The Weekly of Business Aviation

Silver Air has added an 11-passenger Gulfstream GIV to its jet management program and is now available for charter operations.

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. Turboprop and Turboshaft Engines [Docket No. FAA-2016-9450; Product Identifier 2016-NE-25-AD; Amendment 39-19317; AD 2018-13-05]

Kirti Odedra has been named director of sales for Planet Nine, based in Los Angeles and London. Bill Wulf will serve as chief financial officer. Wulf is a former senior vice president and chief financial officer of NetJets.

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By Graham Warwick
Washington State has formed an electric aircraft working group to explore the opportunities and challenges of electrifying aviation.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
TAG Farnborough Airport has been awarded carbon neutral status by the Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe), making it the world’s first carbon-neutral business aviation airport.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
NASA has laid out a three-phase program to collect data on public acceptance of reduced sonic booms using the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works-developed low-boom demo.
Business Aviation

By Guy Norris
The UK government urgently needs to hammer out a withdrawal agreement from the European Union to avoid massive disruption to the aerospace industry on both sides of the Atlantic, said Michael Huerta, the former FAA administrator.
Business Aviation

By Sean Broderick
The C Series program that the new Airbus-Bombardier joint venture takes over July 1 is better than just a few months ago.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
ATP Flight School, based in Jacksonville, Florida, has taken delivery of 10 new Cessna 172 Skyhawks from Textron Aviation, the flight school announced.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Meeting on June 27 for the first time as an independent federal advisory group to FAA, the NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC) discussed actively engaging local communities over noise concerns that loom as a major challenge to the agency’s coming Northeast Corridor initiative.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Fourteen years after selling the business to Triumph Group, Jim Lee, founder and president of Lee Aerospace, bought the company back in 2014. Now it's growing.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
SIMCOM International, based in Orlando, Florida, has acquired Turbine Solutions Inc., (TSI), an aircraft training provider for Daher TBM series aircraft.
Business Aviation

By John Morris
Luton, Stansted, Gatwick, Heathrow, Biggin Hill, Northolt, Farnborough and Oxford airports are all now effectively closed or severely restricted for overnight flights
Business Aviation

Jet Aviation has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Part 145 approval for Bombardier Learjet 60 aircraftå
Business Aviation

Jet East Aviation is seeking to hire experienced Aircraft and Powerplant mechanics and avionics technicians in the Greater New York area to keep up with its expansion and growth.
Business Aviation

AvFab, based in Clinton, Missouri, has received Transport Canada approvals for two additional King Air products. The authorizations are for its King Air two-place divans and toilet cabin seat. The divans offer 400 lb. total occupant weight and another 20 lb. per storage drawer. Its toilet cabin set can be occupied for both takeoff and landing and is installed in the baggage area or the aft side of the entrance door.
Business Aviation

AvFuel has signed an agreement with Gevo, a biofuels company, becoming Gevo’s exclusive aviation fuel distributor of the sustainable alternative jet fuel portion.
Business Aviation

Royal Thai Air Force took delivery of its third Sukhoi business jet.
Business Aviation

Delta Private Jets has opened its second MRO base at the 548,000-sq.-ft. Sheltair Aviation facility at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Business Aviation

AVEMEX was appointed by Honda Aircraft as the exclusive dealer
Business Aviation

FAI Rent-A-Jet in Germany has added a fifth Global Express to increase its owned and managed fleet to 25 aircraft.
Business Aviation

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORPORATION AIRPLANES [Docket No. FAA-2018-0104; Product Identifier 2017-CE-036-AD; Amendment 39-19311; AD 2018-12-07]
Business Aviation

BOMBARDIER AIRPLANES [Docket No. FAA-2017-1247; Product Identifier 2017-NM-085-AD; Amendment 39-19316; AD 2018-13-04]
Business Aviation

Tom Carlson has joined Wipaire as services and components sales manager.
Business Aviation