Business Aviation

Air Culinaire announced a new menu concept they call a “Lifestyle Menu.” According to the company, the menu is the first of its kind in corporate aviation using culinary items from around the globe.

Textron Aviation has delivered its first fully configured Hawker 400XPR from its Wichita Service Center to a company based in Seattle.

The used business jet market in 2017 offers “great deals” for buyers wanting to purchase business jets or turboprop aircraft.

Sikorsky is also looking to make a name for one of the precious few fixed-wing aircraft in its lineup, the M28 turboprop.

Supersonic-airliner startup Boom Technologies believes sufficient research has already been conducted for the FAA to set a standard.

Textron Aviation revenue decreased $25 million during the second quarter of 2017, with a decline in demand for Caravan and King Air turboprops and lower volumes on Beechcraft T-6 military trainers.

The committee approved the fiscal 2018 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development funding bill that would provide the FAA with $16.6 billion for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.

Aircraft Industries’s (LET) next-generation L-410 high-wing twin turboprop will enter production in 2018, company officials confirm.

The G550 model was rolled out in 2001 as the SP (Special Performance) version of the Gulfstream GV and received FAA certification in 2003. The aircraft has a maximum range of 6,750 nm and a maximum operating speed of Mach 0.885. It can seat up to 19 passengers and sleeps up to eight.

Alan Klapmeier, CEO of One Aviation, is low-key on the company’s newest project, the Eclipse 700, the next generation of the Eclipse 550 known as “Project Canada.”

Aviation Week takes part in a NASA-funded flight research program to determine if upset recovery guidance provided to a pilot on the primary flight display will help that pilot to more effectively and efficiently recover the aircraft.

The restored B-29 Superfortress, known as Doc, will have a permanent home at the Wichita Eisenhower National Airport in a $6.5 million project that includes a 32,000-sq.-ft. interactive hangar and learning center.

Bombardier Business Aircraft’s Global 7000 flight test program has accumulated more than 500 hr. of flight time with three test aircraft flying.

Bombardier Business Aircraft has announced that its Global 7000 aircraft flight test programme is progressing as planned and has surpassed the 500-hour milestone.

Embraer has announced the maiden flight of its first Legacy 500 midsize business jet assembled at its industrial facilities in Melbourne, Florida, just eight months after the first Legacy 450 mid-light jet assembled in Melbourne took flight.

U.S. tax audits related to aircraft-management service have been ongoing for several years, often in a suspension state.

At Oshkosh 2017, scattered among the exhibitors, is a growing business aviation presence, from aircraft manufacturers to suppliers and vendors.

Gulfstream officials say Boeing’s “room for growth” argument for why the U.S. Air Force should pick a 737 airliner over a business jet for future Compass Call, J-Stars, Rivet Joint and AEW&C missions is “misleading.”

EEA AirVenture will mark the anniversaries of aviation and aerospace events including the Doolittle Raid, formation of the U.S. Air Force and Apollo 1 disaster.

More than 100 general-aviation organizations have united to oppose legislation that would privatize the U.S. air traffic control system.

The flight is a key milestone for Embraer’s Melbourne operations, said Michael Amalfitano, Embraer Executive Jets’ president and CEO. The Brazil-based company has expanded its Florida production facilities and doubled its footprint, he said.

Charter operators report a spike in business in June, compared to a year ago, reports Avinode Group acting CEO Oliver King.

NASA’s Greased Lightning concept for a hybrid-electric, distributed-propulsion vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has been licensed to a Virginia-based startup, Advanced Aircraft Co. (AAC).

NASA’s Greased Lightning concept for a hybrid-electric, distributed-propulsion vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) has been licensed to a Virginia-based startup, Advanced Aircraft Co. (AAC).

Propellers where there once were winglets, blown-wings instead of flaps. Welcome to the paradigm shift for aircraft design.