Business Aviation

Bell has begun flight tests of the largest version yet of its tail-sitting electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) Autonomous Pod Transport (APT).

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

Gulfstream Aerospace posted higher revenue and aircraft deliveries in 2018, the company said.

Bombardier Business Aircraft has extended the intervals between recurring major powerplant inspections for Learjet 70 and 75 light business jets.

The International Aircraft Dealers Association has launched a business aircraft search portal for use by buyers and sellers of used aircraft.

Sikorsky has secured an order for its S-92 heavy commercial helicopter for use by a Mexican oil-and-gas operator in spite of the ongoing slump in demand.

Business aviation flight activity in North America grew in 2018, but at a flatter pace compared to previous years, Argus International data shows.

The FAA and EASA have agreed to grant extensions to scores of dual-certified repair stations with certificate expiration dates in early 2019,

XTI Aircraft is completing ground runs and system checkouts of a 65%-scale proof-of-concept prototype of its TriFan 600 ducted-fan VTOL business aircraft.

The government shutdown prevented the NTSB from investigating 97 accidents, including 15 aviation accidents that resulted in 21 deaths, the agency said.

The 35-day shutdown of U.S. government agencies “cut us deep” and set back FAA modernization projects, National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) President Paul Rinaldi said Jan. 29.

Year-over-year fuel sales increased for 54% of all U.S. FBOs in 2018, according to Aviation Business Strategies Group’s annual survey.

Triumph Group is unloading a slew of businesses in the days ahead of its next financial update for Wall Street.

Mitsubishi Aircraft’s U.S. subsidiary, filing a counterclaim in the lawsuit that Bombardier has brought against it, alleged unlawful anticompetitive behavior by the Canadian company.

Year-over-year fuel sales increased for 54% of all U.S. FBOs in 2018, according to Aviation Business Strategies Group’s annual survey.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank is backing the export of “several” HondaJet HA-420 aircraft to HondaJet’s exclusive distributor in Mexico with a $5 million loan.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

Selected accidents and incidents from December and November 2018. The NTSB information is preliminary.

ASTM International has launched a certification program for business jet cabin crews by affiliate National Center for Aerospace and Transportation Technologies.

The Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet only has been in production for 15 months and the planemaker already is announcing a Generation 2 version.

Japanese startup Euglena has completed construction of the country's first demonstration plant for producing renewable jet and diesel fuel.

Business & Commercial Aviation news from February 1969.​

As far as I can see, we pilots fit into two groups. Half of us are compelled to double-check things that have already been checked.

Textron Aviation is enhancing the electronics on its Cessna and Beechcraft piston aircraft as part of Garmin’s G1000 NXi flight deck.

Nancy Leveson, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, has been on a 30-plus-year quest to engineer out hazards that can lead to aircraft accidents.