Business & Commercial Aviation

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

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

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

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

Gulfstream Aerospace is expanding its site at Long Beach Airport in California

FlightSafety International’s Gulfstream G550 simulator has received qualification from the FAA’s National Simulator Program for Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT), the first such approval.

Bell’s Training Academy has opened a 85,950-sq.-ft. pilot and maintenance training facility at a new location in Fort Worth, Texas.

Dassault Falcon Jet plans to open a regional-distribution center for spare parts in Louisville, Kentucky

Wheels Up came up a winner June 6 when American Pharoah won the Belmont Stakes.

Cirrus Aircraft reached a major milestone June 15 when it delivered its 6,000th new airplane.

Gulfstream Aerospace celebrated its third win of the Robert J. Collier Trophy by setting a city-pair record with its G650ER between Paris and Washington, D.C., where the trophy was awarded June 3.

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

Sonex Aircraft CEO Jeremy Monnett and Sonex assembly mechanic Mike Clark were killed June 2 in an accident involving a Sonex Sport Acro at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

The future of the “paused” Learjet 85 project and of Learjet overall is unclear

Eagle Aviation, a fixed-base operator, is constructing a new facility at Rohlsen Airport on St. Croix

At the 2015 Aerospace Media Awards dinner held June 14 at Les Salons de L’Aero-Club de France in Paris

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

Citing a slump in offshore oil exploration and production activity, Sikorsky Aircraft will cut more than 1,400 production-related jobs

The FAA awarded the new Citation Latitude its type certification on June 5.

Google says it will continue to develop a solar-powered stratospheric unmanned aircraft for Internet delivery

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed finding that aircraft emissions contribute to climate change and endanger public health

Professional pilots can be perfectionists regarding preflight planning, cockpit resource management and adherence to SOPs. So, why is it that a large percentage of them aren’t equally fastidious about what’s in the fuel tanks of their aircraft?

Cleveland, Ohio-based Nextant Aerospace has opened a resale division with its first aircraft, a 2012 Nextant 400XT. Plus, Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare discusses the Learjet 85 and his priority for business aircraft. And the EPA’s proposed finding that aircraft emissions contribute to climate change and endanger public health launches a process to set a regulatory standard — being developed by ICAO — for aircraft carbon dioxide emissions.

At the 2015 Aerospace Media Awards dinner held June 14 in Paris, B&CA Senior Editor Fred George was honored with the Best Business Aviation Award for his February cover story: "Bombardier Learjet 85 – The Window of Opportunity Slams Shut."

You knew it was coming — oh, yes, you did — the impending deadline to purchase and install Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast avionics in your aircraft to retain access to U.S. controlled airspace after Jan. 1, 2020. The same cutoff applies to ADS-C, or “Contract,” equipage, necessary for operation in oceanic airspace and requiring flight crew training and, unlike ADS-B, an FAA Letter of Authorization, as well. Five years may seem like a lot of time …