The world’s first online payment platform created for business aviation, PayNode, is adding bank wire transfer as a third method of payment for charter brokers and operators alongside American Express and AvCard.
Greenpoint Technologies recently completed Crystal AirCruises’ VIP 777-200LR interior ahead of schedule. The interior installation began in August 2016 at Greenpoint’s Moses Lake, Washington, facility.
U.S. FBOs and fuel suppliers contributed significantly to relief efforts following the very destructive Harvey and Irma hurricanes, which ravaged the Houston metropolitan area and most of Florida. Million Air Hobby Airport (HOU) became a center for relief efforts for Coast Guard, Army and National Guard helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft following torrential rains from Hurricane Harvey.
Famous for its advanced-technology winglets, Aviation Partners, Inc. helped drive Steve Hinton Jr. and his highly modified P-51 Mustang to a new world record without them.
The numbers are in: GE Aviation, the first corporate user of the HondaJet, says the diminutive business aircraft is boosting productivity and saving it money compared with flying on the airlines.
VistaJet, founded in 2004, received a $150 million cash investment from private equity firm Rhone Capital in August. VistaJet President Ronald Silverman discusses what the investment means for the private jet provider and talks about the company’s growth.
The world’s most “printed engine,” GE’s new Advanced Turboprop in which additive manufacturing replaces 855 normally made parts with just 12 “printed” components, is on track to run for the first time at the end of this year in Prague, Czech Republic. It will power Cessna’s new Denali aircraft.
Over the next decade, big-cabin business jets – from super-midsize to business airliner classes – are expected to secure the highest demand, capturing 57% of all global deliveries, according to a just-released forecast by Honeywell Aerospace.
Michael Vercio, Textron Aviation’s vice president of product support, was in the middle of his daughter’s birthday party one Sunday afternoon when he received a call from a pilot somewhere in rural Mississippi.
Airframe manufacturers have been investing heavily through the depressed business jet market to bring at least 20 new models to market over the next six years.
Chad Anderson, president of the Jetcraft international aircraft sales, marketing and ownership strategies consultancy, is enthusiastic. “We are very optimistic looking forward at this stage. I would venture to guess we are exiting the recession.”
MedAire founder Joan Sullivan Garrett has won the NBAA 2017 Meritorious Award for turning into a reality her vision to help people needing remote medical care.
More than 100 business jets are now flying with the Honeywell-Inmarsat JetConneX global inflight broadband service, with another 50 expected by the end of the year.
Business aviation has a cybersecurity problem – the sector just doesn’t realize it yet. But one company exhibiting at the NBAA convention is on a mission to both educate companies and protect them against digital threats.
Textron Aviation points out that the Denali should offer more space, more tanks-full payload, more speed, bigger windows, a larger cargo door and better operating economics than archrival Pilatus PC-12. But it hasn’t spelled out any details.
Web Manuals, a leading digitizer of documentation for flight operations and safety, is expanding its relationship with Argus International to further help its customers keep their back offices up to speed on operating procedures, safety and compliance.
With modest increases in business aviation flight activity and fuel sales, the FBO industry in the U.S. and Canada (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) is stable after years of uncertainty, according to the half-year 2017 spot analysis by Aviation Business Strategies Group.
Gulfstream Aircraft’s fifth and final G600 test aircraft made its maiden flight Aug. 29, less than nine months since the G600 flight-test program began.
Quiet Technology Aerospace (Booth N711) has delivered the first two sets of its upgraded inlet for the Gulfstream G200. The lightweight carbon graphite composite engine barrels terminate the recurring issue of expensive and time-consuming corrosion on the G200’s Pratt & Whitney Canada PW305 engine inlets.
