The Weekly of Business Aviation

Business Jet Access, an aviation services supplier located at Dallas Love Field, has added a third Challenger 300 super midsize jet to its Part 135 air carrier certificate.

The medium and light business jet resale markets began 2017 with two of the best first quarters in the past 10 years, a report by market research company Amstat says.

Airbus Americas Engineering has officially opened its new engineering center on Wichita State University’s new Innovation Campus.

Wesco Aircraft Holding is suddenly changing CEOs and warning Wall Street of disappointing earnings to come.

Harlow Aerostructures has acquired the businesses of Aerospace Holdings.

AirspaceX, a new company set up by design house Detroit Aircraft, is developing a tailsitting electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft that can carry modular payloads.

Mooney International has partnered with Carter Aviation Technologies to develop an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft for the Uber Elevate network, which is based on Carter’s slowed-rotor/compound (SR/C) configuration.

German startup Lillium has begun flight testing an unmanned prototype of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.

One year after the fatal crash of an Airbus H225 helicopter, Norwegian air accident investigators are still working to find the root cause.

Dassault Aviation could launch a new Falcon business jet by year’s end.

Aerospace component and structures manufacturer GKN Aerospace is looking toward Asia for its next major acquisition, chief executive Kevin Cummings says.

Pilatus reported 117 aircraft deliveries and 56 additional jobs, and continued development of the PC-24 light jet as planned.

Unanticipated production costs for cabin interiors are signaling a slower than desired recovery for Zodiac Aerospace, which is now struggling to retain Safran’s interest for a planned takeover and is working on a “standalone” scenario in case negotiations fail.

Boeing formally asked the U.S. Commerce Department to protest what it alleged was “dumping” of Bombardier aircraft in the U.S. market.

Embraer plans to slowly increase final assembly of its Legacy 450 and Legacy 500 midsize business jets at its facility in Melbourne, Florida, on the Space Coast.

The industry has created such complicated documentation requirements for life-limited parts that many players are feeling adverse impacts.

Gulfstream Aerospace delivered 23 large cabin and seven midsize cabin business jets during the first quarter of 2017, up from 28 deliveries a year ago.

Tacoma Narrows Aviation has completed renovation of its 13,000 sq. ft. hangar at Tacoma Narrows Airport in Washington state, and will open its new executive terminal this fall.

Leonardo has further reduced its engagement in the Sukhoi Superjet 100 program, leaving it with only a 10% stake.

After 38 years of flying, Doreen Welsh, a flight attendant on board US Airways Flight 1549, heard the three words she had trained for all of her career: “Brace for impact.”

Ride-hailing giant Uber planes to launch in-demand electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air-taxi service in Dallas and Dubai in 2020, and has selected partners for development of the technology and infrastructure.

The airport reported that, so far in 2017, its fixed base operation has seen a 37% increase in the large jets; there has been a 46% increase over the past two years.

Aero Norway has been granted UAE GCAA CAR 145 maintenance organization approval, the Stavanger, Norway-based engine MRO facility said.

Falcon Aviation has opened a VIP Heliport at its new Dubai South VIP Terminal at Al Maktoum International in the UAE.