Business Aviation

Tarek Ragheb, the founding chairman of the African Business Aviation Association (AfBAA) announced he is stepping down from the role.

Textron Aviation is betting a boom in online deliveries will help boost the business aviation market’s nascent recovery—and it is teaming with FedEx to hedge that bet.

They were warned, but shareholders of aerospace supply chain management provider Wesco Aircraft still shaved almost 4% off the company’s stock price Nov. 29.

Optis has opened a virtual reality lab within Wichita State University’s 3DExperience Center to enhance design processes for the aviation and aerospace industry.

Scottish prosecutors will hold a Fatal Accident Inquiry into the November 2013 Clutha helicopter crash in Glasgow, Scotland, that killed 10 people.

A single Airbus Helicopters EC225LP Super Puma Mk II+ helicopter, acquired second-hand from Spain, is now in full service with the Botswana Defence Force Air Wing, writes Jon Lake.

Two key providers of ACARS are at the forefront of rendering it capable of taking advantage of greater internet capacity.

The Alliance for Aviation Across America is impelling farmers, cattlemen, rural voters and others to oppose federal divestiture of the ATC system.

Drone collisions with aircraft will cause more impact damage than a bird strike of equivalent size and speed, concludes a study conducted for the FAA.

Tecnam U.S. has completed delivery of the first three of 30 P2006T twin-engine aircraft to an unnamed geospatial data acquisition company.

PrivateFly is expanding its U.S. operations with the acquisition of Bird Dog Jet in Reno, Nevada, as it seeks additional opportunities to grow.

Textron Aviation has launched a new twin-engine, utility turboprop called the Cessna SkyCourier 408, with entry-into-service scheduled for 2020.

About 30 medium and large business jets valued at $1.5 billion are expected to be delivered to owners in Florida each year between now and 2025, according to Global Jet Capital.

Optis has opened a virtual reality lab within Wichita State University’s 3DExperience Center to enhance design processes for the aviation and aerospace industry.

Chinese carmaker Zhehjiang Geely Holding Group, the owner of Volvo and Lotus, has completed its acquisition of roadable-aircraft developer Terrafugia.

Esterline CMC Electronics and NovAtel have formed a partnership to extend their collaboration in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning technology.

No fewer than five Pilatus PC-24 jets are already on order for operations in Africa – and the company has now stopped taking further orders until the first deliveries of the twin-engine aircraft start, expected to be the last quarter of 2017. Dave Calderwood reports.

Conglomerates are prime targets because they have disparate business units—some with unrealized value—as well as redundant cost structures and excess fat.

The U.S. Navy has picked Raytheon to outfit its new telemetry range aircraft, based on the Gulfstream G550 airborne early warning business jet.

Honeywell has selected ExecuJet Nigeria as an approved avionics dealer and installation and service facility for business aircraft owners in the Africa region.

The authors found statistically significant evidence that birds hit the left side of aircraft more often than the right.

Questions for Neil Book, president and CEO of Jet Support Services Inc. of Chicago.

Most pilots have experienced a black-hole approach or departure—a nighttime phenomenon that, if gone unrecognized, can lead to disaster.

Selected accidents and incidents in October 2017. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

How often are you required to do something so quickly in your cockpit that you have no time to read your checklist, consult the crew or think? During my years as a U.S. Air Force pilot, I was fed a steady dose of what we called "bold-print" items in our checklists that had to be committed to memory.