Business Aviation

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.

Lee Aerospace has announced the expansion of its FAR Part 145 capabilities and its presence across the U.S.

Questions for Sheryl Barden, president and CEO of Aviation Personnel International (API) in San Francisco.

A flight crew’s timely response to a loss of cabin pressurization or to smoke or fumes is critical and certainly not the time to discover that your supplemental oxygen system isn’t working.

London Biggin Hill Airport reports its traffic grew by 12% in 2018, while it says there was a 1% decline in business aviation activity at other London airports.

The Cessna Citation Sovereign has earned a reputation for rock-solid reliability, plus it has the largest cabin of any midsize jet of its vintage.

TAG Aviation Farnborough Maintenance Services has marked its 15th year of maintenance services operations from its base at TAG Farnborough Airport.

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

Oxygen flow to each individual mask is controlled by a regulator mounted on the mask. Masks commonly have two regulator switches.

Gulfstream Aerospace set a world speed record in a G650ER on a flight from Teterboro, New Jersey, to Dubai, a distance of 6,142 nm, in 11 hr., 2 min.

The business aviation community has mostly focused on what the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 does not contain: ATC privatization.

The sole full-service FBO at Naples Airport in Florida has announced a name change to Naples Aviation from Naples Airport Authority.

The U.S. aviation industry welcomed the news on Jan. 25 that Congress and the White House struck an agreement to reopen the government for three weeks.

The FAA on Jan. 25 ordered a ground delay for flights destined for New York LaGuardia Airport due to an uptick in air traffic controllers calling in sick.

With the partial shutdown resolved, at least temporarily,it will still take months for the business and general aviation manufacturing and maintenance industries to recover from the delays, said the General Aviation Manufacturers Association.

Fixed-based operators are preparing for hundreds of private jets carrying pro footballs fans to vie for ramp space and jostle for departure slots at Atlanta area airports leading up to Super Bowl LIII on Feb. 3.

Bombardier is insourcing Global 7500 wing and supply chain work with a deal to buy it from Triumph Group for a “nominal cash consideration.”

Tastefully Yours, one of the largest caterers to bizav operators in the Southeast, will play a major role in this year’s Super Bowl festivities in Atlanta.

The little-known Canadian company is poised to take over production and support of one of the most widely used regional-turboprop families, the Dash 8 and Q400.

Textron Aviation sales jumped 12% in 2018 over the prior year, helping to deliver welcome financial results for the latest year and leaving the business jet, helicopter and UAV provider bullish going into 2019, executives said Jan. 24.

FAA technicians who are not being paid during the U.S. government shutdown maintain the communications, navigation and surveillance equipment that air traffic controllers—also unpaid—rely on to safely separate air traffic.

The partial government shutdown has not yet affected the FAA’s type certification of Textron Aviation’s new Citation Model 700 Longitude super midsize jet.