Alexandria, Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) has named MITRE Corp. executive Hassan Shahidi as its new president and CEO, succeeding Jon Beatty. Shahidi will join FSF in January 2019.
Celebrating 90 years of the Irish aircraft registry with the Irish Aviation Authority, GainJet Ireland added to the celebrations with its recently acquired Embraer Lineage 1000 EJ-IOBN, being the first aircraft to be registered under the prestigious and brand new EJ Irish aircraft register.
When Bombardier dropped its bombshell announcements Nov. 8—including the sale of the Q400 program and 5,000 job cuts—perhaps the least surprising revelation was that Canadian cousin CAE would buy Bombardier’s two business-aviation training centers in Dallas and Montreal.
Waco Aircraft Corp., based in Battle Creek, Michigan, has been acquired by the Dimor Group of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which plans to grow the company.
FAA has taken steps to resolve the causes of seven outages of its En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system since 2014, but the air traffic control (ATC) automation platform remains vulnerable, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) inspector general (IG) said in audit report released Nov. 9.
Ali Alnaqbi, founding & executive chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) has welcomed a host of senior industry figures to the organisation he founded in 2006.
Jet Aviation has signed a preferred Fixed Base Operation (FBO) service agreement with Excellent Air, which operates Europe’s largest fleet of Cessna CJ2 aircraft as-well-as several Cessna XLS aircraft based in Germany.
Private aircraft ownership comes with its own set of considerations, all focused on maintaining airworthiness through planned and unplanned events. Chuck Grieve spoke to leading Middle East maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) operators for their insights.
Bombardier’s announcement that it will cut about 5,000 jobs in the next 12-18 months came as a “shock” to the Machinists Union, which represents 20,000 Bombardier workers in Quebec.
Describing it as “non-core,” Bombardier is to sell its Q400 regional turboprop program to Longview Aviation Capital, parent company of Canada’s Viking Air.
Longview Aviation Capital entered the picture in 2016, when it was formed to manage a portfolio of long-term investments in the Canadian aerospace industry.
The U.S. Transportation Department inspector general has initiated an audit of the FAA and industry program to provide timely, automated authorization of drone flights near airports.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is hoping to propose its conformal airborne early warning (AEW) derivative of the Gulfstream G550 business jet to the UK RAF.
Diamond Aircraft Industries has flown the first multi-engine hybrid-electric aircraft, a demonstrator developed jointly with electric motor supplier Siemens.
