Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Embraer is forming innovation teams and opening a Global Business Center at its Melbourne, Florida, facility this month to explore “disruptive technologies” related to any aspect of air transportation. &n
Business Aviation

By Bradley Perrett, Kim Minseok
The South Korean navy has dropped a plan to buy and refurbish 16 Lockheed Martin S-3 Vikings, shifting its focus to the possibility of an order for new aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Russian Helicopters has begun work on the development of a light helicopter in the 1.6-metric ton (3,500 lb.) class, the company has revealed.
Business Aviation

By Thierry Dubois
After MSH postponed certification several times, shareholder Lynwood wants MSH to end its laboratory culture and become a full-fledged rotorcraft manufacturer.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Molly McMillin
Air Methods Corp. has signed an agreement to be acquired by private equity firm American Securities in a $2.5 billion transaction, including net debt.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Embattled aircraft interiors provider Zodiac Aerospace’s latest poor financial results represent new information for aspiring acquirer Safran.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Japanese online retailer Rakuten has formed a joint venture with low-altitude airspace service provider AirMap to provide air traffic management for UAVs, or UTM, in Japan.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
A who’s who of U.S. aerospace and defense companies is offering industry’s cover to help make sure Washington passes a Republican tax regime that is in part expected to cut corporate rates.
Business Aviation

Two U.S. airlines are calling it quits in Cuba, a few months after starting service to the island.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Three crewmen are missing and presumed dead after the March 14 crash of a Sikorsky S-92 search and rescue helicopter operated for the Irish coast guard.
Business Aviation

Today’s instruments enable pilots to better visualize their environment, but can also suffer subtle failures and lure the unprepared into hazardous situations.
Connected Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
The Vahana autonomous air taxi, the vertical-takeoff CityAirbus and the Pop.Up modular ground/air concept vehicle are all visible evidence of Airbus’s intensifying studies of urban air transportation.
Aerospace

By Molly McMillin
Jet Aviation will operate and manage a U.S.-based fleet of Bombardier Challenger 350 super midsize business jets for VistaJet customers, the companies announced.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Tecnam Aircraft founder, president and chief preliminary design officer Luigi “Gino” Pascale died unexpectedly March 14 after a brief illness. He was 93.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
AirMed International has acquired San Antonio-based Air Medical.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
The CEO of oil and gas operator CHC says Airbus will be “very challenged” to return the H225/EC225 heavy helicopter to service in the North Sea following the crash of a CHC-operated aircraft in Norway last April.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Airbus will accelerate the development of the military version of its H160 medium twin-engine helicopter following the type’s selection for a significant joint French requirement.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
After 20 years in development, Leonardo is beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel for its AW609 commercial tiltrotor.
Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
Dedicated unmanned air traffic management systems must be developed quickly to meet rising demand for UAV operations.
Connected Aerospace

By William Garvey
Can the millennial generation revitalize general aviation?
Business Aviation

Germany´s largest general aviation fleet-operator, FAI rent-a-jet AG, a member of FAI Aviation Group, has announced further fleet expansion with the addition of its largest corporate aircraft to date, an Airbus ACJ319 Corporate Jet.
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
Embraer remains “cautiously optimistic” about its executive jet segment amid a used aircraft market that remains challenging, the company said March 9 as it released fourth-quarter and full-year 2016 financial results.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
A coalition of aviation groups have written to leaders of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees to reassert the vital role that contract air traffic control towers play in improving safety and saving taxpayer dollars.
Business Aviation

By Kirby Harrison
Duncan Aviation recently delivered a refurbished 12-year-old Gulfstream G550, after breathing new life into an aircraft whose owner valued its dependability and wanted it to remain part of his fleet.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Sikorsky, Petroleum Helicopters Inc. and Metro Aviation cooperate on real-time rotorcraft health-monitoring developments.
Aircraft & Propulsion