Business Aviation

Helicopter operator Bristow Group has announced a partnership with Vertical Aerospace to explore electric vertical-takeoff aircraft while Avolon is partnering with Brazilian airline GOL and transportation provider Grupo Comporte to commercialize an eVTOL ride-sharing platform in Brazil.

Los Angeles has already been identified as early launch market by urban air taxi developers Archer and Joby Aviation, and now Volocopter.

Business aviation manufacturers are waiting for clarification to understand the impact President Joe Biden’s sweeping mandate requiring employees of companies with more than 100 workers to be vaccinated or produce weekly negative COVID tests may have on their companies.

The oil and gas company has set itself a target of producing 2 million metric tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) a year by 2025—a significant near-term scale-up in supply since Shell is not producing SAF at present.

Now focused on business aviation, Bombardier makes its first major product announcement.

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The Biden administration said foreigners will be able to enter the U.S. with proof of vaccination and a negative COVID-19 test beginning in November, marking a substantial loosening of entry restrictions put in place at the start of the pandemic.

GEMINI WINGS, Prague added a Phenom 100 to its international alliance fleet.

KVS Technologies has entered into agreement with Air Methods’ Spright, for one-stop linear inspection services for utility companies.

Bombardier is transitioning the Wichita facility, retraining its staff and growing its service business as it prepares to deliver its final Learjet off the production line early in 2022.

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The credit is intended to stimulate production and consumption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by reducing the price premium over conventional jet fuel.

Aviation Week’s Advanced Air Mobility Report to date has covered the projects and companies that are staking ground in a market that they, themselves, are creating.

Universe of customers for eVTOL aircraft expands, with Europcar Brazil plans to order 50 eGyros from startup Skyworks Aeronautics.

Optimism in the business aviation market is high and demand is recovering following the sharpest economic downturn since the Depression of the 1930s, a downturn far worse than that of 10 years ago, according to JetNet’s iQ Market report 2021.

EHang has partnered with operator Heli-Eastern to develop a low-altitude airspace management system.

SPAC Zanite Acquisitio is bringing on a controversial Trump administration defense secretary to its board.

French startup Ascendance Flight Technologies has closed a €10 million ($12 million) funding round.

Slovenian manufacturer Pipistrel announced an agreement with Genevation Aircraft of Hungary to assemble and market Pipistrel’s SW 121.

Engine MROs ramp up as flight hours increase; pre-owned market stays hot.

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The time was right for Bombardier Aerospace to introduce its Challenger 3500 super-midsize business jet, a refreshed Challenger 350 planned to enter service in late 2022, the company and analysts say, as competition in the segment continues to stiffen.

A new app-based service has been launched in the UK in an attempt to tackle a long-standing problem in private air charter.

4AIR has launched an online interactive map that depicts locations where business aviation operators can find sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

After working as a chef in five-star restaurants and for clients in the yachting world, Daniel Hulme founded On Air Dining in 2010 with a mission to bring not just great-tasting food but exquisite presentation to passengers on private jets.