Business Aviation

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) has introduced a Senate bill that would allow the FAA to continue to function normally in the event of a government shutdown.

The business jet market is oversupplied and weak pricing will pressure manufacturers’ margins in 2019, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts write in a March report.

NASA’s fiscal 2020 budget request supports the ongoing X-57 Maxwell electric-propulsion and X-59 QueSST low-boom supersonic flight demonstrators, but some within the agency are concerned about future X-planes.

AMAC Aerospace has been awarded with several new maintenance projects in Basel, Switzerland.

Hexcel is offering new technologies for composite material production and recycling, while developing thermoplastics for airframe applications.

Japanese operator Nakanihon Air Service is the latest operator to begin evaluating the potential of the commercial tiltrotor.

Another European helicopter manufacturer is planting its flag in the U.S. by taking over facilities vacated by one of its American competitors.

Airbus’ CityAirbus electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) demonstrator has made its public debut in the German city of Ingolstadt.

VAs the deadline to equip nears, 68% of turbine business aircraft registered in the U.S. in February were compliant with the FAA’s 2020 mandate for ADS-B equipage.

Urban air mobility and electric propulsion are high on NASA’s plans for aeronautics research in fiscal 2020.

Bizav is trying to prepare itself for the outcome of the government’s ongoing negotiations with the European Union over terms for the UK’s exit of the 28-nation bloc.

Drone delivery service developer Flirtey has gotten the FAA's OK to conduct UAS flights BVLOS under a project it is conducting with the city of Reno, Nevada.

A series of legal challenges to the planned expansion of London Heathrow Airport are underway in the UK High Court.

United Technologies plans to unveil a hybrid-electric propulsion flight demonstrator at an industry conference in late March.

William Garvey speaks with Leslie Weinstein, manager and founder of True-Lock Aviation Fasteners.

Business aviation departures in Europe rose 1.7% in February to 58,090 flights compared to a year ago, although charter activity declined during the month.

Greenbriar Equity Group and First Aviation has announced plans to acquire of DART Aerospace, which operates as a subsidiary of Eagle Copters and Era Group.

Heli-Expo orders for new-build Schweizers confirm the market for the 1950s-era training helicopter.

Dassault invests in business-jet maintenance network amid persistently slow sales for new aircraft.

NASA images interacting shockwaves; Goodyear unveils a tire for flying cars; hypersonic X-60 advances; XQ-58 flies; European research project demos recycled thermoplastic parts.

Fourteen people were killed March 9 when a Douglas DC-3 operated by Laser Aereo Colombia crashed near Villavicencio, Colombia, after declaring an emergency.

Textron Aviation has announced the first deliveries of the company’s new flagship Cessna Citation Longitude super-midsize business jet, which it says signals the start of a new dimension in business travel.

Acting FAA administrator Dan Elwell says the agency faces an “unprecedented challenge” in implementing the multiyear FAA reauthorization act passed by Congress in October.

Production of one of the most famous training helicopters is on the verge of being restored after a near decade-long hiatus.

Sen. Ted Cruz has called on aviation stakeholders to re-examine the pros and cons of ATC modernization, although he stopped short of directly advocating the spin-off ATC from the FAA.