Business Aviation

Pilots continue to repeat the same mistakes, believing their flying savvy will allow them to escape bad situations

Bombardier kicked off NBAA-BACE with the announcement of the launch customer for the Challenger 3500.

Airbus Corporate Helicopters has weathered the pandemic with stable sales, and expects to surpass its 2020 performance this year.

Ron Draper, Textron Aviation president and CEO discusses the company’s Oct. 11 announcement of two new product upgrades the day before the National Business Aviation Association’s Convention & Exhibition opens in Las Vegas. Draper also discusses the business aviation market and much more.

The 2021 NBAA-BACE opened in Las Vegas on Oct. 12 after a year’s hiatus with new features.

After a decade of stagnation, the pandemic may have fundamentally changed the business aviation industry with virus-driven safety concerns spurring a

SpeedNews Briefs From NBAA-BACE: Day One

What is Honda up to at this year’s NBAA-BACE? The mystery, whatever it might be, is hidden from view by huge black curtains.

Jaunt Air Mobility, specialist in electric vertical takeoff and and hybrid-electric aircraft, has agreed to merge with AIRO Group.

The NBAA is convening amid new optimism about industry’s future and sense the pandemic is generating unprecedented interest.

Austrian startup CycloTech has begun tethered flight tests of a demonstrator equipped with its cycloidal rotor technology for vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

Newsmakers lunch panelists agree there will be consolidation in the market, and probably be 4-5 major players in 20 years.

Textron Aviation introduced the Cessna Citation M2 Gen2 and Citation XLS Gen2, upgrades to the Citation M2 light jet and XLS+ midsize business jet, the day before the opening of NBAA-BACE in Las Vegas.

VIASAT launched Viasat Select direct custom service model for business aviation Ka-band inflight connectivity.

NETJETS agreed to order up to 100 more Phenom 300s, including the Phenom 300E, in deal that includes services agreement.

FACC opened business jet interior refurbishment facility in Melbourne, FL. It also has facilities in Ried, Austria and Montreal.

SATCOM DIRECT was named by SKYTRAC as global reseller of Iridium Certus hardware products and data services.

LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE LINDENBERG, Germany was selected by Spirit Aerosystems to supply thrust reverser actuation system for Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X (for

HONEYWELL forecasts delivery of 7,400 new business jets worth $238b in 2022-2031, up 1% vs same 10-year forecast a year ago; its annual survey also