Business Aviation

Bye Aerospace has chosen electric power batteries from Electric Power Systems for its Sun Flyer all-electric aircraft, EPS reports.

Sun Air Jets, an aircraft charter and management company, recorded a record 2017, the Camarillo, California-based company said.

HangarStack and STAX have developed methods to help FBOs find the most efficient way to position aircraft in hangars using a computer, tablet or smartphone.

The European Regions Airline Association is urging its members to take advantage of European Investment Bank (EIB) funding for new aircraft purchases.

Hexcel and Arkema have signed a strategic alliance to develop thermoplastic composites for the aerospace sector.

Philippines maritime surveillance capabilities have been further boosted with the delivery of three Beechcraft C-90 King Airs, gifts from Japan.

A formal launch of a supersonic business jet is moving closer to reality despite risks related to regulations, engines and sonic boom noise.

The pilot of an AS350B2 Ecureuil that crashed in New York City thought the engine had failed as he attempted to land the helicopter, the NTSB said.

ExecuJet, part of the Luxaviation Group, is announcing the approval of a free trade zone at its MRO facility in Lagos, Nigeria, with customers set to save 10-15% or more on supply and maintenance services.

Sources familiar with Textron Aviation’s Citation X+ business jet program say the final aircraft is on the production line in Wichita.

The unstable landing of an S-92 helicopter on a North Sea oil rig could have been prevented if exceedances on the helo's HUMS had been correctly identified.

On-demand helicopter service provider Fly Blade has raised $38 million in a Series B financing round that includes investment from Airbus Helicopters.

Why would anyone want to operate a business jet into Hong Kong? Arrival and departure slots at Hong Kong and overnight parking for non-airline aircraft are among the most difficult—and expensive—to obtain of any destination in the world. And with recent changes that disconnect slot reservations from parking assignments, coordinating a stay has become that much harder.

Is China's airport development program a serious attempt to bring air transportation to the country's far-flung regions? Are the hundreds of airports planned going to truly open China to business aviation?

I know people who commute daily down Interstate 26. They complain bitterly about the morning and evening crawls and how the experience is worsening as more and more Yankees move to South Carolina.

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Questions for Air Medical Group Holdings Inc. CEO Fred Buttrell.

Piper's $3 million PA-46-600TP flagship, marketed as the M600, is settling solidly into a niche between the $2 million M500/Meridian turboprop and $4-5 million rivals.

When it comes to checklists, you can divide the pilot world into two distinct categories and a third, secret, grouping.

NTSB investigators took a long look at the human factors elements in the May 15, 2017, loss of a Trans-Pacific Air Charter Gates Learjet 35A and its two crewmembers while attempting an ILS 6 circle to 1 approach in VMC at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey.

Soon the NTSB will issue its probable cause of the May 15, 2017, crash of a Gates Learjet 35A just short of Runway 1 at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey.

Selected aviation accidents and incidents in February 2018.

Editor's Note: As promised last month and in honor of our late former colleague and editor-in-chief, Archie Trammell, we once again offer up his last article for this magazine, published in our March 2016 edition.

Chances are you have heard NEXRAD has the capability to detect hail. That was made possible a few years ago with the addition of polarization.

Cessna's Citation engineering and development philosophy has long been iterative, incremental and conservative — and indisputably successful.