Organizers of the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition set for May 26-28 in Geneva are proceeding with planning for Europe’s largest business aviation event, but keeping watch on a fluid situation related to the coronavirus outbreak.
World Fuel Services has completed the $170 million acquisition of the UVair fuel business from Universal Weather and Aviation, making it the exclusive contract provider for Universal Weather and Aviation.
Civil helicopter deliveries declined 16% in 2019—from 979 aircraft in 2018 to 819—with the largest drop coming from piston rotorcraft deliveries, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) says.
Signature Aviation turned in a “transformational” 2019, while its FBO division outperformed a flat U.S. business and general aviation market, the company reports.
U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) auditors will examine the FAA’s recently-updated safety inspector staffing model with an eye on evaluating whether forecasted personnel needs are accurate, and how the agency factors in designees.
The GoFly team is considering its next step after high winds on Feb. 27-29 prevented the final fly-off between personal flying devices competing for a $1 million grand prize.
Startup Joby Aviation will be the only electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing developer to provide a vehicle for flight testing in NASA’s urban air mobility Grand Challenge development testing event this year.
Royal Jet, the Abu Dhabi based VVIP aircraft charter operator, flew into the Aviation Africa Summit and Exhibition in Addis Ababa and announced a joint venture with Royal Eswatini National Airways Cooperation (RENAC).
The public comment period for the FAA’s Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems draft regulation closed just before midnight on March 2, with 51,006 comments counted.
Wheels Up, a private aviation provider, has acquired Gama Aviation, doing business as Gama Aviation Signature and the exclusive operator of Wheels Up’s fleet of King Air and Citation aircraft.
