Business & Commercial Aviation

Investigating a major helicopter accident is rarely easy. Helicopters go where no other aircraft can.

Airport ramps can be hazardous to a pilot’s health. On an icy ramp one winter day, a good friend slipped while manipulating the door on his business jet, causing him to hit the pavement, wrists first.

The Legacy 600, built from 2002 to 2012, is one of the most successful jetliner conversions yet produced for the business aircraft market.

Embraer Legacy 650 operators concede that there are more luxurious, larger cabin, higher flying, faster cruising and longer range large-cabin business aircraft than the aircraft they fly. But nothing comes close in terms of “value for money.”

Private aircraft crews and passengers arriving at and departing from Johannesburg’s O.R. Tambo International Airport

Gulfstream Aerospace announced first flight of the G500 on May 19, a critical milestone

Management changes at NetJets, two longtime senior executives are returning to lead the private jet company

Milestone Aviation Group announced at the Paris Air Show that it increased its combined orders and options of Airbus Helicopters H175s to 28

Managers at London’s only licensed heliport say they are concerned about the impact of new helicopter-performance rules

A new forecast by Bombardier Aerospace projects 9,000 light, medium and large business jets valued at $267 billion

Germany’s Hahn Air Lines has authorization from IATA to operate its fleet of Cessna Citation CJ4s

International Communications Group (ICG) has received European Aviation Safety Agency approval

The Flight Safety Foundation is expanding its Basic Aviation Risk Standard, or BARS, suite of documents aimed at managing aviation risk for contracted aircraft operations.

Jet Aviation has added 12 new aircraft to its global aircraft management fleet

The FAA has granted Aviation Partners Boeing (APB) — the joint venture of Aviation Partners, Inc.

“Otto Pobanz was a consummate professional and true champion for business aviation”

London-Biggin Hill Airport is currently undergoing an Airspace Change Proposal

This article was originally published in the June 2009 issue of BC&A. ​June 2009

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

It wasn’t long after B&CA was born that we began to get the feeling that we were the best magazine in the growing field of business aviation.

Daher has delivered a TBM 900 turboprop aircraft to its first customer in Spain.

Selected Accidents and Incidents in June and May 2015. The following NTSB information is preliminary.

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