The Weekly of Business Aviation

Airbus has completed the long-awaited sale of its Vector Aerospace business to StandardAero.

Lancair is offering whole-aircraft parachute systems by BRS Aerospace on its Lancair Mako single-engine piston four-seat aircraft.

Monitors and tablets are common sights from machine shops to assembly lines, but alone they do not make the hands-on human part of the digital thread. Augmented reality (AR) can.

NASA in 2013 launched the Advanced Composites (AC) project. Its major goal is to develop computational tools to predict the strength and life of composites and reduce design cycle time and testing by 30%.

Honeywell has launched a consigned inventory management plan that allows large business-fleet operators to store the avionics they need at the repair facility closest to them.

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JetSuiteX will add special flights in January to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas and to the Sundance Film Festival in Salt Lake City.

Colibri Aircraft has announced record growth for 2017.

Avfuel Corp. and Sheltair have renewed their branding partnership, effective Dec. 1.

Business jet takeoffs and landings in North America rose 3.5% in September, Vertical Research Partners analyst Robert Stallard reports using FAA figures.

The Russian Helicopter Holding Co., part of Rostec State Corp., has begun testing of its multipurpose Ansat helicopters in Pakistan.

DC Aviation Al Futtaim in Dubai will open a second hangar on Nov. 12, the first day of the Dubai Airshow.

Munich Airport and Moscow Domodedovo Airport have signed a sister airport agreement to provide an exchange of knowledge for employees and managers at both airports.

3S Engineering, a division of Sierra Nevada Corp., has issued a Supplemental Type Certificate enabling airborne text messaging through Send Solutions Airtext and Airtext+ systems.

JetCraft has partnered with Aerolineas Ejecutivas to expand its presence in Latin America.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Bombardier, Inc., Model CL-600-2B16 (CL-601-3A, CL-601-3R, and CL-604 Variants) Bombardier Challenger 600 series airplanes.

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Richard Walker has been appointed business development director of Osprey Flight Solutions. Walker comes to Osprey from a UK-based HondaJet dealership.

Nov. 6-8—2017 Marketing & Communications Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, http://www.aci-na.org/conferences

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STC Group has received FAA approval to add Piper Cherokee PA-28 aircraft to its list of certificated aircraft eligible for installation of the digital “Pro Pilot” autopilot.

Bombardier believes the 135 business jets it is on track to deliver this year will be the low point in the market.

The number of pre-owned business jets on the market has declined with 2,225 jets for sale, although it remains a buyer’s market, said JetNet, which released September and year-to-date figures on Oct. 30.

Launch Technical Workforce Solutions, based in Oak Brook, Illinois, has acquired Aviation Managed Solutions (AMS), based in Griffin, Georgia, the companies announced.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Export-Import Bank heard an earful of opposition and doubt from senators on both sides of the political aisle Nov. 1.