When it comes to supporting business jet engines in service, Rolls-Royce’s CorporateCare engine maintenance program has evolved from sparking market interest to generating market demand.
A huge black five-bladed carbon fiber Hartzell prop distinguishes the 2016 PC-12NG and is largely responsible for its greater speed, range and performance. BCA’s Fred George flew the aircraft earlier this year.
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.
Steven Higgins, section manager for high-performance aircraft and turboprops for EASA, presented the founding president and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company, with a new EASA type certificate for the HA-420 HondaJet.
BBGA has so impressed UK authorities, that it is now one of only three aviation trade bodies to meet with the CEOs of the CAA and DfT on four occasions per year.
Don’t you just love the guy who can’t decide whether he’s in the fast lane or the slow lane? Or the one who seems to be broken down by the roadside, then fixes his problem and shoots straight across into the outside lane? The following survey examines newcomers to the business aircraft market, but contains so many stop-go, fast-slow projects that it could be a treatise on weekend driving.
Delays in development of Safran’s Silvercrest engine cost the company a one-time EUR654 million charge in 2015, helping drive operating profit for the year down more than 12% to EUR1.7 billion.
U.S.-based Flexjet will launch into Europe as a private jet travel and charter operator later this year, the fractional jet ownership company announced at EBACE.
Three projects are detailed, none of them much advanced since this time last year. The Cirrus is flying and has made some progress since 2014 but, tellingly, there are no newcomers to this sector.
The HondaJet departed these annals on December 8 upon FAA certification, leaving Pilatus pushing ahead and SyberJet taking a more laid-back route to resumed production.
