Business Aviation

Two U.S. Air Force pilots have become the first to conduct crewed test flights of an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft under the service’s Agility Prime program.

Unprecedented sanctions on Russia following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are affecting every aspect of business aviation around the globe. What does it mean and what is to come?

Gulfstream held a belated opening event for its new European maintenance center March 10, and the company celebrated with a record-setting flight by its latest aircraft.

In the increasingly mobile world of work of the 21st century it is rare to find people who have spent an entire career within a single firm. Mark

Airbus Helicopters has developed a cost-sharing model with customers to develop upgrades for rotary-wing platforms now out of production.

Business aviation was booming in 1969 - three bizav jets were unveiled in one week at NBAA. In this article Erwin J. Bulban highlights three aircraft

The zero-emission propulsion startup Hydrogen is to locate manufacturing and distribution of its modular hydrogen capsules and assembly of regional-aircraft powertrain retrofit kits at the New Mexico facility.

With a focus on stabilizing its supply chain through the rest of the year, helicopter-maker Schweizer RSG aims to double and possibly triple its production output in 2023 and has plans to further expand beyond that depending on market demand.

Dave Holtz to Chairman of Operations of Wheels Up, New York.

WHEELS UP had $197m net loss on $1.2b revenues in 2021 vs $85.4m loss on $695m in 2020. It posted record revenues in 4Q21 when its active membership

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE is upgrading G280 with lower (4,800 ft) cabin altitude and new LED exterior lights for 2023.

GAMA added UAV Turbines, FL and Zipline, CA as Associate Members EPIC.

Enrolling with a flight school with the intention of becoming a commercial pilot should be a much more rigorous process than merely filling out a form, securing funding, and completing an often-informal interview.

Missouri-based T53 maintenance and repair specialist Ozark Aeroworks plans to develop upgrades for the powerplant and even put the Eisenhower-era turboshaft back into production, after acquiring the entire product line from manufacturer Honeywell Aerospace.

Malaysian aviation services AeroTree has formed a partnership with China’s EHang to develop urban air mobility and placed a pre-order for 60 autonomous electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles.

U.S. hypersonic aircraft startup Hermeus has closed a $100 million Series B fundraising round, providing the funding to fly its first three Quarterhorse flight-test vehicles and advance design of its planned Darkhorse production aircraft.

On March 21, 2018 a Gulfstream GV descending to land at Miami International Airport (MIA) encountered turbulence and three of the five passengers were

Swiss-based engineering company Marenco led by Martin Stucki, the creator of the former Kopter SH-09, is seeking investors for a new eight-passenger hybrid electric concept which was unveiled at this year’s Helicopter Association International Heli-Tech in Dallas, Texas.

Gulfstream Aerospace is continuing to invest in its super-midsize Gulfstream G280 with the addition of an even lower cabin altitude and new LED exterior lights.

Dassault Aviation now offers a new HEPA air filtration option for the Falcon 2000EX Series (EX EASy-DX-LX-LXS and S models).

The revamped company will trade as Enstrom Aerospace Industries and will resume production of the turbine 480B and the piston F-28F and 280FX.

Private equity firm DC Capital Partners has bought uAvionix, a seven-year-old developer and manufacturer of miniature avionics for communications, navigation and surveillance applications, including for unmanned aircraft.

Airbus is continuing to build the industrial team for the CityAirbus NextGen eVTOL, partnering with Spirit AeroSystems to design and manufacture the multi-copter’s wings.

A Bombardier Global Express linked to a Russian oligarch has been impounded by the UK government under new laws that came into force on March 8.

The Joby Aviation electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft that crashed on Feb. 16 during a remotely piloted flight test experienced a component failure, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report.