Business Aviation

Academic study of electric VTOL configurations suggests Uber’s vision for a network of on-demand urban air taxis is technologically feasible from an energy-source perspective.

For now, hybrid jets that can switch between supersonic over water and subsonic over land are key to the plans.

Road map could deliver further improvements for piston-powered H120.

Closely guarded Global Express could be destined for service with the UAE Air Force.

Hawthorne Global Aviation Services has acquired JetSun Aviation Centre, a fixed base operation located at Sioux Gateway Airport in Sioux City, Iowa.

Century-old Hartzell has delivered 500,000+ propellers since Orville Wright urged it to start making them.

Cirrus Aircraft was awarded the FAA’s production certificate for its SF 50 Vision jet on May 2.

A year after its acquisition of aviation sales firm Kansas Aircraft Corp., JetAviva is moving its operations and headquarters from Austin, Texas, to the Kansas City area.

Fixed-base operations (FBOs) play a major role in supporting general and business aviation operations. In east Africa, one of the most prominent is Kilimanjaro Aviation Logistics Center (KALC) – an affiliate company of Universal Weather and Aviation. Kaleyesus Bekele visited recently.

Business aviation flight activity increased globally during the first quarter of 2017 compared to the last three months of 2016.

The business jet market remains a challenge and is “neither improving or worsening,” Embraer’s top executive said.

Solar Impulse co-founder Andre Borschberg’s new venture, H55, plans to develop certified electric propulsion systems for aircraft manufacturers.

How will Brandon Mitchener's skills as a journalist and a corporate business communicator be utilized as CEO of the European Business Aviation Association?

The medium and light business jet resale markets began 2017 with two of the best first quarters in the past 10 years, a report by market research company Amstat says.

Airbus Americas Engineering has officially opened its new engineering center on Wichita State University’s new Innovation Campus.

In the first foreign military sales request for the helicopter type, Slovakia wants its Model 429s equipped with Wescam MX-10 electro-optical cameras and additional communication and navigation equipment.

Wesco Aircraft Holding is suddenly changing CEOs and warning Wall Street of disappointing earnings to come.

Harlow Aerostructures has acquired the businesses of Aerospace Holdings.

AirspaceX, a new company set up by design house Detroit Aircraft, is developing a tailsitting electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft that can carry modular payloads.

Mooney International has partnered with Carter Aviation Technologies to develop an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft for the Uber Elevate network, which is based on Carter’s slowed-rotor/compound (SR/C) configuration.

German startup Lillium has begun flight testing an unmanned prototype of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.

Aurora flies eVTOL for Uber; Carter unveils SR/C air taxi; AirspaceX develops modular eVTOL; NASA X-57 takes shape.

Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost is on track to fly its full-scale electric VTOL demonstrator by year-end as airframe components arrive at A3.

One year after the fatal crash of an Airbus H225 helicopter, Norwegian air accident investigators are still working to find the root cause.

Dassault Aviation could launch a new Falcon business jet by year’s end.