Business Aviation

Israel Aerospace Industries reportedly has approved the development of an advanced model of the Gulfstream Aerospace G280, which it manufactures under license.

Business & Commercial Aviation news from March 1969.​

Bombardier's Global 7500 has earned European Aviation Safety Agency certification, which follows approvals from Transport Canada and the FAA.

BCA visited nine flight schools in Florida (1), California (1), Hawaii (2), Montana (1) and Utah (4) to sample autorotation training in helicopters.

The Bell 407GXi light single helicopter has received type certification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

By year-end, Leonardo hopes that after a decade in the making its AW609 commercial tiltrotor finally will be awarded certification.

Managers whose fleets include helicopters are faced with multiple choices in keeping their pilots proficient in autorotations.

State Farm has received a long-term FAA waiver to fly drones beyond the operator's visual line of sight and over people, activities that have been restricted.

Questions for Leslie Weinstein, manager of True-Lock Aviation Fasteners, Boise, Idaho; and founder, Turtles Fly Too (turtlesflytoo.org).

An Embraer business jet was damaged when it stalled during the flare phase of a final approach, impacted the ground and came to a stop at an edge of the runway.

EASA has approved a Rolls-Royce request to transfer design authorization to Germany from Britain as a precaution against a possible no-deal Brexit.

Collaborative working groups within the helicopter industry have published a wealth of informative recommendations to help flight schools and instructors.

Jetex Flight Support is one of the world's fastest-growing FBO chains with 29 facilities and more to come, but its Jetex Dubai facility remains its showpiece.

The tables show Jet-A and avgas prices from a survey of U.S. fuel suppliers conducted in February 2019.

The BFU took note of the December 2014 accident at Gaithersburg, Maryland, involving an EMB-500 in which the airplane stalled in icing conditions.

Sikorsky has signed an agreement with on-demand helicopter provider Blade that will give the manufacturing company with urban-air-mobility market data.

The FAA and numerous industry documents have compiled lists of typical student errors during autorotation training.

Orlando-Melbourne (Florida) International Airport officials are seeking developers to build an upscale hotel with airfield access.

While the "Green New Deal" is a dead man's hand, it has a worthy goal of protecting our environment. For aviation, there are opportunities to cut its emissions.

There is a theory in military aviation that enemy flak, anti-aircraft rounds or even missiles don't matter because only one is meant for you.

According to the head of Embraer Executive Aircraft, a potential Boeing-Embraer partnership would benefit his division, which would become Embraer's largest.

A total of 61 helicopter accident investigation reports involving an autorotation are contained in the NTSB's accident database for 2016 and 2017.

Avfuel has added Blue Heron Aviation in the Turks and Caicos Islands to its network of independent FBOs.

Worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales totaled $2.72 billion in 2018, the largest dollar amount of avionics sales since reporting began in 2012, according to the Aircraft Electronics Association.