Business Aviation

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.

GKN Aerospace is leading a UK program to develop a liquid-hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion system for subregional aircraft.

Textron Aviation turned in lower business jet and turboprop deliveries in 2020 along with lower revenue and profit, but had a “blowout” fourth quarter, with expectations of a 15% increase in sales in 2021 and a return to 2019 delivery levels in 2022.

TEXTRON AVIATION earned $108m on $1.6b revenues in 4Q20 vs $134m on $1.7b in 4Q19; and $16m on $4b revenues in 2020 vs $449m on $5.2b in 2019. It

James Hurley to Executive Vice President of Talon Air, Farmingdale, NY.

Flying Ship is a U.S. startup that plans to modernize the Russian ekranoplan ground-effect vehicle concept and bring unmanned aircraft technology to maritime logistics while avoiding the onerous burden of aerospace regulation.

GENERAL DYNAMICS AEROSPACE earned $401m on $2.4b sales in 4Q20 ($11.6b backlog) vs $480m on $2.9b in 4Q19; and $1.1b on $8.1b sales in 2020 vs $1.5b

The burgeoning urban air mobility sector is poised to open up private air travel to unprecedented markets. But benefits will only be maximized if decisions are made now to ensure UAM systems are accessible to the disabled, experts say.

Plans to demonstrate an autonomous aerial firefighting capability with an Erickson S-64 Aircrane heavy-lift helicopter have been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Super Bowl LV will be played at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on Feb. 7, pitting the home town Tampa Bay Buccaneers against the Kansas City

At the close of a tumultuous 2020, trends in business aviation paint a picture of positivity around the sector that suggests better times will follow

Wheels Up Partners may become publicly traded if reported talks to merge with Aspirational Consumer Lifestyle Corp., a blank check acquisition company, are successful, according to a report by Reuters.

Assembly has begun on the first production prototype of Bye Aerospace’s two-seat, all-electric eFlyer 2.

Terrafugia said Jan. 26 that it has obtained an airworthiness certificate from the FAA for its “Transition” roadable aircraft.

Business jet MRO providers are seeing a surge in demand for aftermarket services thanks to new entrants to the field.

SKYSERVICE was named by VisionSafe as exclusive distributor of its Emergency Vision Assurance System (EVAS) in Canada.

GARMIN has EASA certification for its GI 275 electronic flight instrument for >1,000 single-/multi-engine aircraft models.

Airbus Helicopters CEO Seeks Euro Cooperation On Military Rotorcraft Tony Osborne, [email protected] Airbus Helicopters CEO Bruno Even has called on Europe’s rotorcraft industry to cooperate on a future military rotorcraft program, as NATO countries begin considering their medium-lift needs for the 2030s and beyond.