Based in Washington, D.C., Bill covers business aviation and advanced air mobility for Aviation Week Network. A former newspaper reporter, he has also covered the airline industry, military aviation, commercial space and unmanned aircraft systems. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2017, he worked for Aviation International News and Avionics and Rotor & Wing magazines.
Bill was the recipient of the National Business Aviation Association's Gold Wing Award in 2017 and 2022 for his reporting on drones and advanced air mobility, respectively, and in 1997 received the British Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year award in the business aviation category. He is the author of the book, Enter The Drones, The FAA and UAVs in America, published in 2016.
Big-cabin jets—ranging from super midsize through business liner classes—over the next five years represent 62% of the units and 87% of the value of planned new jet purchases in 2018 dollars.
Gulfstream Aerospace announced that its production fleet of business jets has FAA approval for the “visual advantage” credit using an enhanced vision system (EVS), which allows operators to dispatch and begin instrument approaches in low-visibility conditions.
Flight tracking data provider FlightAware has added space-based surveillance coverage to its ground network of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) receivers and announced Rockwell Collins ARINCDirect as its first partner for the enhanced offering to business aviation.
