Business Aviation

The Department of Transportation says the FAA has finished less than half of the promised initiatives following a call to action on preventing runway incursions.

Changi Airport Group plans to open a 10,000-sq.-m business aviation terminal at Singapore's Seletar Airport to handle 700,000 passenger movements a year.

Raisbeck has received an FAA STC for its five-blade composite swept propeller and four-blade aluminum swept propeller for the King Air 300/300LW.

Simcom Aviation Training has added a new Citation Mustang FAA Level C full-flight simulator and is offering initial, recurrent and upgrade training for Mustang aircraft at its Scottsdale, Arizona, training center.

Following months of negotiations, Boeing and Embraer have signed a MOU to set up a JV comprising Embraer's commercial aircraft and services business.

Membership carrier Surf Air has filed a counterclaim to a lawsuit from Encompass Aviation saying the latter demanded payments far over proposed contract rates.

ATP Flight School recently took delivery of 10 new Cessna 172s, adding to the 15 it accepted last December and raising the school's training fleet to 323.

Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus in Salina has received an FAA waiver to fly unmanned aircraft systems beyond the line-of-sight.

As of Aug. 1, Nextant Aerospace has ended its introductory discount pricing for installation of Pro Line Fusion avionics on Challenger 604XT aircraft.

The U.S. Marine Corps reportedly is offering its pilots a bonus of up to $210,000 if they agree to stay in the service for an additional six years. The U.S. Air Force and Navy have announced similar bonuses.

As pilots retire from the airlines and take corporate flying jobs, what kind of liability are they assuming?

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao acknowledges the 1,500-hr. ATP requirement to become a U.S. airline pilot has effectively cut the ranks of eligible pilots.

Charter operator VistaJet reported a 32% increase in subscribers in the first half of 2018 with the number of European contracts doubling over the 2017 period.

Traffic on Interstate 57 came to a near standstill on July 7 when a medevac helicopter made an emergency landing in a grassy area on Chicago's South Side, injuring all four people on board.

West Star Aviation has acquired hangars at Perryville Regional Airport in Missouri and soon will establish its fourth full-service maintenance facility there.

Jetex has announced it has signed an MOU with the AERIA airport management company to be the operator and manager of the new FBO in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire.

TAG Farnborough Airport has won carbon-neutral status from Airports Council International-Europe, making it the first carbon-neutral business aviation airport.

Jet Linx, based in Omaha, Nebraska, has opened a private terminal in Detroit. The terminal includes a private meeting room, executive lounge, Wi-Fi connectivity and staffing.

Oxfordjet FBO and London Oxford Airport has received the Best Business Aviation Airport award for the second successive year.

BCA editor-in-chief remembers Richard L. Collins, long the editor-in-chief of Flying and later AOPA Pilot magazines.

Readers comment on recent articles in BCA.

Questions for Fred Lewis, chairman of Black Pilots of America Inc.

Selected accidents and incidents in June 2018

A Cessna 525C crashed into Lake Erie moments after takeoff from Runway 24R at Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport on Dec. 29, 2016, at 2257 EST.

We've all heard: "When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the airplane, you are ready to fly." And it's never truer than when you fly transoceanic.