Business Aviation

Piper Aircraft has received its largest order for training aircraft in the company’s history.

Joby Aviation is the latest startup to attract significant investment for its eVTOL air taxi as Uber moves to help remove roadblocks to urban air transport.

The consensus in the industry is that China’s business aviation market is starting to take off again and that Southeast Asia is experiencing some good growth.

Bye Aerospace has closed on its latest round of funding as the company moves toward first flight of two prototypes.

Spending on research and development, capital expenditure and workforce training are gaining renewed emphasis by public aerospace and defense companies.

The repair station community will help the FAA to ensure that its myriad guidance documents align with Part 145.

Dassault Aviation expects improved business jet sales volumes in 2018 following an upturn in demand in 2017.

Nextant Aerospace has received the final piece of FAA certification on its remanufactured G90XT twin-engine turboprop.

The Philippine government is targeting business aviation as a potential driver of growth for the economy, especially in and around Clark and Subic Bay.

Hong Kong-based aviation consultancy Asian Sky Group foresees that there could be some price volatility for pre-owned Bombardier 6000 aircraft.

Sales of Dassault Falcon business jets have stopped sliding and orders have increased, yet handovers are still at their lowest level in two decades.

Leonardo is studying concepts for a second-generation rotary-wing unmanned air vehicle for use in both land and maritime environments.

The consensus in the industry is that China’s business aviation market is starting to take off again and that Southeast Asia is experiencing some good growth.

Kittyhawk’s drone-management app allows users—from individuals to corporations—to streamline the use of drones, and their operators, for business purposes.

Gulfstream Aerospace has brought its flight-test G500 and G600 jets to this year’s Singapore Airshow, marking the Asia debut of the new types.

Venture capital is flowing into the nascent urban air mobility market and related fields of electric propulsion and autonomous systems.

Business aviation flight activity turned in its best year in 2017 since 2008, with more than 3 million flights in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean.

Gulfstream Aerospace has delivered a fourth G650ER to Qatar Airways for its Qatar Executive commercial charter service.

Embraer has delivered a Legacy 500 midsize business jet to an undisclosed customer in Malaysia, the company said.

Bell Helicopter sees China as the brightest spot in its Asian universe.

Gulfstream Aerospace’s new G500 is entering the final stage of its flight test and certification program, while the G600 completed field performance testing.

Business aviation services company Shanghai Hawker Pacific will bring its second hangar into operation in March, more than doubling its undercover space.

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has dropped its complaint with the FAA against Waukegan National Airport outside Chicago.

The Series B funding round was led by Intel Capital and includes JetBlue Technology Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures and Singapore-based EDBI, an investor in mobility, robotics and artificial intelligence. California-based Joby, founded in 2009, has now raised $130 million.

Vahana flies; Joby secures $100 million; NASA assesses BLI; detect-and-avoid for drones.