Business Aviation

Desert Jet Center, based at Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in Riverside County, California, has opened its FBO.

The Philippines Civil Aviation Authority has given approval to Jet Aviation to support Falcon 900-series aircraft registered there at the company's maintenance, refurbishment and overhaul facility in Basel, Switzerland.

The number of U.S.-registered business turbine-aircraft accidents fell by five during the first six months of 2016, although fatalities were up by four, according to data from Robert E. Breiling Associates.

Lufthansa Technik has introduced a laser-based system for use when equipping VIP aircraft cabins in the framework of its research and innovation projects.

Astronautics Corp. of America is planning to build a first-of-its-kind, cockpit-based cybersecurity research laboratory at its Milwaukee facility.

Market research provider ReportsnReports.com forecasts the global aviation fuel market to grow at a compound annual rate of 3.13% through 2020.

Oscar Garcia, chairman and CEO of InterFlight Global Corp., is scheduled to address market potential and obstacles to supersonic business aircraft at the SpeedNews annual Business and General Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference, Oct. 4-5 , in Los Angeles.

Gulfstream likely will achieve its goal of keeping earnings flat in 2016 with 2015, and 2017 earnings could be near flat as well, Jefferies analyst Howard Rubel says.

Geneva-based Tag Aviation has joined Stratagem's booking platform, to give Tag Aviation customers access to Stratajet customers as part of their booking options.

Honeywell International has sold its government-focused engineering and operations services business unit to a private equity giant KBR for roughly $300 million, the companies said.

Unless an engine exhibits gross damage or erosion, you may want to hire a qualified inspector from an approved service provider to pull an engine.

Cruising with autothrottles set for a certain angle-of-attack can save enough Jet-A to avoid a refueling stop.

What crews should know about the Future Air Navigation System

While the advantages of ADS-C/CPDLC (or FANS 1/A) are legion, the datalink component is not without its pitfalls that can confuse the inattentive flight crew or one grown complacent due to the automation that characterizes the system.

Ultimately you're going to have to upgrade to ADS-C and CPDLC to operate above FL 280 in most oceanic airspace anyway (e.g., by Jan. 1, 2020, in the North Atlantic), but here's what you're missing out on now in the North Atlantic Track System.

With each new generation of aircraft, we are treated to levels of automation unparalleled in performance and reliability.

Designers attempt to give exceptional capabilities in all areas, including price, but the laws of physics, thermodynamics and aerodynamics do not allow one aircraft to do all missions with equal efficiency. Tradeoffs are a reality of aircraft design.

Graphs are designed to illustrate the performance of Piper M600 [PA-46-600TP] under a variety of range, payload, speed and density altitude conditions. Do not use these data for flight planning because they are gross approximations of actual aircraft performance.

Designers looking for fuel savings and emissions reductions beyond those possible with today’s conventional tube-and-wing configurations face additional challenges when the aircraft are smaller, such as regional and business jets.

Haeco Americas is building a fifth hangar at the Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Aviation industry representatives have welcomed the FAA’s acceptance of industry recommendations proposing “alternative, acceptable” means of compliance for single-engine helicopters to meet Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) certification for Part 27 rotorcraft.

Mexico’s Pegaso has become the second oil and gas helicopter operator to take delivery of Airbus Helicopters’ twin-engine super-medium H175.

The prototype Airlander 10 hybrid airship was damaged in a hard landing Aug. 24 during its second flight after a rebuild.

The CEO of Italy’s Piaggio Aerospace has resigned, just weeks after masterminding the company’s restructuring.

Textron Aviation has completed ground engine tests on the super-midsize Citation Longitude’s Honeywell HTF7700L turbofan engines.