Business Aviation

The long-awaited flight took place July 1 at the company’s facility in Amarillo, Texas, where production 525s will be assembled.

Business Aviation

Emirates-CAE Flight Training (ECFT), a joint venture between CAE and Emirates airline, has ordered two simulators --a Boeing B737-800W and a Gulfstream 650-- as well as a Gulfstream 650 CAE Simfinity integrated procedures trainer (IPT) and a series of virtual simulators from Montreal-based CAE.
Maintenance & Training

By David Esler
Everyone has their Customs clearance story, which often involves allegedly being hassled or otherwise inconvenienced by Customs and Border Protection agents on a rainy night after a 10-hour international flight.
Business Aviation

By David Esler
Like it or not, Canada and the U.S. are joined at the hip. Each is the other’s largest trading partner ($500 billion+ total), and our financial, electrical and transportation infrastructure are fully integrated.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
Marc Parent CAE president and CEO Saint-Laurent, Quebec
Business Aviation

By Kent Jackson
Setting up a company shuttle can be an economic, legal and logistical challenge, but the long-term benefits can make the effort worthwhile.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
Succession planning in any flight department, like developing other essential disciplines, is a lengthy, comprehensive process. The sooner you start planning and grooming potential successors, the more likely the high standards you’ve set for your organization will endure after your departure.
Business Aviation

Investigating a major helicopter accident is rarely easy. Helicopters go where no other aircraft can.
Business Aviation

Airport ramps can be hazardous to a pilot’s health. On an icy ramp one winter day, a good friend slipped while manipulating the door on his business jet, causing him to hit the pavement, wrists first.
Business Aviation

By Fred George
The Legacy 600, built from 2002 to 2012, is one of the most successful jetliner conversions yet produced for the business aircraft market.

By Fred George
Embraer Legacy 650 operators concede that there are more luxurious, larger cabin, higher flying, faster cruising and longer range large-cabin business aircraft than the aircraft they fly. But nothing comes close in terms of “value for money.”
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The FAA awarded the new Citation Latitude its type certification on June 5.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Citing a slump in offshore oil exploration and production activity, Sikorsky Aircraft will cut more than 1,400 production-related jobs
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Gulfstream Aerospace celebrated its third win of the Robert J. Collier Trophy by setting a city-pair record with its G650ER between Paris and Washington, D.C., where the trophy was awarded June 3.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Jetcraft reports that last year it handled 85 aircraft transactions, the highest number in the Raleigh, North Carolina outfit’s 53-year history.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Sonex Aircraft CEO Jeremy Monnett and Sonex assembly mechanic Mike Clark were killed June 2 in an accident involving a Sonex Sport Acro at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
FlightSafety International’s Gulfstream G550 simulator has received qualification from the FAA’s National Simulator Program for Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT), the first such approval.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Bell’s Training Academy has opened a 85,950-sq.-ft. pilot and maintenance training facility at a new location in Fort Worth, Texas.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Google says it will continue to develop a solar-powered stratospheric unmanned aircraft for Internet delivery
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Wheels Up came up a winner June 6 when American Pharoah won the Belmont Stakes.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Dassault Falcon Jet plans to open a regional-distribution center for spare parts in Louisville, Kentucky
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
The future of the “paused” Learjet 85 project and of Learjet overall is unclear
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
At the 2015 Aerospace Media Awards dinner held June 14 at Les Salons de L’Aero-Club de France in Paris
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Cirrus Aircraft reached a major milestone June 15 when it delivered its 6,000th new airplane.
Business Aviation

By William Garvey, Jessica A. Salerno, Molly McMillin
Eagle Aviation, a fixed-base operator, is constructing a new facility at Rohlsen Airport on St. Croix
Business Aviation