Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The new, third-generation PC-12 NGX boasts a redesigned cabin with new seats and larger windows as well as a new electronically controlled P&WC PT-6 turboprop.
Business Aviation

The rest and duty rules for Part 135 are complex in part because a pilot cannot rely on the regulations alone.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
French manufacturer Daher Group has completed its purchase of Quest Aircraft Co., maker of the Kodiak 100 utility turboprop.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
DJI, the mall drone manufacturer, has unveiled a quadcopter weighing 249 grams (0.5 lb.), which exempts it by 1 gram from registration requirements in in several countries.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Jet Aviation Staffing and FlightSafety International have formed a global pilot training partnership program powered by the Hullo Aircrew platform.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Flexjet made news at October's NBAA-BACE by placing a $1.4 billion order with Embraer for Praetor 500 and 600 aircraft, as well as Legacy 450 and Phenom 300 midsize jets.
Small Narrowbody Jets

By Fred George
The built-for-comfort, not-for-speed C90 King Air underwent a major upgrade in 2005 when Raytheon Aircraft swapped out the pair of anemic PT6A-21 turboprops for a brace of PT6A-135As.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
CAE has concluded a multilayered arrangement with Directional Aviation Capital involving investing $85 million for a 50% stake in Simcom.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Aerostructures businesses in Belfast. Northern Ireland and Morocco, as well as an MRO business in Dallas. Total value of the deal, which is expected to close in the first half of 2020, will be about $1.1 billion after Spirit assumes pension liabilities and makes other payments. The sale increases Spirit’s capabilities to include Airbus and business jet work and aftermarket services. Bombardier employment centers. Bombardier announced its exit from commercial aerospace in May and had already divested its regional jet and turboprop business.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
A Scottish Fatal Accident Inquiry into the Nov. 29, 2013, helicopter crash that killed 10 people in Glasgow has concluded the pilot ignored low-fuel warnings.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
BCA business aviation product and service previews.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
Desert Jet began in 2007 when Denise Wilson launched the company as an aircraft management, sales and acquisitions center, later adding a charter operation.
Business Aviation

By Jessica A. Salerno
Business & Commercial Aviation news from December 1969.​
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
XTI Aircraft says it has signed an initial agreement with a potential lead investor in its $25 million Series B funding round.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Dassault's steady expansion of maintenance capability continues, convincing Luxaviation Group to sell it ExecuJet's global maintenance activities.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Lateral separations between aircraft flying in North Atlantic airspace have been reduced with space-based ADS-B for near real-time aircraft monitoring.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Boeing reports a single, unidentified customer has ordered two long-range BBJ 787-9 Dreamliners worth $564 million, bringing the number of VIP Dreamliner orders to 16.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Years in development, the all-new Extra NG aerobatic single has received in new type certificate from the EASA.
Business Aviation

By James Albright
There were times when having that internet connection would have saved me a last-minute divert or could have rescued us from an hours-long ATC delay.
Business Aviation

By Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.
A professional pilot must know an aircraft’s aerodynamic limitations in all phases of flight and be familiar with conditions that cause instruments to display misleading information.
Business Aviation

A wing's true angle of attack is unknown; it can only be estimated by a measuring device on the airplane that has inherent errors that must be addressed.
Business Aviation

If your aircraft has wing-mounted propellers, you might wonder if the airflow behind them has any influence on the wing's aerodynamics. The simple answer is yes, most definitely.
Business Aviation

If you fly an aircraft with TKS, be aware that replacement of the system's panels after maintenance requires extreme care.
Business Aviation

Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, said lawmakers are waiting to get a 290-vote supermajority before bringing to the House floor a bill that would fund the FAA during future government shutdowns.
Business Aviation

By Sean Broderick, Steve Trimble
The unprecedented and ongoing examination of aircraft certification triggered by the two Boeing 737 MAX accidents has identified several areas that must change to improve outcomes, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said.
Business Aviation