Business Aviation

Avoiding hail requires proper usage of the weather radar system

South Korea’s Hanwha Systems plans to invest 450 billion won ($400 million) in urban air mobility over the next three years.

Dutch investment company Panta Holdings has acquired Fokker Services and Fokker Techniek, aviation aftermarket businesses, from Fokker Technologies/GKN Aerospace.

Textron Aviation is celebrating the 1,000th delivery of its Cessna Citation 560XL series midsize business jet with the delivery of a Citation XLS+ to a customer in the Northeastern U.S.

Business and general aviation is playing a vital role in the global effort to vaccinate people against the COVID-19 virus.

Despite rumors to the contrary, Gulfstream Aerospace has stressed its commitment to its G280 super midsize jet and is investing in enhancements to the aircraft, company executives told reporters on March 30.

Navigation system suppliers have aligned to lobby the U.S. government for increased investment in legacy ground-based navigational aids.

How hail forms and how to forecast it.

Cape Air, a commuter airline based in Hyannis, Massachusetts, has placed a firm order for 10 new 11-seat Tecnam P2012 Traveller aircraft, with delivery scheduled in 2021.

Nearly 70% of fixed base operators in the U.S. and Canada experienced a decline in fuel sales in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to an annual FBO fuel sales survey by the Aviation Business Strategies Group.

Textron Aviation’s parent company, Textron, is formally standing up an eAviation division to develop opportunities in emerging electric technologies.

We must get autonomy and data management right, despite security, validation and verification, trust and legacy transition challenges.

Hail encounters can cause substantial damage to your aircraft and make flying difficult

Daher has launched the Kodiak 100 Series III turboprop sport and utility aircraft and has begun customer deliveries.

Boeing-backed Wisk has added the aerospace giant’s Insitu Pacific unmanned aircraft division to the team working to demonstrate autonomous passenger transport in New Zealand.

Sikorsky has demonstrated the supervised autonomy capability of its modified S-70A Black Hawk optionally piloted vehicle, with the test pilot using a tablet to command the helicopter through a complete mission.

COLIBRI AIRCRAFT, UK reports 2,227 pre-owned business jets were purchased globally in 2020, up from 2,067 in 2019.

BOMBARDIER delivered its 50th Global 7500

GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE delivered the 100th G500/G600 family aircraft.

Bombardier has delivered its 50th Global 7500 ultra-long-range business jet, following entry-into-service in late 2018.

Europe plans a large-scale demonstration of urban air mobility in 2022 focused on the deconfliction of multiple different types of users of low-altitude airspace.

Supersonic business jet developer Aerion has released the first image of a planned follow-on airliner concept designed for entry-into-service around the end of the decade which will cruise at higher Mach cruise numbers closer to the hypersonic region.

Japan’s Toshiba has invested $15 million in U.S. counter-drone defense startup Fortem Technologies, the companies forming a strategic business alliance to combine and market their systems globally.

Leonardo has confirmed it will offer its AW149 twin-engine multirole helicopter platform as a potential replacement for the UK’s Airbus Puma helicopters, after the government’s Integrated Review confirmed the type would be replaced with a new medium rotorcraft.

Holders of Italian and French Air Operator Certificates may find themselves with a competitive edge over operators based in other EU nations beginning April 1, as the European business aviation market reaches its first significant regulatory deadline of the post-Brexit era.