The Weekly of Business Aviation

Clay Lacy Aviation hosted 1,500 local high school students at its 13th Annual Aviation Career Day on April 27 at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles.

A new ASTM International standard supports ice detection on small aircraft.

Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus is partnering with the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism to send 30 employees through unmanned aircraft systems training at K-State.

RBR Maintenance is relocating its Challenger maintenance program to Dallas Executive Airport to accommodate rapid growth, it said.

Bombardier is holding a series of 2018 regional M&O customer support conferences and regional events to provide information to customers and operators.

Gulf Coast Avionics, based in Lakeland, Florida, has completed its first Garmin G600 TXi touchscreen avionics upgrade on a Beechcraft King Air C90A.

Silver Air’s Boeing Business Jet is ready for business and luxury charter service at Van Nuys Airport and is being booked for global charter operations.

Bombardier Business Aircraft and Duncan Aviation, in a collaboration, have received Supplemental Type Certificates for the Gogo Avance L5 system for Challenger 300 and Challenger 600 series aircraft.

Heritage Global Patents & Trademarks will conduct a sealed bid auction of the intellectual property of Proxy Technology.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Safran Helicopter Engines, S.A., Arriel 2E turboshaft engines.

BlueSky Jets is offering commission-free private flights in a product called Sapphire Membership.

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Jim Rankin has been named CEO of West Star Aviation. Robert Rasberry, the former CEO, has been named Chairman of the Board.

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Textron Aviation has halted production of its Turbo Skyhawk JT-A, which was certified by the FAA and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) last year.

General aviation deliveries rose 2.8% overall in the first quarter of 2018 compared to a year ago, while billings rose 3.3%.

One Aviation, which operates Eclipse Aerospace, has asked Albuquerque to give it time to work out an agreement regarding $733,555 in default payments.

Lawmakers have introduced three bills aimed at helping with a shortage of aviation maintenance technicians and at modernizing aviation maintenance curriculum.

GrandView Aviation has added a five-year retention package of up to $80,000 to attract qualified flight crews to join the company and fly its Phenom 300s.

Harris Corp. will build and operate a new aviation telecommunications network for India.

Futuristic designs for inner city air vehicle terminals, or Skyports, which will serve uberAIR’s aerial rideshare system in the 2020s have been unveiled.

Uber is inviting international cities to bid to become the first global test site of the company’s proposed uberAIR aerial rideshare program.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has revealed the governments that her department has selected to take part in the UAS Integration Pilot Program.

The European Commission has given the green light for United Technologies Corp. (UTC) to acquire Rockwell Collins.