Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace (TUSAS) is preparing to fly the first prototype of its T625 twin-engine medium helicopter in the next 5-6 weeks, company officials have said.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Italy’s Piaggio Aerospace has formally put itself up for sale, inviting expressions of interest in part of, or all of the company.
Business Aviation

Two lawmakers from the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee are calling on FAA to publish a proposed rule for remotely identifying unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by July 21, saying that recent drone sightings at airports and sporting events in the U.S. and Europe “underscored the need to quickly adopt and implement” the proposed rule.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Associations representing airports and the unmanned aircraft systems industry have formed a task force to address drone incursions at airports.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Safran’s helicopter engine business says it is studying the development of a turboprop derivative of the company’s Ardiden 3 turboshaft.
Business Aviation

A trade group representing the global aviation maintenance and manufacturing sector is defending Boeing’s inclusion on FAA’s Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee (ARAC) amid ongoing investigations into the Boeing 737 MAX.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
The first Airbus ACJ319neo, a corporate jet based on the Airbus A320neo family of aircraft, completed a 16 hr. 10 min. flight test flight Apr. 26.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
On a Bombardier Global 7500, passengers can travel long-haul from New York to Hong Kong. They can fly with fresh air and low-altitude cabin pressure and stay connected, work, dine, shower and stretch out in a luxury bed.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
On April 19 an eight-rotor custom drone transported a kidney from St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore to the University of Maryland Medical Center, 2.7 mi. away.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Problems with an unidentified supplier forced Moog, a provider of aerospace and defense fluid controls and systems, to report a $9 million charge in its fiscal second quarter of 2019.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
The Ohio Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center and AFRL will start testing a ground-based detect-and-avoid radar system supporting long-range drone flights near Ohio’s Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Italy’s Ministry for Economic Development has agreed on a timetable to re-establish the operations of troubled Piaggio Aerospace.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Light deliveries of business jets and further delays on major rail projects forced Bombardier on April 25 to warn investors of softer first-quarter financial results and to cut its 2019 outlook.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), the developer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, has teamed with industry and academia to develop an electrical propulsion system for the aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Bradley Perrett
An helicopter assembly line owned by Airbus and Chinese state partners has begun putting together its first H135s, with deliveries due to begin this year.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Egypt has reportedly opted to buy a fleet of AW149 twin-engine utility helos to meet its requirements for a ship-borne tactical transport and assault helo.
Business Aviation

By Steve Trimble
A Japanese-U.S. partnership has unveiled a vision for launching a family of stratospheric, solar-powered UAS to provide mobile comm and remote sensing services.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Ghana inaugurates the world’s largest medical drone delivery system as Wing gets 5the first approval to offer on-demand deliveries in the U.S.
Aerospace

By Michael Bruno
General Dynamics still expects a late-June FAA certification for the Gulfstream 600, but it could slip into the third quarter.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Grand Sky Business and Aviation Park near Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Harris Corporation have unveiled a 100-mi.-long “super corridor” that supports flights of UAS BVLOS of their operators.
Business Aviation

Austria’s Salzburg Airport will be closed for operations April 24-May 28 to undergo a renovation of its 59-year-old, 2,750-m-long runway.
Business Aviation

By Bradley Perrett
A U.S. grand jury has charged a U.S. citizen of Chinese descent and his relative in China with theft of GE tech for gas and steam turbines, including know-how applicable to aviation.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Ghana has formally launched the world’s largest medical drone delivery service, operated by Zipline and covering the entire country.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey
A monumental work honoring the lost airmen of World War II is to be dedicated during Memorial Day weekend.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
A team from academia and industry has begun flight testing an aircraft powered by a variable-buoyancy propulsion system.
Business Aviation