The general manufacturing industry will benefit from the provisions, which include the reduction of costs and delivery times for aircraft exports across the Atlantic, Bunce said.
U.S. lawmakers are bumping up to the deadline for extending the FAA’s authorization, after a controversial bill passed the House of Representatives Sept. 28 but still faced an almost equally uncertain chance of becoming law.
Jet Aviation San Juan has resumed its fixed-base operations (FBO) in Puerto Rico and is coordinating nearly all the humanitarian flights to hurricane-damaged Puerto Rico and the rest of the Caribbean region.
Jet Aviation has ceased its maintenance, repair and overhaul operations at Laurence G. Hanscom Field Airport in Bedford, Massachusetts, the company told customers in a letter.
Embraer CEO Paulo Cesar de Souza e Silva says he welcomes the preliminary ruling by the U.S. Commerce Department to impose a 220% duty on Bombardier C Series imports to the U.S.
Companies that use business aviation to support their missions outperform those that do not as demonstrated by a number of metrics, a new study of S&P 500 companies finds.
If the Comac ARJ21 was a genuinely commercial program, the manufacturer would by now be saying it had done its best but, as everyone had always known, developing a jet airliner without experience was tough.
Embraer has selected Meggitt Polymers & Composites and KID-Systeme as its new inflight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) system suppliers for the E-Jets E2, the second generation of the E-Jets family of commercial aircraft.
The FAA could be reauthorized through an extension of its current authority through March 31, according to language in a potential bill brewing in the House of Representatives.
Aviation safety professionals will tell you that pilot error is one of the most controllable factors leading to aircraft accidents. But pilot error is inevitable.
How did a relatively experienced crew lose control of their airplane on a routine flight? The BFU ultimately blamed a departure from professional behavior in regard to crew coordination.
Ed Smith, senior vice president of environmental and international affairs of GAMA, recently noted that the aviation industry, including business aviation, leads the way in its commitment to mitigating its effect on climate change.
Environmental responsibility is part of business aviation and is shown by the reduction in engine emissions realized by the growing use of flight simulators for pilot training rather than by deploying the actual aircraft.
One of the more challenging enterprises in aviation is preparing for and undergoing a knowledge validation for upgrade to commercial operator, either under FAR Part 135 or Part 121.
It is the great catch-all of the Federal Aviation Regulations and the succinct string of words—authorized by the administrator—that sets in motion what is probably the most intimate contact an operator will ever have with the FAA: the dreaded, so-called tabletop examination.
