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Textron Aviation hopes to achieve FAA certification of its midsized $16.25 million Citation Latitude this month, CEO Scott Ernest said during a press conference Monday.

The big get bigger and smaller operators rethink their future as a wave of consolidation breaks across Europe’s business jet management and operating industry.

Today’s issue of ShowNews features our annual listing of the Top 10 Leaders of European Business Aviation.

While business aviation sales have slowed generally in China, according to many aircraft manufacturers, the pace of flight operations at Shanghai continues to increase.

FAA has granted a supplemental type certificate for the split scimitar winglet retrofit on BBJ and other Boeing 737-700 aircraft.

Flying Colours Corp., the North American-based maintenance, repair and overhaul, completion and refurbishment specialist, has won an order for the completion of three new Bombardier Challenger 650s.

Oktoberfest is coming early at the Lufthansa Technik Booth T089, says Wieland Timm with a chuckle.

A new law dramatically reduces aviation taxes in New York State.

Commercial aviation’s first touch-screen primary flight displays will equip new Beechcraft King Airs as standard equipment beginning this summer.

Nextant Aerospace is looking to expand its remanufacturing activities into a new market segment.

Aviation Week recently sampled the new touch-screen Pro Line Fusion cockpit in Rockwell Collins’ King Air 250 demonstrator on a flight from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Rockford, Illinois.

The TBM surges ahead in its third incarnation and points the way to European single-engine commercial IFR. But don’t call it a "Socata."

Plans to establish the Middle East’s second regional, biannual business aviation show are swinging into high gear in Morocco and at the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation Association.

The Citation Latitude is the latest proof that Textron Aviation is back on its feet, largely recovered from the Great Recession and fully competing for its historic share of the business jet market. For more than four decades, Citation engineers have been business aviation’s undisputed masters of iteration and the Latitude embraces this low-risk design approach to perfection.

Business jet and general aviation pilots already enjoy the safety benefits of synthetic vision. Airline pilots are next in line.

Pilatus Aircraft’s twin-engine PC-24 business jet, announced in 2013, completed its first flight May 11 in Switzerland.

Business Aviation in Europe has been beset by problems ranging from political to practical—sanctions and market saturation have taken their toll. But now manufacturers are seeing some upward movement.

Rejuvenated by new financing from China, Cirrus Aircraft has certification in sight for its long-awaited single-engine personal jet.

OEMs and avionics companies are turning to their customers to make the case for next-generation synthetic vision systems approval.

The European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Geneva will celebrate its 15th anniversary when the show opens on May 19.

The fractional ownership specialist is focusing on charter services and its aircraft management business in China.

The Swiss charter company expects to enter the Chinese market “within weeks.”

We strapped into the left seat of TBM 900 S/N 1014 with Daher-Socata’s chief pilot Stéphane Jacques at the firm’s plant in Tarbes, France, for a two-hour evaluation flight.

International flight planning, trip support and aircraft connectivity are the focus of the newly combined Rockwell Collins and ARINC, which are making their European debut here together following the completion of the acquisition for $1.4 billion on December 23, 2013.

The debut African Business Aviation Association Expo, which was held in Marrakech, Morocco last month, demonstrated the potential for African business aviation growth.