Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Cubesat-building robot contest, Lockheeds SHiELD laser demo, Uber air taxi trial adds L.A. and Horsefly electric van/drone deliveries.
Defense

Business jet operator VistaJet has doubled its Middle Eastern business this year, and aims to increase its growth in the region with new approvals to operate in Saudi Arabia.
Dubai Airshow

By Tony Osborne
The brand-new aircraft flew from Wichita to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Dubai.
Business Aviation

By Angus Batey
​Nearly one third of Gulfstream’s fleet of 170 business jets operating in the Middle East and Africa has been put to use in far more utilitarian roles than one would expect.
Business Aviation

Business jet operator VistaJet has doubled its Middle Eastern business this year, and aims to increase its growth in the region with new approvals to operate in Saudi Arabia.
Business Aviation

Empire Aviation Group (EAG) affiliate, Empire Aircraft Management Services Private (EAMSPL), has been awarded a Non-Scheduled Operator's Permit (NSOP) by the Civil Aviation Department in India.
Business Aviation

Embraer has unveiled the Phenom 300E light jet, its newest business aircraft, e at the 2017 National Business Aviation Association's Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (NBAA-BACE), in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Business Aviation

Embraer has announced enhancements to its Legacy 500 and Legacy 450 business jets at the 2017 National Business Aviation Association's Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (NBAA-BACE).
Business Aviation

By Fred George
Retired Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay, winner of the Cy Young in both the American and National Leagues, on Nov. 7 became the third person to die in a crash of the Icon A5 light sport amphibian.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Aerospace and defense supplier Ducommun has begun a corporate restructuring and review process that will cost $22-25 million through 2018, starting in the company’s aerostructures unit, executives announced this month.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
For Wichita and Kansas to remain competitive in the aviation industry, it must continue to develop the entrepreneurial spirit and tenacity of the early founders of the state’s industry, Kansas Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer said.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
As the Dubai Airshow opens, the business aviation fleet in the Middle East is expected to grow at a 2.9% rate, increasing to nearly 600 aircraft in 2027, according to Aviation Week Network’s 2018 Business Aviation Fleet & MRO Forecast.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Uber has signed an agreement to cooperate with NASA on developing low-altitude airspace traffic management to support the demonstrations.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Business jet production is expected to total 12,282 aircraft valued at $354 billion during a 15-year-period from 2017 through 2031, Forecast International says.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Business aviation activity in Europe rose 8% in October compared to a year ago, according to WingX Advance’s Business Aviation Monitor.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Reignwood International Investment Group Co. of Beijing has signed an agreement with Bell Helicopter to purchase an additional 50 Bell 505 five-seat aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Uber has signed an agreement to cooperate with NASA on developing low-altitude airspace traffic management to support the demonstrations.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
The battle over the U.S. Export-Import Bank may not have reached biblical proportions, but it could be the end of days for the institution anyway.
Business Aviation

By Thierry Dubois
Facing an accusation of helping Falcon business jet customers evade VAT, Dassault Aviation has issued a “clarification,” asserting it exercises sales due diligence and downplaying the scale of its fiscal engineering in the Isle of Man.
Business Aviation

By Sean Broderick
Aviation’s march towards an increasingly digital future is opening it to significant cybersecurity threats, and the industry must move purposefully and quickly to adapt.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has completed the long-awaited sale of its Vector Aerospace business to StandardAero.
Business Aviation

During the second quarter of 2017, Embraer delivered 35 jets to the commercial aviation market and 24 jets to the business aviation market, of which 16 were light jets and eight were large jets.
Business Aviation

Starting this month, DC Aviation Al-Futtaim (DCAF), the joint venture between DC Aviation Group and Al-Futtaim, is offering its private and business jet clients competitively priced jet fuel from their base in Dubai South at Al Maktoum International Airport.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Lancair is offering whole-aircraft parachute systems by BRS Aerospace on its Lancair Mako single-engine piston four-seat aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Monitors and tablets are common sights from machine shops to assembly lines, but alone they do not make the hands-on human part of the digital thread. Augmented reality (AR) can.
Business Aviation