In the first half of 2014, Airbus Corporate Jet Center (ACJC) delivered three ACJ319 executive aircraft, and launched its ACJ319 Elegance concept, an interior configuration that figures prominently here (Booth 5009 and Static Display).

Flying Colours Corp. has signed a multimillion-dollar joint venture agreement with China’s Sparkle Roll Technik Co., Ltd. (SRT). With a hangar facility set up at Linyi City in Shangdong Province, it will focus on private jet cabin modification and aircraft maintenance. The first project, beginning this month, will see eight B- Bombardier CRJ-200s converted to VIP configuration.

Lufthansa Technik and Airbus Corporate Jets have extended until 2020 their Elite cabin agreement, which began in 2005 when the ACJ318 was launched.

London Biggin Hill Airport is nine miles from the UK capital’s Canary Wharf business district, and just a seven-minute helicopter ride from the Battersea Heliport.

Wednesday, Ed Bolen, NBAA president and CEO, presented 92-year-old RA Bob Hoover with the association’s 2014 Meritorious Service to Aviation Award, an honor befitting him who General James Doolittle lauded as “the greatest stick and rudder man who ever lived” and who has inspired millions of young people with his air show performances. Previous winners include Capt. Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon; the Tuskegee Airmen; Clay Lacy; James D. Raisbeck; and Serge Dassault, among others.

Associated Air Center (AAC) comes to NBAA 2014 riding a wave of success, with aircraft crowding its 295,000 sq. ft. of hangar space at Dallas Love Field, where projects range from C checks and major refurbishment to widebody green completions.

It was a little more than a year ago that MAZ Aviation, a Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based consulting firm, stepped into what was shaping up as a court battle and acquired Gore Design Completions, a major player in the completions and refurbishment industry.

Quest Aircraft Company has moved to expand its reach in China under an agreement that would give it a sales presence in the short term and ultimately provide for the manufacturing of its Kodiak single-turboprop aircraft there.