Traditionally, the industry has been willing to accept training focused on ensuring a pilot meets minimum standards, TRU Simulation CEO David Smith told ShowNews. “That’s not good enough,” Smith said. Testing should not be performed so a pilot can check off the boxes in a pass-fail scenario. “That doesn’t inspire the workforce or inspire better piloting,” he noted.
French manufacturer Daher Group has completed the purchase of Quest Aircraft Co., which builds the Kodiak 100 utility aircraft, and is changing that company’s name to Kodiak Aircraft.
French manufacturer, Daher comes to NBAA-BACE and the indoor static display with its U.S. associations burnished, following the announcement, just before the Paris Air Show in June, that it has acquired Idaho-based Quest Aircraft and its Kodiak utility turboprop.
When it comes to aviation history, few states can hold a candle to Nevada. Yet until comparatively recently, the Silver State had no means of recognizing its aerospace pioneers. Enter Thornton “TD” Barnes, an indefatigable Henderson resident.
Representatives of airports most directly associated with peak traffic flow are on hand at Las Vegas this week to explain the coordination procedures for nonscheduled flights.
The facility officially reopened in early October, complete with a new, state-of-the-art, 40,000-sq.-ft. hangar, equipped with 30-ft. doors to accommodate aircraft as large as the Gulfstream 650.
If the word techniks means anything in Lufthansa Technik, it’s technology. The commercial and business aviation powerhouse in maintenance and cabin completions is providing a glimpse here at NBAA of what it is developing today to shape the future. We talked with Andrew Muirhead, head of original equipment innovation, about the latest developments.
Not yet 10 months in, and there has already been a bumper crop of business airplanes coming to maturity this year. Not all have made it to Las Vegas this week, but most have been seen at previous NBAA conventions, discretely carrying EXPERIMENTAL titles. Now they are carrying customers.
Gulfstream Aerospace unveiled a full-size mockup of its flagship G700 in rock-concert style with a laser light show as it announced two fleet orders for the ultra-long-range jet.
The Corporate Angel Network arranges free flights for patients traveling to treatment by utilizing empty seats on corporate aircraft. Aviation Week Network made another major donation to CAN at NBAA-BACE.
The company’s customers will provide Air Charter Guide users access to the Tuvoli platform, while Tuvoli customers will have access to charter market intelligence.
Look closely and tucked away behind most of the eVTOL and other futuristic concepts in the North Hall’s urban air mobility/unmanned air systems innovation display area, Boeing is quietly making a statement about where its future ambitions lie in high-speed flight.
Designed, styled and built in Italy, the P2012 Traveller is a nine-passenger, piston twin with which Cape Air will re-equip most of its fleet, providing links to 35 destinations across the Northeast, Cape Cod and the islands, the Midwest, eastern Montana, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.
Flying Colours has touched “thousands” of airplanes since it began business in Peterborough, Ontario, 30 years ago. Now it is one of the world’s leading independent providers of maintenance, modifications and completions of large-cabin business jets.
The founder of AP Completion Services is looking forward to celebrating his firm’s 10th anniversary in the coming weeks when it makes its first deliveries of Bombardier Global 7500s to customers.
The fourth Million Air FBO in Texas and the 31st facility in the parent company’s network includes a 14,500-sq.-ft. FBO terminal as well as seven free-standing hangars totaling 100,000 sq. ft. and capable of accommodating aircraft as large as the Gulfstream G650ER.
Central to the bid to restore Ed Swearingen’s twinjet to production are an all-new cockpit, based around the Honeywell Epic 2.0 avionics suite, new ergonomic enhancements, electronic standby attitude/heading display and much more.
Orlando, Fla.-headquartered Signature Flight Support – the world’s largest FBO chain with upward of 200 locations – has expanded in Italy with the addition of six airports, while service at Milan-Malpensa has been significantly enhanced with a first-ever terminal.
NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen accepts that his industry is never going to win over its harshest critics. But he believes that the sector can at very least prove that it means what it says when it talks about sustainability and environmental responsibility.
In May, PrivateFly founder and CEO Adam Twidell told ShowNews he hoped his company’s competitors followed him into offering fixed-price private flying. His rationale was that any initiative that makes the sector more accessible would help improve business for everyone.
Gulfstream’s contribution to environmentally sustainable flight operations has moved up a gear at NBAA-BACE, with the company announcing a new scheme to assist customers in offsetting their emissions and making its first carbon-neutral flights when it brought five airplanes to Nevada for the event.
