The Weekly of Business Aviation

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Bell Model 212 and Model 412 helicopters.

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Kelly Gray has joined C&L Aerospace in Bangor, Maine, as regional parts sales manager for corporate aircraft covering the Western region of the U.S.

Aug. 1-2—CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit 2017, Sydney, Australia, http://www.spaceagenda.com/future-events/

A decision about the long-term plans for Bombardier’s Learjet assembly site in Wichita has not been made, Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare told analysts July 28.

The world’s largest general aviation extravaganza, EAA’s AirVenture Oshkosh, celebrated a number of significant anniversaries during the event.

Bombardier Business Aircraft has expanded its Challenger 300 training capacity in Dallas to complement the existing Challenger 350 training program.

Mission Aviation Fellowship International has chosen Wipline 8750 floats and single-point fueling system for its new Cessna 208 Caravan.

BendixKing has been chosen to be the exclusive distributor of the MST 70B transponder to the business jet and military markets and is available to general aviation pilots.

BendixKing’s has introduced AeroWave Text & Track, a product that turns any smartphone into a satellite messaging and tracking device using Iridium’s low Earth orbit satellite network.

EAN Aviation, a business aviation services company in Lagos, has become the first West African IS-BAH Stage 1-registered fixed base operator and the second to earn the status in Africa

Jet Aviation has expanded its flight services in the Caribbean with a new fixed base operation in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Greenpoint Technologies has signed a contract for a Boeing 787-8 V-VIP interior modification with a customer who wishes to remain confidential.

RBR Maintenance has been awarded a contract from Millennium International to handle sales and installations of Millennium International avionics packages for Cessna Citation aircraft.

Continental Motors Group has expanded its line of diesel engines with the CD-265 and CDR-285 engines.

GE Aviation’s new advanced turboprop for the Cessna Denali is crucial to growth plans that call for its business and general aviation powerplants to generate more than $1 billion a year by 2023.

The French interior minister has announced the government’s intention to order six additional Q400MR waterbombers, locally designated Dash-8.

The market for business jets is improving, and Embraer projects its deliveries for 2018 will exceed those of 2017, a company official said July 28.

Google founder Larry Page’s electric Kitty Hawk “flying jetski” Flyer will hit the consumer market at year’s end with a sleeker development of the quadrotor prototype.

The B-29 known as “Doc” will serve as a traveling history museum to honor the men and women who designed, built and served on the aircraft. The historic Superfortress was the talk of the show at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh at Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Silicon Valley-based A³, set up to disrupt its parent Airbus from within, plans to fly its Vahana single-seat autonomous urban transportation aircraft by year’s end, a spokesperson disclosed at EAA AirVenture.

This is the Phillips Petroleum Company’s 100th year and the 90th since it launched its first aviation fuel with a race from the U.S. to Hawaii, won by the famous Bellanca “Woolaroc” monoplane.

Piper Aircraft deliveries and revenue are on the rise, with dealer inventory of M-class aircraft the lowest in five years, Piper CEO Simon Caldecott said during EAA AirVenture.

Mooney International will continue to invest in the M10 aircraft for the Chinese market.

Electric-drive truck manufacturer Workhorse unveiled a hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft at last month’s Paris Air Show, and is exhibiting it at EAA AirVenture’s Innovation Center in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.