Business Aviation

Utilizing Aviation Week’s Marketplace, the BCA Staff has collated four recent announcements of new cabin electronics system upgrades and components. 1

SR TECHNICS (as program manager) announced December delivery of 787 VIP aircraft from unidentified completion center.

Airports called on U.S. lawmakers to approve $17 billion in targeted aid as part of a new stimulus package currently being negotiated on Capitol Hill.

GKN Aerospace is to lead the study of a “park-and-ride” concept for urban air transport under the UK’s Future Flight Challenge to develop a next-generation integrated aviation system.

Kenny Dichter has been called a “serial entrepreneur,” starting with Bucky’s, a retail shop he opened as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin and

WHEELS UP plans to become public-traded company via SPAC merger with ASPIRATIONAL CONSUMER LIFESTYLE that values company at $2.1b; Jefferies acted as

DC AVIATION GROUP opened 77 sq meter business jet wheel shop at Stuttgart, Germany.

AIR ARCHIPELS, Tahiti ordered one each Beechcraft King Air 260 and King Air 260C (with cargo door) for delivery in 2H21.

Wheels Up has entered an agreement to become a publicly traded company through a merger with Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, Wheels Up announced Feb. 1.

Effective Jan. 19, 2021, new tax regulations clarify how the charter industry should address the Commercial Aviation Federal Excise Tax (FET) with

Efficient regional transportation, urban mobility, medical delivery and industrial inspection key targets of new UK research projects.

In a bid to accelerate the commercial availability of carbon-neutral synthetic fuels, the German government has commissioned aerospace research agency DLR to plan a pilot plant for the production of electricity-based fuels on an industrial scale.

As expected, Bombardier has announced the closure of the sale of its rail business to French-based Alstom, with net proceeds of about $3.6 billion, including $600 million in Alstom stock shares.

UEC-KLIMOV began testing first VK-650V light helicopter engine, which is manufactured with 12% of 3D-printed parts

BOMBARDIER closed previously announced sale of its Transporation business to ALSTOM, repositioning company as a pure-play business jet manufacturer

Avionics manufacturer uAvionix on Jan. 26 announced FAA technical standard order authorization of its tailBeaconX 1090 MHz automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast Out transponder, which replaces a rear navigation light on general aviation aircraft.

Skyservice Business Aviation announced on Jan. 26 that it has reached an agreement to be the exclusive distributor and reseller in Canada of the VisionSafe Emergency Vision Assurance System, designed to protect a pilot’s vision during a smoke emergency in the cockpit.

Utilizing Aviation Week’s Marketplace the BCA Staff collated four companies specializing in avionics. From navigators to enhanced vision systems, take a look and learn more.

Aerion CFO and Executive Vice President of Strategy Matthew Mejia discussed the status of the company’s AS2 supersonic business jet with BCA Senior

New business aircraft deliveries worldwide for the month of December 2020.

Inventories of pre-owned business jet and turboprop aircraft are at their lowest levels in more than 20 years, according to a JetNet iQ Pulse report

Aerial logistics startup Airflow is to build a full-scale technology demonstrator for its planned electric short-takeoff-and-landing cargo aircraft.

If there is an upside for the aviation industry to the ongoing global travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be that the enforced breathing space has given insiders an opportunity to focus on sustainability.

Nearly a year’s worth of restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic does not appear to have diminished interest in flying by business jet to the annual Super Bowl, which takes place Feb. 7 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.

Gulfstream Aerospace delivered 127 business jets in 2020, compared to expectations of 130 aircraft, and down from 147 deliveries in 2019, its parent company reported Jan. 27.