Going head-to-head here for the first time anywhere are the VVIP Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus’s A350 XWB, both considered an ultimate in billionaire or head-of-state travel.
Steven Higgins, section manager for high-performance aircraft and turboprops for EASA, presented the founding president and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company, with a new EASA type certificate for the HA-420 HondaJet.
BBGA has so impressed UK authorities, that it is now one of only three aviation trade bodies to meet with the CEOs of the CAA and DfT on four occasions per year.
Don’t you just love the guy who can’t decide whether he’s in the fast lane or the slow lane? Or the one who seems to be broken down by the roadside, then fixes his problem and shoots straight across into the outside lane? The following survey examines newcomers to the business aircraft market, but contains so many stop-go, fast-slow projects that it could be a treatise on weekend driving.
Delays in development of Safran’s Silvercrest engine cost the company a one-time EUR654 million charge in 2015, helping drive operating profit for the year down more than 12% to EUR1.7 billion.
U.S.-based Flexjet will launch into Europe as a private jet travel and charter operator later this year, the fractional jet ownership company announced at EBACE.
Recent certification of the Diamond DA62 and Nextant G90XT sees these twins depart at full throttle, while the ONE Aviation (Kestrel) K350 is pushed to the back of the hangar until more funding materializes.
Three projects are detailed, none of them much advanced since this time last year. The Cirrus is flying and has made some progress since 2014 but, tellingly, there are no newcomers to this sector.
The HondaJet departed these annals on December 8 upon FAA certification, leaving Pilatus pushing ahead and SyberJet taking a more laid-back route to resumed production.
“Asia Pacific is the biggest growth region for us on the planet, and has grown to 10% of our revenues from 5% in 2010,” says avionics company Rockwell Collins. “That’s a direct result of the strategies we set in place over the last 50 years.”
Rolls-Royce has unveiled plans to develop an Enhanced Performance upgraded version of the Airbus A350-900’s Trent XWB-84 engine, with Singapore Airlines as launch customer.
Piper Aircraft announced Tuesday that its Singapore-based regional dealer, Wings Over Asia, recently negotiated a significant sale to an Indonesian airline training school.
Dassault Falcon is emphasizing its new flagship, the ultra-long-range Falcon 8X. The new trijet isn’t here, but its predecessor 7X is, as is the Falcon 2000LXS twin, which is finding increasing success in the region for special missions.
The restructuring of one of the world’s leading maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) organizations, Ameco Beijing, will increase its competitiveness at home and overseas, and bring new capabilities to its customers.
