Bolstered by the launch of a new, longer range MAX 7 variant of its BBJ range, Boeing Business Jets has unveiled a package of incentives to attract new customers and speed re-sale of used BBJs.
The Greater Wichita Partnership and 19 other suppliers and organizations involved in the business aviation industry are sharing an exhibit and recognizing a century of aviation pioneers, leaders and innovators at the show.
EASA and the FAA inked their rubber stamps for the Dassault Falcon 8X’s benefit in June, leaving only the delayed Bombardier twins awaiting joining instructions for this circuit of the market.
Welcome back, old friends. Four additions to this review since the last NBAA Convention are relaunched projects that more-or-less failed first time round and have been dusted-off for a second outing.
Read very carefully, and evidence will be found below that something is happening in the personal jets world – but with agonizing slowness. Last year’s trio are still there, but nobody is rushing to join them.
HondaJet was signed-off by the FAA a few weeks after the last NBAA Convention and is now in customers’ hands. Pilatus and SyberJet continue to progress, while the long-lost VisionAire Vantage returns to the limelight in search of funding.
Whoosh! It took a little more than one hour of test flight to convince us that Phenom 100 EV, short for “Evolution,” finally has shed the original Phenom 100’s matronly image.
Bolstered by the selection of its Silvercrest mid-thrust turbofan for Cessna’s newly launched Hemisphere business jet, Safran Aircraft Engines has detailed a revised development schedule incorporating improvements made to counter problems uncovered in early tests.
UK-based Gama Aviation continues to expand, adding a new maintenance base in Massachusetts and adding aircraft, including turboprops and jets, to the Wheels Up fleet, which accounts for most of its U.S. operations.
Business aircraft owners often fly smaller, older or less capable aircraft than they’d like because they aren’t flying enough or can’t afford to buy their ideal aircraft.
A typical flight plan can be run in less than five seconds, and the mapping engine renders high-definition graphics without delays, pixelation or frustration, says UAS.
As Bombardier nears first flight of its Global 7000 large business jet, the company is making progress on the additional flight-test vehicles for the test program.
A record number of end-client searches in the Avinode online air charter marketplace demonstrates the shift to booking charter flights online is growing rapidly.
As the Corporate Angel Network nears its 35th anniversary this winter, the organization has already passed an even more meaningful milestone: in April, it made its 50,000 flight serving a cancer patient.
The company plans to deliver its last G450 to a customer in early 2018. The $44.65 million G500 is expected to receive type certification in 2017 with customer deliveries to begin in 2018.
Currently, the G450 is the only in-production derivative of the Gulfstream GIV. As of mid-2016, more than 350 G450s had been delivered from Gulfstream’s Savannah facility. However, that production will come to an end in early 2018, when the company delivers the final G450 and turns its focus to the all-new G500.
In the three years since Wheels Up began business, the private aviation membership company has taken delivery of 70 aircraft and membership has grown to 3,700.
