The FAA and the Kansas Department of Transportation have agreed to establish a flight corridor for testing civil supersonic aircraft, state officials announced Dec. 17.

Assuming a successful rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, business aviation activity is expected to reach “numbers never seen in the modern age of our industry” in 2021, according to a just-released forecast and white paper by Argus International.

The buyer of Kestrel Aviation assets, owned by One Aviation, has asked a bankruptcy court judge to address a delay of the sale’s closure.

A UK government initiative to reduce quarantine durations for international travelers got off to a difficult start after at least one approved COVID-19 test provider was overwhelmed with requests.

Mountain Aviation laid claim to being the world’s largest operator of the Citation X after receiving delivery of its 26th Cessna jet.

The FAA, codifying a lesson learned from the Boeing 737 MAX saga, plans to use ad-hoc internal review boards to help validate work as during the aircraft certification process, administrator Steve Dickson said. 

Business aviation groups have launched a new group, the Air Charter Safety Alliance, to collectively combat illegal on-demand charter flights.

As 2020 comes to a close, cybersecurity has become headline news once again, and business aviation has been directly affected.