Business Aviation

BOMBARDIER inaugurated expanded 290,000 sq ft Singapore Service Center to support >2,000 business jet visits annually; expansion includes full-service

Gregoire Poux-Guillaume to Chief Executive Officer of AkzoNobel, The Netherlands.

After disruptions and delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Bye Aerospace and the FAA are finalizing certification plans for the eFlyer 2 electric trainer, keeping the company on course to have the first electric aircraft certified under Part 23 Amendment 64 airworthiness regulations.

Bombardier has quadrupled the footprints of its Singapore Service Center, making it the largest OEM business aviation maintenance facility in the Asia-Pacific region.

Fuel refiner Neste and Victor, an on-demand private-jet charter company, have partnered to make Neste MY sustainable aviation fuel available for all Fly Victor bookings.

Air Plains Services has designed an advanced instrument panel kit—the 172XPa—for Cessna 172 owners who either are planning to install or have completed installations of the company’s 180-hp engine upgrades.

Wichita-based Textron Aviation uses vertical assembly in the production of the Citation Latitude to aid in the assembly process.

Daher received FAA certification June 24 for the TBM 960 turboprop, unveiled in April at Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland, Florida.

Complete Aircraft Group (CAG), an aviation services business, has finalized the acquisition of Aerocare Aviation Services (AAS), a Part 145 maintenance, repair and overhaul provider.

The U.S. system of flight separation involving ATC radar, transponders, ADS-B and collision avoidance devices is superb.

Gulfstream Aerospace has completed the first flight of its G800 ultralong-range business jet, in a move that officially launches the flight-test program.

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE completed first flight of Pearl 700-powered, 19-pax G800 with 8,000 nm at Mach 0.85.

The Canadair CL-600 Challenger began flight tests in November 1978. It has a wide-body fuselage and a supercritical wing planform. The image on the

HARTZELL has FAA STC to retrofit Diamond DA40 NG with 74"-diameter, 3-bladed lightweight Polaris composite props.

COMPLETE AIRCRAFT GROUP (CAG) completed acquisition of AEROCARE AVIATION SERVICES, UK (interiors/paint).

The business aviation sector faces many of the same challenges as its regional airline counterparts, particularly with the turnover of new pilots seeking to move on to a mainline carrier

HPN handled 142,336 total aircraft operations in 2021, of which 89,346 (63%) were business aviation operations.

METROJET ENGINEERING CLARK renewed its FAA certification to maintain Gulfstreams, Globals and Challengers.

Aurora Flight Sciences' Centaur, an optionally piloted aircraft, graced the Aug. 6, 2012 cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology. The image shows

Hint: Now is the time for aircraft owners, operators, FBOs and others to prepare for a hurricane or other disaster.

Teaching other operators how to be safe.

Mentoring is key to developing pilots.

The base of the Matterhorn provides a world-class environment for training high-altitude helicopter pilots

Third parties will find it harder to identify and track Elon Musk’s G650 and other private jets under a revised privacy program the FAA manages now but plans to outsource to a vendor.

XL Aerospace, a provider of aviation engineering, repair and manufacturing solutions to general aviation and helicopter MRO sectors, received