The Weekly of Business Aviation

GlobalParts.aero announced that the Phillips 66 Aerostars precision aerobatic team is a new brand ambassador for the company.

Ruag Aviation has completed the upgrade of a Dassault Falcon F2000 to comply with FANS 1/A+ requirements mandated for 2020.

Tamarack Aerospace Group has received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and FAA approvals for its active winglets for the Cessna CJ2 and CJ2+ aircraft.

Rochelle Municipal Airport-Koritz Field in Illinois will become the latest airport to offer Swift Fuels’ unleaded UL94 aviation gasoline for piston aircraft.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. delivered its 100th aircraft with the Jet ConneX high-speed Wi-Fi system.

Becker Avionics has received certification of its BXT6500 family of ADS-B compliant Mode S Transponder designed for single antenna applications.

Bombardier sees a range increment that it has just added to its forthcoming Global 7000 business jet as particularly applicable to the Chinese market.

Gulfstream is unlikely to lose many sales because of proposed Chinese import tariffs, even if the taxes are indeed implemented, a consultancy says.

JetMembership.com has launched what it says is the first “zero commission private jet charter membership model in the United States."

Air Partner’s chief financial officer, Neil Morris, has resigned immediately, the company announced March 13.

Bye Aerospace’s two-seat Sun Flyer 2 electric aircraft made its first flight April 9.

FAA, planning for a worst-case scenario, is prepared to take over surveillance of its 180 approved repair stations in the UK if a new regulatory bilateral agreement isn’t in place when the country leaves the European Union (EU) next year.

Qatar Airways, the national airline of the State of Qatar, has taken a minority stake in U.S. private aviation company JetSuite.

The NTSB reiterated calling on the FAA to require fixed-wing pilots flying Part 135 commuter and on-demand operations receive training to avoid CFIT accidents.

Only one U.S. airport has tested a remote air traffic control tower, but the integration of such towers into the NAS is “inevitable,” an FAA official says.

Swiss-based Jet Aviation will acquire Australia’s Hawker Pacific in a $250 million deal.

Mission Aviation Fellowship has placed an order for five Cessna Caravan 208 turboprops from Textron Aviation for operation in Papua, New Guinea.

Florida’s International Aero Academy (IAA) has placed an order for an initial six Tecnam P2008 aircraft.

Estimated values in four of five major used business aircraft segments have risen since late last year, with the largest increase in the super-mid segment, according to Amstat’s Aircraft Valuation Tool.

Business aircraft activity rose 2.6% in March compared to a year ago, with the largest increase in Part 135 activity, according to Argus International.

Certification of Gulfstream Aerospace’s new G500 may slip into the late third quarter or fourth quarter of 2018.

Honeywell’s BendixKing business unit unveiled a new touchscreen primary flight display (PFD) for experimental aircraft.

This year's Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition is being held April 17-19 at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport.

Michael Huerta, whose five-year term as FAA administrator ended in January, said the effort to spin off U.S. air traffic control (ATC) from FAA failed because it became too focused on the structure of a proposed ATC entity instead of detailing solutions for making air traffic management more efficient in the U.S.

Private on-demand jet charter operator Victor, with Air BP and BP Target Neutral, has officially opened its carbon offset program to operators and customers.