Business Aviation

CIRRUS AIRCRAFT opened 189,000 sq ft innovation center at Duluth, MN with material and processes laboratory.

Senate Republicans are continuing to evaluate Michael Whitaker, President Biden’s nominee for administrator of the FAA.

Cirrus Aircraft has opened a new Innovation Center at its Duluth, Minnesota, headquarters, for the design, development and testing of new products.

Tarsus Group's Middle East managing director Timothy Hawes outlines what's new for 2023 at Dubai Airshow and what the future holds for the event.

An updated forecast from Oliver Wyman narrows its 10-year U.S. pilot shortage projections.

Deliveries are to begin in the first half of 2024.

SHELTAIR completed $26m expansion at Tampa, FL that adds 77,000 sq ft of hangar space (four new hangars ranging from 5,700 to 14,247 sq ft) and 32,000 sq ft of office space to FBO, increasing total footprint to 300,557 sq ft/35 acres.

NETJETS took options to purchase up to 1,500 additional Cessna Citation business jets, including the Ascend (launch customer), Latitude and Longitude, over next 15 years. It has to date taken delivery of >800 aircraft from Textron Aviation.

Rich Brennan to Chief Development Officer of flyExclusive, Kinston, NC; Chip Schultz to Senior Vice President of Operations.

MCCAULEY PROPELLER SYSTEMS announced entry into service of its newest 105"-diameter C780 propeller for the Beechcraft King Air B300 series, following its successful installation at Textron Aviation’s Tampa Service Center.

SURF AIR MOBILITY filed registration statement with SEC for up to 25m shares for purchase by GEM GLOBAL YIELD, Luxembourg under share subscription facility for max aggregate purchase price of $400m (initially $7.5m) over time.

FLEXJET opened $50m, 243,000 sq ft headquarters in Cleveland, equipped with operating center (with 20' x 170' monitor comprised of 1,572 LED screens) and maintenance facilities to manage its fleet of 270 business jets/350 daily flights.

FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL added a new FAA-qualified Praetor full-flight simulator at Orlando and reached agreement with Embraer to add another/fourth Praetor full-flight simulator in Europe (site TBA) by end of 2024.

Adam White to Chief Executive Officer of Comlux Completion, Indianapolis.

TEXTRON AVIATION expects in 1H24 to obtain FAA STC for Garmin 5000 avionics upgrade for Citation XLS/XLS+ Gen 2.

GAMA AVIATION, UK plans to build 60,000 sq ft hangar and FBO facility at Jersey Airport for 2025, pending approvals.

The first officer made a Freudian slip when describing his response to the engine failure.

The 17,000 ft.² warehouse, to be operational by January 2024, will bring Yingling’s total space to more than 320,000 ft.²

VoltAero's Cassio 330 features a 330 kW electric-parallel hybrid propulsion system built around a Kawasaki piston engine, with an electric motor from Safran.

The tests were conducted at the German Aerospace Center DLR Cologne facility.

Airbus Helicopters has unveiled a third technology demonstrator, this time based on its H145 twin-engine light rotorcraft.

A Boeing 737 freighter crashed into the Pacific Ocean after the flight crew mistakenly reacted to an engine failure.

Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics is expanding by nearly 50%.

Nancy Bsales joined bizav sustainability firm 4Air as chief operating officer in 2020.

Airbus Helicopters says it is testing a new architecture for its H135 twin-engine light helicopter.