Business Aviation

FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL launched G650 training at Dallas, its fifth G650 training location. It now operates six G650 full-flight simulators.

There are many airlines and private-fleet operators that have grounded their fleets during the COVID-19 crisis, but only one company is doing so for the fourth time in as many years: Jet Linx.

Air BP is donating three million gal. of jet fuel to FedEx and Alaska Airlines for the delivery of medical supplies and other essential goods.

Magellan Jets has partnered with TerraPass, which specializes in carbon offsetting solutions, to offer carbon offsetting for their private aviation portfolio.

Vyaire Medical and Spirit AeroSystems have formed a temporary partnership to increase production of critical care ventilators in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Piedmont Propulsion Systems (PPS) has added complete major inspection support for the Model 568F propeller installed on the Next-Gen ATR family of turboprop aircraft.

Engine Assurance Program (EAP) will defer its minimum flight hour requirement of 75 hours for the program until 2021

02 Aero Acquisitions has purchased Shaw Aerox, a manufacturer of portable oxygen systems and accessories for aviation and medical users.

KlasJet, has added cargo services to its operations through a collaboration with Bluebird Nordic, a cargo airline.

Alaska’s North Slope Borough Search and Rescue Department (SAR) has added a new PC-24 business jet to its fleet to provide medical care for 9,800 residents across a 95,000 sq. mi. territory, the northernmost region of the U.S.

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Global business aviation activity has improved, from a low of 3,600 flights per day in mid-April to 5,200 flights a day in May, although activity

GE Aviation will lay off as much as 25% of its workforce this year, including the voluntary and involuntary cuts it’s already taken, because of a downturn in its commercial aviation business.

Brian Proctor is head of the Dallas-based Mente Group, a global aircraft brokerage and consulting firm active in midsize and larger business jets. He has served private aviation clients for more than 20 years and serves on a number of industry boards, including the National Aircraft Resale Association.

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Bombardier saw a $600-800 million impact on cashflow in the first quarter due to the COVID-19 crisis and projects a similar impact in the second quarter, during which it expects business activity to hit a low point before beginning to recover.

Month-old Raytheon Technologies is slashing billions of dollars in costs and other retrenchments, including workforce cutbacks, as commercial OEM and aftermarket revenue could be halved this year in the wake of COVID-19.

Spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, Rolls-Royce launched what it believes is the first travel-free, fully immersive virtual reality training course for its business jet engines on May 4, 2020.

Daher’s line of 2020 TBM 940 turboprops will come equipped with HomeSafe, an emergency autoland system, the company announced during a video press conference May 6.

Leaders of aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems already are envisioning a dramatically different company as COVID-19 upends commercial air

As the business aviation sector works to bounce back when COVID-19 travel restrictions begin to lift, in Britain, the industry has a significant additional hurdle to overcome.