aircraft parts will be delivered by year’s end as part of agreed offsets.

Inside Textron Aviation’s Industrial Design Studio in West Wichita, the interior of the company’s new high-wing, utility Cessna Sky Courier twin turboprop is taking shape.

The U.S. Justice Department announced Oct. 10 that it arrested and indicted a Chinese security officer earlier this year for alleged economic espionage and trying to steal trade secrets from “multiple” U.S. aviation and aerospace companies, including GE Aviation in Ohio.

TransDigm Group’s proposed $4 billion acquisition of rival Esterline Technologies could cement the former in the pantheon of top-tier Western aerospace and defense suppliers and aftermarket providers.

Bruce N. Whitman, the chairman, president and CEO of FlightSafety International, died at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Oct. 10 after a brief period of failing health. He was 85.

Argonne National Laboratory is creating a center to evaluate potential UAS design options, including battery technologies and hybrid architectures.

Gulfstream Aerospace has opened a sales and design center in Midtown Manhattan to serve one of the world’s busiest business aviation regions, the company said.

AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor, has acquired Wichita-based Aerostructures Acquisition, doing business as The Atlas Group.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students verified the accuracy of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) signals at high altitude in research supporting the integration of rocket launches and suborbital spaceflights in the U.S. airspace system.

UK-based maintenance provider Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has rejected reports that it is facing a winding-up order.

AviationManuals and the Air Charter Safety Action Program plan to go live with their Aviation Safety Action Program for business aviation operators.

Western Aviation plans to open a new business aviation center.

C&L Aerospace has signed a distributor agreement with Essex Industries in St. Louis.

Oct. 13-Dec. 1—AOPA Flilght Instructor Refresher Course, Various locatios, aopa.org/forms/event-calendar/firc_onsite

Sean McGeough has been named Wheels Up executive vice president of sales, where he will head corporate sales.

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Titan Aviation Group has joined the Air Charter Safety Foundation, affiliating with an organization that already had 176 other member companies.

The U.S. Senate on Oct. 3 passed the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 by a 93-6 vote, clearing the way for the bill to be signed into law by President Donald Trump.

The Polish Medical Air Rescue has placed an order with Tecnam for three P2008JC Mk II aircraft.

Gemini Air Group of Scottsdale, Arizona, has opened a 60,000-sq.-ft. hangar at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona.

London Oxford Airport has a new tenant in its refurbished hangar, The Children’s Air Ambulance.

Stack.aero has launched software called CharterMetrics, which it says is industry’s first “workflow solution solving the challenges” caused by business aviation’s fragmented operational systems.

Duncan Aviation has developed six Supplemental Type Certificates for the Gogo Avance L5 system.

Jet Aviation, based in Basel, Switzerland, has acquired KLM Jet Center at the Amsterdam and Rotterdam International airports in the Netherlands.

The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2017-14-03 for Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Sikorsky) Model S-92A helicopters.