The Weekly of Business Aviation

Honda Aircraft Co. has received type certification for its HondaJet.

The supersonic market is projected to exceed 13 million passengers a year beginning in 2025, according to Boston-based Spike Aerospace.

Textron Aviation announced it had received an order for its Cessna Citation Latitude business jet from a customer in Chile.

UK-based regional carrier Flybe has announced a combination of continued improvement in load factor together with a reduction in available capacity as it slims down its fleet.

Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics has introduced the MD32 Magnetometer designed for its MD302 Standby Attitude Module.

AP Completion Services in Montreal, founded in 2009, has delivered a Gulfstream 650ER, its 100th business jet and 135th aircraft completion.

Jet Midwest has acquired the first of four Gulfstream G-IV aircraft with Rolls-Royce Tay 611-8 engines.

FlightSafety International plans to complete the installation of JetTech’s Garmin touchscreen GTN 650/750 GPS/NAV/COM modification update to its Citation 550.

Cutter Aviation has been named an authorized Pilatus sales and service center.

C&L Aviation, based in Bangor, Maine, has become a Garmin dealer.

ACS Aviation has invested £1 million ($1.4 million) in aircraft, equipment, airside facilities and online presence and has increased enrollment in pilot training.

Clay Lacy has installed a Gogo Avance L5 4G technology platform in a Gulfstream G450.

Honda Aircraft will receive the 23018 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation Award for Excellence.

Duncan Aviation has moved its satellite avionics shop in Atlanta to a new facility at the Hill Aircraft Fixed Base Operator.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Textron Aviation Inc. models A36TC, B36TC, S35, V35, V35A, and V35B airplanes.

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Alan Monk has been promoted to airframe sales manager at Duncan Aviation in Battle Creek, Michigan.

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Bell’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor prototype is on track to tilt its nacelles all the way forward and fly in “airplane mode” by the end of April.

A repair station seeking maintenance instructions from a manufacturer seemingly reluctant to provide them has been told by FAA that it is legally entitled to the documents. But after more than a year, the agency has not enforced its decision—and a recent court ruling determined FAA has no obligation to do so.

A proposed Chinese import tariff on U.S.-built, large-cabin business jets is hitting the business jet industry just as it is emerging from economic doldrums.

Aviation and aerospace business leaders and elected officials representing Kansas emphasized the importance of general aviation at a jobs rally.

France’s armed forces ministry has launched a program to renew the country’s fleet of electronic intelligence aircraft with three special-mission Falcon jets.

Executive AirShare interim President John Owen has been named president and CEO of the Lenexa, Kansas-based company.

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