With modest increases in business aviation flight activity and fuel sales, the FBO industry in the U.S. and Canada (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) is stable after years of uncertainty, according to the half-year 2017 spot analysis by Aviation Business Strategies Group.
The numbers are in: GE Aviation, the first corporate user of the HondaJet, says the diminutive business aircraft is boosting productivity and saving it money compared with flying on the airlines.
Special mission operators in harsh environments such as the Middle East will benefit from a new modification to the King Air 350ER currently being tested by Texas-based Blackhawk Modifications.
The business jet aviation industry is facing a “modest pace” for near-term orders due to an uncertain economic and political environment, along with a highly competitive used aircraft market. This is the conclusion of the 26th annual Global Business Aviation Outlook from Honeywell.
Gulfstream Aerospace has announced that during rigorous flight-testing its long-range Gulfstream G500 and Gulfstream G600 offer better performance than originally thought.
Textron Aviation is opening the orderbook for its new large-cabin Citation Hemisphere at this year’s National Business Aviation Association Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition.
Web Manuals, a leading digitizer of documentation for flight operations and safety, is expanding its relationship with Argus International to further help its customers keep their back offices up to speed on operating procedures, safety and compliance.
Jetcraft, the international aircraft sales, marketing and ownership strategies consultancy, delved deeply behind the scenes of the business jet world to develop its latest 10-year forecast.
Nextant officials predict that the firm’s remanufactured and highly modified $8 million 604XT will be able to fly 500+ nm mi. farther than a stock Bombardier Challenger 605/605/650 due to a wing extension and new winglets, plus a 4,000-ft. increase in maximum operating altitude to FL 450.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has issued a temporary restraining order halting plans to reduce the length of the runway at Santa Monica Municipal Airport.
Bombardier Aerospace and its largest union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, have reached a new collective labor agreement at its Wichita facility.
Airbus tests urban eVTOL propulsion, Israel’s IAI demos unmanned helicopter, Cambridge Consultants develops drone that navigates by GPS to user’s smartphone location, NASA tests inflight wing-folding, BAE floats fixed-/rotary-wing adaptive UAV, and NTSB investigates New York drone-helicopter collision
Since its launch, the 1Call process has cut the time it takes to get an aircraft back in the air by about 60%, said Kriya Shortt, Textron Aviation’s senior vice president of customer service.
Private membership flying provider Wheels Up said Oct. 6 it closed an equity-based fundraising round of $117.5 million and claimed to have an enterprise value of $1 billion.
A wing-flexing competition, a 3D virtual environment, an Innovation Zone and a lineup of aviation leaders and legends are some of the highlights of the National Business Aviation Association’s Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition to be held Oct. 10-12 in Las Vegas.
Safran this week inaugurated a ground testbed for a full-scale counter-rotating open-rotor engine in Istres in southeast France, marking key progress in the EU-funded demonstration program.
Authorities estimate some 100,000 pets have been displaced by the hurricanes that devastated the island of Puerto Rico in September, and aviation in the form of Wings of Rescue is leading the relief effort.
