The Weekly of Business Aviation

Aviation Week’s 2018 Laureate Awards have been expanded to include more categories, including 11 in Business Aviation.

ExcelAire has added an eight-passenger Hawker 800 midsize jet to its private jet fleet for domestic and international travel.

CHC Helicopter, along with Leonardo and SkyTrac, have completed testing of a real-time Health and Usage Monitoring System (HUMS) and cockpit Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) for the AW139 helicopter.

Flying Colours has refurbished and modified a Bombardier Global Express for a customer.

Raisbeck Engineering has earned a Supplemental Type Certificate from the FAA for Hartzell Propeller’s new 106-in.-dia., five-blade composite propeller.

Textron Aviation has added a mobile service unit at the Hayward Executive Airport to support Citation, King Air and Hawker aircraft in Northern California.

Sun European Partners, a private investment firm, has acquired C&K Holdings, a producer of electromechanical switches based in Newton, Massachusetts.

Ruag Aviation in Munich has completed a 15-month and 30-month heavy maintenance inspection on a Gulfstream G550.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Ameri-King Corporation emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) as installed on various aircraft.

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BRS Aerospace has launched a nationwide Cessna Parachute System Authorized Installation Network to perform whole aircraft parachute installations on Cessna 172 and Cessna 182 aircraft.

Bombardier Aerospace’s fourth Global 7000 flight-test vehicle arrived at the Bombardier Flight Test Center in Wichita on Sept. 30 to join the first three flight-test aircraft currently in flight testing.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. has a program called Aircraft Ownership Service (AOS), a suite of aircraft maintenance and flight operations services.

Ride-hailing giant Uber is focusing its efforts to develop an urban air transport network on airspace access and ground infrastructure.

Proponents of moving U.S. air traffic control out of the FAA and into a nongovernment, nonprofit entity are looking for a significant victory in October.

Bombardier Aircraft’s fourth Global 7000 flight-test vehicle flew for the first time Sept. 28.

Properly tightened and torqued B-nuts are essential to engine fluid lines and hoses, on an engine properly functioning.

The general manufacturing industry will benefit from the provisions, which include the reduction of costs and delivery times for aircraft exports across the Atlantic, Bunce said.

U.S. lawmakers are bumping up to the deadline for extending the FAA’s authorization, after a controversial bill passed the House of Representatives Sept. 28 but still faced an almost equally uncertain chance of becoming law.

Jet Aviation San Juan has resumed its fixed-base operations (FBO) in Puerto Rico and is coordinating nearly all the humanitarian flights to hurricane-damaged Puerto Rico and the rest of the Caribbean region.

Jet Aviation has ceased its maintenance, repair and overhaul operations at Laurence G. Hanscom Field Airport in Bedford, Massachusetts, the company told customers in a letter.

Embraer CEO Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva says he welcomes the preliminary ruling by the U.S. Commerce Department to impose a 220% duty on Bombardier C Series imports to the U.S.