The Weekly of Business Aviation

The company’s first public long-term forecast claims the helicopter market will be worth around €370 billion ($434 billion) over the next 20 years.

Garmin International, based in Olathe, Kansas, is expanding its portfolio of integrated flight deck upgrades to include the G1000 NXi for the Cessna Citation Mustang light jet.

The AW609's powerplant—Pratt & Whitney’s 2,000 shp PT6C-67A—received Transport Canada certification on Sept. 12.

The number of U.S.-registered turboprops accidents, including fatal accidents, rose during the first half of 2017.

Worldwide deliveries of new western-produced helicopters are expected to total 7,660 from 2018 to 2027, according to Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery and Business Fleet and MRO Forecast.

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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David Warfel has been named Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Head of Aviation, North America, effective Oct. 1.

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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.