Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Mark Burns joined Gulfstream Aerospace as a computer-aided design operator 35 years ago. Burns is now president of Gulfstream and VP of parent General Dynamics.
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By Graham Warwick
JAXA and Japanese industry have formed a consortium to develop tech for electrifying aircraft and incubate initiatives to grow the country’s aviation sector.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Quiet Technology Aerospace has received EASA supplemental type certificate approvals for upgraded carbon fiber inlet cowl inner barrels for four business jets.
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Embraer announces that Sahara Africa Aviation, Africa’s provider of end to end aviation services, has signed a multi-year Pool Programme Agreement for spare parts and support covering more than 500 components for their two recently acquired Embraer ERJ 145 jets.
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Two members of Congress criticized the FAA for failing to implement mandatory drug and alcohol testing for workers at foreign aircraft repair stations.
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By Molly McMillin
Wijet Holding Luxembourg, which operates an air taxi service in Europe,is giving up its British Airline Operator Certificate obtained through buying Blink Limited.
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By Guy Norris
Supersonic business jet developer Aerion says it remains on track to launch the Mach 1.4 AS2 within the next few months.
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By Bill Carey
FAA has completed just under half of the initiatives it agreed to following a June 2015 “call to action” forum focused on preventing runway incursions, the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) Inspector General (IG) said.
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By Bill Carey
The first meeting of FAA’s rechartered Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) will be held July 17 in Santa Clara, California.
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Swiss-based, boutique long-range charter specialist, Vertis Aviation has teamed with Privajet to market a privately owned, Sub-Saharan-based, Bombardier Global 6000 for international charter and will be targeting the sub-Saharan market.
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Middle East customers are shifting away from fractional and full aircraft ownership towards charter, according to leading business aviation company VistaJet. Dave Calderwood reports.
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AJW Group, that has offices in Dubai, has announced that it has signed a long-term agreement with Bombardier, undertaking all repair management for Bombardier’s rotable inventory in a major strategic win for the company.
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By Graham Warwick
Washington State has formed an electric aircraft working group to explore the opportunities and challenges of electrifying aviation.
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By Kirby Harrison
TAG Farnborough Airport has been awarded carbon neutral status by the Airports Council International Europe (ACI Europe), making it the world’s first carbon-neutral business aviation airport.
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By Graham Warwick
NASA has laid out a three-phase program to collect data on public acceptance of reduced sonic booms using the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works-developed low-boom demo.
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By Guy Norris
The UK government urgently needs to hammer out a withdrawal agreement from the European Union to avoid massive disruption to the aerospace industry on both sides of the Atlantic, said Michael Huerta, the former FAA administrator.
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By Sean Broderick
The C Series program that the new Airbus-Bombardier joint venture takes over July 1 is better than just a few months ago.
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By Molly McMillin
ATP Flight School, based in Jacksonville, Florida, has taken delivery of 10 new Cessna 172 Skyhawks from Textron Aviation, the flight school announced.
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By Bill Carey
Meeting on June 27 for the first time as an independent federal advisory group to FAA, the NextGen Advisory Committee (NAC) discussed actively engaging local communities over noise concerns that loom as a major challenge to the agency’s coming Northeast Corridor initiative.
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The UK’s main business aviation hub, TAG Farnborough Airport, has thrown down the mantle to the rest of the world trying to meet carbon reduction targets.
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The first ACJ320neo has entered final assembly in Hamburg, marking the start of a new era in Airbus corporate jets.
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By Molly McMillin
Fourteen years after selling the business to Triumph Group, Jim Lee, founder and president of Lee Aerospace, bought the company back in 2014. Now it's growing.
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By Molly McMillin
SIMCOM International, based in Orlando, Florida, has acquired Turbine Solutions Inc., (TSI), an aircraft training provider for Daher TBM series aircraft.
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By John Morris
Luton, Stansted, Gatwick, Heathrow, Biggin Hill, Northolt, Farnborough and Oxford airports are all now effectively closed or severely restricted for overnight flights
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By Graham Warwick
Boeing HorizonX Ventures has led a $16 million investment on Silicon Valley-based Matternet, an early leader in the emerging urban drone delivery market.
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