Business Aviation

Aviation Week editors honored more than two dozen 2020 Laureate Awards winners from around the globe in a virtual event.

As pilots, we regard aircraft as technological marvels, but infectious disease specialists and epidemiologists see the growing mobility of people via air transport as amplifying the potential for rapid dissemination of disease.

John Owen joined Airshare, based in Lenexa, Kansas, as chief financial officer in 2016 and was named president and CEO in March 2018.

Embraer delivered 21 executive jets in the third quarter of 2020, including 19 light jets and two large jets, compared to 27 a year ago.

Boeing’s latest 20-year Pilot and Technician Outlook leaves reasons to be hopeful despite the COVID-19 pandemic, say officials at JSfirm.com, which provides an aviation job website.

For many years, summer’s arrival for av junkies was signaled not so much by Memorial Day speeches, All-Star games or the season’s first surfside

Kent S. Jackson is founder and managing partner of Jetlaw LLC in Washington.

In-Personal Preferred I really enjoyed “Being There” (Viewpoint, October 2020, page 7), and in transitioning the NBAA Business Aviation Convention and

If the resulting landing distance or threat of running out of speed is too great, find another place to land.

The concept of thrust, power, and even horsepower can get messy, and perhaps a bit of a history lesson can start to clean things up.

The BFU found that the cause of the incident was ATC issuing a clearance on the basis of inadequate situational awareness.

Selected accidents and incidents in September 2020. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

The performance of the crew was completely routine, yet beautiful in its professionalism.

Ground operations in the winter create a large number of threats that can cause serious damage to an aircraft.

iI you know the aircraft is going to experience a cold soaking, remove the battery and store it in a warm place.

Gulfstream G500 operators live in a 500+ kt. world where few, if any, competitive aircraft can catch them.

A number of documents specifically for the air transport industry address the prevention of disease transmission.

Pilot oxygen masks should be kept clean to reduce the danger of infection and to prolong their lives.

On a private or business aircraft you have direct control over who will ride onboard, allowing you to screen passengers for illness.

“If you meet the ADS-B mandate standards, our receivers can pick up the signals.”

“In a normal year, which is to say, prior to March of this year,” Doug Dillon, Gander Center’s general manager, told BCA, “we were processing 550,000

“ADS-B has built into it a figure of merit that tells you the performance of the GPS information imbedded in the ADS-B message.”

Another benefit harvested from Aireon satellite-based ADS-B is data enabling the tracking of equipped aircraft for search-and-rescue purposes.

Since officially launching its satellite-borne ADS-B program in 2015, Aireon LLC, has signed 16 customers.

The Gulfstream G450, built from 2003 to 2017, is the last of the legacy Gulfstream jets with roots to Grumman’s original Gulfstream I turboprop.