The Weekly of Business Aviation

Textron Aviation has won a fleet order for 11 aircraft, including one Citation Latitude jet and 10 King Air 250 turboprops to support air ambulance missions in Norway.

Described by CEO Tom Enders as a “win-win-win situation for everyone,” Airbus’s unparalleled agreement to acquire a majority stake in the C Series aircraft without paying anything is both the deal of the century for the European giant and a lifeline for Bombardier.

Project Wing, the drone delivery service under development by Google parent Alphabet’s “moonshot factory,” has returned to Australia for wider trials of deliveries to real-world customers.

Nearly half of business aviation professionals expect demand for operating leases in pre-owned corporate aircraft transactions to grow over the next year.

The Corporate Angel Network (CAN) raised $435,000 during its charity event at the National Business Aviation Association Convention & Exhibition Oct. 11.

Textron Aviation’s Mexico partner Aerolineas Ejecutiva is expanding its role with the company by including new aircraft sales and service for its line of jets and turboprops.

TAG Aviation Maintenance Service Center in Geneva has expanded its on-site aircraft refurbishment services.

Consulting firms CommCore Consulting Group and Stangarone & Associates have formed a joint aviation and aerospace communications practice.

Jet Support Services Inc. and Metrojet have signed an airframe maintenance agreement to offer customers on JSSI maintenance programs the ability to access airframe maintenance service.

ACM Capital Partners, a financial advisory firm, has partnered with Miami NDT, a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) engine service provider.

The University of North Dakota (UND) has launched a $1.5 million scholarship endowment for high-achieving students for flight training.

AS Aerospace, a newly-appointed Bell Helicopter Authorized Customer Service Facility, will now offer Bell 429 field maintenance.

The TrueNorth Avionics brand is transitioning to Satcom Direct (SD) in the coming months, reflecting the integration of the two companies.

Duncan Aviation’s satellite avionics shops will offer flat-rate installations of LoPresti’s BoomBeam High Intensity Discharge lighting systems on a variety of business aircraft.

Stellar Labs, founded in 2014, has raised $26.3 million in Series A equity funding from Global Jet Capital.

MSB Group is providing engineering design and manufacturing of interior monuments for a number of cabin interior projects for Field Aviation in Canada.

PPG, based in Sylmar, California, has received EASA approval for its glass-faced acrylic windshields for the Hawker 800 series of business jets.

Wipaire has introduced oil-bath wheels on new production Wipline 8750 amphibious floats for Caravan aircraft, which eliminates the need for repeated greasing.

he FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Dassault Aviation Model Falcon 7X airplanes.

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Lloyd “Fig” Newton of L3 Technologies has been elected chair of the National Business Aviation Association’s board of directors.

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Florida is to establish a biofuel supply chain based around brassica carinata, a non-edible plant that has already been used to produce 100% bio-derived jet fuel.

Airbus Helicopters has detailed the work it has carried out to resolve five potential root causes of the loss of an H225 helicopter in the North Sea in April 2016.

Transport Canada has confirmed that a SkyJet Beechcraft King Air A100 collided with a drone on Oct. 12 while on approach to Quebec City’s Jean Lesage International Airport.