Hawthorne Global Aviation Services has been busy over the last year.

The Middle East Business Aviation Association’s current priorities are the continuation of policy drafting and procedures for business aviation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, says MEBAA founding chairman Ali Al Naqbi.

Gleaming new engines are a common sight on the display stands at NBAA, but it isn’t often showgoers get to see the complete components of a turboprop laid bare, let alone one being put together from scratch on the convention floor.

Swiss-based Vertis Aviation, part of the independently owned 28 East Group, is making its NBAA debut, promoting its portfolio of ultra-long-range jets.

Lufthansa Technik is introducing a Fly Away Kit for the VVIP and special-missions market. It is integrated into a modified LD9 unit load device (ULD) and ensures the availability of important spare parts by allowing them to be stowed aboard the aircraft that might need them.

Lufthansa Technik is answering the challenging market for corporate and business jets not only with innovative design and layout concepts, but also by forming a new company. Inairvation, headquartered at Edlitz-Thomasberg, Austria, is a 50:50 collaboration between LHT and List Components and Furniture that intends to change the way business jet cabins are produced.

Some months ago the German manufacturer presented a unique new concept for individual seating in VIP jets and simply called it “chair.” Although promising unrivaled design variants, it mounts on a modular concept that, instead of seat tracks, has a conical pod on which numbers of ribs form the frame of each chair.

Greenpoint Technologies is exhibiting at NBAA 2014 for the first time as part of its new parent company, Zodiac Aerospace, but focus will be on a 1/20th scale BBJ 787-9 mockup with the new Azure interior.