The Weekly of Business Aviation

Aviation Management Group co-founder Jeff Kohlman has acquired Paul Meyer’s interest in the company.

Aviation Technology has moved its offices from Manchester, New Hampshire, to Hooksett, Hew Hampshire.

Ruag Aviation has earned FAA approval for Gulfstream G550 maintenance services at its Munich, Germany, facility.

The FAA is publishing a new airworthiness directive (AD) for Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation (Sikorsky) Model S-92A helicopters.

For information about placing Classified Advertising in BA’s Marketplace Section, please contact Miguel Ornelas at 1 (661) 480-7000.

Stan Younger has joined Constant Aviation’s leadership team. Younger most recently served as vice president of Bombardier’s service centers.

John Pope, instrumental in the growth and development of the National Business Aviation Association and the business aviation industry beginning in the 1960s, died Jan. 8.

Jan. 24-25—NBAA Security Conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, https://www.nbaa.org/events/security-conference/2017/

Optimism and customer interest in the business jet market rose in January and are now at post-crisis highs, according to a new UBS Business Jet Market Survey.

The story, Cirrus Launches SR-Series Upgrades With G6, which appeared in the Jan. 9, 2017, edition of the Weekly of Business Aviation, contained an error.

Embraer Executive Jet delivered 43 business jets during the fourth quarter of 2016, a decrease from 45 a year earlier.

Mauro Moretti, CEO of Leonardo, has reiterated his demand that the ATR regional airliner joint venture with Airbus needs to begin development of a 100-seat aircraft.

Piper Aircraft has taken a firm order for 50 Piper Archer single-engine aircraft from China Air Shuttle, its dealer in China said.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 9 declined to hear Flytenow’s case seeking to overturn lower court-decisions in support of the FAA’s interpretation that its online flight-sharing website was in violation of the FAA’s “common carrier” requirement.

The FAA is proposing 12 new high-altitude jet routes along the U.S. East Coast, part of a modernization strategy to replace legacy ground-referenced routes with GPS-based, performance-based navigation (PBN) routes.

David Wayne Hooks Airport in Houston is near completion of Phase 2 of its capital improvement program, which includes the recent resurfacing of the general aviation runway and refurbishment of the Gill Aviation FBO terminal building.

British air accident investigators looking into the cause of an unstable landing of a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter onto a North Sea oil platform have focused their attention on a damaged tail rotor component.

The latest Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ prototype to arrive at the program’s U.S. test base has begun flying there.

Sikorsky has called for Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) and tail rotor inspections of the S-92 utility helicopter following an incident on a North Sea offshore platform in December.

Business aviation departures in Europe declined 0.6% year-over-year in December, while departures for the full year declined 0.3% compared to 2015, according to WingX Advance.

The FAA has issued new rules that make it easier and cheaper for general aviation pilots to gain required medical certifications to fly.

MemberJets President Ty Carter wants to introduce private aviation to more travelers by making it more accessible and affordable.

The market for aircraft flight control systems for business, commercial and military aircraft is projected to grow from $11.85 billion in 2016 to $16.59 billion by 2021.

Piper Aircraft has received a type certificate for its single-engine M600 from Transport Canada.

Constant Aviation has expanded its aircraft-on-the-ground mobile team coverage in the central U.S. region with the addition of Denver and Rifle, Colorado.