Aviation Partners Inc (API) is talking to several Middle East operators of the Dassault Falcon 900 about fitting winglets to their aircraft, the firm said on the eve of MEBA.
An instrumental landing system (ILS) approach and landing capability has just been introduced at Abu Dhabi's Al Bateen Executive Airport (stand C600), the Gulf region's only dedicated private aviation field.
Rizon Jet of Qatar is to become a new operator of an Airbus Corporate Jetliner (ACJ), which it will manage on behalf of a new Gulf customer who ordered it earlier this year, it was announced at MEBA yesterday.
Airbus hit a record 16 Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ) deliveries this year – about half of them to the Middle East region – it was revealed at MEBA yesterday.
Cessna believes that international demand will make an important contribution to the business jet market's gradual recovery and account for an increased proportion of future sales, according to Trevor Esling, the company's vice president for international sales.
The first of Embraer's latest business jets – the Legacy 650 – for the Middle East market was delivered to an undisclosed customer from Jordan on Sunday at Embraer's headquarters in São José dos Campos, Brazil.
Saudia Private Aviation (SPA) is attending MEBA for the very first time and is preparing for a shopping spree to match its ambition for a fleet that single-handedly would represent ten percent of the country's total aircraft.
Texas-based Jet Works Air Center (JWAC), the rapidly growing maintenance and completion company headquartered just northwest of Dallas-Fort-Worth Airport, has been awarded a multi-million dollar completion project by a private Middle Eastern individual.
Al Bateen Executive Airport, the Gulf Region's first and only dedicated private aviation airport, operated and managed by Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), is set for a new record in terms of movements this weekend.
Boeing Business Jets today announced the delivery of a Boeing VIP 777-200LR (long range) to Saudi Arabian aircraft management company Aviation Link Co.
Libya's government-owned business aviation company, United Aviation, has taken delivery of its first Learjet aircraft when a Learjet 60XR was flown to the company's Tripoli base from Wichita today.
The potential growth for business aviation in the Gulf is being held back because of a lack of appropriate facilities at the region's airports according to the head of the industry in the Middle East.
Gulfstream announced today that the FAA and EASA have certified the jet-maker's large-cabin aircraft to the Stage 4 noise standard and the Chapter 4 noise requirement, respectively.
With just over a month to go before the largest business aviation event in the Middle East takes place, show organisers F&E Aerospace held a press conference in Abu Dhabi to outline the show's potential
Eurocopter will mark its 30-plus year presence in the Middle East and Arabian Gulf region with a major participation at this week's Dubai Helishow 2010, underscoring its helicopter product line's capabilities for evolving applications that include anti-piracy, counter-insurgency and border patrol missions; corporate and VVIP transportation; emergency medical airlift; search & rescue; as well as the servicing of offshore oil/gas platforms.
Gama Aviation - which has an operation in Sharjah - has scooped the Baltic Air Charter Association's (BACA) Excellence Award for Best General Aviation Operator for the third consecutive year, making 2010 a hat trick for the prestigious title.
Business jet customers are for the first time, able to use JetCard services for travel within the Middle East, as Private jet provider Air Partner unveiled today a third service area to its JetCard product.
