Business Aviation

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.

Advanced specialty materials and parts provider Allegheny Technologies and GE Aviation on July 5 unveiled a joint venture (JV) for the development of a new meltless titanium alloy powder manufacturing technology for 3D printing.

Aviation Africa, the exhibition and summit covering the full aviation and aerospace spectrum across the African continent, is to hold its third edition in Cairo on April 17-18 2018, under the auspices of the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation.

Jet Aviation has recently been awarded a medical evacuation (Medevac) conversion at its maintenance facility in Basel - Embraer Legacy 650 for a customer in the Middle East.

When the Voegeli family sold Exacta Machine in Wichita to Precision Castparts Corp. in 2013, brothers Casey and Ben didn’t expect to return to the aerospace business—at least not this soon.

Electronic flight bag provider Comply365 said July 5 it received a “strategic growth investment” from San Francisco-based investor group Luminate Capital Partners.

The Falcon 5X has performed its first flight with a “preliminary version” of the Safran Silvercrest engine—an unexpected milestone in Dassault’s new business jet program.

EPS Diesel says it expects to receive FAA certification for its Graflight 8 general aviation diesel engine by the end of 2017.

With the recent opening of a Canadian chapter, the National Gay Pilots Association is boosting its membership.

Alaska Air Group subsidiary Horizon claims its pilot hiring program is on track to address the pilot shortages that have caused it to cancel a large number of flights this summer.