Business Aviation

The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited (Bell Canada) Model 429 helicopters.
Business Aviation

International Aero Engineering and Aviation Clean Air (ACA) are working together to offer an ionization purification system as a portable ion distribution unit for ground use only.
Business Aviation

Jet Linx, a private jet management and jet card membership company, has launched a new Affiliate Jet Card Membership.
Business Aviation

Sheltair is constructing Atlantic Jet Refinishing with a new hangar at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport in Florida.
Business Aviation

GrandView Aviation, based in Atlanta, is opening a new base at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport in the spring of 2020.
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Carlsbad Jet Center has opened its new executive terminal at McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, California.
Business Aviation

Flying Colours Corp, a repair, overhaul and completions business, has opened an advanced paint preparation and application facility at its headquarters in Peterborough, Ontario.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
To Our Readers: We are all living through difficult and exceptional times in our industry as the novel coronavirus and the COVID-19 illness it can
Business Aviation

By Sean Broderick
Longview Aviation Capital Corp. has suspended production on its De Havilland Dash 8-400 and Viking Twin Otter 400 programs “until further notice” and laid off about 1,000 workers, the company announced.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Oil-and-gas helicopter operator Bristow Group has converted three of its helicopters to perform evacuation missions for oil workers with suspected cases of novel coronavirus.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The FAA is increasingly relying on contingency plans for its air traffic control (ATC) facilities as COVID-19 coronavirus infections have been detected at several airport towers and one of the 22 air route traffic control centers (ARTCC) responsible for managing en route aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
In the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic, business aviation experts are revising 2020 delivery and sales forecasts along with business expectations in an ever-evolving situation.
Marketplace

By Tony Osborne
Organizers of July’s Farnborough International Airshow and the Royal International Air Tattoo have decided to cancel the events in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Marketplace

By Angus Batey
As airlines and providers of commercial air travel services continue to make robust cases to governments for state-level aid, smaller airports may be left to fend for themselves.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Business aviation flight activity in Europe declined 6.9% in the first 17 days of March compared with the same period in 2019, according to WingX Advance, with France recording the largest decline with a 12% reduction.
Marketplace

By Molly McMillin
The FAA must work to “lift impossible compliance barriers” to keep pilots and aircraft in regulatory compliance during the coronavirus pandemic, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association said.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris
Fractional operator Flexjet will ferry pilots and flight crews to assignments using its own aircraft rather than its usual method of relying on commercial carriers.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By William Garvey
This year’s Laureates continued a tradition of business aviation leading the way in innovation and are most deserving of thanks and applause.
Business Aviation

Commercial aviation has weathered numerous crises, and each time it has recovered and grown stronger.
Air Transport

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Textron aims to meet nearly all of its electricity needs at facilities in Wichita and Independence, Kansas, by utilizing renewable wind energy.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Global supplier of aftermarket aviation parts to open a 25,000-sq.-ft. warehouse at Dublin Airport.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Yingling Aviation, a Wichita FBO and MRO provider, is in the final days of an expansion that includes a dedicated business jet maintenance hangar.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Reconstruction of the 8,800-ft. taxiway was accomplished in nine phases and included full-depth asphalt pavement reconstruction.
Business Aviation