The Weekly of Business Aviation

Constant Aviation has completed its second 750-hr. inspection of an Embraer Legacy 500 aircraft at its maintenance, repair and overhaul facility.

Ecocopter has taken delivery of a Frasca International EC-135 Helicopter Flight Training Device at its flight training facility at the Eulogia Sanchez Airport in Santiago, Chile.

Northwest Texas Healthcare System and Med-Trans Corporation have expanded its Lifestar partnership with the addition of a King Air E-90 turboprop aircraft.

The second Citation Longitude flight test aircraft has completed its first flight.

The mid-to-intermediate size business jet market offers a $50 billion opportunity over the next decade, Jefferies analyst Howard Rubel says.

Embraer has begun negotiations with its metalworkers union for a temporary employment suspension affecting up to 2,000 workers in Brazil.

NetJets and FlightSafety International owner Berkshire Hathaway have reversed course and made a $1.3 billion investment in three U.S. airlines, not including an undisclosed investment in a fourth, regulatory documents show.

Honda Aircraft has plans to boost production of its $4.5 million HondaJet entry-level business jet over the next two to three years.

Since releasing its Part 107 Small Unmanned Aircraft System rule on Aug. 29, the FAA as of Nov. 9 had received more than 30,000 new aircraft registrations from commercial operators and more than 22,500 remote pilot applications.

Straightline Aviation (SLA), launch customer for Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 heavy-lift cargo hybrid airship, has signed an agreement to provide dedicated shuttle services for Canadian rare-earth mining company Quest Rare Minerals.

Straightline Aviation (SLA), launch customer for Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 heavy-lift cargo hybrid airship, has signed an agreement to provide dedicated shuttle services for Canadian rare-earth mining company Quest Rare Minerals.

Drone delivery startup Flirtey has begun the first commercial trials of autonomous pizza delivery, flying to customers’ homes from a Domino’s Pizza store in Whangaparaoa, north of Auckland, New Zealand.

Flight activity in North America during October rose, with gains in all operational and aircraft categories.

The NTSB determined that air traffic controllers failed to safely separate aircraft involved in two fatal 2015 midair collisions—one, near Charleston, South Carolina, involved an Air Force F-16.

Bombardier is continuing to look strategically at its Learjet operations.

Quest Aircraft has signed a major fleet order with a Japanese customer for up to 20 Kodiak single-engine turboprop aircraft.

Spirit AeroSystems has undertaken a water recycling project to conserve water and improve efficiencies, the company said.

Business aviation flight departures in Europe slowed in October, with a year-over-year decline of 2.8%.

The company has formed the Commercial Information Solutions business unit and launched the Quantix, a tailsitting drone that takes off and lands vertically but transitions to wingborne forward flight for increased efficiency and range.

Dubbed “Baby Boom,” the delta wing aircraft is a one-third scale demonstrator for a small supersonic airliner which Boom Technologies aims to certificate for commercial service by 2023.

The University of North Dakota has taken delivery of the first of 100 new Piper Aircraft trainers for its John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences.

Safe Flight Instrument Corp. has partnered with Nextant to develop a modified throttle quadrant for the G90XT.

West Star Aviation has signed a contract with Embraer to perform 96-month landing gear overhauls on Embraer Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 aircraft.

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Turbomeca S.A. Arriel 1, 1A, 1A1, 1A2, 1B, 1B2, 1C, 1C1, 1C2, 1D, 1D1, 1E, 1E2, 1K1, 1S, and 1S1 turboshaft engines.

​Dan Brennan has been appointed senior vice president of human resources for Bombardier.