Originally designed specifically for mission aviation organizations, the Kodiak 100 has earned a strong following among government, business and private aviation departments.
In October 2015, the average Jet-A price at U.S. FBOs is $5.08/gal., according to a survey conducted in this month by Aviation Research Group/U.S. Inc. Compare Jet-A and avgas fuel prices by region based on both the ARGUS survey and an analysis of the lowest fuel prices reported by FBOs on acukwik.com.
The Learjet 75 delivers new levels of performance, cabin comfort and cockpit capabilities; not the least of which is its 10 percent increase in maximum thrust when compared with its predecessor, the Learjet 45. Click here to download the program profile, and learn more.
Wire strikes by helicopters happen often, and too frequently result in fatalities. The U.S. Helicopter Safety Team found that approximately 16% of all rotary-wing accidents involve wire or obstacle strikes. Meanwhile, an FAA study of wire-strike accidents between 1994 and 2004 found 41 of 124 of those involving civil helicopters were fatal.
Business aviation flight activity in the United States tends to rise as fall takes hold during the month of October, according to ARGUS International Inc. At the NBAA Regional Forum in St. Louis, Travis Kuhn, associate product manager for ARGUS's TRAQpak, identified several reasons why flight activity recorded by the FAA spikes in October.
Believing aircraft instruments when they are at odds with our bodily sensations is difficult. After all, the brain is taking in thousands of inputs a second from the body’s sensors, but information from the aircraft instruments only enters the computations when we attend to them.
In the entry-level super-midsize category, is the Legacy 450 better value than the Citation Latitude? Digging deeper into design details, performance numbers and everyday capabilities can provide some answers.
Avinode’s Business Jet Charter Market Forecast is predicting the recovery of the U.S. market to continue in 2015, with a 3.5% increase in flights over 2014. All U.S. regions will see charter market growth next year, it predicts. The South will be strongest, with an increase in flight numbers of 4%, closely followed by the West, where volumes will grow by 3.6%. The Northeast will see a 3.3% increase in activity, while the Midwest will record growth of 2.5%.
Growth through acquisition is the current modus operandi among the larger FBO chains. Landmark Aviation’s recent FBO acquisitions also fill a void in its domestic and international network.
Wilson Air Center is doing a brisk business at its four U.S.-based FBOs, particularly at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (KCHA), where it is the sole FBO on site since TAC Air sold out in January 2014 to the Airport Authority for $12 million.
Back in the day when business aviation watchers asked “Why not use Beech King Airs on legs of less than three hours?” – they were talking about air taxis. That revolution never happened. But now, Kenny Dichter, who founded Marquis Jet and was the innovator of the 25‐hour fractional jet card, has done just that.
The Middle East Business Aviation Association’s current priorities are the continuation of policy drafting and procedures for business aviation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, says MEBAA founding chairman Ali Al Naqbi.
Gleaming new engines are a common sight on the display stands at NBAA, but it isn’t often showgoers get to see the complete components of a turboprop laid bare, let alone one being put together from scratch on the convention floor.
Swiss-based Vertis Aviation, part of the independently owned 28 East Group, is making its NBAA debut, promoting its portfolio of ultra-long-range jets.
Lufthansa Technik is introducing a Fly Away Kit for the VVIP and special-missions market. It is integrated into a modified LD9 unit load device (ULD) and ensures the availability of important spare parts by allowing them to be stowed aboard the aircraft that might need them.
Lufthansa Technik is answering the challenging market for corporate and business jets not only with innovative design and layout concepts, but also by forming a new company. Inairvation, headquartered at Edlitz-Thomasberg, Austria, is a 50:50 collaboration between LHT and List Components and Furniture that intends to change the way business jet cabins are produced.
Some months ago the German manufacturer presented a unique new concept for individual seating in VIP jets and simply called it “chair.” Although promising unrivaled design variants, it mounts on a modular concept that, instead of seat tracks, has a conical pod on which numbers of ribs form the frame of each chair.
Greenpoint Technologies is exhibiting at NBAA 2014 for the first time as part of its new parent company, Zodiac Aerospace, but focus will be on a 1/20th scale BBJ 787-9 mockup with the new Azure interior.
In the first half of 2014, Airbus Corporate Jet Center (ACJC) delivered three ACJ319 executive aircraft, and launched its ACJ319 Elegance concept, an interior configuration that figures prominently here (Booth 5009 and Static Display).
Flying Colours Corp. has signed a multimillion-dollar joint venture agreement with China’s Sparkle Roll Technik Co., Ltd. (SRT). With a hangar facility set up at Linyi City in Shangdong Province, it will focus on private jet cabin modification and aircraft maintenance. The first project, beginning this month, will see eight B- Bombardier CRJ-200s converted to VIP configuration.
London Biggin Hill Airport is nine miles from the UK capital’s Canary Wharf business district, and just a seven-minute helicopter ride from the Battersea Heliport.
Wednesday, Ed Bolen, NBAA president and CEO, presented 92-year-old RA Bob Hoover with the association’s 2014 Meritorious Service to Aviation Award, an honor befitting him who General James Doolittle lauded as “the greatest stick and rudder man who ever lived” and who has inspired millions of young people with his air show performances. Previous winners include Capt. Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon; the Tuskegee Airmen; Clay Lacy; James D. Raisbeck; and Serge Dassault, among others.
