GDC Technics is both busy and actively investing in what it believes is long-term market growth for cabin completion and refurbishment and MRO work.

Canada-based precision engineering company MSB Design is showcasing its Hi-Lo conference tables here at NBAA. The tables were specifically designed for the Gulfstream G500 and G600 and will be offered as an initial specification option.

While Western observers believe the Chinese market for business aviation has all but collapsed under the weight of the government’s anti-corruption campaign, there is another side to the picture: Flying activity there might be at record levels.

Speed may be the most important thing, but it is not the only thing. According to Aerion, the aerodynamics of supersonic flight dictate a unique non-constant cabin cross section – widest in the aft cabin and tapering forward.

Jack Pelton has a new job. And this one, unlike his volunteer position as EAA chairman, comes with a salary. The Experimental Aircraft Association’s board of directors tapped him to become CEO at its Nov. 6 meeting, a position he will assume in addition to the duties he has had as chairman since October 2012. “The search committee didn’t want another change in leadership” after the turmoil EAA experienced in October 2012 when the board axed Rod Hightower.

ASG had previously forecast single-digit growth at the upper end in early 2015, but it now appears that annual growth may be just under 5%, half of what the Hong Kong-based consultancy and brokerage had earlier predicted.

Imagine, if you will, launching an air charter operation. Typically, it would involve one or several turbine-powered, multiengine aircraft crewed by two pilots.

Nextant Aerospace, best known for its fast-growing Nextant 400XTi light-jet remanufacture of the Beechjet 400A or 400XP, is now “studying engineering…