The second Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) test aircraft is expected to make its first flight later this month, Hirohichi Morimoto, President and CEO of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., said at the ISTAT Asia conference.
HondaJet received type certification today from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) with the company announcing the achievement during a press conference at EBACE which is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.
Don’t you just love the guy who can’t decide whether he’s in the fast lane or the slow lane? Or the one who seems to be broken down by the roadside, then fixes his problem and shoots straight across into the outside lane? The following survey examines newcomers to the business aircraft market, but contains so many stop-go, fast-slow projects that it could be a treatise on weekend driving.
U.S.-based Flexjet will launch into Europe as a private jet travel and charter operator later this year, the fractional jet ownership company announced at EBACE.
Recent certification of the Diamond DA62 and Nextant G90XT sees these twins depart at full throttle, while the ONE Aviation (Kestrel) K350 is pushed to the back of the hangar until more funding materializes.
Three projects are detailed, none of them much advanced since this time last year. The Cirrus is flying and has made some progress since 2014 but, tellingly, there are no newcomers to this sector.
The HondaJet departed these annals on December 8 upon FAA certification, leaving Pilatus pushing ahead and SyberJet taking a more laid-back route to resumed production.
International trip planner Djetops has launched a smart online flight permit application called PermitsGlobal that automates the process of obtaining overflight and landing permits.
Following its award of a license in the Moroccan National Airports Authority (ONDA) FBO tender, Jetex will launch five new fixed base operator (FBO) facilities in Casablanca Mohammed V, Marrakech Menara, Rabat-Salé, Agadir-Al Massira and Dakhla airports.
Bell Helicopter is moving production of its new Model 505 JetRanger X light helicopter from the U.S. to Canada as part of a restructuring that will “optimize manufacturing capabilities,” the company says.
More than 13,000 aviation professionals and 500 exhibitors are expected at this year’s European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE), which opens May 24 at the Palexpo Exhibition Center in Geneva.
Garnering an investment from the Canadian federal government is a “complex” proposition and Bombardier is “working” on it, although the timing is uncertain, according to CEO and President Alain Bellemare.
Sikorsky and the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International, which offered the human-powered helicopter prize finally won in 2013, have launched a “Hover for a Day” challenge to achieve new levels of helicopter efficiency and reliability.
The FAA for the first time has compiled a report of the Part 135 air charter industry as a way to quantify the industry and its contributions to the U.S. economy and the effect rulemaking has on operators.
The second Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) test aircraft is expected to make its first flight later this month, Hirohichi Morimoto, President and CEO of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., said at the ISTAT Asia conference.
Paris Le Bourget Airport was the top airport in Europe for business aviation between May 2015 and April 2016, according to an analysis of acukwik.com usage. Five airports serving London ranked among the top 50. Germany placed eight airports on the list of the top 50.
Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL says there is no obstacle to field trials of its latest Parcelcopter unmanned delivery aircraft in urban areas following completion of an experimental trial in the Bavarian Alps.
