Business is brisk at Comlux, the Swiss-based VIP aircraft management, operating and charter company that also has a U.S. completions and maintenance center in Indianapolis.

Dassault officials declined to comment further on their disappointment with Safran’s bombshell admission that the 11,450-lb.-thrust Silvercrest turbofan, which is to power the Falcon 5X, is suffering yet another round of development woes.

Following Dassault’s surprise disclosure of another engine-related delay to the Falcon 5X here at NBAA, Safran says it has identified the problems with the Silvercrest and is poised to discuss a range of potential fixes with the airframe manufacturer.

American Aero FTW, an FBO at Meacham International Airport in Fort Worth, Texas, helped launch a new scholarship program with the Navy SEAL Foundation with a $22,000 donation to support pilot training for former SEALs. The check was presented on the first day of the NBAA show in Las Vegas.

For an aircraft designed with powerful high-lift devices for hopping in and out of short, unimproved runways, the flap system on the Pilatus PC-24 looks surprisingly small and unobtrusive.

The world’s most “printed engine,” GE’s new Advanced Turboprop in which additive manufacturing replaces 855 normally made parts with just 12 “printed” components, is on track to run for the first time at the end of this year in Prague, Czech Republic. It will power Cessna’s new Denali aircraft.

The first year’s production of Textron Aviation’s $4.8 million Cessna Denali is now sold out, the company says.

Textron Aviation points out that the Denali should offer more space, more tanks-full payload, more speed, bigger windows, a larger cargo door and better operating economics than archrival Pilatus PC-12. But it hasn’t spelled out any details.