Private aviation received a boost after restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown were lifted, with business aviation flight activity up 45% year over year and increases in the sale of pre-owned aircraft leading to record-low inventory.
Jet Linx, a provider of aircraft management, joint ownership and jet card services, has resumed its executive jet card sales on a limited basis, the Omaha-based private aviation provider announced.
UK rotorcraft startup Hill Helicopters claims to be outselling its competitors and capturing a sizable share of the single-engine light helicopter general aviation market.
Behind the scenes of the aviation and telecommunications industries’ clash over 5G wireless transmissions, aviation standards organization RTCA is developing performance specifications for a new generation of radio altimeters that would be hardened against 5G interference.
Telecommunications giants AT&T and Verizon have refused a high-level U.S. government appeal to delay activating new 5G wireless networks on Jan. 5 as scheduled, offering instead to draw temporary exclusion zones around certain airports to protect against the possibility of interference with aircraft radio altimeters.
As ZeroAvia prepares to fly its modified Dornier 228 hydrogen-electric propulsion system testbed, details of the mobile refueling system that will support flight testing are emerging.
Denmark’s government has set the goal of all domestic aviation being fossil-free by 2030, potentially through a combination of sustainable aviation fuel and electric and hydrogen propulsion.
UK startup Electric Aircraft Group and the University of Nottingham plan to establish a joint venture to develop megawatt-class electric propulsion systems.
Figeac Aero, a supplier of large metal components, is pressing on with negotiations to increase its capital thanks to aerospace investment group Tikehau Ace Capital.
The U.S. NTSB was investigating the cause of a Dec. 27 crash of a Learjet 35A in a residential area of El Cajon, California, that killed all four occupants of the twinjet.
Marty Kretchman, Signature Flight Support’s senior vice president of operations planning, talks with Aviation Week editor Lee Ann Shay about its sustainable aviation fuel projections, as well as its book and claim program.
Increases in business jet production are expected to be muted in 2022, with manufacturers focusing on growth in order backlogs and pricing over volume, predicts Seth Seifman, executive director with J.P. Morgan.
When Tavistock Development completed the master plan for its Lake Nona development in Florida, part of the vision was connectivity for the people living there—a multimodal transportation strategy that includes autonomous ground vehicles and a bicycle network within the community.
Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus is adding 17 aircraft to its training fleet, including 10 new Cessna 172 Skyhawks with Garmin 1000 avionics, five new Cirrus SR20 aircraft and two Beechcraft Barons.
McCauley Propeller Systems has completed full-scale and model-scale wind tunnel testing of its new C1106 propeller for Textron Aviation’s new Beechcraft Denali single-engine turboprop.
Airbus and Boeing have thrown their support behind delaying the already pushed-back Jan. 5, 2022 rollout of 5G C-band transmissions in the U.S. while the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) consider a “safety proposal” developed by aviation stakeholders.
New State Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Larchmont, New York, has acquired AVEX, a provider of sales and maintenance for Daher TBM turboprop aircraft in North America.
The National Business Aviation Association has postponed its Schedulers & Dispatchers Conference, scheduled for Jan. 18-21 in San Diego, because of the fluid nature of the coronavirus.
The merger values the electric air taxi developer at $2.4 billion, a price backed up by the largest conditional orderbook in the advanced air mobility market.
The European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) has postponed AirOps 2022, moving the two-day annual event from February to April 7-8 because of the rise of COVID-19 infections.
ASL Group has opened an $8 million business aviation terminal at Belgium’s Liege Airport, becoming the exclusive handler of sports and business aircraft through its subsidiary ASL Jet Handling.
The Gulfstream Aerospace flight test program for the new G700 is progressing well, with the majority of test flights using sustainable aviation fuel, the company reports.
