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Three projects are detailed, none of them much advanced since this time last year. The Cirrus is flying and has made some progress since 2014 but, tellingly, there are no newcomers to this sector.

The HondaJet departed these annals on December 8 upon FAA certification, leaving Pilatus pushing ahead and SyberJet taking a more laid-back route to resumed production.

Reiteration of the old designer’s adage, “Never put a new engine in a new airframe,” might be timely.

Troubles beget more troubles. Bombardier sees Dassault steal a march on its latest business jets as the consequence of program delays.

Private funding of an avant garde project is laudable, but Aerion has progressed to the next rung of the ladder.

Delays in development of Safran’s Silvercrest engine cost the company a one-time EUR654 million charge in 2015, helping drive operating profit for the year down more than 12% to EUR1.7 billion.

U.S.-based Flexjet will launch into Europe as a private jet travel and charter operator later this year, the fractional jet ownership company announced at EBACE.

Recent certification of the Diamond DA62 and Nextant G90XT sees these twins depart at full throttle, while the ONE Aviation (Kestrel) K350 is pushed to the back of the hangar until more funding materializes.

“Asia Pacific is the biggest growth region for us on the planet, and has grown to 10% of our revenues from 5% in 2010,” says avionics company Rockwell Collins. “That’s a direct result of the strategies we set in place over the last 50 years.”

Saab wants to re-energize its attempt to join the small club of companies that produce antisubmarine warfare aircraft.

GKN Aerospace is trumpeting “a milestone first agreement” with AVIC Commercial Aircraft Engine Company.

Jet Aviation is scheduled to go operational with its business jet MRO at Macau International Airport in the second quarter of this year.

"Vast natural resources and the magnitude of its territory” make Indonesia a promising market for business aviation

Rolls-Royce has unveiled plans to develop an Enhanced Performance upgraded version of the Airbus A350-900’s Trent XWB-84 engine, with Singapore Airlines as launch customer.

“China is a big country and other countries are small countries, and that’s just a fact,” Beijing’s then foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, impatiently told Southeast Asian leaders looking for U.S. support in the South China Sea in 2010. The message was clear enough: they should do as they were told.

Embraer Commercial Aviation predicted at the Singapore Airshow this week that Asia Pacific carriers, including Chinese airlines, will take delivery of 1,570 new jets in the 70-to-130-seat range over the next 20 years representing 25% of the worldwide demand for the segment.

Indonesia hopes to show that unsophisticated airplanes can sell, too. Prototype 19-seater will fly soon.

Piper Aircraft announced Tuesday that its Singapore-based regional dealer, Wings Over Asia, recently negotiated a significant sale to an Indonesian airline training school.

Russian Air Force Yak-152s will have a German powerplant. Prototype’s first flight is expected shortly.

A major completions and refurbishment center for large VIP aircraft will be set up in Singapore by ST Aerospace.

Bell's medium sized twin-engine 429 is proves as easy to fly in as it is to look at.

Dassault Falcon is emphasizing its new flagship, the ultra-long-range Falcon 8X. The new trijet isn’t here, but its predecessor 7X is, as is the Falcon 2000LXS twin, which is finding increasing success in the region for special missions.

The restructuring of one of the world’s leading maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) organizations, Ameco Beijing, will increase its competitiveness at home and overseas, and bring new capabilities to its customers.

Skylark 3, a new member of Elbit Systems’ autonomous mini-unmanned aircraft system (UAS) family, is making its debut at the Singapore Airshow.

Birds pose a known flight safety hazard that is rarely addressed by flight operations due to the lack of real-time data on bird activity.