Business Aviation

Part 135 needs enforceable, science-based rest and duty regulations.

The Falcon 900LX continues to retain a higher percentage of its original price than larger, heavier and considerably more fuel-thirsty competitors.

Business & Commercial Aviation News from December 1970

Reflecting on many years of publishing the leading business aviation magazine and changes as the industry and technology advanced.

Business flows uninterrupted in both directions across the Atlantic, but certainly has been slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless the routes remain intact and accessible by business jet.

We asked our business aviation brain trust of corporate and charter pilots if their operations had committed to installing ATN B1 CPDLC avionics. Three of them responded, and all frequently operate in European airspace.

Aviation has been in the sights of environmental activists for some time and particularly in Europe, where aviation has become a target for “shaming” as a source of atmospheric pollution.

Obituary for international procedures expert Guy Gribble/

The U.S. Transportation Command wanted scientific answers regarding the infection risk posed by aircraft cabins.

Cybersecurity is a top priority as connected aircraft become the norm in business aviation.

Urban air mobility is a case study in the benefits of digital design.

Pyka believes it an accelerate fielding of two of the hottest technologies in aviation: autonomy and electric propulsion.

Italy’s Tecnam has partnered with Rolls-Royce to develop the 9-passnger P-Volt, an all-electric version of the airframer’s P2012 Traveller regional aircraft.

The North American charter jet services market is projected to record a compound annual growth rate of 3% per year from 2020 through 2025,

Vanderbilt LifeFlight recently was named the Air Medical Program of the Year by the Association of Air Medical Services.

The AOPA Air Safety Institute notes a continued decrease in overall accident rates for noncommercial and commercial fixed-wing operations, noncommercial and commercial helicopter operations, and sport/experimental operations.

Transport Canada has granted geomatics company MVT Geo-solutions permission to fly drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of an operator, to

AML Global Eclipse reached an agreement with One Aviation Corp. in October to buy the assets of Eclipse Aerospace and the Eclipse Aircraft project for a proposed $5.25 million.

Bill Boisture, the former president and/or CEO of Hawker Beechcraft, Gulfstream, NetJets and Butler Aviation, has joined the executive team of Spike Aerospace.

The FAA has issued an airworthiness directive requiring repetitive inspections of 14,653 U.S. registered single-engine Cessna 172, 182, 206, 207 and

Five Questions For Walt Fricke, founder of Veterans Airlift Command.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

“Legendary” is probably an overused word, but in the case of our transitioning editorial leadership at BCA, it is apropos.

A Cessna 337 Skymaster whose forward gas engine was swapped out with an electric motor, completed a 297-nm flight from Camarillo to Hayward

Although FAA’s years-long search for a lead-free replacement to 100LL avgas has had no success as yet, Avfuel Chairman Craig Sincock believes one will be found.