Business Aviation

Raisbeck Engineering has received supplemental type certificate approval for its swept-blade propellers for the King Air B300 series from the ANAC in Argentina.

Textron Aviation's Beechcraft T-6C military trainer has received basic certification from the EASA, paving the way for delivery of 10 aircraft to a UK Ministry of Defense program.

Shaanxi Helicopter Co. has signed an agreement to purchase 100 Model 407GXPs from Bell Helicopter. Deliveries will begin this year.

IDAIR recently delivered its new-generation in-flight entertainment (IFE) and cabin management system (CMS) in a Boeing Business Jets 737-700 Increased Gross Weight aircraft.

Mahindra Aerospace's Airvan 10 has earned FAR 23 type certification from the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

Jet East Aviation has earned approval from Dassault for non-destructive testing on all Falcon aircraft at its facility and mobile unit in Trenton, New Jersey.

West Virginia University's Institute of Technology and FlightSafety International have launched a Bachelor of Science in Aviation Management degree program.

As clear evidence of the growing pilot shortage, regional carrier Horizon Air, a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, canceled up to 6% of its departures in August for a lack of pilots to fly them.

Federal government agencies, including the FAA, are studying the viability of auctioning a minimum of 30 MHz of L-band spectrum used in ATC radars and other cross-agency purposes.

Flying Colours Corp. says it has completed the first installation of the Honeywell JetWave Ka-Band satellite communications system.

A $70 million expansion project at Million Air at Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York, is progressing and scheduled for completion by the end of 2018.

Dassault Aviation has appointed the Maintenance Line Station in Vienna as an authorized service center for Falcon 900EX and Falcon 2000EX series aircraft

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Dann Runik still gets chills when he remembers the morning of March 1, 1978. He was in the cockpit of a DC-8 at LAX as he watched Continental Flight 603, a heavily laden DC-10, lumber down Runway 6R on its takeoff roll.

By the time Textron Aviation ended Citation Mustang production in May 2017, that model had become the most successful very light jet in history.

Promotions, appointments and honors within business aviation.

BCA shares news of the latest products and services for the business aviation industry.

Aviation safety gains, described by the FAA in its annual report, were based on CAB figures for 1965. General aviation showed a slight statistical improvement with 516 fatal accidents in more than 16,000,000 flight hours.

Bell hopes to receive full certification of the fly-by-wire, twin-engine intermediate heavy Relentless in 2018.

London City Airport is soon to begin a major infrastructure upgrade to accommodate 30,000 additional flights.

EBAA and TAG Aviation have launched the TAG Aviation Scholarship for cabin crew training. It is being offered within the framework of EBAA’s WE-CARE program. Application deadline is August 15.

Duncan Aviation customers are now able to review, compare and approve sales quotes via the myDuncan portal.

Astronautics Corp. of America’s new RoadRunner electronic flight instrument (EFI) — in cooperation with Regourd Aviation and Aerotec — completed demo flight on an Agusta A109 helicopter at the Paris Air Show.

Satair Group and Metamaterial Technologies Inc., and its optical filters division Lamda Guard of Halifax, Nova Scotia, signed a memorandum of understanding that will lead to an exclusive multi-million dollar global distribution agreement to bring MTI’s laser protection product metaAIRTM to the civil aviation market.