Business & Commercial Aviation

Business flows uninterrupted in both directions across the Atlantic, but certainly has been slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless the routes remain intact and accessible by business jet.

We asked our business aviation brain trust of corporate and charter pilots if their operations had committed to installing ATN B1 CPDLC avionics. Three of them responded, and all frequently operate in European airspace.

When winter arrives, as it soon will in the Northern Hemisphere and where it can linger, aviators need to become hyper alert for conditions that invite ice formation aloft.

The aircraft management business has been flooded with dozens of new entrants in recent years, many promising lower costs for a full range of support services. However, bargain price, full-service aircraft management is fiction.

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Technophobia, the fear, dislike or avoidance of new technology, is a valuable tool if used wisely.

When the wing becomes coated with ice, the airfoil is changed. In other words, the pilot can wind up flying Wing B while trying to use the familiar engineering parameters of Wing A as it came from the factory.

Part 135 needs enforceable, science-based rest and duty regulations.

The Falcon 900LX continues to retain a higher percentage of its original price than larger, heavier and considerably more fuel-thirsty competitors.

While a replacement pilot may be qualified according to FAR Part 61.55, he/she may not actually be ready to serve as an effective crewmember.

The North American charter jet services market is projected to record a compound annual growth rate of 3% per year from 2020 through 2025,

The CEO of Italy’s Leonardo has been sentenced to six years in prison for crimes committed in a previous role. Alessandro Profumo was recently found

A U.S. District Court judge has dismissed a claim by business aviation leaders who sought to overturn an agreement with the FAA that allows for the

Vanderbilt LifeFlight recently was named the Air Medical Program of the Year by the Association of Air Medical Services.

A Cessna 337 Skymaster whose forward gas engine was swapped out with an electric motor, completed a 297-nm flight from Camarillo to Hayward

Pyka believes it an accelerate fielding of two of the hottest technologies in aviation: autonomy and electric propulsion.

Italy’s Tecnam has partnered with Rolls-Royce to develop the 9-passnger P-Volt, an all-electric version of the airframer’s P2012 Traveller regional aircraft.

AML Global Eclipse reached an agreement with One Aviation Corp. in October to buy the assets of Eclipse Aerospace and the Eclipse Aircraft project for a proposed $5.25 million.

The AOPA Air Safety Institute notes a continued decrease in overall accident rates for noncommercial and commercial fixed-wing operations, noncommercial and commercial helicopter operations, and sport/experimental operations.

“Legendary” is probably an overused word, but in the case of our transitioning editorial leadership at BCA, it is apropos.

Garmin International and its Autoland technology were named the recipients of Aviation Week Network’s 2020 Grand Laureate for business aviation

AOPA is working with Save Dillingham Airfield Group, an organization pushing to keep open Dillingham Airfield on the north shore of Oahu in Hawaii.

RUAG International is selling production of the 19-seat Dornier 228 twin-turboprop regional aircraft to General Atomics.

Bill Boisture, the former president and/or CEO of Hawker Beechcraft, Gulfstream, NetJets and Butler Aviation, has joined the executive team of Spike Aerospace.

Obituary for international procedures expert Guy Gribble/