Business Aviation

In 2024, the business aviation landscape saw notable changes. Join us as we highlight the top five stories of the year that captured attention and sparked discussions.

Florida-based Silver Airways has filed for Chapter 11 protection, expecting to emerge from the process by the first quarter of 2025.

Aviation Week Network offers award-winning podcasts on all aspects of aerospace, including business aviation. Here are 2024's most listened-to episodes.

CIRRUS delivered its 600th single-engine Vision Jet, introduced in 2016.

While Icon is an aircraft for adventure and weekend travel, its new investment group may be interested in aircraft that can carry more people at a longer range.

The new terminal will take advantage of IFC’s freshly-built 84,000-ft.2 hangar complex that can accommodate aircraft as large as a Bombardier Global 8000.

The company notes that it is the only single-engine jet to receive FAA certification.

The new ruling limits electronic access to Work-in-Progress aircraft documents, a change made as part of implementation of its Registry Modernization System.

INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT CENTER plans in January to open new 10,500 sq ft FBO terminal at Miami Executive on top of 84,000 sq ft hangar complex (to house multiple aircraft up to a Global 8000 in size) that opened earlier this year.

Amid geopolitical, economic and climate-related uncertainty, business aviation has an opportunity in 2025 to rediscover its mojo, one aircraft dealer says.

Ed Bolen is president and CEO of the National Business Aviation Association, a role he has held since 2004.

Activist investor Browning West has taken a 4.3% stake in Canadian training and simulation leader CAE as the latter is searching for a new CEO in 2025.

Joby says it has completed initial testing under FAA Type Inspection Authorization (TIA), with agency personnel assessing human factors and flight safety in a type-conforming flight deck using a company simulator.

Safran has sold its North American electromechanical actuation businesses to Woodward as it seeks to address antitrust concerns related to a deal with RTX.

Archer has announced that construction of its high-rate manufacturing facility in Covington, Georgia, has been completed.

A look at what’s trending—and what has lost popularity—in the business aviation aftermarket.

New orders are rolling in, buoyed by upticks in defense spending and increased demand from the public safety, air ambulance and energy sectors.

The change in U.S. leadership injects uncertainly into aviation’s climate progress.

Forecasts, snapshots and business aircraft to watch.

Ben Munson to President of Contour Aviation, Smyrna, TN.

NORTHERN JET says it has acquired seven aircraft (Phenom 300, Citation XLS+, CJ4, Citation Sovereign+, Challenger 300, Challenger 3500, and G450) for operation out of its three bases in Grand Rapids, MI; Orlando, FL; and Naples, FL.

GAMA added Parker Aerospace, OH; CycloTech, Austria; SkyDrive, Japan; and VÆRIDION, Germany as new members.

Manufacturers delivered 67 business jets and 32 business turboprops and piston aircraft in November 2024, according to the Aviation Week Network Fleet Discovery Database.

The Daher Kodiak 100 remains popular with government and private operators for a variety of missions.

The number of used business jets for sale in December totaled 1,263, up 8% from 1,174 a year ago, but down 1% from November, a report from Jefferies says.