The Citation 560XL family is one of the best examples of Cessna Aircraft's time-proven incremental engineering and development philosophy that has produced so many derivative models on time, on weight and on budget. Created in the mid-1990s as a rush response to the clean-sheet, leading edge Learjet 45, Citation 560XL combines a shortened Citation 650 fuselage, a scaled up and modified Citation V wing and newly introduced PW545 turbofan engines.
Performance-based navigation promises to make air traffic management more efficient than ever before . . . but what does this mean for business aviation?
Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s AW169 intermediate twin-engine helicopter has been granted a 200-kg. (441-lb.) increase in maximum gross weight by the European Aviation Safety Agency.
Cessna Aircraft Company has said that the second aircraft in the Citation Longitude flight test programme has successfully completed its first flight just over one month after the first prototype aircraft took to the skies in October.
Facebook it preparing to fly its Aquila stratospheric unmanned aircraft for a second time as the NTSB investigates the structural failure that occurred when the aircraft encountered turbulence just before landing on its June 28 first flight.
To meet its goals for the Next Generation Air Transportation System, the FAA has identified six “transformational” programs to provide a platform for new capabilities.
Bombardier’s Global 7000 flight test aircraft has been successfully transferred from the company’s Toronto facility to the Bombardier Flight Testing Center in Wichita.
When Harold Okwa decided to try and solve the problem of excessively expensive charter rates for business aircraft in his native Nigeria, he realised that a new approach would be required. Alan Dron reports.
Donald Trump’s election to the White House means change is coming to the A&D world, but practically no one—maybe not even the president-elect—knows exactly what those changes will be.
NetJets and FlightSafety International owner Berkshire Hathaway have reversed course and made a $1.3 billion investment in three U.S. airlines, not including an undisclosed investment in a fourth, regulatory documents show.
Since releasing its Part 107 Small Unmanned Aircraft System rule on Aug. 29, the FAA as of Nov. 9 had received more than 30,000 new aircraft registrations from commercial operators and more than 22,500 remote pilot applications.
Straightline Aviation (SLA), launch customer for Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 heavy-lift cargo hybrid airship, has signed an agreement to provide dedicated shuttle services for Canadian rare-earth mining company Quest Rare Minerals.
Straightline Aviation (SLA), launch customer for Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 heavy-lift cargo hybrid airship, has signed an agreement to provide dedicated shuttle services for Canadian rare-earth mining company Quest Rare Minerals.
Drone delivery startup Flirtey has begun the first commercial trials of autonomous pizza delivery, flying to customers’ homes from a Domino’s Pizza store in Whangaparaoa, north of Auckland, New Zealand.
The NTSB determined that air traffic controllers failed to safely separate aircraft involved in two fatal 2015 midair collisions—one, near Charleston, South Carolina, involved an Air Force F-16.
