Business Aviation

Ross Aviation has completed its acquisition of Rectrix Aviation, which has a total of five FBOs in and Florida.

BRS Aerospace reports its whole-aircraft parachute system recently saved its 400th and 401st lives, considered noteworthy achievements in aviation safety.

"The only way to get a good understanding of the problem is data—data that is vigilantly collected and is recorded and retained for further analysis."

FlightSafety International has added new training courses for Airbus Helicopters at its Denver Learning Center.

Operators give high marks to the Bombardier Global 6000 long-range jet for its speed, comfort, reliability and product support.

Stuart Jet Center in Stuart, Florida, has added a U.S. Customs facility at Witham Field to streamline international travel.

Honeywell's Turbine-Powered Civil Helicopter Purchase Outlook is forecasting 4,000 civil helicopters could be delivered by manufacturers over the next five years.

“At Harley-Davidson, we are a small flight department that does big things,” Jad Donaldson, the motorcycle manufacturer’s aviation director, declared.

The Arab Air Carriers Organization has signed a memorandum of understanding with MedAire for aviation security and assistance services.

Business & Commercial Aviation news from April 1969.​

Avflight Corp. has expanded into Canada at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport by acquiring Kelly Western Jet Center.

Boeing continues to expand its number of subsidiaries, recently closing on ForeFlight, a provider of mobile and web-based aviation applications.

To create value while retaining pilots and ensuring a balance between their work and personal lives is a daily challenge for an aviation department manager.

After a near-decade hiatus, Schweizer helicopters are returning to production, with two S-300s later this year paving the way for full-rate production in 2020.

Four crewmembers and 47 of the 67 passengers on board a US-Bangla Airlines Bombardier Q400 died when their scheduled flight crashed and burned at Kathmandu, Nepal, while maneuvering for a VFR landing.

Questions for Chad Cundiff, president of the Astronautics Corp. of America in Milwaukee.

True Blue Power, which makes lithium-ion batteries, has introduced fifth-generation main-ship batteries engineered to address lead-acid and NiCad challenges.

The $75 million Global 7500 is the largest, roomiest, farthest-flying and most expensive purpose-built business jet created by a general-aviation manufacturer.

Dassault will not be participating in a supersonic business-jet project. A low-boom aircraft still would be too noisy at takeoff, CEO Eric Trappier said.

Selected accidents and incidents from February 2019. The NTSB information is preliminary.

There is no shortage of bad ideas out there, but the ones that concern me are old sayings with a history of being wrong yet are still embraced by some pilots.

Kopter Group, the manufacturer of the SH09 single-engine light helicopter, hopes to eventually assemble as many as 100 of them annually at a Louisiana facility.

The FADEC-equipped SPU300[BA] has the highest power- to-weight ratio of any engine in its class and boasts an ex- ceptionally wide operating envelope.

Bombardier received the Grand Laureate in business aviation for its new Global 7500, at Aviation Week Network's Laureate Awards honoring aerospace achievements.

HAI President Matt Zuccaro tells HAI attendees unmanned and eVTOL machines are “not a threat” to helicopter operators “and you’ve got to get your heads around that.”