The Weekly of Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Flying Colours is expanding its paint shop as it begins a long-term contract with MHI Canada Aerospace to paint more than 40 center-fuselage sections of Bombardier Global 5000 and Global 6000 aircraft per year.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Honeywell Aerospace has unveiled a new Future Air Navigation System (FANS) testing for general and business aviation customers as part of its GoDirect Datalink services.
Business Aviation

U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said he will work with President Donald Trump to develop a wide-ranging infrastructure bill.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo has received European Aviation Safety Agency certification for its AW109 Trekker twin-engine light helicopter.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Jim Ziegler recently moved from serving as president and CEO of Greenwich AeroGroup, based in Wichita, to its vice chairman.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
"Press for Jet" is a Web-enabled button that allows clients to order a private jet on the Internet of Things (IoT).
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Austria-based Diamond Aircraft Group has been acquired by Wanfeng Aviation Industry Co. in China, ensuring the long-term future of the Diamond brand.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
GE Aviation’s Advanced Turboprop engine, which will power Textron Aviation’s Cessna Denali, has completed its first engine test run.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Motion and control tech provider Parker Hannifin and the Justice Department have reached an antitrust deal over the company’s $4.3 billion purchase of Clarcor.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
It was a year that, hopefully, set the scene for a market recovery, as 2017 saw several key new business jet models progress toward first deliveries.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
ANKARA, Turkey—Filippo Bagnato, the head of Leonardo’s aircraft division, is retiring at the end of January.

BendixKing, a division of Honeywell, has launched a seven-year warranty plan called the BendixKing Confidence Plan, which extends the warranty period of new products for up to seven years.

The FAA has granted a Supplemental Type Certificate for Advent Aircraft Systems’ Advent eABS anti-skid braking technology for King Air 300 and 300LW aircraft equipped with Rockwell Collins Pro Line GPS 4000S or Garmin G1000/430W/530W avionics.ars.

London Biggin Hill Airport is one of the fastest growing business aviation airports in Europe, with a 23% year-over-year increase in business aviation departures in November, the airport notes, citing data from WingXAdvance.

Textron Aviation has begun delivery of an order for nine Beechcraft King Air turboprop aircraft, including eight King Air 250 and one King Air 350 aircraft, to CanWest Air, a division of Nor-Alta Aviation Leasing.

Jet Aviaton’s third hangar at Seletar Aerospace Park in Singapore is now in operation and providing maintenance, repair and overhaul services to an Airbus ACJ, Boeing BBJ and Gulfstream G550 from the new hangar. An opening ceremony will be held in February.

Textron Aviation is offering Gogo Avance L5 connectivity system upgrades for Cessna Citation X aircraft, it said.

ATR-GIE Avions de Transport Régional Airplanes [Docket No. FAA-2017-1170; Product Identifier 2013-NM-054-AD; Amendment 39-19129; AD 2017-25-15]

THE ENSTROM HELICOPTER CORP. HELICOPTERS [Docket No. FAA-2017-1191; Product Identifier 2017-SW-046-AD; Amendment 39-19134; AD 2017-26-03]

AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Previously Eurocopter France) [Docket No. FAA-2017-0671; Product Identifier 2016-SW-072-AD; Amendment 39-19135; AD 2017-26-04]

AGUSTA S.p.A. HELICOPTERS [Docket No. FAA-2017-1173; Product Identifier 2017-SW-030-AD; Amendment 39-19131; AD 2017-25-17]

Joram Lietaert Peerbolte has been appointed general counsel of TrueNoord, a regional aircraft lessor.

Dean Saucier will retire as northeast regional representative of the National Business Aviation Association, NBAA said.

Scott Thanisch has been appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer of CHC Group after serving as the company’s interim CFO since October

Paul Shuda, 65, director of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Training Center in Ashburn, Virginia, was killed in an aircraft accident Dec. 16 when the single-engine Cessna 210 aircraft he was on went down near Oldenburg, Indiana.