Business Aviation

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The latest news in brief from the business aviation industry.

HeliOffshore elected Duncan Trapp its new chairman, succeeding founder Bill Chiles, to continue advancing safety innovations in offshore rotorcraft operations.

The cover of the magazine issue dated June 6, 2016, featured a HondaJet HA-420 in flight. Chief flight evaluation editor Fred George recounted his experiences flying the HA-420. Turn to page 54 to read more.

Lisa Atherton, who assumed her new role as president and CEO of Textron on Jan. 4, outlined her three top priorities for the company in a call with analysts.

Gulfstream reported strong fourth-quarter 2025 revenue and earnings, including its second-highest sales quarter in 17 years.

Textron Aviation released its fourth-quarter 2025 earnings report and noted higher revenues but continuing supply chain and workforce challenges.

On-demand private aviation company Wheels Up achieves milestone in transformation journey by unveiling a new, unified suite of services in the U.S.

The UK's Sustainable Aviation Fuel Clearing House is providing funding for sustainable aviation fuel development to four companies.

The NTSB agreed that the accident was caused by multiple factors, led by the FAA’s placement of a helicopter route in close proximity to a DCA approach path.

BCA's 20/Twenty pre-owned aircraft market feature for January is the Airbus Corporate Jets ACJ318.

Aircraft manufacturers delivered 1,184 business jets and business turboprops during 2025, up from 1,133 a year ago.

Brazilian air accident investigators are exploring how fatigue and overload stresses caused the failure of main rotor components in an Airbus H160.

Pilatus is expanding its presence in the U.S. to supplement its capacity in Switzerland, adding a facility at Sarasota Bradenton International Airport, Florida.

Serial airline entrepreneur and Breeze Airways founder David Neeleman is adding two Learjet 45 midsize business jets to Breeze's fleet for an important purpose.

The Trump administration has started the clock on a near-total ban of foreign UAS and parts. Editors and Drone Girl’s Sally French explain what is happening and what it means.

NetJets, Flexjet, VistaJet and Flyexclusive all experienced a Q4 2025 utilization superior to the same period of 2024, according to Aviation Week Network's Tracked Aircraft Utilization data.

Airbus Helicopters claims to have secured a 50% share of the medium twin-engine segment that has largely been dominated for years by Leonardo’s AW139.

Vantage Aviation has expanded its fixed-base operations with the acquisition of FBO operations at Allegheny County Airport in Pennsylvania.

Seven people were killed and one person seriously injured Jan. 25 when a Bombardier Challenger 650 crashed on takeoff from BGR in Maine.

Ground tests of a modified Passport business jet engine in hybrid-electric mode mark a key step toward development of a future single-aisle propulsion system.

Manufacturing of hardware has begun for Pratt & Whitney Canada’s long-planned hybrid-electric propulsion flight demonstrator, a heavily modified Dash 8-100.

Vertical Aerospace’s Valo electric air taxi made its U.S. debut on Jan. 22, with a non-flying, full-scale mock-up of its eVTOL aircraft displayed in New York.

Vince Goncalves, regional VP for Africa at ExecuJet MRO Services South Africa, answers questions from African Aerospace.

The four projects aim to ready technologies for a hybrid-electric regional aircraft entering service in 2035, as part of the Clean Aviation public-private initiative.