Business Aviation

Business aviation flight activity in North America posted an 0.6% decline in August compared to a year ago.

When Linda Hudson took over as president and CEO of BAE Systems in 2009, she was the first woman to occupy nearly every job she had throughout her career.

The closed environment of the aircraft cabin has often been described as an incubation tank for bacteria, viruses, and pathogenic organisms.

Bombardier’s 23rd annual Safety Standdown, to be held Nov. 12-14, has reached full capacity, the company reports.

Drone delivery service provider Flirtey on Sept. 9 unveiled the Flirtey Eagle, a boxy quadcopter that it expects will begin delivering food and packages to households by year’s end.

Circumventing academic annexation and putting SA to practical use.

German air taxi developer Volocopter has raised an additional €50 million ($55 million) in the first part of a Series C funding round, taking the total capital raised so far to €85 million.

The FAA has postponed the release of a draft rulemaking for remote identification of drones by two months until December.

Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group, Inc. signed an MOU with Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. (MITAC) Sept. 5 to enter negotiations for the purchase of 100 SpaceJet M100 aircraft.

Members of the business and general aviation community are mobilizing to send relief help to areas of the Bahamas devastated by Hurricane Dorian.

A glimmer of hope can be seen for the sales of Dassault’s Falcon business jets in the recent acceleration of orders after years of sluggish transactions, according to numbers released during the company’s biannual press conference at its Saint-Cloud headquarters near Paris.

Saab has promoted Deputy CEO Micael Johansson to take the helm of the Swedish aerospace and defense company.

The nondisclosure agreement does not allow you to sit silent in a deposition or on the witness stand if you are asked about criminal behavior in the plane.

Zean Nielsen, a former Tesla executive, assumed the role of CEO of Cirrus Aircraft June 3, succeeding Dale Klapmeier.

Dassault Falcon Jet CEO Jean Rosanvallon is retiring after 44 years with the company, 23 of them as CEO.

Rabbit Aviation Services at San Carlos Airport, California, will offer unleaded aviation gasoline, making it the first California airport to do so.

The drone affiliate of cargo airline Astral Aviation has signed an agreement with Yamaha Motor Co. to introduce Yamaha’s Fazer R G2 unmanned helicopter in Kenya for “last-mile” cargo deliveries and crop-spraying applications.

Embattled aerospace valve provider Circor, whose management recently fended off an unsolicited takeover attempt favored by its own shareholders, has sold its Spence and Nicholson product lines to Emerson for about $84.5 million in cash.

Ametek, a global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, said Sept. 4 it has acquired Pacific Design Technologies.

After a long and tortuous evolution, Epic Aircraft may be soon delivering its single-engine turboprop.

IATA DG and CEO Alexandre de Juniac said “preventing fragmentation” between international regulators remains the group’s foremost concern regarding the return-to-service of the Boeing 737 MAX.

British aerostructure supplier GKN Aerospace plans to shed 1,000 jobs as it undertakes an international restructuring.

With hundreds and occasionally thousands of exhibitors, small and medium-size enterprises often fail to stand out. Sadly, that is partly self-inflicted.

CAE plans to expand its business with the acquisition of a 50% stake in SimCom Holdings, a training provider, for $85 million, the training provider says.

Germany’s Volocopter has conducted a test flight at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in Finland with its prototype electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.