Business Aviation

The FAA has announced its policy for approving drone designs as a special class of aircraft.

EMBRAER delivered a Phenom 100EV (to an undisclosed industrial company) and a Phenom 300E (to AGROJEM) in Brazil, marking its 250th business jet

SINGATURE TECHNICAIR added new line station and Mobile Service Unit (MSU) at Farnborough Airport, UK.

Kenya Airways has signed a contract with APG as its new Passenger GSA in Europe.

MagniX powers Dash 8; Aerion picks BAE; Autoflight unveils eVTOL; Ampaire hybrid plans; LG flies lithium-sulfur; Walmart drone delivery.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has denied Gogo Business Aviation’s request to review a patent granted to its competitor SmartSky Networks.

Diamond Aircraft has relaunched the Diamond DA20-C1 equipped with new G500TXi avionics.

Items of interest to professionals in the business aviation industry.

Conferences and events for professionals in the business aviation community.

Appointments and promotions in the business aviation industry.

Regulations recently issued by the FAA for business aircraft.

Jet Aviation, a business aviation services company, has acquired Arlin’s Aircraft Service’s fixed base operations at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport in Montana.

Textron Aviation has teamed with Microsoft developers to upgrade the 10 Beechcraft and Cessna business and general aviation aircraft featured in the new Microsoft Flight Simulator.

TECNAM has rolled out its first P2012 Sentinel SMP (Special Mission Platform) with multimission capabilities.

Avfuel Corp. has delivered sustainable aviation fuel to Atlantic Aviation of New Castle Airport for one of the airport’s private flight department’s tenants, marking the first delivery to a corporate flight departmen

Shell Aviation, in collaboration with FAUDI Aviation, has launched Shell Jet Protection, a Superabsorbent Polymer (SAP)-free refueling system for the aviation industry.

Axis Jet, an aircraft charter, sales, and management company, has added a second Citation CJ2 to its Part 135 air charter fleet.

Montenegro Air Force has received the first of two Bell 505s from Bell Textron Inc.

Flightstar Corp. has received FAA approval for the Gogo Business Aviation AVANCE L5 installation on Bombardier Learjet 40, 45, 70, and 75 aircraft.

GAMA 2nd Quarter 2020 Deliveries

Brief news items of interest to business aviation professionals.

AMETEK MRO DRAKE AIR, OK has USAF contract for repair and manufacture of C-5 primary and secondary heat exchangers.

OEMSERVICES has Safran Power Units contract to warehouse/dispatch SPU300 APUs (for Global 7500) to support AOGs.

FAI TECHNIK installed its first COLLINS ultra-high speed Ku-band inflight connectivity system on a Challenger 850.

Worldwide business aviation activity is trending down 12% in September compared to a year ago, but is an improvement from summer declines, according to WingX Advance data.