Business Aviation

Airbus CEO Tom Enders says the future of the company’s UK plants is at risk if the country opts for a no-deal exit from the European Union.

Air traffic should not be allowed to grow at London’s Heathrow and City airports, a new report says.

Airbus Helicopters secured 15 orders for its new H160 twin-engine medium helicopter last year, bolstering the company’s order book for 2018.

As the partial federal shutdown drags on, the impacts on the business and general aviation manufacturing and maintenance industries are growing.

United Technologies expects high-single digit organic sales growth at engine-maker Pratt & Whitney this year, and mid-single digits at the new Collins Aerospace.

A recent survey of 600 new and used business jet brokers indicate a decline in market optimism and tone, according to Jefferies.

A top-ranking Senate Democrat has voiced concerns about the legal justification for the FAA’s decision to recall more than 3,000 safety inspectors and engineers to return to work without pay.

AeroVironment’s secretive, high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) program aimed at the 5G market has “generated close to $75 million-plus” worth of orders.

Boeing says it has completed the first flight of an autonomous passenger air vehicle (PAV) prototype developed by subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences.

The board of Israel Aerospace Industries has approved the development of an advanced model of Gulfstream Aerospace’s G280 super midsized business jet.

KlasJet, a European business aviation provider, has added three Boeing 737-500 aircraft to its fleet with plans to purchase four additional Boeing jets in 2019.

Janine Iannarelli is a Houston-based aircraft broker who represents individuals and corporations in the purchase and sale of business aircraft.

Luxaviation Group has signed an agreement to sell ExecuJet’s global maintenance activities to Dassault Aviation.

Lee Aerospace has expanded its Part 145 capabilities and its West Coast presence, it said.

A check ride is more of an evaluation of the training program than of the student. If the trainers did a good job, the student will pass.

An event to provide background on non-petroleum-based Jet A fuel and promote its use by business aviation was held at Van Nuys Airport, California, on Jan. 17.

With fewer than 70 days before Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU), aerospace still has no real sense of the UK’s future relationship with the EU.

Austrian aerospace provider FACC on Jan. 17 reaffirmed its financial guidance for its current fiscal year issued from last October.

NATO task group five-year assessment says active flow control can be used to fly a stealthy unmanned combat aircraft, at least for part of a strike mission.

GAMA delivery and billing stats remain flat, but look to China for real movement as it continues to make substantial investments in general aviation sector.

The partial shutdown at FAA is likely to delay several major airspace modernization and safety initiatives.

The White House has resubmitted four nominations to fill vacancies on the board of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

Longview Aviation Capital, which has agreed to buy the Q400/Dash 8 program from Bombardier, is creating an Ontario firm called de Havilland Aircraft Co. of Canada.

Collins, a unit of United Technologies created in late 2018 by the merger of avionics maker Rockwell Collins and equipment supplier United Technologies Aerospace Systems, will provide flight-deck avionics and an enhanced vision system.

The Mente Group, a global aircraft brokerage and consulting company active in midsize and larger bizjets, turned in a record year for transactions in 2018.