Vertis is a little bit of a hybrid company. It is not an aircraft operator, it’s more a broker, and has in place an exclusive marketing agreement with a small group of AOC holders, says COO Neil Turnbull.
Perhaps the “AW169” designation of the helicopter making its first EBACE appearance will serve as a reminder that Leonardo Helicopters originated with what we used to know as the AgustaWestland division of Finmeccanica.
Leonardo Helicopters is expanding the flight envelope of the AW169 intermediate twin, with flight tests planned in Leadville, Colorado, to determine single-engine Category A performance in hot-and-high conditions.
The first Global 7000, FTV1, was moved this month from the production bay to its dedicated pre-flight bay in Toronto, where preparations for first flight will take place.
Jetnet iQ, a joint venture of Jetnet and Rolland Vincent Associates, LLC, predicts that 681 turbofan business aircraft will be delivered in 2016, a 4% drop from 2015.
The Luxaviation Group is now the second-largest operator of corporate aircraft in the world, with a fleet of 250 business jets under management and 1,500 employees.
More regulations are coming to aviation as a whole, and it will be EBAA’s mission in the months ahead to ensure these are “equitable, proportionate and fair.”
This week we feature our 14th annual listing of the Top 10 Leaders of European Business Aviation - those who are helping create demand for business aviation through clever marketing and technical innovation.
The economic slowdown and shrinking overall demand for business aviation services in Russia has not affected the expansion plans of A-Group, which operates FBOs at Moscow-Sheremetyevo and St. Petersburg-Pulkovo airports.
Moscow’s Domodedovo Business Aviation Center is expanding services for travelers flying business class on the commercial airlines as private jet operations have been decreasing for the past two years.
Jet Aviation reports U.S. FAA approval to provide scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, airframe and engine repairs, avionics modifications, inspections and defect rectifications on U.S.-registered aircraft at Moscow Vnukovo.
Textron Aviation is opening the order book for its new clean-sheet single-engine turboprop, the company announced here yesterday as it lifted the veil on performance specifications for the aircraft.
Manuals and record-keeping have become increasingly complex in all areas of business and general aviation, from operations to maintenance. But with digitization, data can be accessed, updated and stored more efficiently than ever before.
Cessna has mated the wing and fuselage of the first Citation Longitude. The milestone was passed just six months after the new aircraft was revealed at last year’s NBAA convention.
Going head-to-head here for the first time anywhere are the VVIP Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus’s A350 XWB, both considered an ultimate in billionaire or head-of-state travel.
