Business Aviation

Collins Aerospace has received an order from the FAA for a Virtual-Reality training device to be used in scientific research in areas such as pilot-HUD interface, pilot performance and workload.

QUIET TECHNOLOGY AEROSPACE installed its 100th Learjet 60 corrosion-proof carbon graphite engine (PW305) inlet barrel.

The International Aircraft Dealers Association marked significant progress in 2019.

EmbraerX is entering the unmanned cargo aircraft market through a collaboration with U.S. startup Elroy Air.

Employees of financially troubled Mooney International were sent home from work Jan. 6—their second furlough in about a month.

Textron Aviation has acquired MRO provider Premiair Aviation Maintenance Pty Ltd and its three service centers in Australia.

Todd Shriner to Technical Representative-Bombardier Products of Duncan Aviation, NE.

TEXTRON AVIATION has acquired PREMIAIR AVIATION MAINTENANCE, Australia, which performs Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker aircraft maintenance (as an ASF)

Deliveries of Dassault’s Falcon business jets have hit a new bottom, at 40 in 2019.

DUMONT AVIATION GROUP, DE completed program of purchasing 27 Falcon 2000s from unidentified fractional operator.

Turkish Aerospace has rolled out the third prototype of its T625 Gokbey twin-engine medium helo as it begins to accelerate the aircraft’s flight-test program.

Carmaker Hyundai has announced a UAM partnership with Uber and unveiled a full-scale mockup of its S-A1 eVTOL aircraft.

Ukraine has begun taking delivery of H125 single-engine light helicopters from Airbus.

Petaluma, California-based Jump Aero is developing a small, fast, short-range vehicle for transporting first responders.

Some Textron Aviation employees in Wichita began reporting back to work on Jan. 6 following an explosion last month.

The Weekly of Business Aviation polled leaders in the general and business aviation industry about what they think lies ahead in 2020 and the challenges they face. This is Part 2 of the two-part series.

Weeks into a rash of reported drone sightings in eastern Colorado and part of Nebraska, the FAA on Jan. 6 lacked an explanation for the reports or whether drones were actually involved.

Aerospace and defense Tier 1 giant Safran has sold off software and systems engineering unit Base2 Solutions.

NETJETS took delivery of its first Cessna Citation Longitude super-midsize jet, and now has >250 Cessna business jets.

TAILWIND TECHNOLOGIES has acquired QUALITY AIRCRAFT ACCESSORIES, Tulsa, OK/Fort Lauderdale, FL (general aviation aftermarket stocking distributor) and

Maturing technology and market lead Bell to redesign its Nexus eVTOL around all-electric propulsion for short-range intraurban flights.

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Flirtey is preparing to begin routine food deliveries by drone within the largest industrial park in the U.S.

A new U.S. Army program will demo an intel-collecting system with three powerful sensing capabilities in one year and attempt to field the system on a new airborne surveillance fleet starting in five years.