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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
Garmin International said Feb. 10 that Joby Aviation has selected the Garmin G3000 integrated avionics suite for the electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle it is developing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Urban air mobility startup Archer is to go public in a deal that will raise up to $1.1 billion to fund commercialization of the company’s all-electric air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Vertical Aerospace has tapped aerospace composites provider Solvay to supply the VA-1X electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Items of interest to professionals in the business aviation industry.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Spatial disorientation of the pilot led to the fatal crash of a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter in hilly terrain northwest of Los Angeles in January 2020 that killed basketball legend Kobe Bryant and eight others, the NTSB has found.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Clay Lacy Aviation is working toward a net-zero carbon footprint with the installation of a 500-kilowatt solar array covering about 30,000 sq. ft. of
Business Aviation

By Molly McMillin
The impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic may have acted as a “pressure valve release” on the aviation industry’s pilot shortage, but it has not solved the problem, said Sheryl Barden, president and CEO of Aviation Personnel International, based in San Francisco.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Two projects have been announced in the Netherlands with the goal of producing carbon-neutral synthetic jet fuel using renewable energy.
Airports & Networks

By Molly McMillin
Textron Aviation has unveiled the newest upgrade to its business jet lineup with the Citation CJ4 Gen2 light jet with a “luxurious” interior cabin that “redefines the way passengers travel.”
Interiors & Connectivity

By Molly McMillin
EAA AirVenture 2021 remains on the schedule as a live event in July in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, although some areas of the show may look different than in previous years.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Large-scale flight demonstrations are planned in seven countries under a European program to expand its U-space concept of operations for unmanned traffic management to include urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Europe’s SESAR air traffic management research program has launched a follow up to the Gulf of Finland’s U-space project focused on the safe and secure integration of unmanned aircraft and air taxis in urban airspace.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
French defense materiel agency DGA has ordered six light aircraft from domestic manufacturers for training and flight testing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Kamalame Cay Resort has announced the launch of COCO Bahama Seaplanes, a new Bahamian-owned charter airline.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
The founding executive of JetBlue Technology Ventures, the airline’s eye-catching corporate venture capital wing, has moved over to take a leadership role at Joby Aviation, one of the fund’s most notable investments and a high-profile urban air mobility startup.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
A just-completed European research program has advanced technology for structural batteries and supercapacitors that could eventually reduce the safety risks in storing massive amounts of energy onboard electrified aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Signature Aviation has reached an agreement on the terms of a sale of the company in a revised bid by Blackstone Infrastructure, Blackstone Core Equity, Global Infrastructure Partners and Cascade, an investment firm controlled by billionaire Bill Gates.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Molly McMillin
Pilatus is now offering a utility 10-seat commuter configuration of the PC-24 business jet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
The National Business Aviation Association has canceled all its in-person events through June 30 because of the COVID-19 pandemic as it explores options for virtual programming.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Molly McMillin
NetJets has acquired a 20% stake in WasteFuel, a company that turns landfill waste into sustainable aviation fuel, with plans to purchase at least 100 million gal. of the fuel over the next 10 years.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Bill Carey
Luxaviation Group on Feb. 3 announced the launch of the Flyer charter service, with bases in Belgium, France and Luxembourg.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Paul Seidenman, David Spanovich
Aircraft cabins, long considered venues for the spread of airborne pathogens and volatile organic compounds, are getting an increasing degree of focus as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to depress global travel.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
A software framework developed by NASA to ensure autonomous aircraft follow programmed rules of behavior has been delivered to several other agencies for potential application to a range of aircraft, military and civil.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Israel plans to conduct simultaneous flights by multiple drones from different manufacturers in managed urban airspace under government-supported pilot programs to improve the country’s transportation options.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Two high-speed rotorcraft demonstrators planned under Europe’s Clean Sky 2 research program are reaching the assembly stage.
Aircraft & Propulsion