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The Weekly of Business Aviation, included with your AWIN membership, delivers critical business intelligence to keep business aviation leaders, including decisions makers from airframe manufacturers, suppliers, corporate flight departments, charter operators, FBOs, informed of the latest industry development – and the impact on business. Delivered each week directly to your inbox, each edition includes expert insight, analysis and data intelligence covering the business of business aviation so you can easily monitor the market and find new opportunities to grow your business.

 

 

By Bill Carey
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association has announced the passing of its technical editor and director of business operations, Mike Collins, who died Feb. 25 at age 59 after battling COVID-19.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Russ Meyer, chairman emeritus of Cessna Aircraft, has partnered with his son, Russ Meyer III, a former Citation program manager, and former Cessna CEO Gary Hay to form CitationPartners, a program to revamp pre-owned Citation Excels into like-new condition at an affordable cost.
Maintenance & Training

By Bill Carey
Bipartisan leaders of the U.S. House Transportation Committee have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the FAA’s efforts to introduce drones into the national airspace system.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Kitty Hawk has partnered with European health care company Falk to evaluate use of the Heaviside electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle in emergency response operations.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Spirit AeroSystems is growing the defense part of its revenue streams faster than expected, which is mildly helping to offset lost work in making airliners, the company’s CEO said Feb. 23.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Bill Carey
International and regional procedures have been established for the unlikely but still possible contingency of losing direction from air traffic control (ATC) in oceanic airspace, a situation that occurred in spring 2020 in airspace controlled by the FAA’s New York oceanic control center.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
Flight departments are facing new challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maintenance & Training

By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation is going public in a transaction that will provide the urban air mobility startup more than $1.5 billion to complete aircraft development and begin air taxi services.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
European publication of certification rules for road-capable gyroplanes has cleared the way for the Netherlands’ PAL-V to complete development of its Liberty flying car.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Business jet deliveries in 2020 fell 20%, while turboprop shipments declined 16% and piston aircraft deliveries were steady, with a decrease of 0.9%, according to data released Feb. 24 by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association during its 2021 State of the Industry press conference.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Canadian business jet maker Bombardier revealed Feb. 23 that some its information technology systems were breached.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Hard on the heels of its billion-dollar investment deal, urban air mobility startup Archer has committed to launch its first air-taxi network in Los Angeles by 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Advanced air mobility startup Lilium has selected Spanish aerostructures supplier Aciturri to build the composite airframe for its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russian Helicopters is on its way to securing the first foreign investment in its VTR500 light single rotorcraft program run through its VR-Technologies subsidiary.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Skyborne Aviation Group Limited, based at Gloucestershire Airport, UK, has signed an agreement to purchase Vero Beach Flight Training Academy in Vero Beach, Florida, marking its first pilot training base in the U.S.
Maintenance & Training

By Tony Osborne
Aireon’s space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system is to be used to monitor helicopter operations off Norway’s coastline.
Commercial Space

By Molly McMillin
Nearly 70% of fixed base operators in the U.S. and Canada responding to a survey say fuel sales dropped in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an annual FBO fuel sales survey.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Tony Osborne
A trial to use cargo drones to carry medical supplies and samples in western Scotland has been extended and expanded.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Transport Canada has issued an emergency airworthiness directive requiring Bell 505 operators to conduct a one-time inspection of the helicopter’s collective stick to detect evidence of cracking.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
UK company Clean Planet Energy plans to produce sustainable aviation fuel at plants it is building to convert waste plastic into renewable fuels and chemicals.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
In perhaps a first sign of consolidation in the overcrowded urban air mobility market, two startups are to combine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Karen Walker
Most people are willing to travel for business after being vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, a new survey indicates.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
For Surf Air Mobility, the planned acquisition of hybrid-electric startup Ampaire is the key step toward its goal of accelerating and expanding the use of sustainable propulsion in commercial aviation, beginning with regional aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Universal Hydrogen, a startup aiming to provide fuel systems and logistics for zero-emission commercial aviation, has landed former Airbus CEO Tom Enders as a strategic advisor and secured investment from Trucks Venture Capital.
Emerging Technologies

By Kurt Hofmann
VistaJet founder and chairman Thomas Flohr is witnessing an ongoing trend as airline passengers switch to private jets with global airline connectivity limited because of the pandemic.
Business Aviation