Business Aviation

TEXTRON AVIATION received FAA type certification for Cessna Citation XLS Gen2 and delivered the first aircraft.

Bombardier continues to see strong demand for Challenger and Global business jets with an order backlog that grew $1.3 billion during the first quarter of 2022.

UPS’s drone airline subsidiary UPS Flight Forward has embarked on a strategy of deploying autonomous and remotely operated aircraft across a range of use cases from medical delivery drones to large feeder aircraft.

Mineta was the longest-serving U.S. Transportation Secretary in the department’s history and a difference-making advocate for the nation’s aviation system.

BOMBARDIER had $287m net loss on $1.2b revenues in 1Q22 vs $5.1b on $1.3b in 1Q21; it delivered 21 business jets (12 Globals) vs 26 (16 Globals) a

Small French manufacturers Elixir Aircraft and TurboTech plan to develop a cryogenic hydrogen propulsion system for light aircraft under a project supported by the French government’s post-COVID-19 recovery plan.

Private aviation needs a digital revolution if operators and brokers want to respond to rising demand, this is according to the CEO of a new live bidding platform - AeroBid.

Bombardier has announced solid financial results for the first quarter of 2022.

NASA is preparing its X-57 Maxwell all-electric experimental aircraft for its first flight test this summer.

Under Russian ownership in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Let L-410 manufacturer was crippled by the effect of sanctions.

A look at distractions in the cockpit and how too much flight compartmentalization can cause errors.

VIP Completions refurbishment of a private Boeing 767 is the fourth the company has completed for the same customer, John Ruiz, founder and CEO of LifeWallet and its parent company, MSP Recovery.

Andre Stein, Eve Air Mobility CEO, talks about the work the company, which is soon going public, is doing to set up advanced air mobility operations around the world.

German general aviation manufacturer Flight Design displayed a mockup of a version of its F2 light sport aircraft with zero-emission hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion at the Aero Freidrichshafen 2022 show on April 27-30.

De Havilland had been making changes to its production aircraft, the DH-125 executive jet, we reported in a picture story in the Sep. 24, 1962 issue

By 2035, Rio de Janiero could see a fleet of 245 urban air taxis flying 4.5 million passengers a year on more than 100 routes linking 37 vertiports, Eve UAM forecasts in the first concept of operations for urban air mobility (UAM) to be developed in Brazil.

BAE Systems has lifted the veil on a new lightweight head-up display (HUD) it is targeting at the business jet and single-aisle airliner market.

Hydrogen-propulsion startup Hydroplane has received a second U.S. Air Force small business contract to demonstrate a fuel cell-based powerplant.

Daher has begun deliveries of its TBM 960 turboprop, which replaces the TBM 940, following the aircraft’s unveiling in early April.

Swiss light aircraft developer Junkers Aircraft is proposing reviving development of the Ju-52 trimotor as a potential low-cost transport aircraft.

Airbus is to test its CityAirbus NextGen electric vertical takeoff and landing platform with a series of research projects centered around the German city of Ingolstadt.

Piper Aircraft ended 1982 with an announcement that it would be offering three new piston aircraft, including a six seater, single engine and a seven

Focus requires you to zero in on what is important and place that into a “compartment” that precludes outside distractions.

FAA Flight Standards Service executive director David Boulter will take the agency’s top civil-service safety job on an interim basis when current acting associate administrator for Aviation Safety Chris Rocheleau leaves government service at the end of May.

Boom Supersonic has signed a 10-year agreement for carbon dioxide removal via Climeworks direct air capture technology.