Business Aviation

Calendar of upcoming events of interest to the business aviation industry.

Universal Avionics is providing assembly line space to Hope Worldwide in Tucson, Arizona, a nonprofit organization that creates medical face masks and

Globalair.com saw inquiries submitted daily for used aircraft sales decline 12% upon the emergence of the novel coronavirus pandemic. But in the eight

TRAXXALL, a business aviation maintenance management firm, was ranked by the Financial Times as 71st in its America’s Fastest Growing Companies 2020

Surviving and thriving in the new non-normal era

Mistrusted by the federal government but appreciated by municipal authorities, Chinese drone manufacturer DJI is distributing 100 small unmanned aircraft systems to U.S. police, fire and public safety agencies to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

March business aircraft activity in North America dropped 31.7% compared to a year ago, while April activity is expected to drop 67% as “stay-at-home” orders spread during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Argus International.

SkyQuest has completed the sale of aircraft from Great Lakes Airlines plus its assets to Alpine Air, based in Provo, Utah.

While Africa remains the continent least-affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic, almost every nation now has confirmed cases of the disease and numbers are increasing. Health experts consider Africa as a whole to be a few weeks behind most of the rest of the world in terms of the spread of the disease.

Bankruptcy judges ordered her to sell companies to repay collateralized loan obligations worth nearly $2 billion.

International Aero Engineering and Aviation Clean Air offering an ionization purification system as a portable ion distribution unit for ground use only.

Aerostructures maker halts work after Boeing announces a temporary shutdown of its Puget Sound facilities,

Textron Aviation is extending furloughs for most employees in response to the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the company said April 9.

Labor and other costs for air ambulance providers are expected to grow dramatically over the next few months while revenues are down because of the impact from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Association of Air Medical Services, representing the air medical transport industry.

Iris Automation on April 6 announced the commercial release of its Casio 360 collision avoidance system for drones, which it described as the first such onboard system with a 360-deg. radial field of view.

Despite oil prices tumbling, offshore helicopters are continuing to operate as a critical component of international energy production.

Industry has rapidly developed modifications enabling the carriage of bulky bio capsules to transport COVID-19 patients.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, business jet deliveries in 2020 could drop anywhere from 12.5% to as much as 40-50% compared to last year, with recovery unlikely before 2023, according to a new forecast by JetNet IQ.

Leonardo has completed its $185 million takeover of Switzerland’s Kopter Group from private equity firm Lynwood.

FlightSafety International will now provide the ground school portion of its recurrent training programs online through a training system called LiveLearning led by an instructor, the company announced.

COVID-19 lockdowns in California and the UK have affected a U.S. startup’s plan to fly a hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion testbed as early as this month.

In an ordinary crisis, when commercial airlines were unable to meet an increasingly urgent need for flights, business aviation would be racing to take up the slack.

With key customer Boeing recently suspending much of its own work indefinitely to try to deep-clean amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems announced April 8 it has also practically halted production for Boeing programs performed at its headquarters and in Oklahoma for an indefinite period of time.

Harnessed passengers unable to break free.

Aviation professionals have responsibility to provide passengers with a safe environment and well-thought out emergency plans.