Business Aviation

Project participants have announced the start of pilot programs to deliver medical supplies by drone in India and Germany.

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has certified ExecuJet MRO Services Middle East to carry out maintenance on Dassault Falcon 900B aircraft.

Global Aviation Technologies (GAT) has successfully installed the first Goji Geotainment system, a plug-and-play replacement for legacy Airshow cabin entertainment systems ideal for business jets.

Startup Mobius Energy plans to deliver its first electric-propulsion battery module to a customer in October.

It was the night of May 3, 2019, and a hard rain was falling in Jacksonville, Florida. The rain was coming down so hard that the runway was slippery

The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) has identified 313 aerospace businesses to be awarded $482.3 million in funding, with Spirit Aerosystems garnering the lion’s share at more than $70 million.

Julia Zhang to Senior Vice President of Pricing and Revenue Management of Wheels Up, New York.

VOLATO, Atlanta launched HondaJet Elite S fractional ownership program with orders for multiple aircraft (first delivered).

Business aviation flights in North America were flat in August compared to July, but higher than August 2020 and up 10% from August 2019.

As first electric aircraft enter service airports and operators come to grips with infrastructure for recharging batteries.

The grant supports an A$8 million program that will run to December 2023 which involves development and optimization of a quiet, efficient and lightweight propulsion system that increases the range and reduces the noise and cost of the Vertiia.

"The Crosscheck" column examines pilots' use of common and illicit drugs.

Recent software and mobile app launches have made flight planning, tracking, scheduling and booking easier and more accessible.

High-profile electric air taxi startup Lilium will become a publicly traded company Sept. 15 when its Class A ordinary shares and redeemable warrants will be listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbols “LILM” and “LILMW” respectively.

Airbus Helicopters says it has achieved much of what it wanted to get out of its flight test campaign of its CityAirbus advanced air mobility demonstrator.

A series of large-scale urban air mobility demonstrations are beginning in Europe under projects funded by the EU’s SEAR air traffic management research program.

The FAA has issued research contracts worth more than $100 million to six aerospace partner companies and teams under the third phase of its long-running Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise (CLEEN) Program.

VoltAero plans a second crossing of the English Channel with an electric aircraft on Sept. 13, flying its Cassio 1 demonstrator from Calais in France to Cranfield in England for a presentation at Cranfield University.

On-demand helicopter service provider Blade Air Mobility is to acquire organ transport company Trinity Air Medical.

The RedTail Flight Academy celebrated the opening of a flight academy at New York Stewart International Airport and a partnership with Wheels Up, a private aviation provider, on Sept. 10.

Drone industry pioneer Brendan Schulman has left DJI for a position with Boston Dynamics.

MTU MAINTENANCE was approved to maintain PW307s at Berlin-Brandenburg; PW307D powers the Falcon 8X.

Items of interest to professionals in the business aviation industry.

The first part of this article looked at trying to solve problems that appear to be impossible. The old saying “When all you have is a hammer

Seven people were injured Sept. 9 when a Cape Air Cessna 402 left the runway and crashed into nearby woods while landing at Provincetown Municipal Airport (PVC)