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Evaluating the completion and refurbishment industry, Greenpoint Technologies sees "positive signs" with outfitted BBJ747-8s already being delivered to customers, and deliveries of completed BBJ787s expected to begin as early as next year.

Bombardier has launched Smart Link data-connectivity service, which is being rolled out for Learjet, Challenger and Global business aircraft.

The coming decade will see world demand for 9,100 business jets worth $259 billion, Embraer Executive Jets predicts.

BendixKing, a division of Honeywell Aerospace, and Sabreliner Aviation (Booth C14041) have announced their joint development of the AeroVue integrated fight deck for selected Cessna Citation and Beechcraft King Air models.

Astronics AeroSat has introduced its “future-pross” AeroShield brand low drag radome and composite adapter plate technology combination.

Las Vegas offers many thrills for convention-goers, some of which may arouse the suspicions of wives left at home this week.

Powered by a single, avgas-burning Continental IO-550N engine, rated at 310 hp, the Cirrus SR22 can cruise at 180 kt. and has a seats-full range of 1,100 nm.

Rockwell Collins has received an FAA STC for its Future Airspace Navigation Systems (FANS) 1/A upgrade for Bombardier Challenger 604s equipped with Pro Line 4 avionics.

Daher has pitched up at Vegas with an initiative to boost further its appeal to the North American charter market.

If Airbus Helicopters proceeds much further with its line of ever-more-luxurious choppers, it will soon be fitting rotor blades to a feather bed.

Germany’s Hahn Air is taking delivery this week of a new Cessna Citation Sovereign twinjet, supplementing two CJ4s approved by IATA for scheduled airline service earlier this year.

Have you seen the light, brother? It’s at Booth N5317, where Aircelle is demonstrating airplane decals with a difference – they light up.

Sabreliner parent Innova Aerospace is promoting retrofit and life-extension work via more than half a dozen different company entities.

Embraer trumpeted two new speed records for its Honeywell HTF7500E-powered Legacy 500 twinjet at NBAA, bringing the total this year to six.

Function and reliability testing with FAA pilots aboard is slated to be complete by Nov. 21, 2015, paving the way for type certification by December, with initial entry into service coming shortly thereafter.

Atlanta-based Ascension Air is launching a new personally flown jet timeshare program featuring the new six passenger Eclipse 550 twinjet from ONE Aviation.

Gogo Business Aviation rolls into NBAA 2015 as it begins delivery of 650 Gogo inflight entertainment and connectivity systems to fractional giant NetJets.

UK-based Gama Aviation (Booth N2416) continues to increase its U.S. presence, disclosing here that it’s signed a management contract for a Falcon 2000 based at Chicago Midway, where Gama has a new maintenance facility.

Had it not been for the maiden flight on Monday of the second prototype Pilatus PC-24, Williams International would have been announcing 4,998 FJ44 engines flying and 9,999,999 airborne hours generated by them.

The new center will focus on Citation CJ models using a Level D simulator and advanced training devices, but plans call for expanding into additional Cessna and Beech models.

PPG Industries’ aerospace transparencies group is in Vegas in the light of its recent receipt of Parts Manufacturer Approval for its new-design, glass-faced acrylic windshields for Hawker-related business jets.

Georgia-based Flight Display Systems is promoting its “do Capsule” suite of in-flight entertainment options, with movies and music and business functions and, for the first quarter of 2016, a 3-D moving map said to be the best in the business.

Flexjet CEO Kenn Ricci said the company will use the supersonic jet for overseas flights and also in China, which does not have restrictions on sonic booms.

Lots of heads turned when Ryan Mohr, chief pilot for Phillippi Equipment Co. of Eagan, Minnesota, landed Lady of the Night, one of the firm's Howard 500 heavy twins at Henderson Airport on Saturday evening

Hawthorne Global Aviation Services is planning to grow organically and through acquisition of more FBOs in coming weeks.