The company operates a global fleet of 72 business jets it makes available to customers under a pay-by-the-hour membership plan, and its chief commercial officer, Ian Moore, says an uptick in customer numbers and aircraft use in North America is driving global growth.
MRO experts Flying Colours is adding 148,000 sq. ft. of new facilities in North America to meet demand for new and refurbished large-cabin business jets.
New business jets entering service will help drive robust short- and medium-term growth in the industry, which is also seeing a tightening market for used jets, Honeywell Aerospace finds in its annual Global Business Aviation Outlook.
Singapore-based fuel-cell producer HES Energy Systems has unveiled its concept for a hydrogen-electric four-seat regional aircraft, building on its experience developing hydrogen propulsion systems for unmanned aircraft.
Bell is to collaborate with Japanese package-delivery company Yamato on aerial logistics using electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) unmanned aircraft.
A new Aviation Week Intelligence Network forecast predicts worldwide deliveries of 8,683 business jets and 2,877 turboprops from 2019-2028, exhibiting a 1.4% annual growth rate.
The collective exhaling of relief last week when Luton Airport’s summer night-closure program came to an end was almost loud enough to drown out the roar of all those business jets that the airfield north of London is once again able to welcome after dark.
Garmin International is expanding the availability of its G1000 NXi integrated flight deck for upgrades on aircraft equipped with its G1000 flight deck.
A few unsuspecting flight crews have suddenly found their transports turned into gliders by volcanic eruption materials temporarily snuffing their engines.
Inside Textron Aviation’s Industrial Design Studio in West Wichita, the interior of the company’s new high-wing, utility Cessna Sky Courier twin turboprop is taking shape.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Oct. 10 that it arrested and indicted a Chinese security officer earlier this year for alleged economic espionage and trying to steal trade secrets from “multiple” U.S. aviation and aerospace companies, including GE Aviation in Ohio.
TransDigm Group’s proposed $4 billion acquisition of rival Esterline Technologies could cement the former in the pantheon of top-tier Western aerospace and defense suppliers and aftermarket providers.
Bruce N. Whitman, the chairman, president and CEO of FlightSafety International, died at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Oct. 10 after a brief period of failing health. He was 85.
The Falcon 8X has been certified by EASA and the FAA for an enhanced flight vision system capability that gives operational credit for poor visibility approaches down to 100 ft, greatly improving access to airports in bad weather and significantly enhancing fleet efficiency.
Gulfstream Aerospace has opened a sales and design center in Midtown Manhattan to serve one of the world’s busiest business aviation regions, the company said.
