Business Aviation

Signature Flight Support has agreed to purchase IAM Jet Center and its affiliated companies, complementing Signature's existing FBOs in the Caribbean.

Questions for John McKenna, chairman of the Recreational Aviation Foundation, Bozeman, Montana.

All airline and most business aviation SOPs call for an immediate missed approach if the situation becomes unstable.

Selected accidents and incidents, August and July 2019. The NTSB information is preliminary.

While Part 142 sim training is essential, it is clearly not all-encompassing instruction for safe flying.

Getting up to speed with the latest Gulfstream is a matter of adapting old philosophies with new. It has a flight deck for the iPhone generation.

High-ticket catering doesn’t fit every business aircraft operator’s budget. If fine cuisine is expected, expect that to be reflected in the final tab.

Think of Paris landmarks that have become iconic to the City of Lights. The Eiffel Tower. Notre Dame Cathedral. The Louvre. Sacre-Coeur Basilica. The Arc de Triomphe. And, Le Bourget Airport.

Alexandre Couvelaire is inextricably connected with the elevation of Le Bourget into Europe’s premier business aviation airport.

Skeptics, myself included, have long been involved in the negatives of helicopter operations in metropolitan settings.

Communities tend to tolerate public safety flights because they are infrequent and have clear community value. However, communities historically oppose other uses due to noise.

eVTOL/UAM advocates believe their aircraft will be embraced by the public — vehicles that give people back time otherwise lost in their daily ground commutes.

One of the major obstacles that eVTOL/UAM advocates face is convincing a wary public that their aircraft pose little risk.

Jet blast is created by turbine aircraft engines and can be powerful enough to cause large upsets to aircraft on the ground or close to the ground.

The following is an excerpt from a certified transcript of the ground communications during the jet-blast event.

High engine thrust during maintenance activity can cause considerable damage to airplanes and other elements on an airport.

With more and more business aircraft pilots joining the scheduled carriers, the importance and appeal of temporary contract pilots is gaining attention.

The Hawker 900XP, the 19th and final iteration of the 1960 de Havilland DH125, the original midsize business jet, clearly was the strongest performer.

News of business aviation promotions, appointments and honors.

Business & Commercial Aviation news from September 1969.​

BCA business aviation product and service previews.

Honeywell has reported a “position drift” issue involving flight management systems (FMS) on Gulfstream G350/450 and G550 business jets following a software update.

Automotive industry supplier Lear Corp. has tapped Honeywell Aerospace veteran Carl Esposito to lead its E-Systems division, which produces electrical distribution systems.

The Commercial Drone Alliance is calling on the FAA and the White House to speed the development of regulations allowing the commercial use of large unmanned aircraft systems.

The entity that will be the rest of Embraer is on course to become a separate operational unit once Boeing takes over the Brazilian OEM’s commercial aircraft business by the end of the year, company leaders said Aug. 14.