Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Luxaviation Group’s top executive said it will no longer exhibit at the European Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition in Geneva because of the high cost.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Airspace Technologies, a startup pitching proprietary software for time-definite logistics in air cargo, has raised $20 million in venture capital funding.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey
Meducare never closes and its Eurocopter EC135 P2+ twin, affectionately named ‘Ingrid,’ along with its IFR helicopters, can respond to emergencies in minutes.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin, Michael Bruno
With fewer programs to power its business, what comes next for storied Canadian aerospace player Bombardier?
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
A petition for exemptions from FAA rules governing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) reveals rotorcraft developer Bell plans to use a large commercial multicopter drone, the xFold DragonH, for research and development flying.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
GAMA has accelerated dialogue with European regulators on development of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and technologies.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Investigators probing the first-ever crash of a Leonardo AW169 twin-engine medium helicopter shortly after takeoff from a British football stadium are focusing on the aircraft’s anti-torque control system.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Business and general aviation deliveries worldwide grew 6% during the first nine months of 2018, compared to the first three quarters of 2017, although billings declined 3%.
Business Aviation

By Angus Batey, Bradley Perrett
Chinese freight company SF Express plans to use pilotless Avic Y-5B biplanes, based on a 70-year-old Soviet design, in an air delivery setup to be running by 2023.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Russian central aerohydrodynamic institute TsAGI has assisted in development of a floatplane version of the Czech L-410UVP-E20 turboprop utility aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Inmarsat has named Honeywell Aerospace as a value-added reseller (VAR) of its GX Aviation Ka-band inflight broadband system.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
NASA plans to award a contract to Influit Energy to adapt its nanoelectrofuel (NEF) flow battery to electric aircraft propulsion.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
One month after the most devastating hurricane ever to make landfall in the Florida Panhandle, area airports, businesses and homes are still digging out.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Dassault Aviation has been awarded a contract to carry out detailed study work for a future maritime surveillance aircraft based on its Falcon 2000 LXS bizjet.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Flyability, a Swiss startup developing collision-tolerant drones for operation in confined spaces, has raised $11 million in a Series A financing round.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
Alexandria, Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has named MITRE Corp. executive Hassan Shahidi as its new president and CEO, succeeding Jon Beatty. Shahidi will join FSF in January 2019.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
European and international partners are moving toward the launch of an experimental hypersonic glider in 2020.
Business Aviation

By Guy Norris
TF-2 concept firms up as Terrefugia selects BRS parachute safety system for Transition roadable light sport aircraft.
Aerospace

By Michael Bruno
When Bombardier dropped its bombshell announcements Nov. 8—including the sale of the Q400 program and 5,000 job cuts—perhaps the least surprising revelation was that Canadian cousin CAE would buy Bombardier’s two business-aviation training centers in Dallas and Montreal.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Waco Aircraft Corp., based in Battle Creek, Michigan, has been acquired by the Dimor Group of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which plans to grow the company.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Oil and gas helicopter operator Bristow Group is set to purchase utility helicopter operator Columbia Helicopters for $560 million.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Tacoma Narrows Aviation has completed construction of its new 38,000-sq.-ft. executive terminal facility in Tacoma, Washington.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Business jet and turboprop flight activity in North America rose 0.9% in October compared to a year ago and 8.9% compared to September activity.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Boeing and Safran on Nov. 9 named Etienne Boisseau as CEO of their new auxiliary power units (APUs) joint venture.
Business Aviation

By Bill Carey
FAA has taken steps to resolve the causes of seven outages of its En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system since 2014, but the air traffic control (ATC) automation platform remains vulnerable, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) inspector general (IG) said in audit report released Nov. 9.
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