Business Aviation

NETJETS took delivery of its first Cessna Citation Longitude super-midsize jet, and now has >250 Cessna business jets.

TAILWIND TECHNOLOGIES has acquired QUALITY AIRCRAFT ACCESSORIES, Tulsa, OK/Fort Lauderdale, FL (general aviation aftermarket stocking distributor) and

Maturing technology and market lead Bell to redesign its Nexus eVTOL around all-electric propulsion for short-range intraurban flights.

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Cessna Citation Latitude

Flirtey is preparing to begin routine food deliveries by drone within the largest industrial park in the U.S.

A new U.S. Army program will demo an intel-collecting system with three powerful sensing capabilities in one year and attempt to field the system on a new airborne surveillance fleet starting in five years.

BRITTEN-NORMAN AIRCRAFT (ULSTER), Northern Ireland was established by Britten-Norman; no other details have been provided.

French-based Latécoère will acquire Bombardier’s electrical wiring interconnection system assets.

Clemens Aviation, a family-owned charter, management and sales operation outside Wichita, is expanding into the Oklahoma business jet sales market.

The Weekly of Business Aviation polled leaders in the general and business aviation industry about their predictions for 2020.

LATÉCOÈRE agreed to acquire Bombardier’s electrical wiring interconnection system (EWIS) assets in Querétaro, Mexico for US$50m in cash; deal includes

The explosion that rocked Textron Aviation’s Plant 3 in Wichita last week appears not to have harmed the company’s Cessna 408 SkyCourier turboprop program.

Business aviation stakeholders say they support congressional legislation that includes provisions “aimed squarely at promoting the development and use of sustainable aviation fuels,” the National Business Aviation Association said.

Leonardo Helicopters has completed the first flight of the fourth prototype AW609 commercial tiltrotor.

A nitrogen tank exploded at Textron Aviation’s Beechcraft facility in Wichita on Dec. 27.

The FAA on Dec. 26 released its long-awaited proposed rule outlining requirements for drones to transmit identifying information to the ground.

Textron will not become a pure aerospace and defense company in the near term.

Michael Anckner to Vice President of Worldwide Sales-Learjet Aircraft and Corporate Fleets of Bombardier, Montreal.

EMBRAER is parting out Lineage demo aircraft with <1,000 hours, according to unconfirmed reports on social media.

Peter Bromby to Vice President of Worldwide Pre-owned Sales of Bombardier, Montreal.

Michael Anckner to Vice President of Worldwide Sales-Learjet Aircraft and Corporate Fleets of Bombardier, Montreal.

Italian manufacturer Piaggio Aerospace has signed a $221 million contract with the Italian Ministry of Defense for nine P.180 Avanti EVO turboprop aircraft.

Embraer has delivered its first Praetor 500 business jet to the market, just over one year after its announcement at the 2018 National Business Aviation Association’s Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (NBAA-BACE).

HOLAND AUTOMOTIVE GROUP took delivery of second new 8-pax Learjet 75 from Bombardier for pax charters out of Montreal.