Business Aviation

Jetcraft has removed 3,596 tons of greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere through its partnership with Azzera.

Misguided grounding mission using poor-quality video and wrong ID is foiled with NextGen’s tracking tech.

Brief news items of interest to business aviation professionals.

The FAA has advanced Reliable Robotics’ G-2 determination of compliance issue papers from Stage 2 to Stage 3.

U.S. startup Aska has debuted a full-scale prototype of its A5 drive-and-fly electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle.

Airbus’ USim simulation environment is already being used to validate NASA concepts of operation for AAM.

With locations in Singapore, Toulouse and Austin, Texas, H3 is developing hydrogen-electric propulsion systems to help decarbonize aviation.

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 boosts funding for an FAA and industry effort to phase out leaded aviation fuel by 2030.

Last year, 32 Falcons were handed over to their customers, a smaller number than planned.

The Weekly of Business Aviation polled a number of business aviation leaders on their predictions for the industry in 2023.

GIFAS says there will be a massive U.S. presence at Paris Air Show 2023 and a small Chinese one.

Satcom Direct (SD) has installed the first Plane Simple Ka-band antenna system, a prototype shipset, on its company Gulfstream G550 bizjet.

The Amsterdam-based company will also help Archer manufacture its Midnight four-passenger air taxi.

The notice of proposed rulemaking would adopt service rules for the use of C-band spectrum at 5030-5091 MHz for command and control of UAS.

Communication and sensor systems usually run independently.

Amazon started drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, and College Station, Texas, on Dec. 22.

The design has 12 electric lift fans embedded in the wing and four in the canard foreplane.

Blackhawk Aerospace, a provider of engine upgrades for a variety of turboprop aircraft, has sold its majority ownership to New State Aviation Holdings.

The OEM plans to try new formula to benefit from a higher-aspect-ratio wing, without the extra weight.

Corporate flight departments will help set a safe and scalable pathway forward into NextGen flight.

One firm targeting business aviation as it seeks to grow is JB Roche, the Cork, Ireland-based provider of inflatable maintenance shelters.

Both companies are based in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Caleb Walls to Controller of Hartzell Engine Technologies, Montgomery, AL.

NEW STATE AVIATION HOLDINGS acquired BLACKHAWK AEROSPACE, TX (aircraft performance improvements for a broad range of turboprop aircraft types).

Airlines using Belgian airports will now have easier access to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).