Business Aviation

General Electric investors are taking heart with a sudden shakeup of the corner office and board room at the beleaguered industrial giant.

Operational Airdrop has wrapped up its humanitarian mission of providing supplies to communities most immediately impacted by Hurricane Florence.

Larry Culp, former CEO of Danaher Corp., has been named chairman and CEO of GE, effective immediately.

As millennials increasingly dictate the trends, traits, and expectations of flying private, business aviation organizations must keep pace.

Ultimately, the only practical solution for sustaining powered aviation is electricity or a combination of electric motors and internal combustion engines operating as hybrids.

Bombardier Business Aircraft’s new ultra-long-range $72 million Global 7500 business jet will be awarded certification from Transport Canada at a Sept. 28 ceremony, paving the way for entry-into-service this year.

Phil Trenary, an ex-CEO of U.S. regional carrier Pinnacle Airlines and ex-chair of the U.S. Regional Airline Association, was killed Sept. 27 in a shooting in Memphis.

Phil Trenary, an ex-CEO of U.S. regional carrier Pinnacle Airlines and ex-chair of the U.S. Regional Airline Association, was killed Sept. 27 in a shooting in Memphis.

Gulfstream Aerospace has delivered its first new G500 business jet, achieving the milestone four years after it unveiled the aircraft in 2014.

Gulfstream Aerospace has delivered the first all-new Gulfstream G500, officially marking the arrival of a new generation of Gulfstream innovation and design.

The U.S. House has passed the recently-announced, five-year bill to reauthorize the FAA on a 398-23 vote.

United Technologies Corp. (UTC) appears unlikely to meet its own Sept. 30 deadline for closing the roughly $30 billion acquisition of avionics and cabin interiors giant Rockwell Collins.

United Technologies Corp. (UTC) appears unlikely to meet its own Sept. 30 deadline for closing the roughly $30 billion acquisition of avionics and cabin interiors giant Rockwell Collins.

The financial and practical benefits of routine flights by UASs — aka drones — in national airspace will only be realized if and when operators have a file-and-fly capability as easy and quick to access as that enjoyed today by pilots of conventional aircraft.

The FAA in September signed separate agreements with Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC) and Transport Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) that will make it easier to approve each country’s aircraft and aviation products for their growing markets, the FAA said.

Luxaviation has opened an office in Lugano, Switzerland, and launched a strategic partnership with Colombo Wealth Management.

Satcom Direct has begun construction on a second phase of expansion at its SD Data Center headquarters in Melbourne, Florida.

BBA Aviation company Ontic announced Sept. 18 the acquisition of aerospace-focused aftermarket service provider Firstmark.

FAA reauthorization legislation agreed to by House and Senate committee leaders contains “the most forward-leaning language from Congress on supersonics since the 1960s,” says Boom Supersonic, the Colorado-based startup developing a 55-seat, Mach 2.2 airliner.

C&L Aviation Services has signed an agreement with private jet charter JetSuiteX to refurbish multiple Embraer EMB 145 family aircraft.

Textron Aviation remains committed to its Citation Hemisphere project, its largest business jet to date, despite program delays.

The number of fatal accidents involving general aviation continues to recede, despite an increase in flight hours, according to Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association’ 27th Joseph T. Nall Report released in September.

In the next five years, the average age of a private jet customer is expected to fall dramatically, new survey results say.

U.S. track maker Workhorse Group has formally begun the process to sell the SureFly operating unit that is developing a hybrid-electric VTOL aircraft.

BRS Aerospace plans to work with Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research to develop testing protocols for evaluating the safety and performance of the company’s parachute recovery systems for general aviation and advanced vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.