Business Aviation

CB Aviation, based in Ogden, Utah, is launching a fractional ownership program called CB SkyShare to serve the Western portion of the U.S.

While the debate about whether to split off air traffic services from the FAA may be soaking up the oxygen in Washington, other language pending in Congress would lead to significant aviation-policy changes.

Final assembly work on Pilatus Aircraft’s first PC-24 customer aircraft is progressing well, the company reports.

Companies are transforming Air Tractor and Thrush agricultural aircraft into low-cost but bomb-heavy strike aircraft.

From takeoff to touchdown, IS&S’s new aftermarket autothrottle manages power and observes limits for non-Fadec turboprops.

June business aircraft flight activity in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean rose 4.3% year-over year, with positive trends in all operational segments, according to Argus International’s TraqPak data.

Spirit AeroSystems, based in Wichita, has added equipment, and created a 3- and 4-axis machining center of excellence at its McAlester, Oklahoma, facility, to support new, detailed parts-fabrication work.

The segment delivered five more large jets than it did in the second quarter of 2016, although total business jet deliveries in the quarter were down by two compared to the year-ago period.

Gulfstream Aerospace will exhibit three business jets at the Dubai Airshow, the flagship Gulfstream G650ER, the award-winning Gulfstream G550 and the class-leading Gulfstream G280.

Airbus has set itself a goal of having a serialized production Urban Air Mobility (UAM) system ready for testing in a major city as early as 2023.

A helicopter manufacturer is keen to find out if its fixed-wing acquisition—a rugged twin-engine turboprop that can transport heavy loads on short, unimproved runways—is the right recipe for international markets.

The acquisition makes Horizon Air Group one of the largest air-charter organizations in the south-central U.S., it says.

Sikorsky’s new owner, Lockheed Martin, has only now begun to market in earnest the fixed-wing M28, a rugged twin-engine turboprop.

U.S.-registered business jet and turboprop accidents, including fatalities, fell during the first quarter of 2017 compared to the same time a year ago.

Airbus and Veritas Capital Fund Management, the owners of StandardAero, have started negotiating a possible sale of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) firm Vector Aerospace.

New flight-display cues will give pilots a fighting chance in an aircraft upset.

Volvo's owner buys into flying cars; Paris airport installs drone detector; UTAS to codevelop laser air data system; Hybird + tiltotor = long-endurance VTOL; Europe takes next hybrid-electric steps.

Aviation regulators in Norway and UK have announced plans to lift the restrictions placed on operators of the Airbus H225 and AS332L2 Super Puma helicopters after the loss of a Norwegian helicopter last April.

Bell Helicopter has resumed flight testing of its Model 525 fly-by-wire helicopter, one year and one day since the fatal loss of the first prototype.

Bell Helicopter has resumed flight testing of its Model 525 helicopter one year and one day since the fatal loss of the first prototype.

Fresno County provides more than $1 million to buy electric aircraft and charging stations in a project to prove pilot training costs can be reduced dramatically through electric propulsion.

Formed in Woburn, Massachusetts, in 2006, Terrafugia is developing the Transition, a two-seat, folding-wing aircraft that can be driven on the road. The company has faced challenges meeting both automotive and aviation safety requirements for the Transition.

June has been the busiest month so far this year for business-aviation activity in Europe, according to WingX Advance’s Business Aviation Monitor.

VistaJet, based in Malta, posted record sales growth during the first half of 2017 with Program Membership sales up 57% year-over-year across all regions, it said.

The supply of used business jets has remained “stubbornly” above 10% of the fleet, but “it’s not always a buyer’s market anymore," noted Haggerty Jet Group.