The Grob SPn light business jet may yet still survive, having been given a lifeline by the company's lead creditor to acquire the business jet part of the business from the company's administrator as part of the assets of Grob Aerospace.
The inventory of used helicopters in the market has increased dramatically over the past six months signifying a move very much towards a buyer's market, said Tim Blockley, managing director of PremiAir Global.
Abu Dhabi-based executive aviation company, Royal Jet, is demonstrating its commitment to Emiratisation by participating in Tawdheef 2009 - the main forum in the Abu Dhabi Emirate for recruitment, Emiratisation and related training.
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has sold an RJ100 Avro Business Jet to the Amiri Flight of Abu Dhabi. The aircraft is a late model Avro RJ100 and it will join the existing VIP RJ70 operated by the Amiri Flight.
Abu Dhabi based Empire Aviation Group has joined with Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), to supply and operate Cessna 208 Grand Caravan planes between the UAE and major TDIC destinations in the emirate.
A major aircraft trading company is seeing a sustained demand for executive jets, as buyers take advantage of competitive prices for new and used executive aircraft.
VIP charter operator Comlux, whose A318 Elite was the centrepiece of the MEBA airshow in Dubai in November, has taken delivery today of its second new Airbus A318 Elite.
Aviation experts in the Middle East believe that the regional airline industry will continue its impressive growth over the next five years, indicating a bullish and confident attitude among the doom and gloom that engulfs the world.
It's tough to improve upon one of the most capable and versatile turboprop airplanes ever built, but that's exactly what Pilatus Aircraft has done with its next-generation PC-12. The latest iteration of the Swiss-built single, the PC-12 NG, was FAA certified in March 2008 and it incorporates some half dozen improvements, including a more robust powerplant that helps increase cruise over older models as much as 11 knots and gives it more range because of improved climb performance. The electrical, cabin pressurization and environmental control systems have been improved.
A quarter century ago, Beech Aircraft introduced the King Air 300, an aircraft that's even faster than the new B200GT below FL 270. Even more impressively, you can fill the tanks and fill the seats instead of choosing either range or payload. The 300 has better runway performance, better all-engine and one-engine-inoperative climb performance than the 200 and matches it in high-altitude cruise.
TAKEOFF AND LANDING performance charts were nightmarishly complex in the early days of business jets. To find a landing distance, for example, you had to enter the typical chart from several edges simultaneously and read your answers against microscopically small grids (often printed on cheap paper, so lines smudged). Every parameter had an axis -- landing weight, temperature, elevation, brake temperature, runway braking action, anti-ice on/off, runway gradient, etc.
The NTSB determined Jan. 9 that the probable cause of the Oct. 14, 2004, fatal crash of a Pinnacle Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 on a ferry flight was the pilots' unprofessional behavior, their deviation from standard operating procedures and poor airmanship, which resulted in a double engine failure from which they were unable to recover.
"You may know where you are, and God may know where you are, but if Dispatch doesn't know where you are, you'd better be on good terms with God." -- Sign in KaiserAir dispatch department, OAK Following its epiphany 18 months ago at Teterboro Airport that some charter operators may be illegally franchising their operating authority, the FAA has launched a full-frontal campaign to clarify the issue of operational control and its relationship to crewing and operator business practices.
A tragedy left 15 people dead, making it one of the worst business aviation accidents ever. How did it happen? Structural failure? Wake turbulence? Erroneous instrument presentations? No. What killed the two pilots, flight attendant and their 12 passengers was the deliberate rejection of standard operating procedures by the cockpit crew. Why they made that decision is not so readily explained.
If aviation really is a fraternity of sorts — a "band of brothers" — then it is the responsibility of each of us to help our weakest siblings, even if that means doing the hard thing of clipping their wings.
The Model 680 Citation Sovereign's combination of performance, comfort and price sets a new mark for value and raises the stakes in the crowded, mid-size business jet market.
In 1995, the Citation Ultra, and Citation V before it in 1988, finally put the ``Slo-tation'' jokes to rest. Up to that point, Citations always had been easy to fly, simple to maintain, and well supported by Cessna, but were stuck in speed class between turboprops and ``real'' jets. Learjet operators were surprised when Cessna created the Ultra, an airplane capable of climbing directly to FL 450 and cruising between 400 and 425 KTAS.
Deliveries of the Premier I, Raytheon Aircraft's first-ever, clean sheet jet, now are approaching 70 units, so B/CA recently surveyed operators to determine how well the aircraft is living up to their expectations. It turns out they love its speed, roomy cockpit, cabin and baggage compartment, Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21 avionics suite and handling qualities, but many early aircraft operators report they experienced dispatch reliability woes, as one might expect from a leading-edge-technology design aircraft.
Bombardier's Challenger 300, now being delivered to customers in the green configuration, will still resemble the business aircraft they ordered four years ago. The then-named Continental had its official launch at the Paris air show in 1999. The corporate jet has seen its schedule slip by about six months and its payload with full fuel capacity has declined slightly. However, the twin-engine business jet appears to be meeting all other initial goals, including range, price and field performance.
WE TEND TO THINK OF spatial disorientation as something that happens to low-time recreational pilots who stray into IMC and spiral in. Yet spatial disorientation can overtake experienced, high-time pilots as well and can lead to complete loss of control if not remedied immediately. Such was the case on Jan. 27, 2001, when a King Air 200 (N81PF) spiraled out of control and crashed into rolling terrain near Strasburg, Colo., killing both pilots and eight members of the Oklahoma State University basketball team.
