Business Aviation

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.

Safran’s troubled Silvercrest program is progressing toward testing a new axial high-pressure compressor in June 2019.

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.

North American flight activity slumped in September from the impact of Hurricane Florence and the Labor Day weekend, according to Argus International.

Garmin International is expanding the availability of its G1000 NXi integrated flight deck for upgrades on aircraft equipped with its G1000 flight deck.

One Aviation Corp., which includes Eclipse Aerospace and Kestrel Aircraft, has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Dassault has issued a “clarification” to confirm that Rafale aircraft parts will be delivered by year’s end as part of agreed offsets.

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.

Argonne National Laboratory is creating a center to evaluate potential UAS design options, including battery technologies and hybrid architectures.

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.

In its investigation into the loss of a PC-12 air ambulance in Texas, NTSB has recommended the NWS review its issuance of turbulence advisories.

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.

AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor, has acquired Wichita-based Aerostructures Acquisition, doing business as The Atlas Group.

AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor, has acquired Wichita-based Aerostructures Acquisition, doing business as The Atlas Group.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students verified the accuracy of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) signals at high altitude in research supporting the integration of rocket launches and suborbital spaceflights in the U.S. airspace system.

UK-based maintenance provider Monarch Aircraft Engineering (MAEL) has rejected reports that it is facing a winding-up order.

BCA presented the inaugural BCA Readership Awards to 10 people and organizations in 13 categories on Tuesday, Oct. 2, in Paradise Valley, Ariz.

Mark Johnstone became CEO of Signature Flight Support on April 1. Johnstone, who joined BBA Aviation in 2008, also serves as CEO of BBA Aviation, Signature’s parent company.

Safran will be providing the turbine engine for startup Zunum Aero’s hybrid-electric small regional aircraft.

A new version of a small business jet concept called the Tadpole, with a teardrop-shaped fuselage that maximizes cabin volume while minimizing drag, has been wind-tunnel tested by Russian aerohydrodynamic research institute TsAGI

Aura, a recently announced private air passenger service based in Miami, is offering what it describes as “a newly crafted flying experience."