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Germany’s very successful FAI rent-a-jet has gone from strength to strength over its 28-year history under the guidance of its inspirational Founder and Chairman Siegfried Axtmann.

Dynamic duo Thierry and Daniela Boutsen each run their independent business aviation-related companies. Thierry is founder and chairman of Boutsen Aviation, and his wife, Daniela, is founder and president of complementary company Boutsen Design.

Jet Aviation Basel has just taken delivery of the world’s first Boeing BBJ 787-9 variant of the Dreamliner to be outfitted with a VVIP interior.

Cirrus has now built one proof-of-concept and three conforming prototypes for its SF50 Vision program.

Embraer’s Florida assembly facility recently broke the century mark in Phenom production when it handed over a Phenom 300 to NetJets.

Embraer plans to move all Phenom light jet assembly to its Melbourne, Florida, facility from its plant in Brazil.

This year has seen a major consolidation of European business jet operation and management companies.

Gama Aviation is to hold a live culinary demonstration here at EBACE with the On Air Dining team led by CEO Daniel Hulme and executive chef Colin Barnett.

Gama Support Services Inc is accelerating the setting of more FAA and EASA approved Part 145 Certified Repair Stations across the U.S.

In mid-March VistaJet bade farewell to its last Learjet as it moved to an all-Bombardier Challenger and Global fleet.

Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare has announced plans to slow production of the Global 5000/6000 from its current rate of around 80 aircraft a year because of softness in the business aviation market

After expanding its aircraft sales activity seven months ago, EAN Aviation, the Lagos, Nigeria-based business aviation services company, has completed three sales and acquisitions.

At home, it’s easy to wish that a stack of dirty dishes in the kitchen would just fly away. Lufthansa Technik and Jet Aviation Basel now have ways to do that in flight.

Aerion Corp. has opened its order book and set a price for its AS2 supersonic business jet: $120 million in 2015 dollars.

Textron Aviation hopes to achieve FAA certification of its midsized $16.25 million Citation Latitude this month, CEO Scott Ernest said during a press conference Monday.

The big get bigger and smaller operators rethink their future as a wave of consolidation breaks across Europe’s business jet management and operating industry.

Today’s issue of ShowNews features our annual listing of the Top 10 Leaders of European Business Aviation.

While business aviation sales have slowed generally in China, according to many aircraft manufacturers, the pace of flight operations at Shanghai continues to increase.

FAA has granted a supplemental type certificate for the split scimitar winglet retrofit on BBJ and other Boeing 737-700 aircraft.

Flying Colours Corp., the North American-based maintenance, repair and overhaul, completion and refurbishment specialist, has won an order for the completion of three new Bombardier Challenger 650s.

Oktoberfest is coming early at the Lufthansa Technik Booth T089, says Wieland Timm with a chuckle.

A new law dramatically reduces aviation taxes in New York State.

Commercial aviation’s first touch-screen primary flight displays will equip new Beechcraft King Airs as standard equipment beginning this summer.

Nextant Aerospace is looking to expand its remanufacturing activities into a new market segment.

Aviation Week recently sampled the new touch-screen Pro Line Fusion cockpit in Rockwell Collins’ King Air 250 demonstrator on a flight from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Rockford, Illinois.