A new moving map unveiled here for business aviation could turn a taken-for-granted cabin utility into hours of entertainment.

“Our impact started with Hurricane Harvey. In Texas, we were impacted at four locations: Corpus Christie and three Houston sites,” said Maria Sastre, president and COO of Signature Flight Support. The FBOs recovered in 24 hours, she said.

Jet Aviation San Juan resumed its fixed-base operations in Puerto Rico at the end of September and is coordinating nearly all the humanitarian flights to hurricane-damaged Puerto Rico and the rest of the Caribbean region.

As older business jets go down in value, the cost of maintaining them does not. Now a new engine MRO plan is bringing benefits of old age.

Harlow Aerostructures and Verocel have earned FAA certification for an autothrottle system designed for general aviation aircraft. Wichita-based Harlow (Booth C8131) designed the HAT-05 autothrottle’s hardware and software for use by twin-engine advanced aircraft with FADEC in a new or retrofit application. Verocel, based in Westford, Massachusetts, partnered with Harlow to help with software certification.

Demand for cabin work and heavy maintenance is driving expansion at both the Canadian and U.S. facilities of Flying Colours, the Ontario-based business jet completions specialist. In St. Louis, Flying Colours has doubled its woodworking shop in a 40,300-sq.-ft. building that will furnish cabinetry for both centers and accommodate upholstery, avionics and engineering, while in Peterborough, Canada, two dedicated paint booths have been added and ground has been cleared for another hangar planned for 2018.

U.S. FBOs and fuel suppliers contributed significantly to relief efforts following the very destructive Harvey and Irma hurricanes, which ravaged the Houston metropolitan area and most of Florida. Million Air Hobby Airport (HOU) became a center for relief efforts for Coast Guard, Army and National Guard helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft following torrential rains from Hurricane Harvey.

The International Business Aviation Council sets IS-BAH, the International Standard for Business Aircraft Handling, as a new safety protocol.