Business & Commercial Aviation

News of promotions, appointments and honors involving professionals within the business aviation community

Despite there being only a handful of the 30-seat regional turboprops still in service, it is such an extraordinary machine that we decided to focus on it for this month’s used aircraft report.

Jet-A And Avgas Per-Gallon Fuel Prices July 2016

Bombardier Business Aircraft plans to soon open a wholly owned service center at London Biggin Hill Airport.

Signature BKL’s campus spans four acres with a 6,000-sq.-ft. executive FBO terminal and an 18,750-sq.-ft. hangar featuring high-efficiency lighting.

In a clear indication that these are not the best of times, Gulfstream Aerospace is continuing to trim its employee count through a voluntary separation program to “select” employees working in support roles in the U.S.

An investigation is underway to determine all the factors behind the July 6 crash of FTV1, the first prototype Bell Model 525 super-medium helicopter.

Pratt and Whitney Canada last month agreed to provide Antonov’s An-132 multipurpose aircraft program with a new version of the PW150A turboprop.

The 100th Series 400 Twin Otter took flight recently from Viking Air’s production facility in Canada.

Pilatus Aviation recently delivered its 1,400th PC-12, to an undisclosed customer in the Southwest U.S.

The recent addition of a facility at Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, New York, raised to 200 the number of FBO locations of Signature Flight Support.

On Oct. 1, FAA will make the transition from its traditional domestic IFR flight plan (Form 7233-1) to the International Civil Aviation Organization IFR flight plan (Form 7233-4) for domestic flights.

C. Don Bateman, the engineer who led development of the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System, retired from Honeywell in June, capping a nearly 60-year career.

Ross Aviation is back in the FBO business, having recently acquired six former Landmark Aviation bases.

On the opening day of last month's Farnborough Airshow, Qatar Executive, the business jet charter arm of Qatar Airways, announced a firm order for three Gulfstream G650ER aircraft, adding to the three now in service. With the additional aircraft, expected to be delivered in 2017, Qatar Executive will become the largest operator of the type.

Piper Aircraft in mid-June received FAA type certification for its M600 single-engine turboprop, which is a higher-performing version of its Meridian.

MAC Air Group of the Maine Aviation Corp., joined the AvFuel Network as it opened its new FBO facility—MAC Jets LLC—in late June.

NetJets' first Latitude—the 7,000th Citation delivered by Cessna since it entered the business jet market in 1972—has begun service and will soon be joined by others, apparently many others

The European Aviation Safety Agency and the FAA awarded certification in late June for Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 8X.

Embraer Executive Jets has boosted its Asia-Pacific sales network with the appointment of Japan Aerospace Corp. as the authorized sales representative for Japan.

Duncan Aviation has released the Certification Straight Talk Book, which is aimed at making the cumbersome process of certifying work on an aircraft a little clearer and less frustrating for operators.

“Understanding International Medevac,” a feature published in the January 2016 edition of Business & Commercial Aviation was named the Best Business Aviation submission.

Daher announced that 208 Aviation, a private company, has been appointed as a TBM service center for southern Africa.

Executive AirShare, the Kansas-based regional fractional aircraft program, has changed owners and received a hefty investment in the process.

Items missing from the legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress to keep the FAA operating into 2017 are variously the subjects of praise and disappointment.