The Weekly of Business Aviation

Piper Aircraft has received its largest order for training aircraft in the company’s history.

Bye Aerospace has closed on its latest round of funding as the company moves toward first flight of two prototypes.

Spending on research and development, capital expenditure and workforce training are gaining renewed emphasis by public aerospace and defense companies.

The repair station community will help the FAA to ensure that its myriad guidance documents align with Part 145.

Dassault Aviation expects improved business jet sales volumes in 2018 following an upturn in demand in 2017.

Nextant Aerospace has received the final piece of FAA certification on its remanufactured G90XT twin-engine turboprop.

The Philippine government is targeting business aviation as a potential driver of growth for the economy, especially in and around Clark and Subic Bay.

Hong Kong-based aviation consultancy Asian Sky Group foresees that there could be some price volatility for pre-owned Bombardier 6000 aircraft.

Sales of Dassault Falcon business jets have stopped sliding and orders have increased, yet handovers are still at their lowest level in two decades.

Leonardo is studying concepts for a second-generation rotary-wing unmanned air vehicle for use in both land and maritime environments.

The consensus in the industry is that China’s business aviation market is starting to take off again and that Southeast Asia is experiencing some good growth.

The first customer Pilatus PC-24 left Switzerland Jan. 30 bound for its Broomfield, Colorado, site for delivery to fractional ownership company PlaneSense.

AviationManuals recorded a 35% increase in revenue and a 30% increase in its manual and software subscription services in 2017.

The National Air Transportation Association has launched a Safety 1st Subscription Program.

SmartSky was awarded the first supplemental type certificate for its airborne network.

Boutsen Aviation, based in Monaco, closed on 17 aircraft transactions in 2017, including a Global XRS and a Falcon 7X in late December.

Ansett Aviation Training is developing a new three-bay aviation training center for Brisbane, Australia.

Bombardier Aerospace will provide support for customers at the Super Bowl in Minneapolis on Feb. 4 and the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea Feb. 9-25.

Eclipse Aviation, along with Advent Aircraft Systems, has launched a promotion of Advent’s eABS anti-skid brake system for Eclipse 500 twin-engine jets with the IFMS 2.08 software package.

The FAA is adopting a new AD for certain Aerospace Welding Minneapolis Inc. mufflers, part numbers A1754001-23 and A1754001-25, installed on airplanes.

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Bryan Moss, formerly president of Gulfstream, has joined the board of directors of Aerion.

Feb. 6-9—NBAA Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference, Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California, https://www.nbaa.org/events/sdc/2018/

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Venture capital is flowing into the nascent urban air mobility market and related fields of electric propulsion and autonomous systems.