Business Aviation

Global Aviation Technologies will update 19 C-21A jets, the military designation for the Learjet 35A, for the U.S. Air Force.

Airbus BizLab, the start-up accelerator of the global corporation Airbus is hosting twelve new start-ups from around the world – including Nigeria – over a six-month period at its facilities in Hamburg and Toulouse, during which they will perfect their concepts for new aerospace industry ventures.

The company has surpassed 200 deliveries of its Challenger 350 super-midsize aircraft and has made more than 50 deliveries of its Challenger 650 large-cabin aircraft.

Spirit AeroSystems plans to add 1,000 jobs and invest $1 billion over the next five years at its Wichita headquarters.

Adding to the scores of similar projects already in the works, Erik Lindbergh—grandson of Charles Lindbergh and long-time advocate for electric flight—has formed a company to develop an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.

The Regional Airline Association has urged the FAA to approve additional safety enhancing, structured training pathways for Part 121 airline first officers.

Money Aviation has announced a new collaboration with ExecuJet South Africa.

NetJets and Teamsters Local 284 in Columbus, Ohio, have officially concluded labor contract negotiations that began in 2012, and have reached a tentative agreement, the union said Dec. 1.

Triumph Group said Dec. 4 it will combine its Aerospace Structures and Precision Components groups into one business unit come Jan. 1, 2018.

Russia Post plans a drone delivery trial in 2018 using a heavy-lift unmanned aircraft developed by Kazan-based ARDN Technologies.

SmartSky’s new 4G LTE-based network goes live for business jet owners in mid-2018 to provide access to high-speed internet and data.

Bombardier Business Aircraft has announced that a third Global 7000 flight test vehicle (FTV3) has successfully completed its maiden flight.

Tunisia is growing its own indigenous aircraft manufacturing business and is now looking for wider market reach, as Vincent Chappard discovers.

Some analysts suspect U.S. defense budgets may be set up for a squeeze play by the early 2020s, while business aviation could feel an effect right away--good or bad.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is preparing to flight-test airframe noise-reduction technologies on the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ), following completion of a second phase of flying on its Cessna Citation Sovereign testbed.

Slovenia’s Pipistrel Aircraft has created a Chinese company to produce the Alpha Electro and Panthera electric-powered light aircraft.

FAA describes the ‘numerous’ ways an ADS-B Out equipment installation can fall short of performance requirements.

UK boosts research, Britain’s battery bid, revolutionary alloys, and solar pseudo-satellite.

Airbus has revealed it has ended serial production of the H120 single-engine light helicopter.

Jet Aviation, which began business in Switzerland in 1967, is celebrating half a century in business.

Zetta Jet ceased operations Nov. 30 and filed a motion for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Large-cabin jet management specialist Jet Edge International is relocating its corporate headquarters to a new facility at the north end of Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles.

Executive Flight Services has received FAA certification and has the capability to manage and fly Part 135 aircraft with 10 seats or more.

Executive Flight Services has received FAA certification and has the capability to manage and fly Part 135 aircraft with 10 seats or more.

Desert Jet Center signed a lease to build a new FBO operation at a California regional airport. But construction has turned into battle after battle.