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.
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.
Viking Air celebrated the production of its 100th Series 400 Twin Otter in Calgary this past summer, and is showing the aircraft, replete with seaplane floats and executive interior, on the NBAA 2016 static line.
Wheels Up made waves at NBAA 2013 in Las Vegas by promoting the newest iteration of the King Air as an economical alternative to business jets. Coming into NBAA 2016, the company has grown to 69 total aircraft since its launch.
The move by Beijing-based Deer Jet underscores its ambitions to become a player in the infrastructure that supports business aviation around the world.
The FAA has officially awarded Cirrus Aircraft with an FAR Part 23 Type Certificate for its $1.96 million, 300-kt. single-engine turbofan SF50 Vision Jet.
The concept of printing metallic parts for aerospace applications in place of traditional forging and casting may be in its infancy, but General Electric says the coming revolution in additive manufacturing for aircraft engines is approaching quickly and on an unprecedented scale.
The only way for the industry to reverse the inertial trend is to rethink convention and introduce innovative and disruptive business models that will drive aircraft utilization by current business aviation customers, says CEO of Embraer Executive Jets.
Lufthansa Technik has been selected by an undisclosed customer to perform comprehensive cabin engineering services and initial parts provisioning for the entry into service of a Boeing BBJ 787-8.
The app streamlines the fuel purchasing process by providing online access to an extensive global network of aviation fuel locations, with convenient payment methods.
Embraer has the broadest range of business jets of any manufacturer, from the $4.495 million Phenom 100 light jet to the $53 million airliner-sized Lineage 1000E—and they’re all here at NBAA.
Textron Aviation kicked off this year’s NBAA convention by naming Safran and Honeywell as key suppliers of engine and avionics for its new $35 million, large-cabin Citation Hemisphere.
ATP and Sweden-based Web Manuals have joined forces to provide aircraft operators and maintenance organizations with constantly updated operating manuals as well digitized technical documents, maintenance manuals, and safety and regulatory alerts.
Some business aircraft operators are holding off on making a decision on Ka band equipment. But with such strong competition from Inmarsat and Viasat, operators likely will be the big winners.
Elements of the design were unveiled at EBACE 2015, but they elicited doubt about the feasibility of the concept. So Lufthansa Technik has spent the past year engineering the sumptuous interior into a product.
