The Weekly of Business Aviation

Tamarack Aerospace Group, based in Sandpoint, Idaho, has received the FAA’s Parts Manufacturer Approval for its active winglet system for the Cessna CJ business jet.

The University of Colorado (CU) Boulder is taking advantage of a large gift and an ambitious new dean of engineering to help focus the state’s aerospace industry as a growing U.S. center for spaceflight innovation.

Worldwide sales of used heavy business jets in 2016 rose 9.3% over the previous year, according to Amstat market data.

Airbus Helicopters CEO Guillaume Faury has said that 2016 was as difficult a year for the rotary-wing industry as 2008 at the height of the global financial crisis. And it is unlikely to improve this year.

When supply equals demand, it doesn’t spell good news for the business jet industry, aviation analyst Brian Foley says.

Spike Aerospace has expanded its effort to develop its Spike S-612 Supersonic Jet, an 18-passenger aircraft.

GI Aviation, a new private air charter company in the United Arab Emirites, is open for business, the company announced.

Figeac Aero has been awarded the largest contract in its history by Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems.

2016 was below expectations for regional aircraft manufacturer ATR, as it received fewer orders for its ATR 42/72 turboprops and delivered fewer of them than predicted one year ago.

New certification requirements have forced Mitsubishi Aircraft to revise the design of the MRJ, the company said as it confirmed that the target for first delivery of the regional jet has slipped two years to mid-2020.

Professional services company Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire the corporate advisory and aviation consulting businesses of Seabury Group.

Bombardier Business Aircraft’s service center network is marking its completion of more than 200 96-month inspections on Challenger business jets.

Ruag is marking the delivery of more than 15,000 flight data recorders to customers after performing maintenance on the aircraft components.

Bell Helicopter has delivered the first Bell 407GXP to customer Simrik Air in Nepal.

Greenpoint Technologies was awarded a contract from a confidential customer to customize a Boeing 787-8 in a V-VIP configuration.

Tag Global Training is celebrating its 10th birthday Jan. 27.

Vincent Restivo has been appointed vice president of the Mente Group, an aviation advisory firm based in Dallas.

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The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for all Dassault Aviation model Fan Jet Falcon airplanes.

Tecnam will display its P2012 Traveller prototype April 5-7 at Aero ’17 Friedrichshafen in Germany.

Britain and France are to begin work on the development of a joint Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator in late 2017.

Safran Group and Zodiac Aerospace entered into exclusive negotiations for an acquisition of Zodiac by Safran, the companies said on Jan. 19.

The cost of security around President-elect Donald Trump’s Manhattan residence in Trump Tower is reported to be in the $1 million a day range, and costs to business aviation will present an additional challenge.

Mitsubishi Aircraft will delay first delivery of its MRJ regional jet for a fifth time, until mid-2020, the Nikkei newspaper says.