Business Aviation

Aviation Week pilot gets first-hand experience of the first emergency Autoland system for general aviation.

Thrush Aircraft, based in Albany, Georgia, has completed a 10-week restructuring and has new ownership and leadership.

Officials of the town of Dover Foxcroft, Maine, are considering whether to close the Charles A. Chase Jr. Memorial Airfield and use the site for a solar generating plant.

Interceptor Aircraft Co. has placed for sale the FAA type certificate, drawings, jigs, tooling and blueprints of the Interceptor 400, a pressurized single-engine turboprop, as well as the shared type certificate and tooling for the Meyers 200 piston-powered version.

Package carrier UPS and pharmacy giant CVS on Nov. 5 said they completed the first moneymaking deliveries of medical prescriptions to customers by drone.

Hundreds of high school educators plan to attend a two-day aviation STEM symposium in Denver to help build aviation curriculum and promote aviation careers.

Safran’s board has chosen the head of Safran Aircraft Engines, Oliver Andries to be group CEO from January 2021.

An array of ground recording systems would be deployed to gather acoustic data across the entire sonic-boom carpet under the flight path of the aircraft.

Aerostructures supplier Triumph Group is to cooperate with Embraer to demonstrate a thermoplastic primary structure in flight.

Canadian business aviation services provider Skyservice has purchased the Muskoka Aircraft Center hangar and Part 145 approved maintenance organization (AMO) in Gravenhurst, Ontario.

Jefferies predicts manufacturers to deliver 648 business jets in 2019, up 11% from a year ago, followed by 642 deliveries in 2020 and 659 in 2021.

Developed in secret like the Pearl 15, Rolls-Royce’s Pearl 700 has already amassed 1,200 test hours in advance of first flight on the new Gulfstream G700.

Developed in secret like the Pearl 15, Rolls-Royce’s Pearl 700 has already amassed 1,200 test hours in advance of first flight on the new Gulfstream G700.

Desktop Metal, a U.S. startup that produces low-cost, high-speed metal 3D printers for rapid prototyping and mass production, has introduced a system that can print carbon-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic parts.

U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has directed his department to stop using drones manufactured in China or made with Chinese parts, pending a review.

Chinese urban air mobility (UAM) company Ehang plans to launch an initial public offering of shares on the U.S. Nasdaq stock exchange.

The U.S. Senate has passed a transportation funding bill for fiscal 2020.

Partway through its makeover as an unmanned aircraft and automotive sensors specialist, FLIR Systems will shake up its business portfolio after low organic business growth, according to new comments from management.

Embraer delivered 27 executive jets during the third quarter of 2019, including 15 light and 12 large-cabin aircraft.

Bombardier is accelerating production and deliveries of its Global 7500 business jet, with plans to deliver 10 to 15 of the long-range jets during this year’s fourth quarter, the company said.

Trans States Holdings has canceled an order for up to 100 Mitsubishi SpaceJet aircraft, the latest setback facing the Japanese manufacturer’s long-delayed regional jet program.

Spirit AeroSystems will buy Bombardier’s aerostructures businesses in Northern Ireland and Morocco, as well as an MRO business in Dallas

Airbus Defense and Space has made a strategic investment in U.S.-based Amprius, which is developing high-energy-density batteries.

The company founded by Kenn Ricci is “a multibillion-dollar force,” from fractional operations to remanufacturing to engine parts.

Pilots approaching a runway were able to see a drone encroaching in their airspace 30% of the time, according to a study by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Oklahoma State University (OSU).